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HELP required! Bastard noisy ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard fan

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It whines. It grates. It buzzes. The chipset fan on my Asus motherboard is driving me chuffin' bananas - and it appears that you can't just replace it a bog standard mobo fan.

I've written off to Asus and Mesh for a replacement, but does anyone know of any quick-fix options?
 
It's a known issue with the motherboard, happens to loads of them apparently. I bodged mine with a standard chipset fan and a ziptie, but wouldn't really advise this approach.
 
Yes - you have to near-completely dismantle it - but it's not really a big deal if you've ever built a PC before.

That's what the MESH bloke on a forum said you have to do anyway.
 
mauvais said:
Yes - you have to near-completely dismantle it - but it's not really a big deal if you've ever built a PC before.

That's what the MESH bloke on a forum said you have to do anyway.
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It's a bit of a big deal for me because I really haven't got the time to start pulling apart my machine.

All this hassle for a £3 fan! What were they thinking of? Why couldn't they just use a standard fan like everyone else?
Tossers.

*makes note to self: never, ever buy an ASUS board again.
 
ASUS are pretty good really - wouldn't enjoy having to take my entire PC apart but I've had something go wrong with kit from almost every other motherboard manufacturer, and my options would be kinda limited by now. Current and last boards were ASUS, no problems.
 
editor said:
Where do I get one of those puppies?

Would this thing work?
http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/northbridgecooling/tr-hr-05-sli

Or this (out of stock sadly)
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=321728

I'm never buying an Asus mobo again if changing something as simple as a fucked fan is going to be so much hassle. :(
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the cooling shop

I had the same problem on a Gigabyte board a few years ago and replaced it with a zalman heatsink.
I got a 3 deg drop in temp and less noise :)

Ripping the motherboard out is the easy part, trying to get the existing heatsink off is a right pain.
You could get the whole job done in around 1 hr and i'd advise getting a good scalpel blade to help with removal.
 
Addy said:
You could get the whole job done in around 1 hr and i'd advise getting a good scalpel blade to help with removal.
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Eeek.

It's shit that people should be expected to do all this for what is supposed to be an upmarket motherboard. With my old cheapo boards you just shoved in a replacement £2 fan. Job done.
 
editor said:
Eeek.

It's shit that people should be expected to do all this for what is supposed to be an upmarket motherboard. With my old cheapo boards you just shoved in a replacement £2 fan. Job done.
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Kind of like complaining about not being able to put a cheap stereo in your ferrari...;)
 
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Eeek.

It's shit that people should be expected to do all this for what is supposed to be an upmarket motherboard. With my old cheapo boards you just shoved in a replacement £2 fan. Job done.
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No, the upmarket version was the A8N-SLI Premium, with a heat pipe and no fans. ;)
 
Bob_the_lost said:
Kind of like complaining about not being able to put a cheap stereo in your ferrari...;)
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Well, the comparison would be more accurate if you described it as buying a pricey car and then finding out that the knackered dashboard light was putting you off driving.
 
oh god ed not you as well!

I've got the same mobo and it seems this is a known fault (found this on some forums). My chipset fan started doing exactly the same thing and started catching, not starting up and catching.

I got sent a replacement fan in the post - but fuck me, a real pain in the arse to lug all the mobo out, cut off the connectors for the fan and put the new one on, then connect everything back up again!!!! fuck that for a game of soldiers again!

next time I'm buying a mobo with a nice passive heatshink and some shiny copper heatpipes... bastards!

asus make good boards - but this was one mighty pain in the arse :mad:
 
Shit. I didn't realise that I'd need to do all that with their own replacement fan. So I may as well go for the passive heatsink, yes?

I'm surprised no one in America hasn't launched a lawsuit against them. After all, why should users have to go through all this extra work because of a company's shoddy goods?
 
Just make sure that it doesn't foul any of the cards you have in there. My motherboard has a fan that's directly under the bottom edge of the graphics card and therefore could only be passively cooled if you take a hacksaw to the new heat sink.
 
You could stick it on with thermal epoxy - assuming you've got good enough access in the case, you'd just need to remove the old HSF, clean the heat spreader with IPA, and stick the new one on (as opposed to taking the whole mobo out to mount it properly).
 
Yes it is safe. If you start getting crashes then stop but it isn't instant death.

With the fan, it's not really important what fan you use. What matters is the heat sink, underneath the fan. If there's enough air blowing over it then it won't overheat, to do this you could either bodge something or go for something like the Zalman one you've got, which is designed to replace the heatsink and work without a fan blowing directly on it.

Yes, that one will work. Extra has covered the process, i'll just add that it should ship with thermal paste, use only a tiny bit of it, half a pea is the commonly quoted number.
 
I've never seen one of these fanless wonders - but do you reckon it'll fit in this space?

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Note the graphics card lurking above
 
Cheers. I've just ordered the cooling thingamabob and wedged a household fan right next to the case for now.

So now I've got cold knees.
 
If you find that the fixings supplied with the Zamlan are not adequate, let me know as I have some spare thermal epoxy resin I could send you.
 
editor said:
Cheers. I've just ordered the cooling thingamabob and wedged a household fan right next to the case for now.

So now I've got cold knees.
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If you're knees are cold, the computer should be at a fine temperature for smooth running.
 
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