Bummer on your fans going out like that and then Asus giving you grief
about it. Too bad you didn't post pics of the interior of your box. As
far as after market HS/fans go I have an enormous Thermalright coupled
with a 92 mm Vantec Tornado with a fan controller of course so I'm not
much help to you there but I believe I've read of some crossfire bridges
being 6" in length. Don't quoted me on that but a good possible place to
get one is on Ebay. Good Luck!
http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu131/NEO30000/ThermalrightHeatSinkMOSFET003.jpg
Winterlight wrote:
My PC includes two ASUS EAH4870 video cards
www.winterlight.org/4870.jpg
don't know if this will work from email
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121276R
I bought the first one last September, and then the second in
December. I wasn't going to buy the second one because so many people
in Newegg reviews said their fans were dying. But my fan had been OK,
and a call to ASUS tech support revealed that they were not having an
unusual failure rate and more importantly they told he I had to have
matching cards in order to enable crossfire. This turned out to be
wrong, on both counts.
My 4870s ran fine, supporting three large monitors until April second
when the fan on the one I bought in December failed. After a lot of
hassle I got a RMA from ASUS, and sent it off. Three weeks later it
came back. This one lasted a little over 24 hours before failing.
I got mad insisting on a replacement and was mostly ignored, but after
about two weeks of calls they finally sent me a return label, ground,
and another three weeks passed when a refurbished replacement showed
up. That lasted a little over a week before the fan went dead.
I got really mad but was told that I needed to speak to a special
third RMA person who would contact me, and after three RMAs they
wouldn't support the card again. No one has ever called me, and short
of a small claims action, which I am considering, there is not much I
can do other then deal with the problem.
I discovered there were no fans around around for GPUs of this caliber
that weren't enormous. I settled on a fan less solution am Arctic
Cooler Accelero S1 Rev 2 which was, surprisingly, was the smallest
thing I could find that was rated for a 4870.
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_&mID=105&language=en
I got it in the case, not easily, and it works, and no fan can go bad,
but if my other 4970's fan ever goes out it would be impossible to get
two of these in the case. Worse,... I can not hook up the crossfire
connectors because the cooler is just too high and the card with the
cooler only works in the first PCIe slot. And that brings me to my
questions.
Do they make extra long Crossfire connectors? Is it possible to
replace the GPU fan with something that is about the same size as the
one on it now? Or is every after market GPU cooling solution going to
be over the top?
thanks
