Scythe Fan incl. w/ Mugen 2 Quit on me

**rush2049** · 03-28-12, 01:09 PM

So I was doing a normal system re-boot today, and it stops in the POST and says CPU fan error..... I check it, and indeed, the fan is not spinning. No amount of prodding from me gets it to start. I shut down, switch the fan to a just powered header on my mobo and it still doesn't spin when the computer powers up....

It spins fine when spun by hand, great lubrication, never made any noise.......

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might even be able to get away with no cpu fan at all, we shall see.....

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Well I tested with a small molex to 3-pin adapter I had lying around.... indeed the fan is dead.

Ding Dong! The Fan is dead. Which old Fan? The Scythe Fan!
Ding Dong! The Scythe Fan is dead.

Running a prime small fft test now to see if my case cooling is as good as I hope it is to run without a fan on the heatsink directly.....

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Took about 30 minutes, but I got up to 56 C and it BSOD'ed me.

I turned off the 4ghz overclock and am back to stock now... testing again....

**Viktor_Olin** · 03-28-12, 01:32 PM

You must have really good air flow to hit only 56 C with no CPU fan. I'm just surprised that that temperature caused it to blue screen.

**DJ Ms. White** · 03-28-12, 01:47 PM

He has a 800D I think.

**rush2049** · 03-28-12, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

He has a 800D I think.

correct.

I do have a really good setup, I over-engineer my stuff most of the time.

For the Thuban (Phenom II x6) processors, 62 C is the max safe temperature. And my processor reports temps about 8 C lower than they actually are. When the fan wasn't broke I never went over 50 C when under a 24 hour Prime95 test.

So I went back to stock settings, my processor never goes over 34 C when under Prime95...... so yeah, my case airflow is pretty good.

**Guyver** · 03-30-12, 12:43 AM

Scythe makes awesome fans though.

**rush2049** · 03-30-12, 01:51 PM

They do, I got that one fan out of the batch that went bad after about 2 years of on/off use. None of my other scythe fans went......

**WickedSoN** · 03-30-12, 02:17 PM

You do plan on getting a fan I assume? Would be a shame to not overclock that cpu...

**rush2049** · 03-31-12, 12:03 PM

lol, when I get a job.... really need a job.... anything from IT support to programming I am good at.... just need to find something....

When it is overclocked I am at 4ghz on the cpu, 3000mhz on the memory controller and 3000mhz on the hyper-transport.