My PCI slot fan burned out, and it was doing a good job keeping the video card really cool. It helped my hot running CPU stay cooler while it was crunching SETI workunits. But it's burned out now, and I was wondering if any of you guys have any suggestions as to which PCI slot fan I should get, as the last fan burned out in just 5 months.

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-ChaoticBlue
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Why do you need a seperate slot fan? How hot does everything inside you PC get that you need a fan inside your PC to move the hot air? Why not use case fans that blow relatively cool air in from the bottom and push the hot air out from the top?

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My advice is to make sure it has bearings...not bushings. My slot fan with bushings also burned out after only a few months. I have not replaced it as I had a case fan and it keeps my hardrives below 32 C and my processor never gets above 52 c and usually is at 49 C.

Don

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I'm with dazphotog. A fan with sealed bearings will last the longest. It also doesn't hurt to check a fans specs for the manufacturers MBF ratings. (Meantime Before Failure) You can obviously still get a 'lemon' of a fan that craps out too soon, but a higher rated fan is generally the better bet.

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I'm with me. If that fan came with it from the factory, then they are probably aware of some heating issue on the graphics card.

and be sure to clean out the dust every so often!!! :-)

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I have a radeon 9800 pro with it's own heat sink and fan. But it needs high air flow around the heat sink to run cool enough when I'm playing DX9 games or else in about 2 hours or so artifacts on the screen starts popping up. The computer does have a 90mm variable speed fan and a pathetic powersupply fan. My Hard disk reaches about 35C when CPU load is 100% but that's because the FAN runs faster when the CPU is producing more heat. So when the CPU is idleing, the hard drive reaches 43C which is a little hot.

I used to have a old computer that I overclocked and it had about 5 80mm fans on it running at full speed, but it was the noisiest computer I've ever had.
I also read something weird in other forums and some guys were saying that the PCI slot fan will compete with the fan on the GPU because it's creating a low pressure between the card and the fan... One thing I thought of doing was rewiring the PCI fan to blow into the case rather than out, so this way the fans would work together, and maybe help the CPU too as this way there is one fan that is at blowing in rather than 0 fans.

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-ChaoticBlue
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