Broken fan on EVGA GTX 460

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Unknown Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Nov 99 Posts: 20 Credit: 27,512,627 RAC: 0	Message 1194412 - Posted: 12 Feb 2012, 17:25:31 UTC Has anyone had this happen before? Had Dual 460's and the fan gave out on this one. Looks like an RMA.. [/img] ID: 1194412 ·

rob smith Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22790 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380	Message 1194427 - Posted: 12 Feb 2012, 17:55:33 UTC Looks much the same as the first one I got - it let go after about 10 minutes with what might be described as an "interesting" sound.... Straight swap from supplier, no messing Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1194427 ·

Dave Send message Joined: 29 Mar 02 Posts: 778 Credit: 25,001,396 RAC: 0	Message 1194433 - Posted: 12 Feb 2012, 18:15:56 UTC Ouch. MTBF & all that... ID: 1194433 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51531 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1194494 - Posted: 12 Feb 2012, 20:30:25 UTC God bless EVGA's lifetime warranty. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ID: 1194494 ·

ivan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Mar 01 Posts: 783 Credit: 348,560,338 RAC: 223	Message 1194503 - Posted: 12 Feb 2012, 20:52:22 UTC - in response to Message 1194412. Last modified: 12 Feb 2012, 20:52:49 UTC Has anyone had this happen before? Had Dual 460's and the fan gave out on this one. Looks like an RMA.. Not on an EVGA, but on a Palit 768 MB GTX 460 I managed to snap off some fan blades by sticking my fingers into them while trying to sense the thermal performance -- I didn't even feel the blades hit my fingers, they were so fragile. Card is now force-cooled in a Supermicro 1U chassis designed for two GPUs (with a baffle made from a Rice Krispies packet to get optimum cooling) and is helping my RAC. Also had a Gigabyte GTX 460 fan fail recently at less than a year old -- I RMA-ed it to eBuyer, but because it's discontinued I paid the three-quid difference to get a GTX 560 replacement. ID: 1194503 ·

Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4	Message 1194523 - Posted: 12 Feb 2012, 21:23:00 UTC - in response to Message 1194516. Has anyone had this happen before? Had Dual 460's and the fan gave out on this one. Looks like an RMA.. Not on an EVGA, but on a Palit 768 MB GTX 460 I managed to snap off some fan blades by sticking my fingers into them while trying to sense the thermal performance -- I didn't even feel the blades hit my fingers, they were so fragile. Card is now force-cooled in a Supermicro 1U chassis designed for two GPUs (with a baffle made from a Rice Krispies packet to get optimum cooling) and is helping my RAC. Also had a Gigabyte GTX 460 fan fail recently at less than a year old -- I RMA-ed it to eBuyer, but because it's discontinued I paid the three-quid difference to get a GTX 560 replacement. I don't know how much 3 quid is, but it sounds like a good deal to Me, turned a broken 460 into a 560, that's an inexpensive upgrade. It's about $4.72 Claggy ID: 1194523 ·

Paul D Harris Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 1122 Credit: 33,600,005 RAC: 0	Message 1194583 - Posted: 12 Feb 2012, 23:10:17 UTC a quid is a pound sterling England currency similar to a buck as dollar for us currency but a pound is worth more than us dollar buck ID: 1194583 ·

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