I have an old videocard nvidia tnt2 model 64 pro, it comes with a cooler and is extremely noisy! So tried cleaning cooler without results. Next thing I did was unplug the cable from cooler to videocard (I thought that way I would be disconnecting the cooler only, but then noticed I had no video at all, so plugged it in again and got video image back, but still I hear all noise cooler does). Is there a way to anulate the cooler and still have the video card? And would I spoil the videocard that way?
I've ripped out the fans on at least 2 fan cooled video cards. It never did any harm. One of my old cards (sans fan) is still running happily in my dad's computer. Can't you just unplug the fan cable from the video card board? If you wanted to get really ghetto, you could attach some generic heat sinks to whatever the fan was mounted onto.
put a switch in the front to open the circuit for the fan's power source. yeah, I hack everything, big flipswitch fan here
Errm not to sure what you mean, but if its the fans that are annoying you try downloading and installing Speedfan... google it it picks up the temp sensors and is able to turn down or even off some fans.. not all work tho..