I have an FX 5500 256 MB video card that only has a heat sink and it didn't come with a fan.Won't the video card overheat without fan?|||Some older stuff won't get too hot. These days you might have to buy a fan separately. Yeah, heat kills electronics. Keep them cool.
See if you can find a manual for the card. It should let you know whether or not it needs a fan. Either way, a fan won't hurt.|||If it didn't come with one on it it might have already been tested, But usually heat sinks have fans attatched to blow the heat off the sink, I would download the drivers and possibly if there is a temp gauge and if it goes above around 56C then i would buy a fan to put on it or direct a fan towards it, if your scared return it and buy nvidia, they come with fans no matter what|||I wouldn't worry about it.
I would worry if the PSU (Power Supply Unit) and the CPU (Central Processing Unit, Microprocessor, Brains) had no fan, heat sink, or some-such thingamy.
;-)|||Just like anything else in the computer, it could overheat.
To avoid overheating:
- Make sure the computer is cool itself
- Place the computer in a place that doesn't trap air or have hot air
- Cool air constantly ventilates through the computer
- Only use the card/play games that the card can handle/meet the system requirements
Making the card work hard over long periods of time without cooling off can make it blow. Avoiding things that require more than the card is meant to do can easily prevent the card from blowing up.|||The NV 5500 uses passive cooling as it was tested to not produce much heat. That said, there are aftermarket heatsink / fans that you can mount onto the card in case there is either bad or little air flow in your computer case.
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