ffffwwwwweeeeeeeBBBZZZZZchunkchunkchunk....

[Kruzin]

After 2.5 years of nonstop 24/7 being powered up, this is what my Parhelia started sounding like a couple days ago

It's a shame M had to go make their HSF mounting different from everyone else. It'd be nice to just go to the comp store and buy an aftermarket HSF thats close to a direct replacement.
Or if they had used a fan of a more common size.
But that would make too much sense...

Fortunatly for me, I was able to get a real M replacement (hopefully it will arrive tomorrow or Saturday), but Joe Enduser would have to sent the card in for RMA.
Again, it would make too much sense for a common wear item like this fan to be offered on shopmatroxdotcom

Well....not like anyone can do anything about it. Just wanted to vent a little after a long day, and this seemed like as good a thing as any to vent about....

[Kruzin]

BTW...the noise is the fan spinning up, then blades hitting the cage making it stop, then spinning up again, every 5-10 secs.
over and over and over and.....


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[capt. marvel]

ZALMAN
Note 1: If used with NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 or higher model, or Matrox Parhelia, the noiseless fan (ZM-OP1) must be used.

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[Belwarrior]

erm... tried trimming the blades a bit?

[gt40]

have you tried digikey, they've got hundreds of fans in all sorts of flavours.

[Kruzin]

I know if I looked I could find a replacement fan.
But why when I can get a factory replacement free?

[Wombat]

Kruzin, could you please edit this thread? The title of the post is messing up the whole Hardware forum

[Kruzin]

I know....ain't it cool?
So you want me to edit it to something a bit longer? I can do that

[Twilight]

LOL! Sweet! Long live my P650!!!

[Kruzin]

Yippie Skippy!
My new fan came in today.
Now I got a nice quiet Parhelia again
And it wasn't just a fan. It was a new HSF assembly. Slightly different than the original. Hopefully with new and improved longer life

[Kurt]

dunno what yours looks like, but the HSF on my P750 looks like it's been salvaged from a cheap Taiwanese OEM-made SIS half-ass*d card.

[Kruzin]

Well, the one that came off was one of the originals. A pre-production BBz 'green-wire special' card. The fan housing rises above the HS fins, and mounts with 4 screws into the fins.
The new one does not rise above the fins, and has no housing surrounding the fan. just a small bracket comes out if the motor, and 3 screws mount it to the base of the HS, rather than the fins.
This appears to allow a little more fin material overall, and I am told the fan itself should last longer than the original.
Only thing is the new fan doesn't have the spiffy Parhelia sticker on it, like the original

[Marshmallowman]

I am sure you have the technolgy to move the sticker