Graphic Cards Fan replacement for Msi ventus GPU

combatknife

Recruit
I have a MSI ventus 1660ti bought from the US. A few days ago i noticed that one of the fan blade is broken off . I checked the card since there was a buzzing sound coming under load. What happened to it or where it disappeared is still a mystery. No sign of the broken blade within the case or within the shroud.
Is there someplace where i can get a replacement fan for cheap? Any compatible fan should work.
I see listings in aliexpress but shipping charges seems to be high at 80$.
 

Stronk

Adept
If replacement isn't, just deshroud the card and use regular 120mm fan(s) strapped to the heatsink, assuming you have space under the card to do so.
This will likely give you better temps and noise as well.
Here's a relevant video to get you started with it:
 

burntwingzZz

Adept
check the temperature if there is no performance degrade no need to replace it or search for some donor who has a dead gpu and ship you working fans for few bucks
 

combatknife

Recruit
temps are fine. Issue is that the card vibrates a lot beyond 50% fan speeds. I am afraid that the vibration will eventually kill the fan or may be the other one also.
 

imran_chennai

Disciple
This might sound hacky, hear me out.
Since your temps are fine and the only issue here is vibration. I suggest you break off the fin opposite to the empty/broken one to counterbalance the weight distribution. Since your fan is broken anyway, I don't see additional harm done. It is the non-uniform weight distribution that is causing vibration. Good for short term till you find a compatible fan to replace it with.
 

enthusiast29

Disciple
The above makes sense because
1) It's already broken. You've got nothing to lose.
2) Exact replacement is very hard to find in India.

My old MSI 1050Ti fan died on me while gaming. It was a single fan card so hunted a lot for the replacement but wasn't able to find any. Ultimately I bought a 90mm 2 pin fan from amazon and mounted it on the heatsink of the GPU by removing the shroud. The performance was better than stock cooler and the GPU can control fan speed as well.
Just make sure if the replacement fan also has the same Voltage and current ratings as original if you intend to power it from PCB of the GPU else you can power it via 12V on motherboard.
 

combatknife

Recruit
Decided to live with it for now. Meanwhile i jammed the broken fan. Now the other fan runs at maximum. So the vibration is 'solved' with a little bit of fan noise..
 

roofrider

I got one of these too! o_O
Adept
enthusiast29 said:
GPU can control fan speed as well.
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You didn't have to use an adapter? I had to use one to convert it from 4 pin PWM to mini 4 pin that's on the GPU.
combatknife said:
Decided to live with it for now. Meanwhile i jammed the broken fan. Now the other fan runs at maximum. So the vibration is 'solved' with a little bit of fan noise..
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Jammed that fan? That's not going to hurt the fan?
 

enthusiast29

Disciple
roofrider said:
You didn't have to use an adapter? I had to use one to convert it from 4 pin PWM to mini 4 pin that's on the GPU.
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I did. What I ordered had a motherboard 4 pin at the end but it only had 2 wires so no PWM, only voltage based control and that is exactly what my GPU also had, a 2 pin fan.
So I just had to swap the connector at the end to appropriate size using the original one.

I also added a review on the product with pics on amazon: https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R1TVOAX43AM1FU/
 

combatknife

Recruit
thanks for the guidance. Fan is released and left alone. Will get a replacement fan hrough some from friend/relative returning from abroad.
 

getmarkked

Recruit
Here's my little experiment
Replace with high cfm case fan

p.s. will be updating this experiment further soon, Subscribe to stay tune!
 

combatknife

Recruit
With the above method how the fan speed will be controlled. From gpu or motherboard?
 

getmarkked

Recruit
connected it to mobo, so from mobo but if you dont have nearby port you can obviously connect it to gpu pcb itself!
 

combatknife

Recruit
So if i connect to the board , will it be possible to control the fan according to gpu temp? Know there are fan control softwares but they dont set fan speeds according to gpu temps.
 

getmarkked

Recruit
I'd recommend a PWM fan that'll be great for this fan controlling purpose.
you can run furmark bench and manually adjust speeds, I'm using Asus Suite software to controller speeds!

p.s. Better option is to connect it to GPU board that'll auto control fan according to GPU temps
or you can make a fan curve in MSI afterburner also!
 

combatknife

Recruit
Found the missing fan blade. Removed the shroud to try a noctua fan and found the blade stuck inside. What can mend the broken blade? superglue i guess, or something else?.
 

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getmarkked

Recruit
You can try glue gun or fevikwik but just remove it totally as you're going to put a noctua on it it'll be much cooler than stock ones.