Topic: GPU fans started failing, had to improvise a little - page 5. (Read 10449 times)

Metroid, I like it a lot when you post as a sane person.  I'm tried of replying to your posts with the number to the suicide hotline.

No offense to you whatsoever, but some of the stuff that you post is way out there.  If you can predict the future based on your sources, more power to you.  But most the the people who you call trolls are saying you are the troll.  1 vs 999M loses every time.

It's not only gigabyte, asus too. EVGA and Sapphire are the best .

I will never buy Gigabyte gpu's ... I've heard that their fans are shit ever since I've been in this game.

my decision is temporary, I ordered a cooler on my graphics card, but their efctivity I hope will be better than regular

Great solution, thanks for sharing!

Surprising the temps are lower with those fans

Yeah, unfortunately those coolers that Gigabyte uses on that series of GPUs have downright lousy fans. You can buy replacement fans for them, but I don't know if the quality is any better or not.

That's crafty - I'll try that out.  I have the same problem with a gigabyte 580 gaming card. The rear fan started to wobble, then screech for a few days then seized up.

I have a slightly different situation, the 1080 card for 2 coolers was heated to 90-95 degrees. one of the coolers began to fail, loosened up. I bought a 12 mm cooler at a nearby computer store for pennies, now the temperature is 70-75 degrees, in peaks up to 80 degrees it comes
power is supplied to it from the motherboard
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12yXNqWzuTTewAknbvlqFASVdgI-96oKm/view?usp=drivesdk

Hello All,

Just wanted to share my funny experience with these cards I purchased around a year ago.

The cards Im talking about are the Gigabyte RX 570 Gaming 4G: https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-RX570GAMING-4GD#kf
They are pretty much the worst cards I got for mining, even though I bought them early on for 160$ each, and I got 30 of them.
At first they were great, amazing value for money and ROI, elpida memory, they do 29.5mh/850mh eth/dcr; and 900 h/s on cryptonight.

They worked great for 10 months, and then the fans started failing; these fans can not handle dust at all. They are very poor in cooling; and unless I set the fans at 80% or more, the gpu temps would easily reach 75C.

The funny thing is that half of my cards would have the rear fan failing, either completely stop working, or work at a much slower rpm; to the point that I had to only mine cryptonight due to the lower power requirement for the algorithm compare to dual mining.

So I got this idea..

A week ago, I purchased these fans: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Brand-Original-Delta-AUB0812VH-pwm-DC12V-0-41A-80mm-computer-cpu-case-axial-cooling-fan/32541022969.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.Fy7LDH
And these splitters: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/SATA-Port-to-10-Way-12V-3-4Pin-Computer-CPU-Cooling-Fan-Splitter-Hub-with-PWM/32842778420.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.Fy7LDH

Removed the shroud and fans from the gpu, and stuck the new delta fans I got on the heatsink (using some metal wires, and a bit of clamping).
and this is the result
https://image.ibb.co/hSBvY7/IMG_20180213_WA0006.jpg

Currently, out of all the cards I have; Nitro+ Limited Edition, XFX GTS Edition, Nitro+ 570 8GB, and Powercolor Red Dragon golden sample; these cheap elpida cards are my favorite xD

Temps on the gpu are at around 39C under the same conditions, and they consume less power (compared to the original fans, 12v @0.5A, the new ones are 12v @0.41A).

So I lose the warranty, but I've already recovered their cost and much more, and they still run perfectly, so I am very happy

Now im thinking to do the same for all my other cards, and probably turn one of the AC units I got off to save on electricity