Really weird behaviour..

aDashi · May 13, 2023

Since I bought myself a Alpenföhn "Ben Nevis" a little ago I have no Fanspin at all anymore. A friend recommended it and it was cheap. I also used MX-4 Paste and was told to make a bean size in the middle.

I am not sure if I broke the fan. But overall, everything runs absolutely perfect. All games do what they supposed to do... When I try to get the fan to spin manually, it works and goes bssss like a good bee!

I am not sure if the cooler is just great or if I fucked up and damaged something.

It's a 2700X CPU.

Please help and/or ease my nerves! D:

Crunchy Dragon · May 13, 2023

Fan is probably malfunctioning in some way. They shouldn't need a manual start, nor should they be making buzzing sounds.

If it wasn't such a weird fan size(seriously, 130mm??) I'd just buy a replacement fan from another company and call it a day. If you're still covered by the warranty on that cooler, you can try an RMA.