Simple Repair Guide for your Seized, Noisy, Wobbling GPU and Computer Case Fans
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2019
- In this video I'll show you how to re-lubricate your seized, noisy, or wobbly graphics card fan to bring it back into working order. Only attempt this repair on a graphics card if its warranty is expired and you are okay with the possibility of permanently damaging your hardware.
I've made this video in the hopes of bringing new life to older graphics cards and to prevent them from becoming waste. Other guides I've seen on the internet recommend ripping your fan apart into 2 pieces, which can damage its blades and may not even go back together afterwards. This method is simple and only requires household items/tools. 
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I know it's an old video. But if you're still around, I want to say thank you. Literally a day after trying (unsuccessfully) to deal with some financial difficulties, I woke up the next morning to my gpu fan grinding, and then when I rebooted my computer, not reading at all.
It's not a cheap cost for something that can manage what I do for a living (which includes some video editing), so I was of course freaking out.
Your video bought me some time at least to save up the few hundred dollars needed to get a new video card.
you can buy replacement fans on aliexpress they have them there. might takes some time to ship.
all kind of fans on ali express just make sure u read and order the same part number on he back side fan sticker"keep the screws" they dont ship the fans with the screws
Thanks a lot for this video! I have a Gigabyte R9 270 I want to sell, and one of the fans was making a lot of noise. Followed your tutorial step by step and the fixed fan sounds better than the one that was already fine. RUclips should recommend this video more.
That's a great idea! Just a few days ago I discovered my budget CPU cooler has no service hole. Looking forward to doing as you have shown!
Man i Should have watched your video way before. I always used to pull fan from its case and I always hated it cause its usually 50/50% you break fan fins or magnetic coil. The way you did it seems so easy. Very professional my friend, thanks.
you can remove back sticker if there is no screw holding blade you can push the fan outward, gently applied 2 sided pressure , fan blade will pop out make sure to not break the mounting plates. Then clean the magnetic surface and pin, blow air in pin hole if necessary and apply little grease not oil and put it back .
I thought of it to push it out but I was scared to break it
Great video! Gifting my old PC to a friend and realized that my OG GPU only had one spinning fan. Gonna use this video to re-lube them. Funnily enough it's the exact same shroud as the one in this video.
Thank you for fixing my fan vibration now the fans don't spin at all
Kudos to you sir! I did the same to my Palit 1650 Single Fan, I just use my cutter then I saw the shining metal inside the center of it, put some machine oil, spin it a little so that the fan absorbs the oil, once the fans got all the oil, i wash it up cover it again, and run a couple test, and works like NEW! Thanks a Lot Sir! GODBLESS!
use sewing oil, its mineral oil and safe for electronic
Thank you!
This is a really great tutorial and completely fixed the issues I had with my GPU's fans :)
Wow this is the actual real solution to fixing hardened fans rather than creating a Frankenstein project out of zapstraps and aftermarket fans. Thank you so much you saved my gtx 7900 😄
10/10 Outstanding. After this video, my fan performed as well as a newly purchased one.
OMG another Canadian engineer! Thank you for helping me figure out how to save my GPU fan
Oh i see, is it because of his Iron ring on his pinky finger?
@@SquidElvis yup! That's a sign exclusive to a Canadian engineer. We've got a ceremony once we graduate where we get the ring at the end.
OMG thank you so much for making this. at first i thought it was gonna be pretty hard but it actually turned out to be quite easy and i just had to take my time. and i even used an old dull razor blade and it worked perfectly. i did not want to have to wait weeks for a replacement fan from china so im so happy this worked. i cant thank you enough!
ok so update: i've had to relubricate the fan 2 more times the past 2 weeks so this is not really a permanent solution. it could be cause im probably using old oil or its just that this is only a temporary fix. im just going get a new fan from aliexpress or ebay and in the meantime while i wait for it i'll keep using this temporary fix
@@Lichohedgedude can i use Scotch tape to seal the back of the fan? Or is it gonna melt?
Thank you sooo much! This really helped me fix an MSI NVIDIA GTX 750TI. It only took me 3 hrs cause I'm not mechanically inclined and couldn't get the microscopic fan shroud screws to come out. The fans seem built into the shroud. There are no '3 screws" to remove them from the shroud so I just spun the knife by hand to make the hole. Well done!
