what can we do about the shitty unrepairable cooler fan menace plaguing the new generations of minipc's?
what can we do about the shitty unrepairable cooler fan menace plaguing the new generations of minipc's?
what can we do about the shitty unrepairable cooler fan menace plaguing the new generations of minipc's?
>tfw fell for the minipc meme
>he doesn't want a PC with sub-10W energy use instead of an oversized, loud monster that eats at least 50W in idle
i can actually afford electricity, you thirdie
I'm the actual poster you replied to and not the other insufferable twat.
I figured it was the perfect time to use that image before I yeet it off my sd card.
if it was like that ootb i would get it replaced, that kind of thing is indicative of a fricked bearing
looks pretty repairable to me.
in most cases they got proprietary connectors
in most cases the fan is literally glued on and you must change the whole shroud
in most cases it breaks again because the bios is dog shit, best case scenario the only related option you can toggle is
>always on fan: yes/no
or
>fan: high/low
and roll dice for a mistery number of rpm
and still loud prone to breaking
>in most cases they got proprietary connectors
nothing a soldering iron and heatshrink can't solve, or if you're a stickler for making it look OEM, you can buy those connectors to crimp the wires into, those aren't actually proprietary
>in most cases the fan is literally glued on and you must change the whole shroud
so pry it out, there's solvents you can use to remove the glue non-destructively
This isn't an new issue.
And it's by design.
>fan fails
>new pc time frick you
But that is entirely repairable. You can buy drop in fans straight off of aliexpress.
You really think a blower fan like that isn't an off the shelf part?
>a blower fan
anon are you blind
i said most fans are glued onto the whole thing
you need a fricking sander to scrape it off
That's also pretty simple to repair.
Damn I guess Louis Rossman still has some work to do.
I guess God blessed right to repair with these piles of shit that are taking over the world.
Hell I thought about buying one... not with these temp issues.
how about you stop buying garbage
those pieces of shit also use proprietary power adapters
>proprietary power adapters
Its just a 12v connector anon.......
it's 5v homie
You can do what I did and mod your case, print a duct and force air across your board with 40x20mm noctuas
OR
you could ditch the air cooler entirely and affix a m.2 2280 water block to your cpu (or heatpipe)
>you could ditch the air cooler entirely and affix a m.2 2280 water block to your cpu (or heatpipe)
Water cooling is not worth it at all dude.
Even LTT, who established a channel on water cooling tech, doesn't think it's a good idea anymore. There's not enough payoff.
water cooling hasn't been worth it since heatpipes became feasable/cheap
the reason is that the main reason to use a water loop in the first place is to spread heat across a larger heatsink than would be possible passively/using only solid-metal conduction. heatpipes can effectively do the same thing, and in fact internally use liquid/vapour to do it as well
homie you got daylight on all sides of your mobo. your case has more breathing holes than the pangolin this beelink designer had for lunch.
I've only ever had 2 fails fail.
One was an extremely low quality 80mm fan included in a $25 rosewill case, the other was the hot-end fan in a ender 3
Both where axial. Never had any issue with a centrifugal fan
Is it even possible to make a stupidly bad centrifugal fan?
>Is it even possible to make a stupidly bad centrifugal fan?
For sure, i had one fail in a gtx1070 blower i spent a small fortune on during the pandemic israeli gpu scarcity
For a blower low-rpm means like 900, at it made a weird annoying buzzing sound at idle, coil whine but worse
At higher rpm it got louder like a vacuum cleaner, and when I actually investigated the fan, it was 0.5 millimeters off-center too.
I had to change the whole cooler with a triple fan from a gigabyte gpu, and still works today, but the schizo built-in blower high-minimum rpm speeds are still there tho. So I get like 30C at idle and 49C playing CyberPunk.
underclock it so it doesn’t need a fan
no legitimate use case needs anything faster than about a pentium 2
leave the top off and slap a 10w heatsink on that b***h
cut the fan cables off and attach a new one
4 pin jst connector are not "proprietary" idiot go to mouser or digikey and look them up
frickin no ideas moron you're what's wrong with the world
Keep buying them so the companies making them have enough money to fix the problem, obviously.
All jokes aside, I do want desktops in the future to be even smaller than this and as powerful as a gaming desktop.
I don't see why we have to use the old desktop size. It's already bloat.
buy a Mac Mini
time for DIY solutions, retrardicus, it's not rocket science, but it will take work, prepare your malnourished and out-of-shape landwhale body for work, homosexual.
get tools if you don't already have some
don't buy one of those
>blower fans are not replaceable
lmao stfu b***h ass, use a screwdriver
maybe don't buy a mini PC?