Any better way to mount this fan?

[Mero283]

So I recently deshrouded my gpu and stuck on 2 120mm noctua fans and temps have been great. Atleast when the tape held the fan in place (i taped this a lot more, in between the fans and on the other side of them, still the same happens) I used zipties for the right fan and for one half of the leftmost fan, however, on the right side of the left fan a ziptie would interfere with the pcie slot. As you can probably tell tape doesn’t work too well. Any solutions?  

[podkall]

Use the right's-left ziptie as the anchor?

 

 

or the fans?

 

 

 

Or similar "bridge" solution perhaps?

[YoungBlade]

You could run a zip tie through the holes to bind the two fans together - there seems to be enough space that you could fit two zip ties through a single fan hole, since your zip ties seem quite thin.

 

So the left fan would be held up by the far left zip tie and then a couple of zip ties that hold it to the right fan, which is then held up by those other two zip ties.

[Mero283]

8 minutes ago, podkall said:

Use the right's-left ziptie as the anchor?

 

 

or the fans?

 

 

 

Or similar "bridge" solution perhaps?

I didn’t think of the anchor solution, I’ll try it, thank you very much.

[Mero283]

8 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

You could run a zip tie through the holes to bind the two fans together - there seems to be enough space that you could fit two zip ties through a single fan hole, since your zip ties seem quite thin.

 

So the left fan would be held up by the far left zip tie and then a couple of zip ties that hold it to the right fan, which is then held up by those other two zip ties.

I tried this, the problem is the heatsink isnt flat so i couldnt get the fans as close to the heatsink because the ziptie that connected to the other fan allowed it to drop and left around a 3cm gap between the fan and the heatsink.

[kirashi]

36 minutes ago, Mero283 said:

So I recently deshrouded my gpu and stuck on 2 120mm noctua fans and temps have been great. Atleast when the tape held the fan in place (i taped this a lot more, in between the fans and on the other side of them, still the same happens) I used zipties for the right fan and for one half of the leftmost fan, however, on the right side of the left fan a ziptie would interfere with the pcie slot. As you can probably tell tape doesn’t work too well. Any solutions?  

Put ziptie here. Pull as tight or loose as is possible given the fan/heatsink clearance. Boom. Problem solved.

[Mero283]

Thank you godsends for the solution, finally got it reliably mounted 

[OhioYJ]

48 minutes ago, Mero283 said:

finally got it reliably mounted 

They make all sorts of PCI fan brackets (for various size fans). Might be another idea?

 

Here is an example from Amazon of one style.