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Yesterday Her Dell desktop's CPU fan started making grinding noises X| . I left it alone, kind of hoping it will behave today. Well, no, it got worse. Checked with Dell and her machine is 5 weeks out of warranty. They wanted to sell me a fan/heatsink combination for over $200! Yikes! Then I had a moment of inspiration. I had a much older Dell, which I had previously stripped of its hard drives, just gathering dust. I hauled its fan out and it was an exact match for her machine's fan. So now Her machine is running silently with an old fan. I checked the factory label on the failed fan. It proudly boasted that it had some "hydrodynamic" bearing. Well, Mr. Dell, your hydrodynamic bearing went for a swim and drowned! Now I also know what to avoid if I ever have to buy another fan!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Yesterday Her Dell desktop's CPU fan started making grinding noises X| . I left it alone, kind of hoping it will behave today. Well, no, it got worse. Checked with Dell and her machine is 5 weeks out of warranty. They wanted to sell me a fan/heatsink combination for over $200! Yikes! Then I had a moment of inspiration. I had a much older Dell, which I had previously stripped of its hard drives, just gathering dust. I hauled its fan out and it was an exact match for her machine's fan. So now Her machine is running silently with an old fan. I checked the factory label on the failed fan. It proudly boasted that it had some "hydrodynamic" bearing. Well, Mr. Dell, your hydrodynamic bearing went for a swim and drowned! Now I also know what to avoid if I ever have to buy another fan!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
My desktop has a noisy fan - but only when I turn it on in the morning and everything is cold. One of these days I must find out which one it is and replace it, but since it means me trying to do that before my first coffee it is not such a simple task ... :laugh:
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Yesterday Her Dell desktop's CPU fan started making grinding noises X| . I left it alone, kind of hoping it will behave today. Well, no, it got worse. Checked with Dell and her machine is 5 weeks out of warranty. They wanted to sell me a fan/heatsink combination for over $200! Yikes! Then I had a moment of inspiration. I had a much older Dell, which I had previously stripped of its hard drives, just gathering dust. I hauled its fan out and it was an exact match for her machine's fan. So now Her machine is running silently with an old fan. I checked the factory label on the failed fan. It proudly boasted that it had some "hydrodynamic" bearing. Well, Mr. Dell, your hydrodynamic bearing went for a swim and drowned! Now I also know what to avoid if I ever have to buy another fan!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
One of these days I'm going to make a computer with no moving parts in it. Fanless power supply, one of those copper "bloom" looking heat sinks, NVMe, the works. I didn't really think about the repairing the fans angle, but that's another good reason to build one. I'm glad you got your fan issue sorted.
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Yesterday Her Dell desktop's CPU fan started making grinding noises X| . I left it alone, kind of hoping it will behave today. Well, no, it got worse. Checked with Dell and her machine is 5 weeks out of warranty. They wanted to sell me a fan/heatsink combination for over $200! Yikes! Then I had a moment of inspiration. I had a much older Dell, which I had previously stripped of its hard drives, just gathering dust. I hauled its fan out and it was an exact match for her machine's fan. So now Her machine is running silently with an old fan. I checked the factory label on the failed fan. It proudly boasted that it had some "hydrodynamic" bearing. Well, Mr. Dell, your hydrodynamic bearing went for a swim and drowned! Now I also know what to avoid if I ever have to buy another fan!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Ya know, you can probably get a fan from amazon that will fit for about $10. if you want a high quality fan, should be no more than #20. You shouldn't need to get a heat sink.
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Ya know, you can probably get a fan from amazon that will fit for about $10. if you want a high quality fan, should be no more than #20. You shouldn't need to get a heat sink.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013My thoughts as well. I had a family desktop machine that liked to go through CPU fans once or twice a year. I kept the mounting bracket from the original fan. Replacements got glued on with cyanoacrylate, When they needed to be replaced, a little acetone removed the old fan. Kind of reminded me of my first car, a '72 Ford Maverick that went through water pumps faster than I did oil changes. I even replaced the water pump one time in the college parking lot. I had the process down to a little more than an hour.
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Yesterday Her Dell desktop's CPU fan started making grinding noises X| . I left it alone, kind of hoping it will behave today. Well, no, it got worse. Checked with Dell and her machine is 5 weeks out of warranty. They wanted to sell me a fan/heatsink combination for over $200! Yikes! Then I had a moment of inspiration. I had a much older Dell, which I had previously stripped of its hard drives, just gathering dust. I hauled its fan out and it was an exact match for her machine's fan. So now Her machine is running silently with an old fan. I checked the factory label on the failed fan. It proudly boasted that it had some "hydrodynamic" bearing. Well, Mr. Dell, your hydrodynamic bearing went for a swim and drowned! Now I also know what to avoid if I ever have to buy another fan!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Also avoid installing the fan backwards on the heatsink. Nothing bad will happen...for a couple of years, anyway. (Yes, I've found two installed wrong-way around. I now check before installing factory-mounted CPU fan/heatsink combos.)
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Yesterday Her Dell desktop's CPU fan started making grinding noises X| . I left it alone, kind of hoping it will behave today. Well, no, it got worse. Checked with Dell and her machine is 5 weeks out of warranty. They wanted to sell me a fan/heatsink combination for over $200! Yikes! Then I had a moment of inspiration. I had a much older Dell, which I had previously stripped of its hard drives, just gathering dust. I hauled its fan out and it was an exact match for her machine's fan. So now Her machine is running silently with an old fan. I checked the factory label on the failed fan. It proudly boasted that it had some "hydrodynamic" bearing. Well, Mr. Dell, your hydrodynamic bearing went for a swim and drowned! Now I also know what to avoid if I ever have to buy another fan!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Hydrodynamic is just a fancy word for plain old bearing. Take out the fan, on one side of the motor you will find a plastic label, if you lift it you'll find the bearing underneath. It needs a drop of oil. If it goes for long without lubrication it will need replacement, but if it gets a drop of oil already today you might get another year or two of service from the fan.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Hydrodynamic is just a fancy word for plain old bearing. Take out the fan, on one side of the motor you will find a plastic label, if you lift it you'll find the bearing underneath. It needs a drop of oil. If it goes for long without lubrication it will need replacement, but if it gets a drop of oil already today you might get another year or two of service from the fan.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
