LP GPU Cooling Solution

[OhioYJ]

So one of my older HTPC's has a MSI GTX 1050 TI LP in it. One of the fans on the cooler is starting to get annoyingly loud.  Much to my surprise eBay, AliExpress, etc is full of replacement fan assemblies for these LP cards. I'm guessing of random quality.

 

Do I take a chance on the "knock-off" fan assembly? Or do I remove the fan assembly pick up one or two 92mm Noctua's and make my own brackets? Or am I over complicating it and just remove the fan assembly and point a fan directly at it mounted to the case? What would you do?

[OhioYJ]

Ok so I decided to order one of the "knock-off" assemblies. This ebay one to be exact. It came wrapped in bubble wrap, in a box , so very well packaged. It arrived very quickly actually. Roughly a week for me to get it.

 

The fit was perfect. I went ahead and applied fresh thermal paste the card. Kryonaut is my go-to typically these days so that's what it got. The new fan assembly fit perfect. It's quiet, not complaints. This PC is a Linux machine, so I used gputest (Furmark essentially) and it hovered around 55 C according to NVIDIA settings. So I call that good.