How annoying and ironic!

Gareth

Gareth

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Something ironic happened today....

Well, I was sat on my PC, doing video editing, for class. And my desktop goes POP!! And then the whole tower starts vibrating quite badly, and I come to save my work, and shut off the computer, and the whole PC is locked up. So I force the system off, with the button on the PSU. Opened up the case to find my front 140mm intake fan had exploded! Sending charades of plastic all over the interior of the computer, and I noticed one RAM stick is severely damaged.

This comes less than a day after saying I wanted to upgrade my RAM.... How ironic is this?

I have got some temporary RAM borrowed from my Dads PC until my new stuff gets here, but this is a complete new thing to me! Has anyone else had or even heard of a fan exploding while in use? :eek:
 
I haven't heard of them exploding. I've had a few seize up though. What broke on it? Did the blades split apart or something?
 
Two blades exploded out while it was spinning at 1550rpm

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Its a NZXT fan, and I have no idea how it happened, but it completely killed the nearest RAM sticks.
 
It probably had small stress cracks in the blades near the center and finally just tore right off.
 
How fast did you have those fans going. I'm pretty sure all mine are sub-3000 (maybe 2000) RPMs.

Maybe you should invest in some grills for all the fans :P
 
This is the work of a spider inside your computer
I doubt you'll find him now though, he's probably in shreds

There is also the possibility that a cable touched the fan blade as well

I have never heard of this happening before, unless something came in contact with the blades
 
Pretty odd that 1000+ RPM's could have caused damage to the RAM.

Talk about a freak accident.

Must have been a flaw or air pocket when they molded the fan.
 
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