Is there supossed to be a fan on a stock retail radeon 9200? From my new comp which my local comp store put together; when my computer is on for 2-3 hours the heatsink on the 9200 is hot enough to burn your hands if you help your hand there for 5 seconds. Is that healthy for it/normal?
its fanless yea, but ive stuck a 120mm in my dads case anyway cause its an oven. Works so far. If its designed that way then it should work, but a little more case airflow shouldnt hurt if things go wrong.
Well ive got a duel fan psu one taking air in and the other blowing out and my HSF then once i get some soldering done ill have another one in the back blowing air in.
as long as there's no chance of the fan falling off and hitting something you're safe.... but with a 20mm fan it probably wouldn't do any damage even if it did fall... Edit: Ubermich's Law of Fans: You can never have enough.
I ran into the same problem with my fx5200, I just scrounged arround, and found an old 20mm fan off of a cpu, and just mounted it on the heat sync, after about 10 or so minutes of figeting with it, I found a place that it sat nicely that would allow it to screw into the fins of the heat sync. I've got it on a switch mounted on my front bezel to turn it on/off. Yes, the two fans pictured ARE spinning, my camera just has a very quick shutter speed my cpu fan (the green one) is at about 5000 rpm just to give you some idea of how quick the camera is.
My 9200SE runs just fine w/o a fan on its heatsink - I even ran it for a couple of months w/o any case fans at all, with no problems. It puts out less heat than my hard drives... come to think of it, it doesn't put of that much graphics either, but hey - what can you expect from an $80 card?
