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Can I take that stupid fan off my motherboard?

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anonymouschris

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I have a Shuttle AK31A motherboard and the stupid fan on my mobo is getting really loud and annoying. Can I take it off? This is my first mobo that I have used that needed a fan on it. Please let me know!

Thanks,
Chris
 
no... you will most likely run into problems if you do. It's there for a reason. If it's getting loud, you can switch to a passive cooler or fasten it down to maybe prevent any loose ends from rattling.
 
Yes, you can remove the fan, but you must replace it with a heatsink.
 
Remove the decal over the backside center of the fan and clean the bushing out, then lubricate it. Some chipset fans are ball bearing which tends to last a lot longer.
 


<< Yes, you can remove the fan, but you must replace it with a heatsink. >>



The fan is already on top of a heatsink. I removed the fan off of mine and it runs fine. I think many KT266A motherboards do not have a chipset fan.
 


<< I have a Shuttle AK31A motherboard and the stupid fan on my mobo is getting really loud and annoying. Can I take it off? This is my first mobo that I have used that needed a fan on it. Please let me know!

Thanks,
Chris >>



I had the same problem with the fan on my AMD761 chipset. The el-cheapo bearing in the fan started getting noisy. I took off the whole assembly and replaced it with giant passive cooler(giant for a chipset), which is a forest style passive cooler for generation one Pentium CPU's. I took off the original one by heating it with soldering iron and twisting off. Cleaning up the adhesive residue was pain in the ass heh. I glued on the new heatsink with Arctic Silver II epoxy, but I suppose you could use JB Weld instead.
 
I have an AK31A and the fan got loud. I just unplugged it and left it sitting on top of the heatsink. It's been like that for months now with no ill effects. The PC is on 24/7, too.
 
i removed my northbridge fan/heatsink and put a generic amd heatsink in its place with a delta 7000 rpm 40 mm fan on top.




Jen
 
it doesn't require active cooling, especially if u're not overclocking the FSB too high.

take it off and leave it off permanently...if u feel paranoid, replace the heatsink w/ a higher quality one (i.e. an old 486 heatsink or waste money on a silver orb,etc.)
 
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