4850 aftermarket FAN REWIRE

[Cybrnook2002]

OK, well its not really a rewire. But I just HATED having my zalman 900 CPU cooler plugged into the MB when I had a perfectly good port on the card. So I made it work It was pretty easy. At first I pulled all of the wires out of the plugs using a tooth scraper tool. Pretty easy, but when I went to swap wires on the connectors, the Zalman wires connectors were too big for the stock 4850 coolers plug. Hmmm, what to do. So then I just pulled the shield off the cards plug socket and stuck the stock zalman plug on it. Poof, it works. I have RPM's working. However by doing this, I lost Speed control that I was using in my MB Bios. But Im not too upset as my card Idles 38 -41. Fan is spinning at 1800RPM's. I took a final screenshot after it was hooked up, check it out! Hope this helps someone. Im sure you could go to radio shack and get some new connectors and use the stock one. but as im in Austria, its kind of hard finding a radio shack

 

[Darknova]

Wow...that's a really nice mod. Very interesting for when I get my 4870 back in my PC..hmm...

 

[trt740]

OK, well its not really a rewire. But I just HATED having my zalman 900 CPU cooler plugged into the MB when I had a perfectly good port on the card. So I made it work It was pretty easy. At first I pulled all of the wires out of the plugs using a tooth scraper tool. Pretty easy, but when I went to swap wires on the connectors, the Zalman wires connectors were too big for the stock 4850 coolers plug. Hmmm, what to do. So then I just pulled the shield off the cards plug socket and stuck the stock zalman plug on it. Poof, it works. I have RPM's working. However by doing this, I lost Speed control that I was using in my MB Bios. But Im not too upset as my card Idles 38 -41. Fan is spinning at 1800RPM's. I took a final screenshot after it was hooked up, check it out! Hope this helps someone. Im sure you could go to radio shack and get some new connectors and use the stock one. but as im in Austria, its kind of hard finding a radio shack

great photos and a very good mod thx thats a very useful post.

 

[wolf2009]

wat dock is that on ur desktop ? objectdock ?

 

[Cybrnook2002]

@DarkNova and TRT, thanks hope it helps you guys. just remember to write down what color wires go to what pins.

@wolf- Rocketdock

 

[wolf2009]

@DarkNova and TRT, thanks hope it helps you guys. just remember to write down what color wires go to what pins.

@wolf- Rocketdock

do those icon for steam, utorrent and all those programs come with it ?

 

[Cybrnook2002]

do those icon for steam, utorrent and all those programs come with it ?

No, I google searched under images for xxxxx.png and placed them in the "icons" folder

 

[Wshlist]

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[SonDa5]

Cool mod.

 

[KainXS]

this is a nice mod, my 3850 has a vf900 on it, im going to do it on that, thanks alot for the info man

 

[BraveSoul]

hey very neat..i got VF1000 on same card.. but does rpm go up when u play ? is it loud?
u should do a gpu pencil mod,, mine seems stable at 750 at 1.26v currently testing
check this out

 

[silverfox74]

Good "mod"..i have the "reverse" question: on Sapphire HD4850 Toxic it has the VF900 as a "stock" cooler.....it's possible to know on how much voltage the fan is spinning, assumes that the "stock" speed is 47%............. thanks

 

[silverfox74]

@Cybrnook2002: do you know where to find the "micro" attachments of the video card fan to the pcb? that plugs...............so the rewire could be better!

 

[Cybrnook2002]

No idea, you might be able to flip the card over and trace the "traces". Im too lazy to pull em out and look sorry bro

 

[silverfox74]

Ok i saw it a month ago on a site that was selling h/w components for pc....let's see if i can remember. the Dalaj Lama in your avatar saying "where are the girls?" is so funny!!!!!