Need new 845PE fan. How find one?

[Zviel]

In the last 24 hours, my normally quite self built system has become a buzzing annoyance. It is clearly the fan atop the heatsink on the 854PE chip of my Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra motherboard. Although I'm still waiting for a response to an email I sent to Gigabyte, this rig gets plenty of daily use, and I'm looking to fix it ASAP. So I popped the fan, and located a sticker which identified it as

Brushless
DC 12V / 0.08A
MJ401012
Sleeve Bearing
TUV Product Service
MAY JIEPRECISION

I typed 'MJ401012' into google, and found a single link to a taiwan site, showing a 40mm square fan, for $0, all in taiwanese, and no option to purchase it. It appears to come with small or large power connecter, I need the small one.

BUT, how do I get this? I sure hope the answer is not to buy a new mother board! Its amazing that the fan takes four screws, which thread themselves between the fins of the heat sink. This makes me wary of finding a correct fit with anything but an exact replacement part.

Can anybody give me a good lead?

Thanks.

 

[EdipisReks]

Its amazing that the fan takes four screws, which thread themselves between the fins of the heat sink. This makes me wary of finding a correct fit with anything but an exact replacement part.

that is how most of them are. just get a 40 mm fan that plugs into the powersupply and attach it to the heatsink either with super glue or, if possible, screws. they should be locally available.

 

[Zviel]

Thank you for the insight. Now I can buy with confidence.

 

[S0me1X]

You don't neccessarily need a new fan. If the original heatsink is fairly large, then just run it without a chipset fan (probably more than half of the 845PE boards don't use active cooling on the chipset anyway).

 

[Zviel]

The heat sink is approximately the same dimensions as the 40mm fan, so I probably need the fan. The sink has two plastic push pins on opposing corners- I think securing it to the motherboard, kinda like video cards have now. I tried to push them and simultaneously lightly pull the sink up, but it would not separate from the motherboard. I'm suspicious it is is stuck to the 845PE chip with thermal paste. I assume the 845 is soldered to the MB. I'm afraid to tug on the sink harder, so I didn't seek out a whole new heat sink (with or without fan combo) as a replacement.

Point of Interest: The last time I pulled an Intel CPU sink/fan combo off my P4, the chip stuck to the thermal pad and got pulled right out of the locked ZIF socket! I had run the chip hot before doing this too, just to make sure the pad would get soft, and I didn't tug hard at that either. Luckily, nothing was damaged.