The fan on my BFG Asylum GeForce4 Ti4200 128 MB crapped out less than a year after I bought it and BFG RMA'd it and sent me another card. The fan on that one crapped out in a few months and BFG sent me a ti4600 instead, which was darn nice of them, I figure. The fan on that card is peculiar, I figure. It makes a pretty god-awful noise until midway in the Windows 2000 boot sequence, then it suddenly quiets down to pretty standard noise levels. I figured I wouldn't complain to BFG since they'd just sent me a ti4600 and I bought a ti4200 (and got a tremendous deal, at that). I'm currently on the very verge of buying a Zalman ZM-80A fanless heatpipe for the card, which will help in my quest to make the PC really quiet, since it will function parttime as an HTPC. I think I can get it for a bit over $30. If that works out I won't have to worry about a fan for the card! And I figure a heatpipe is gonna keep on working. I'm not 100% sure that it will work with the ti4600, but I think it's pretty probable.