I am working on a PC for a relative. It's a GB-BXA8-5557. She was complaining that it was overheating and making rattling noises. I took the cover off and notice that one of the fan had broken blades and was no longer spins, so the other fan is spinning faster to compensate making the rattling sound. The BIOS also notice that one of the fan is down.
I took a look and the fan is a AUC0512DB and has the dimension 50x50x15mm. The fan uses 4 cables which is unusual.
My thought is that I could just replace it with an identical one. The cable is solder on, so I would have splice in a new one. The problem is that I can't find an AUC0512DB locally. I could buy it from China, but that may take weeks to arrive. I was thinking of just buying something else that may fit, but it's got 4 cables and most of the fan has 2.
If I do have to get an exact replacement, I thought I could try Digikey, anyone have experience with them? A lot of the other vendors appear to be in China.
Paul
I took a look and the fan is a AUC0512DB and has the dimension 50x50x15mm. The fan uses 4 cables which is unusual.
My thought is that I could just replace it with an identical one. The cable is solder on, so I would have splice in a new one. The problem is that I can't find an AUC0512DB locally. I could buy it from China, but that may take weeks to arrive. I was thinking of just buying something else that may fit, but it's got 4 cables and most of the fan has 2.
If I do have to get an exact replacement, I thought I could try Digikey, anyone have experience with them? A lot of the other vendors appear to be in China.
Paul