Can i use Scotch tape to seal the back of the fan? Or is it gonna melt?
Thank you, this video is helpful in the pre-planning of buying a used gpu
Saved me some bucks, did this instead of changing the fans of my 4x 1060 zotac, 2case fans and PSU fans. 👌
I used drill, put smallest drill bit (0.5 mm), smallest speed on drill, and drilled at the centre for a really clean job and smallest hole possible :), drilled until i saw metal pin head, put 3 drops of mineral oil for fine mechanics, put sticker back and cant hear fan on even 60% lol! thx for video, you saved me, a replacement fan for my gpu costs 30 dollars on Aliexpress! Palit 1660 super StormX OC
lol.. you could have pull the fan and clean properly..
@@ColoniaMurder20 big lol I couldn't
@@luka7007 you able pull any gpu fan.. just use 2 knife and make sure you dont hit dynamo inside while pulling.
Just bought a rx 5700 xt for 160 and one of the fans are like this one i got worried at the first but youre video helped me so much thank you😁
Can't wait to test this! I have the same GPU, and the fans are super noisy!
did this help
@@brwnjokr7601 it did! Not sure about the long term though :)
@@_RedsTech_ aslong as it shuts up my fans for a bit then ill take it😅
Thanks dude! Saved me a couple of bucks.
Awesome tutorial, thank you!
YES!! Works so well I cant even tell my pc is on. I can finally play games in peace and quiet
Very nice tutorial. You could also cure the problem by just disabling fan with unsync on MSI afterburner the last fan if you have 3 blade or you can even make like if gpu gets very hot, than even if it does clicking noise it will turn on to keep it cool. Also you could lower fan speed and undervolt your gpu saving power thus less energy is used, less heat and fans speed is lowest possible - 30%. It also works on dual fan, the problem is though 1 fan will work for both fans, thus it will be hotter.
I love when on youtube they overclock and overvolt to gpu, when I do the oposite, undervolt and maybe even underclock a bit for longer service time. Less voltage the longer your gpu will serve, and less heat - less components will get unstick. Also less dust and you can clean even more later if you are lazy, thus you need to replace less thermopasta or thermopads, also less risk you will open the gpu and break something thus -1000$ will go to sink...
I also heard my gpu clicking sound and saw it was wabbling bad, i just pushed it in with fingers and it seems to be working once more. Now I think I will disable the 3rd fan I don't need it my gpu is already cool, thus 3rd fan will serve me as replaceable part. If its cool it will even lower the sound of fans...
with 65c you can even make that fans wont start spinning as it is normal working gpu temp. It would start after 65 celsius
I did this and it worked! Thank you
Thanks for the tuto man!
thank you very much sir, worked like a charm!
This might be old but it helped me fixed my gpu fan that doesnt spin very good.
thank you, this is the only video i have found that shows a more modern style fan and cover. makes me much more confident before i attempt it on my MSI 2080
2080 seriously bro ??
@@gameplaysome5819 There have been fan quality problems for so many brands starting 2019. Many fans start growing issues after mere months of use. They have used rifle bearing fans before from the same suppliers, which weren't ever particularly durable or ideal, but some sort of quality problems happened since.
The problem is, the fan is still full of dust and there is very little tolerance between the coils and the magnet so it will grind. Best to pull the fan and the base apart and clean it and lubricate it. I took mine apart and there were scratches on the magnet indicating that it was full of dust.
GPU fan blade can be popped off with a little force, it is easier than cutting a hole. Other videos had shown it.
Worked for me. Thanks bro
only good video about this topic, usually I just watch and move to next one, but this video is worthy of like and sub and comment.
Thank you for instruction!
great tutorial! thanks for sharing! got 1 more subscriber!
My fans started violently shaking at about the same time or stopping completely. I ended up carefully pulling the blades off and cleaning old grease and putting fresh grease. It was mostly bone dry tho, so I assume that's where my problem was! It sure stopped shaking and stopping! I currently have a single 120mm fan zip tied on mine and it's been doing 20-30 degrees better temp than the MSI fans. At least now, if that fan gives out I have the original fans again haha..
Thanks man you helped me!
for GPU fans. I recommend you put it open with two knives. I did your method. it just made a hole in it. Made things worse. Nothing can save the gpu fan at the moment. I think i need to buy a new fan or look for bearings. China has that fan in stock, but it's going to take 2-3 months to come by mail....
