Evga 1080ti elite fan fix?

[mr griffin]

So decided I wanted to change the thermal paste on my card today as it could do with being done and have it running nice and cool for when my 5900x turns up, Like a plonker while removing one of the fan headers from the pcb the plyers slipped and I got the cable instead, breaking one of the 4 tiny cables so now that fan spins at 100% so I've unplugged it and put a 140mm fan resting above it to give it airflow for now

So what would you guys do? I can see you can buy new fans from china for it and that would sort the broken cable- how hard are they to fit? or buy the Morpheus 11 core black heat pipe vga cooler for it?

the ftw3 is quite a complex card to take apart compared to normal ones I've done in the past and I never did change the thermal past on it, just annoyed I've ruined the card now

has made me lose confidence wanting to mess any more with it - not sure I even have the skills to do either of these fixes to it.

 

[mr griffin]

Can you splice the cable? Maybe cut a connector off a random cheap fan (leave plenty of cable on the connector to work with) and just splice a new connector onto all three wires of the existing 1080Ti.

The fan connectors that plug into the pcb are not normal 3 or 4 pin like on a normal fan , not sure what they are or if they have a standard?

 

[mr griffin]

Take a picture of the fan and cable where its broken and show the connector. I may have some about. Pls show top of connector and the part that goes into the card, basically head on to see if it is holes or pins. They are easy to fix or get new so don't be upset. I know that feeling when you get distracted for one moment and break something you like, but everything is fixable so not worth the stress.

I took the rest of the card apart and replaced the thermal compound,
Looking at it properly the card is fine, it's just one of the fan cables I've ruined.

Here is the picture

https://i.ibb.co/4K805Sp/IMG-20201110-104849.jpg

 

[mr griffin]

its the fan plug that plugs into this socket that I ruined

The picture is tiny stamp sized, have you got a larger one ?

 

[mr griffin]

Do you know how to solder ? is the pin bent on the part on the card end not the fan cable end ?

the pcb fan socket is fine, its the fan plug that I've managed to trash, it has 4 little thin wires going into it, I've damaged them all a bit and snapped one off
you can see the socket and plug next to it is exactly the same but not trashed, that came out ok.

probably can't solder, never tried too anyhow

https://ibb.co/86Hg19K

 

[mr griffin]

Well that's good so not the socket on the card but the plug on the fan side, but again the plug is blurry so cant see what is actually broken. looks like a standard 4 pin fan plug that has crimped wires to the plug. Any chance of a picture of the break on the plug that is not blurry? Because easy fix is to get a 4 pin fan and cut the cable off and solder it to the fan, or even easier contact EVGA for a new fan or take the part number off the back of the fan and google the part code, must be easy to replace.

Yeah I found a play on the Bay selling fans for it, getting the shroud apart to replace it don't look to easy though. The socket next to the blurry picture is the same u can see the little plug with 4 wires coming out of it, I've broken the one furthest right. I think you're right someone who can solder could probably fix it easily. Or like you say get a replacement fan. It would mean taking it all apart again though and then looking at how the shroud comes apart also to get to the fan,
I looked on the bay for a whole new cooler as that would be even easier if someone was selling the ftw3 cooler if they had watercooled or something or an old dead card.

 

[mr griffin]

You only need a fan mate to make life easy, it's not that hard to remove the fan, will be 3 screws , near the fan blades, just twist the blades and have a right size screw driver. It's really easy. If you get a fan then no messing with soldering etc etc.

Cheers for taking the time to help