The gods are telling me I cannot play Warcraft. All I have to do is stop at the local TigerDirect brick and mortar (handy!) and get a new one, then it'll be like 15 minutes' worth of work to clean off the chip, put on some coolant and attach the new fan... for a guy that's not lazy.
Hopefully I can get it done before tonight if we are doing something.
This is some bullshit btw, my thermaltec is awesome and I have no idea what may have happened.
I don't overclock or anything, so I can use a stock fan if need be and be perfectly fine. Dunno what the hell happened to this one, I just restarted for updates and it was like lol CPU fan error and it wasn't spinning. I got it going again but it spins off magnets (how do they work?) and it looks like some plastic clip broke at the base of the fan blades because it's always slightly misaligned and clips this little plastic tab every few spins.
I'll look for Zalman but again, I can run a stock fan for like $5 or I can get a CoolBallsMastar for like $50; I'm going with the $5 for now.
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