broken fans on motherboard and graphics card

hi,

the fan on my mobo (Abit NF7-S) is sooo loud i need ear plugs. It's been gradually getting noisy for a while. The fan on video card (nvidia geforce fx5200) is getting almost as bad.

i am really hoping for a quick, cheap and possibly temporary solution as i will probably be upgrading in a couple of weeks.


i am a bit in the dark, any suggestions appreciated.

thanks,

andrew.

 

also,

both fans are free from dust.

 

I have an MSI version of the FX5200. It didn't come with a fan, but as I was overclocking it I wanted to add one. Just so happened that an old PIII fan fit on the card's heatsink perfectly.

Not sure what to advise you about the CPU fan . . . since you are going to be upgrading soon. Stock replacement fans are usually pretty cheap, though - that may be a route to take. I see the board supports AMD-K7/Athlon/Athlon XP/Barton FSB 200/266/333 MHz. My wife's HP has An Athlon, and I recently purchased a replacement fan and HS assembly for it, and as I recall it was under 20 bucks. I personally don't reccommend using anything other then a cooling system designed for your particular processor.

Hope this is of some assistance

 

The bearings used in the fan can also have some effect on your fan noise levels . Sleeve bearings tend to produce less noise than ball-bearing fans, because there is no physical contact between the rotating parts (the fan shaft is suspended on a film of oil). However, as the oil in the sleeve bearing evaporates or leaks out, physical contact starts to occur, and at this point the fan usually starts making horrible grinding or vibrating noises, and eventually stops entirely. Ball bearings usually last considerably longer, so they are probably worth the slightly increased noise. (Note that there are two bearings in a typical fan. If a fan just says "ball bearing", it may have one ball and one sleeve bearing. If it has two ball bearings, it will probably specifically say "double ball bearing".)

A couple of strategically placed drops of a very fine sewing machine oil can sometimes do the trick

 

thanks for the suggestions.

tried the oil thing but it didn't work (perhaps i was not accurate enough with placement)

ended up replacing both fans with old heatsinks i dug out from half an old pc, also added a couple of extra case fans.

seems to be doing the trick for now. just going to take it easy til the upgrade.

thanks again.

 

I realize that trent didn't want to dump money into his current box since he's upgrading soon... but since we're talking about cpu heatsink/fans, I'm curious about fanless setups for the cpu's. I have a P4 2.66 that's in dire need of a cooling system, and I'm thinking about going with a fanless to reduce my noisy box. Anyone have some input? Are they a viable solution if I want to overclock? What are some good options, brands, styles, and what should I be leary of?

Thanks for any help.
I may have to start a new thread for this.