980Ti fan failing help!!

[Things change I've changed]

Grrrrrrrr, this is a real bugbear of mine, so many expensive components out there held captive by a 50p fan on an otherwise fully working product!


I have a Palit Geforce 980 Ti Super Jetstream GPU and one of the fans is starting to fail, it's 5 months out of warranty and not sure what to do, there is noway I want to give it up for the sake of a fan, I've emailed jetstream support but haven't heard back from them yet

Any idea's what I can do?

This is my GPU - https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Palit/GeForce_GTX_980_Ti_Super_JetStream/4.html

I've looked for spares on ebay but no joy, a few gigabyte ones seem do crop up, not sure if I can bodge them on my card or not, have even considered water cooing but quite expensive and a lot of effort, don't really want to go down that road.

If you look at the heatsink in the link maybe I whack two 120mm fans on there some how?

 

[mingey]

You can ghetto that quite easily as you suggested already with a couple of cable ties and some 120mm fans, would seem the easiest route.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x OcUK Tech Labs 120mm Kraken Extreme VGA Cooling Upgrade Bundle - Standard - White Shroud= £84.95
• 1 x OcUK Tech Labs 'Airflow Control' - Raijintek Morpheus II "Spectre 120mm PWM Edition" - Red= £57.95

Total: £153.40 (includes shipping: £10.50)​

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[Things change I've changed]

Thanks!

Ummm, interesting, I really like the look of that Kraken Extreme cooling bundle, seems very reasonable for the money, just watching a few youtube vids now.

 

[JediFragger]

If you don't mind how it looks then I'd be tempted with a 120mm ghetto mod, should be fine

 

[Things change I've changed]

If you don't mind how it looks then I'd be tempted with a 120mm ghetto mod, should be fine

If it did go that route or at least try it out first as I have a few fans kicking around what would I connect the fans to, a fan controller?

 

[Terrorfirmer]

Totally just do a ghetto job. Remove and disconnect the original fans, whack 2 slim 120mm fans on there instead.

If only one of the fans is failing I think the card is good enough to truck on with just a single fan, as long as your case isn't a hot-box.

 

[McShave]

In what way is the fan starting to fail. Are you sure it isn't something a bit of lubricant can't fix? Worth a try before you do anything drastic.

 

[Pulseammo]

There's Jetstream fans available in 90mm, 95mm and 100mm on Chinese import sites. Pretty steep though ($31.99 to $41.99). Otherwise you could do what linus tech tips did in a recent video and remove the metal shroud along with the fans and just cable tie two low amp fans to it.

https://youtu.be/-yQHAMz1v5g

 

[Things change I've changed]

There's Jetstream fans available in 90mm, 95mm and 100mm on Chinese import sites. Pretty steep though ($31.99 to $41.99). Otherwise you could do what linus tech tips did in a recent video and remove the metal shroud along with the fans and just cable tie two low amp fans to it.

https://youtu.be/-yQHAMz1v5g

Thank you, just managed to find them, isn't bad a price actually for a pair of them plus free delv.

 

[AiiR]

Remove the whole plastic shroud and cable tie a couple of 120mm fans to it. It'll be much quieter and a bit cooler even, just not as aesthetic. You can even buy a 2 way 3 pin splitter and attach it to a VGA fan adaptor (Think Gelid do one) so you can control fan speed through software.

 

[pastymuncher]

If it did go that route or at least try it out first as I have a few fans kicking around what would I connect the fans to, a fan controller?

You can get a adaptor for fitting normal fans to a gpu so that they are still controlled by the gpu itself. Last time I checked there were several on Ebay that were less than a fiver.