ASUS 9400GT + ziptie

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 12:04PM

My $35 ASUS EN9400GT/512M video card is less than 90 days old and its cooling fan died.

Oh, and I had previously thrown out the serial number sticker that would never quite stick to the back of the video card.

So it was into the old parts box for a kludge solution.

A 60x60x10mm fan and zipties thin enough to fit under the heatsink did the trick.

Behold the hack:

Update on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 11:47AM by

Allan MacKinnon

Update: $8 got me an Evercool Mini Ufo heatsink/fan combo. The cooler fit the 61mm hole spacing on the card.

It glows too:

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