The fan on my video card seems to be dying. Anyone know a way to test it, or an easy way to replace it? Looking at it, it will be a pain to remove. 
Most of these fans are custom sized and in may or may not be particle to replace them. Once I had a fan go bad and a local independent computer store happened to have an identical bad video card with a good fan. I swapped the fan and was back in business. On another video card I called up the factory and discovered they had a recall on my card due to fan failure and replaced it for free, just cost me postage to send the card back. I would suggest you contact the video card manufacturer, if the card is under three years old and see if you might get my same good luck or just what the replacement cost of the fan might be.
Now on several occasions I have replaced fans in other equipment and if it can be removed without harming anything you could look up the numbers on the fan and find one on the Internet. Fans that are part of the overall cooling housing are a real problem to replace which is the case with many video card fans. They are not really a standalone component.
Thank You,
The VC is OEM, and the warranty on this box just expired last week. I may be scrooed. 
The Acer guy says they won’t send me the part, but I can take to a shop and let them fix the problem for $200. That’s nearly what the computer cost me.
Fans that are part of the overall cooling housing are a real problem to replace which is the case with many video card fans. They are not really a standalone component.
The GPU temp is steady at ~70C, and the CPU is not warming up more than normal. This can change pretty quickly. Don’t know what I’ll do at this point, but I may have to go back to my reliable Gateway for a while.
chief sealth wrote:
> The GPU temp is steady at ~70C, and the CPU is not warming up more than
> normal. This can change pretty quickly. Don’t know what I’ll do at this
> point, but I may have to go back to my reliable Gateway for a while.
the (noisy, dinky, CHEAP) fan on my old nVidia card died about two (or
three) years ago… i found a larger, quieter case fan and rigged it
up inside the case where it blows directly onto the gpu/fan side of
the card…
now, i had an unused case fan power source on the motherboard…you
may not…and, your card may not be located in a place you can do what
i did…but, mine is quieter now and cool enough…for a heck of a
lot less than $200 (fan came out of an old junker)…
i remember at the time i found potential replacement parts via google,
but they were generic and this board’s fan is held in place with
fasteners through the board…looked FAR too difficult to actually
replace…
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That’s something to look into. It’s a tight fit though, and removing the original cooler will be a pain. The screws are below the fan, and it’s additionally fastened into the card by two pins.
i remember at the time i found potential replacement parts via google, but they were generic and this board’s fan is held in place with fasteners through the board…looked FAR too difficult to actually
replace…
The only replacement I can find online is from a company called ascendtech.us, and they don’t look like anybody to be dealing with. NVIDIA only sells it OEM.