Not a fan of ASUS
Richard
NVIDIA V7700
Already asked and no fans are available. Let's hear it for ASUS.
Their graphically pretty SmartDoctor fan-monitoring software (see their site's front-page) must have cost them a pretty penny. Pity they didn't spend those pretty pennies on fans with quality bearings. Of course once the graphic card has failed you cannot see the failure message anyway (so they spend a lot of time telling you that your fan is about to fail). I've been seeing that message and hearing the grinding bearing for many months now.
But I guess planned obsolescence must build in an Achille's Heel - and the fan bearing is as good as any. 99.89% of ASUS fans just wouldn't go out and buy a new one - they'd go buy another ASUS graphics card (so goeth the ASUS marketing strategy anyway).
Unctuous