Anybody have any experience in doing this? My graphics card has 2 fans and they're both spinning a little sluggishly and making a bit more noise than I'd care - I imagine I need to clean them up a bit and prolly give them a bit of oil - I imagine wd40 isn't the proper course.
Oilnig a fans bearings
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Anybody have any experience in doing this? My graphics card has 2 fans and they're both spinning a little sluggishly and making a bit more noise than I'd care - I imagine I need to clean them up a bit and prolly give them a bit of oil - I imagine wd40 isn't the proper course.
http://www.dansdata.com/fanmaint.htm
a friend of mine used this guide not too long ago
http://www.dansdata.com/fanmaint.htm
a friend of mine used this guide not too long ago
a friend of mine used this guide not too long ago
hmm after pulling off the sticker, there's no well for oil, but I see the ball bearings lol. Looks like I'm going to have to disassemble the card and use a spray on the under side of the fans or something creative.
hmm after pulling off the sticker, there's no well for oil, but I see the ball bearings lol. Looks like I'm going to have to disassemble the card and use a spray on the under side of the fans or something creative.
WD40 and a pinch of petroleum jelly is what I use to revive old cooling fans.
WD40 and a pinch of petroleum jelly is what I use to revive old cooling fans.
I may just end up using Russian army surplus gun oil lol. Surely that'd get the job done lol.
I may just end up using Russian army surplus gun oil lol. Surely that'd get the job done lol.
So ultimately here is what was done.
A. The card is equipped with a gigabyte heatsink called "windtunnel" the fans adjoined to this windtunnel device are utter shit - they have no way of getting into them save breaking into the fan, because the fan blades are snapped onto the assembly (the spinny bit) which encases the whole set up - so you can literally see the plug talked about in #2's link, but have a plastic covering that I would have had to break through (probably breaking the fan blades) to get to the bearing.
Replacement fans are 12$... They're from 2010.
Rather than spend 20$ on fans here is what I did.
Step 1, with small hand drill, open a tiny hole on the face of the fan, careful to remove plastic shavings with moist finger
Step 2, use a stiff sewing needle to push the rubber cap to the side so as to access the bearing.
Step 3, insert 1 drop of gun oil, spin for 5 minutes, if spinning doesn't get better add more gun oil (because the hole isn't that big, and the plug barely forced open most of the oil spills out onto the top of the fan and does not go into the bearing).
Step 4, rinse repeat until fan spins properly and quietly.
Step 5, use some tape I had laying around (scotch packing tape), to cover the hole after removing the needle, then replace gigabyte logo sticker over top of tape.
Step 6, hope to god that gun oil doesn't spray out everywhere and ruin my shit.
So ultimately here is what was done.
A. The card is equipped with a gigabyte heatsink called "windtunnel" the fans adjoined to this windtunnel device are utter shit - they have no way of getting into them save breaking into the fan, because the fan blades are snapped onto the assembly (the spinny bit) which encases the whole set up - so you can literally see the plug talked about in #2's link, but have a plastic covering that I would have had to break through (probably breaking the fan blades) to get to the bearing.
Replacement fans are 12$... They're from 2010.
Rather than spend 20$ on fans here is what I did.
Step 1, with small hand drill, open a tiny hole on the face of the fan, careful to remove plastic shavings with moist finger
Step 2, use a stiff sewing needle to push the rubber cap to the side so as to access the bearing.
Step 3, insert 1 drop of gun oil, spin for 5 minutes, if spinning doesn't get better add more gun oil (because the hole isn't that big, and the plug barely forced open most of the oil spills out onto the top of the fan and does not go into the bearing).
Step 4, rinse repeat until fan spins properly and quietly.
Step 5, use some tape I had laying around (scotch packing tape), to cover the hole after removing the needle, then replace gigabyte logo sticker over top of tape.
Step 6, hope to god that gun oil doesn't spray out everywhere and ruin my shit.
A. The card is equipped with a gigabyte heatsink called "windtunnel" the fans adjoined to this windtunnel device are utter shit - they have no way of getting into them save breaking into the fan, because the fan blades are snapped onto the assembly (the spinny bit) which encases the whole set up - so you can literally see the plug talked about in #2's link, but have a plastic covering that I would have had to break through (probably breaking the fan blades) to get to the bearing.
Replacement fans are 12$... They're from 2010.
Rather than spend 20$ on fans here is what I did.
Step 1, with small hand drill, open a tiny hole on the face of the fan, careful to remove plastic shavings with moist finger
Step 2, use a stiff sewing needle to push the rubber cap to the side so as to access the bearing.
Step 3, insert 1 drop of gun oil, spin for 5 minutes, if spinning doesn't get better add more gun oil (because the hole isn't that big, and the plug barely forced open most of the oil spills out onto the top of the fan and does not go into the bearing).
Step 4, rinse repeat until fan spins properly and quietly.
Step 5, use some tape I had laying around (scotch packing tape), to cover the hole after removing the needle, then replace gigabyte logo sticker over top of tape.
Step 6, hope to god that gun oil doesn't spray out everywhere and ruin my shit.
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