I used drill, with drill bit of 0.5 mm, cleanest job ever lol
how long it lasted? i did mine 2 days ago,it fixed it but ive applied less oil,i may buy replacements if it starts to get stuck and noisy again,mine also smelled like burning but i put a drop of oil in the newly done hole and it stopped
wrong method ! both kind fan blades part can take down from other sides, especially the second kind. just use a flat philip screw driver to pile it off. you don't need drill a hole on the back. man you are a cowboy for doing like this!!
Does anyone know if this works for fans with dynamic fluid bearing? I have an Arctic Alpine 64GT. Digged into it by about 2mm and the there is not fan axis to be seen. What am I misunderstanding/missing here?
Bro this worked like a CHARM. I kinda botched the hole because I hadn't seen your video but watching it gave me confidence to make the hole better and it friggin worked, I used mineral oil. Do you know how much this maintenance should last? I thought for sure I'd have to get a new fan for my gt 610 lmao
While you have it apart, put new thermal on the gpu's cpu
Best gpu fan. Mine is making a whirrling/humming noise when the rpms are too low at idle. I'm not sure if it needs oil or what is going on.
you are a god good sir, hats off to you.
Thankyou somuch dude!!!!!!!
Thanks I have a GTX 1650 with a dodgy fan that sounds like it's going to take off into outer space when I try to play anything. Going to try this tonight and see if it works!
any update 3 months later?
@@Neon-gl7po In the end I just bought two quiet case fans, used a PWM converter (to plug it into the GPU's fan header directly) and use tie wraps. It works perfectly. No more noise and doesn't get hot anymore.
@@bluetech2809 that's a nice workaround. I have a 1060 that does some rattling sounds above 80% fan speed but I might just get some new fans off ebay cause they're cheap and I saw some from a country close to mine
@@Neon-gl7po Yeah in my case one of the blades on one of the fans had broken off completely (I bought it second hand, not sure how the previous owner managed to break the blade unless they were doing that to cover for a more sinister issue).
That's why I went with replacing the fans completely (rather than this re-lubricating type thing in this video), and also because mine were 70mm diameter fans, which seem to be hard to find replacements for (fans for the bigger GPU coolers, like 80mm or 90mm are easier to find). Even if you get a set of replacements, that can cost basically the same as just getting two regular case fans anyway.
I went with some really quiet ones, and I also repasted my GPU with thermalgrizzly kryonaut while it was disassembled, so in the end my 1650 ended up running way cooler and way quieter!
Thx man that helped me
fuck yeah! the fact that manufacturers dont put service holes in anymore tells a lot about planned obsolence and overproduction...
Xi Jinping just called and said he wants to see you in his office immediately
How many time can the fan keep quiet after you lubricating it?
How do you get the fan out from a 1050 aero itx?
awesome!!
will this work for gtx 1080 and is there anyway i can f this up lols sorry im a pc noob and brought a pre built pc then graphics card starting to make noise like choppping trees lols i open up and found one of my fans on graphics card is wobbly
One of my fans wiggles and makes noise so will this method work?
You can pull the fan out of the spin housing and clean and grease it then pop it back together - no need to make a hole.
You don‘t need to drill a hole, just pull of the fans from the base. It will take some force, but afterwards you can clean the housing before relubricating it.
Don't recommend your method, too easy to just bust the fan.
Can 11-bladed 75mm gpu fans be disassembled?
The 3 in 1 oil, while providing lubrication, doesn't stand up like a thicker grease like a lithium or silicone based 1 will.
Agree. If I can dissasemble a fan, I use Super Lube found at Harbor Freight.
idk about creating your own service hole, is removing the blades then adding the oil directly a problem?
i have tried this with 2 different case fans. the spin fin when i spin them but once plugged in they still had issues. im not sure if when you pull them out it damages something but i havent had luck trying this.
You're more likely to break the fan baldes by trying to pry them off the motor hub, the service is found on many case fans from the factory and making your own isn't that big of a deal and probably should have been done at the factory
My gpu is noisy when playing at 60 fps no matter the graphic settings. One of my fans doesn't rotate as fast compared to others so I feel like if I will replace or lubricate them will be okay but they're wormed out for sure, the only problem is I do not have a specific oil and am too scared to break the fans very close to the motor. And 2nd, I will need the help of a specialist.
