NeMon'ess's Journal: Successes and failures with thermal adhesive on video cards?

The fan on a friend's 7600GS is dying. I added a drop of oil but that's not good enough. It's a tiny 30mm surrounded by almost 60mm x 60mm of aluminum. I have a quiet 60mm fan but I don't think it'll stay on the existing heatsink, which is held to the board with two spring-loaded pins. I'm considering removing all that, then gluing to the chip an unused Athlon 1.2GHz heatsink. The quiet fan can go on that. Clearance shouldn't be a problem, but I'm concerned about weight pulling on the chip since the assembly will hang upside down.

There's no shame in cable ties

[BigBuckHunter]

If you cant "form" an appropriate mounting bracket, then there's no shame in using cable ties. My question is, why not just replace the 30mm fan with.... Another 30mm fan? If that's not a possibility (fan is not a box fan and built into the heatsink), then simply remove the fan core and place a larger box fan over top of it.

BBH

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[NeMon'ess]

I do happen to have another 30mm fan from an older card. The screw holes in it don't line up with those in the aluminum for the existing fan. I certainly could just glue the fan down, but more problematically is that it's noisier and the computer is quite quiet and my friend would like it to stay that way.

You are right, I should just try cable-tying the 60mm over the existing heat sink first. If it works, great, otherwise it's on to the bigger heat sink. Another friend tried using a 60mm fan on his Rade