9800GT's fan literally fell off the card...

[RPGWiZaRD]

Right I was just surfing around on this parents computer when I've come here for a visit when the computer suddenly started locking up, I was worried that perhaps the HDDs that are very old maxtors were about to give up or ram or cpu unstability from the mild overclocks. Having tried a couple of times with different bios settings and stock settings and it still locked up I decided to try with one RAM stick, as soon as I opened the sidepanel a terrible almost funny view appeared, the 9800 GT fan was lying on my sound card. After that I was like I BETTER SHUT OFF this comp b4 the gpu's gonna catch fire. xD

The thing got so hot I managed to get a white burn mark from one of the fins on my finger (the heatsink even at the outer edge was really burning hot):


The heatsink had gotten so warm it could melt plastic, both a shroud for the cooler and the fan's screwholders had melted from the heat and also the fan's cables were a bit burnt and I tried seating the fan back with small wires through the screwholes but the comp didn't even start so I thought GPU was really dead then but after waiting a bit it actually started but yea fan is still broken so gotta take care of that


Quality and performance my %#&


But the fan was really dead so I decided to look if I would find any extra fans collecting dust here at parents place and talking about dust...


There should be better (It's some old Revoltec 92mm 1900rpm fan)


My best friend zip-ties comes to the rescue as usual


My banana PCB


And up and running again

some nostalgia parts in there yep, that's my old 2005 setup with DFI Lanparty nForce4 SLI-DR mobo, Opteron 165, OCZ PowerStream 520W and OCZ Gold VX ram, hardly a "typical" comp to own for parents.


The card is the one I got back from a 8800GT RMA so ofc they have to send me something with low quality, should have warranty on this thing yet so I could probably get a GTS 250 now (since 9800GTs are out of stock by now so would be the 2nd time I get a "different" card) but I'm too lazy to RMA this time.

[Nikolasz]

You got your self burned, by 8900 ? .
It seems it still kick ass

[skier]

I had a 9600 GSO with that heatsink, the fan got caught on a wire once, and got smothered by a tv tuner once, each time the card(s) ran pinned at 112C F@H (was choked by a tvtuner for a weekend, then I put one in a DELL case to fold and it was actually running at 113C for over a month), no crashing or lag though LOL

can't believe the fan melted off for you though