Problem Fans on Video Cards?

MobyDisk asks: "Both myself and my roommate have experienced problems with unreliable fans on video cards, leading to fried video chips. Most cards don't have full-size 12V fans, even though they put out a lot of heat. I've resorted to replacing the fans with cheap upgrades. A search for '"video card fan' on Google reveals lots examples of this problem as well as fan upgrade kits. I want to know how common this problem is. Have other readers experienced problems with video card fans? Should video card manufacturers start using better fans for reliability? Or do they just want us to upgrade next year when the fan dies?"

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[terpia]

This is why watercooling is stupid. The contingent of people using it right now are telling everyone that it's more reliable and much better than aircooling. They might as well be linux zealots spouting off about how ready linux is for the desktop. The simple fact is that at this point in time, watercooling is only viable and reliable on a comsumre PC if you can babysit your system and are familiar enough with the internal components to do something when one begins to fail. Mom and Pop don't need it. When you water cool, you are using high quality parts no? Why not just pop off the OEM video card fan and use a high quality aftermarket one. You'll experience about the same failure rate as watercooling then. If the fan on your video card dies, only your video board dies. If the wterpump dies in a water-cooled setup - Everything Dies.