Fan Orientation Failure Poll

[Roadhog2k5]

If you had a GPU fan failure, vote in the poll after reading this complete post.

First off, there are two types of fans commonly used for video cards. Those are Axial fans, and Radial Fans.

Radial Fan:


Axial Fan:



Now for the fan orientation that corresponds to the options we are going to use in this poll.
Just pick the type of fan you have and the orientation that the fan was ran in that failed.

Horizontal, Hub Up:


Horizontal, Hub Down:


Vertical:

[ssateneth]

2 reference 5870's 1 was upside down, other was normal. Both failed. Also had a sapphire 5830 hub down having some internal friction; drilled hole + wd40 seems to have fixed it so far.

[Starlightbreaker]

2 reference 5870's 1 was upside down, other was normal. Both failed. Also had a sapphire 5830 hub down having some internal friction; drilled hole + wd40 seems to have fixed it so far.

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wd40 is not a lubricant

[dmcurser]

befor you go saying wd40 isnt a lubercant ask what kind of wd40 i got wd40 white lithum grease pretty sure that a lubercant

http://www.wd40specialist.com/products/lithium-grease/

[Roadhog2k5]

befor you go saying wd40 isnt a lubercant ask what kind of wd40 i got wd40 white lithum grease pretty sure that a lubercant

http://www.wd40specialist.com/products/lithium-grease/

Or you know, just say what kind of wd40 you were using in the first place.

[Global BTC]

I once knew a verticle lubercant.

[Roadhog2k5]

bump

[Global BTC]

Good to see you fixed the spelling error.