Fan on Sapphire 8500LE 128MB

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You can not take the heatsink off of 8500 series cards. It is glued to gpu
with thermal adhesive.
 
Thanks, but I also need to know where you can get a fan replacement.
The fan assembly is held to the heatsink by 4 screws.
Is the fan even important on this card?
Thanks
 
Not really.. But only if you are able to install a big enough heatsink,
which you sadly can't. So have to live with this fan/sink combo. I tried to
run without fan my Hercules8500Le, it was not very stable, and got hot.
Reason is that heatsink is really thin over the gpu.

I don't think you can purchase a fan like that.
Here is a suggestion: Remove the fan. Glue a standard 20-40mm fan on top of
the heatsink. It should run cool enough.
 
Asestar said:
Not really.. But only if you are able to install a big enough heatsink,
which you sadly can't. So have to live with this fan/sink combo. I tried to
run without fan my Hercules8500Le, it was not very stable, and got hot.
Reason is that heatsink is really thin over the gpu.

I don't think you can purchase a fan like that.
Here is a suggestion: Remove the fan. Glue a standard 20-40mm fan on top of
the heatsink. It should run cool enough.
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I will probably use the 'glue' technique.
Thanks
 
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