a few days ago i was having memory problems , it turned out to be the nvidia network driver lol, when i was swapping and testing each ram module i acedentally hit the cpu fan with my fingers and 1 of the blades came off and the case was fibrating violentely, i pulled it allout and stuck the stock fan in it . i decided to remove the broken fan from the heatsink (7700-cu) and replace it with a oldschool compaq server loud bastard fan lol , theres one in the front of my server and it will grab your shirt if your walk to near. the airflow is insane no 120 thease days will match (that i have seen). i did a few tests running it with power and discoverd it was a thermally controlled version, so i shorted the thermal resister and tinned it and the fan revved up to some insane rpm,now to attache itto the heatsink was the trickey part, h ad to get this old scredriver thingy , wall wasant a screwdriver it was a screwdriver with a small tread tapp like a screw but for making holes, i lined the braket up on the back side of the fan , made the holes, used some large tread type computer screws cut all the fan chassis away fitted it on and it fits perfectally

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SOrry for any typoes in advance

I will do thermal tests as soon as its in and leave results

if you see any old compaq servers , this was out of a compaq prolaint 3000 a "brick" if you will , well if you see them grab the fans there insane

I feel for you, I had the same thing happen with my AMD comp, I dropped a screw driver onto one of those copper heatsink fans, and I'm not sure of the price nowdays but it cost around the $80.

Let me know if the fan does its job, do you have any spare fans?

Its in and working i had a bit of troble with the fan sensor the one on it must be an older type my mob detected it as not working i had to grab 1 off the sysfans , so if it dies it will hopefulley hit shutdown temp and shut down im just about to run bf2142 and see how the temp is , its ideling at 21c so its working better than the stock fan : )

*Updated*
Heres a screenie of it running bf2142 , max settings, its at 36c




Grant : i have heaps, depends what type it needs

I got an entire stock HSF from an Athlon64 skt 754 3000+ If ya want it. Though i am assuming you got that AMD thingo sorted ages ago, or its not negligible.
I got the HSF when i brought a CPU second hand, but i stuck it in a shuttle that came with its own cooling solution.

Nice job on the mod there chris, Noise must be a prick, but that case of yours was never exactly silent was it?

nah never did get it fixed. Computer has been the storage for a while now. Had issues with the graphic card (G4ti4200) as you may recall at LAN-DINGs in the past. Kinda gave up, no cpu fan, no graphic card. If I don't go out friday night I'll probably turn up to onewaylan with it.

Righto..
Will bring that HSF along just incase, you can have it and then all you need is a graphics card.. shouldn't be too hard to source one of those on the cheap.

Is "Righto" your new word of the month Tak. Used as the first word in the last two messages.

Erm, No.. pure coincidence.