How to repair a loud fan

[twofacedjoker]

Quote from gnome:

DANG you guys...you really need to tune up your sense of humor*.

"My Lambo" is the pet name for my Mitsu Montero SUV... that's why it weighs 4200 lbs!


* Joking loses its edge when you have to "explain it", you know?

It's sad when someone has to explain a joke.

 

[gnome]

Quote from twofacedjoker:

It's sad when someone has to explain a joke.

No Sh*t.... y'all at ET are starting to remind me of my wife.

 

[armoured saint]

Quote from gnome:

DANG you guys...you really need to tune up your sense of humor*.

"My Lambo" is the pet name for my Mitsu Montero SUV... that's why it weighs 4200 lbs!


* Joking loses its edge when you have to "explain it", you know?

gee that went over my head.. why didn't i make that connection

how many payments you got left dude?.. 59?

 

[9999]

Quote from gnome:

DANG you guys...you really need to tune up your sense of humor*.

"My Lambo" is the pet name for my Mitsu Montero SUV... that's why it weighs 4200 lbs!


* Joking loses its edge when you have to "explain it", you know?

Alright, point taken...
Weren't we talking about cooling comps? Any more links?

 

[gnome]

Quote from 9999:

Alright, point taken...
Weren't we talking about cooling comps? Any more links?

This thread started out about computer fan noise, drifted to "oil", "cars", "sense of humor"...

If one builds a "trading computer", cooling is barely an issue.

 

[gnome]

Quote from armoured saint:

gee that went over my head.. why didn't i make that connection

how many payments you got left dude?.. 59?

No payments... all fully owned!!

 

[crgarcia]

Quote from nitro:

If you are like me, you have lots of computers, and probably lots of CPU and case fans. I spend somthing like $100 a year on replacing fans, but this may be cheaper if the problem is not too serious:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,2135514,00.htm

Americans love to throw things out and replace them. But a little ingenuity can save a perfectly good piece of equipment.

Note well, don't use WD40.

nitro

Don't bother repairing. Likely your fans have worn bearings or bushings. Even if you can find spare parts, there's a lot of work to do replacing them.

I don't think a new one would cost $100, not even $50.

 

[number22]

Many people don't know the difference between ball bearing and sleeveless fan; Sleeves fan are generally quieter than ball bearing but it only works continuously for less than 1 year; then it becomes sticky and you will have difficult time at first to notice the problem until your computer crash at random time. At this point; there are no cure for the fan; even adding motor oil wouldn't help much.

On the other hand; ball bearing fan is slightly nosier than sleeveless fan; but it can last very long time; if you adding motor oil into a new one; it will last even longer. Until the fan has significant amount dust build up, which will destroy the fan's bearing in long haul; therefore getting more nosier; but it still better than no fan at all.

Most of video card and cheap power supply has equipped with sleeveless fan.

I find that hard drive makes more noise than fans in a typical computer.

 

[stock777]

Have an Nvidia vid card with NO FAN and I replaced the noisy chipset fan with a heat sink.

Runs cool, and you can hear someone fart three rooms away.

Fans blow.

Pun intended