Hey folks,
I believe the problem stems from production costs and merchandising.
We, the users of these devices are soley to blame because we wish to spend little and get allot. So....manufacturers cut costs and cut competitions throughts to make their products available to us. I since replaced my fan/heatsink with a PC power and cooling unit. As far as fans go, this thing was expensive but worth the cost. At 32 bucks it cost nearly 3 times that of "typical" units.
During the failure of the fan, system temps did not exceed about 135 degrees. This figure might be somewhat high for normal use but gave me ample time to correct a cooling error.
Some users havn`t the case cooling that my system(s) have and their temps may not have been as low due to lessor cooling.
Asus boards will auto shut down when temps rise above set amounts. Mine are set to 150 degrees in case i`m not handy to notice cooling problems.
Anyhow, just a gentle reminder, watch those fans.
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