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Abit KT7/KT7A Chipset Fan Noise

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Hey everybody, I have a friend who has an Abit KT7 motherboard and his chipset fan is very very very very very loud. No matter how much he cleans the dust out of the thing, it still remains very very loud, like distracting loud. Even after the computer has had hours to warm up, the little thing still remains insanely loud.

He was asking me if he could remove it safely and run the computer without the fan. I told him not to, but has anyone had success with this?

Also, he is interested in replacing the fan. Has anyone done this? What fan did you replace it with and how did you affix it?

Thank you very much for your time.
 
Yeah it's safe to take it off 'cuz he's using "only" a KT133 chipset. The reason for the fan is to cool the northbridge when it gets into the higher bus speeds(133Mhz and beyond). But hell, the IWill KT133A only has a heatsink and can hit extreme bus speeds of 150Mhz and above.
 
So you are saying it can run without a fan... and with that little tiny heatsink? (Just making sure this is what you meant)
 
The fan on my KT7A-RAID started making a horribly loud noise last week. I took off the fan and went out and bought a 486 fan to replace it. I still haven't gotten around to putting the 486 fan on yet...but my system is still running fine and stable with just the heatsink.
 
"So you are saying it can run without a fan... and with that little tiny heatsink? (Just making sure this is what you meant)"

Yes.
 
man NB fan makes a very strange ocsillating noise at boot up and then evens out after a minute or so. I wonder if Abit would do an RMA on it?

Hell, I'm not paying shipping though!

~zilla
 
If he really wants 2 replace it, ThermalTake makes an small "Orb" that will
fit with a few modifications (filing of holddown pins & add washers)...
 
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