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    Disconnect 285 fan ?

    i've just bought a gtx 285 from point of view ( in the post now) and i will be putting an arctic cooling 280 cooler on it (when that arrives).
    my question is: i want to connect the fan to my fan controller,but will the card think that there is no fan connected and run in constant 2d mode ?

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    Re: Disconnect 285 fan ?

    No it will be fine, 2d mode and 3d mode are directed by the application in use...not the fan.

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    Re: Disconnect 285 fan ?

    thx mate,the reason i ask is because i believe it was my old 6600gt many moons ago that ran in constant 2d mode when the fan was disconnected,so i had to flash the bios so that the 2d speed was the same as the 3d speed.

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    Re: Disconnect 285 fan ?

    ok i've fitted it and it still switches between 2d and 3d modes quite happily,no issues whatsoever.

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    Re: Disconnect 285 fan ?

    please post a few pics when u get the new cooler

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    Re: Disconnect 285 fan ?

    Images of my card here

    the cooler was the hardest cooler i've ever had to install,damn spacers that wouldn't stay put plus its "designed" for a 285gtx as well but the supplied heat sinks are for 260's or 280's , what with having to go to the local pc shop and cadge some random blue heat sinks off of them it took me 3 hours to fit that behemoth.

    the instructions may as well of been in chinese for all the good they did me...

    Size comparison


    running it at 1500 rpm ,low temps on everest sidebar..ie what i'm at now,high temp of 45 degrees,overall very impressed.
    only real downside was the getting it ready to even get near my pc and having to remove my thermalright NB cooler.



    much much better than the standard cooler.

    Oh and noise ? what noise ?

    Played Tom Clancys HAWX on full last night and my temps rose to 53 degrees,however we had our wood burning stove on so the ambient temperature was higher.
    Only thing that got noisier last night was my psu ,it changes the fan speed with the workload , and due to the 285 needing 2 gpu power cables instead of one was working its poor little "backside" off,but that obviously will be different to other peoples psu,methinks i'm gonna get a zalman 750 soon (pc is in front room and missus hates the noise)

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