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My 6600GT had catastrophic fan failure. I took the card out and blew out the dust and all that (it wasn't bad), and still no luck. I can play for about 5 to 10 minutes before I start hitting 130c and then my fps drops down to single digits and a warning pops up telling me to please not cook my video card. What's impressive is I get no visual corruption, usually when they get that hot you get artifacts - 130c is hot as fuck but the card keeps chugging along perfectly (minus the warning and the slow as fuck FPS). Anyone know how hard it is to get a replacement fan out of LeadTek? I sent them an email requesting one. Anyone ever swapped a heatsink/fan combo off a 6600GT and have advice? Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.  
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I'd say go for aftermarket cooling, but since its a 6600GT, the money you'd spend on getting a good cooler would probably equal to a lot of the value of the card. Sell the card to someone you know and have them slap a cooler on it, while you go buy something good for yourself 
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Had the same problem with my msi 6600gt. Ended up directing cool air with secondary fan and that kept it stable. Then sold the 2 of them and replaced with a evga7950gt..., Which promptly killed my viewsonic g90fb monitor. Too much resolution! Upgrades can be more costly than you think! Rumour has it evga makes the best stuff for nvidia.
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That happened to my 9800 one time. I strapped a case fan to it with electrical tape and it worked like a charm. Cheap and ugly, but it got the job done.
Then I built a new machine... so the frankenstein card was retired.
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