A fan blade cracked off my Zalman VGA cooler.

[digitalwanderer]

Damn it! I was cleaning my PC & desk yesterday and when I pulled my X800 too vaccum out my case I noticed one of the fan blades had cracked off.

I pulled the cooler and replaced it with an Arctic Silencer rev 3 that I found behind my monitor, (I actually found a lot of kewl shite cleaning off my desk), and was surprised when it fit and seemed to work fine.

I'd been having some trouble with lock-ups/crashing lately, and I haven't had any since. Would 1 fan blade missing off my VGA cooler be enough for that?

 

[maaoouud]

I doubt it'd be enough to make it overheat. But it would make it unbalanced and make it alot louder.

 

[swaaye]

I super glue fan blades back on all the time. Give it a shot!

 

[Geo]

I super glue fan blades back on all the time. Give it a shot!

"All the time"? Are you dual-using for blended margaritas?

 

[digitalwanderer]

I might try super glueing it, but I can't find the missing blade.

 

[Farid]

Noise!

Who cares for overheating in this case*, think about the noise!

Unbalanced fan blades are one of the worst thing ever. It only means one thing to me, time to buy a new cooler.

*Well, who other then you.

 

[EasyRaider]

It shouldn't be too hard to replace the fan. Many people at SilentPCReview have done Zalman fan mods.

 

[digitalwanderer]

It shouldn't be too hard to replace the fan. Many people at SilentPCReview have done Zalman fan mods.

Thanks, I'll look around there and come up with something clever out of me filing-cabinet-o-geekiness.

 

[JCLW]

It would be handy if they had a dozen blades instead of 11. Then you could just break the opposite one off.