This is just a generic oil. Light machine oil, sewing machine oil, tool and bicycle oil. Sold in every supermarket.
No idea if you still see these comment but here's mine.
Thank you for this video. I got my noisy 3 fan Sapphire Pulse RX 5600XT Pro OC to be a lot more quiet after putting sewing machine oil in the fans using a small syringe.
I had to use a small philips head screw driver tip to make the hole as the small drill we have is dead and I don't trust the box cutters.
Sadly the fand seem to have been beaten up (likely oil on the fan dried up and never got replaced) as even with the oil one of them is still a bit noisy and you can hear it still rattle a bit if you tap on the blade. Nevertheless it is significantly better now and doesn't sound like its clicking. Also had the benefit of improving temps (from 77C to 72C) since the fans are able to spin faster now.
Thank you once again.
Oh man if I just had watched your video before fucking up one of my gpu fans...
The machine oil may eat away at plastic parts, better to use silicone oil with this method.
You are right, it changes the top of layer's shiny plastic and it becomes dull.
I used olive oil, how bad an idea do you think that was? Haha
@@TheEloquentEye food oil can go rancid
i was thinking about mineral oil. like baby oil. its pretty pure stuff. what do you guys think.
@@666Necropsy Neutral enough but I would be concerned about the viscosity; I was thinking about either lithium grease or Super Lube 21010, depending. Maybe even sewing machine oil if something more viscous is needed. If you TheBusGuy's method you'd have to work it into the hole quite a bit but if you were able to take it apart, clean it and then grease it that seems a slightly better option. Either way, saving parts from the landfill a while longer always seems a better option!
what's hockey tape? I live in europe, and I'm sure we have it, but under some other name. but hockey tape doesn't translate very well unfortunately
that is not an exact o knife
Correct and it is Xacto...
I did this with an AWL instead of an exacto knife blade
Do not use bicycle chain oil. Use grease. Molykote EM-30L for example.
Isn't creating a hole like this causing it to allow air to enter an area that it should not?
Honestly, that really should not matter unless there's condensation, but if that happens then you have other problems.
@@taikoto8199 I found that I ran into metal while drilling. Then found the entire thing could be pushed /snapped off to get access to hole, filled it with grease and done. Didn't need to drill the hole front /back after all
I lubricated the Intel Celeron g5925 cooler by removing the fan.
"Hocky Tape" is black friction tape...
thx mate
Same HD 7950 WindForce and exactly the same those 2 noisy bastards
The fins can be removed by pulling it out without making any halls in the back area
Yeah when you gently pull on both sides of the fan and there is leeway where it kinda moves half to 1 milimeter back and forth then those can be usually pulled apart, thats why they dont have any service hole, but I dont think it applies to every fan out there
but there is chance you break the plastic and mess up the fan this method is safer
@@yassinehani you can use 2 knife..
I can I use wd40? It is used in cars and some tech? Or did I answer my question?
bro dont, use mineral oil for fine mechanics, you need to l u b r i c a t e
Never use WD40. Use 3 in 1 like him or even better, sewing machine or Wahl's Clipper oil.
my dumbass never think of using oil
that fixed it for me
seriously just pull the fan with 2 knife.. so you able clean inner ring properly full of dust.
does wd40 work?
"Utility Knife"....
next time you could just pull of the rotor and drop the oil in from top. even better use graphite
Some of GPU or laptop fans doesn't give you that option.
@@tromick there is chance you break the plastic too
@@yassinehani Some people drill but you need skill for that.
@@tromick just drill in the center slooowly (drill on slowest speed) until you see metal pin head, I used smallest bit of 0.5 mm easy peasy lol
If you're not savvy, like me, you are taking a MAJOR risk with this. The parts inside a PC are sometimes very difficult to turn, move, plug in, etc. I got my GPUs out and only then realized I didn't have the right tool to get the parts off the get to the fan. Once I realized I wasted my time, I had a nearly impossible time getting the GPUs back in. I realize, this video doesn't cover that part of the job but that's just something you should be aware of. Good luck.
If you know you are not savy, handy with or have the tools and are not capable, then you should not have attempted it. Goes for any PC work.
You're using tape to hold back oil? Just buy a new fan.