Thermaltake bad bearings?

[RABIES]

This one really got my attention, just tonight......one of my fans began humming. Then it started to sound like a chipset fan gone bad. But it was too loud of a noise to be chipset or any of the other Quiter, and slower fans. Noting both my FAN RPM's I saw that one was in the high 3000's and the other was WAY below normal or operational speeds. Now naturally my CPU dosn't run with one fan, after getting the overclockers mod it moved me to two CPU fans. Both of which are Thermaltake Smart Fan II. One fan, sits on the CPU and blows over the heatsink, it is older, much older. Then there is the rear fan, which pulls cold air into the duct to the 1st fan. The rear fan is quite newer, less that half a year old, however it failed and not the older one which was expected to go first. So I pull it all apart, and got the busted fan out, turned it with my finger only to have the sound of ::chhhhhhhhhh::.........bad bearings.

Figuring this is a large issue, returning to one fan with the OC mod, which takes two fans for pressure reasons. I pull one of my slower fans from the front of my case and place it where the old fan was. SO, in effect I now have an Antec Quietfan on back pulling cold air to a temp controlled Thermaltake fan.

Want to know what is really cool, when that fan failed, it failed, never even turned, causing a suction inside the tube and not giving the second fan basically any cold air. After replacing it with a slower and quieter fan the temps dropped 4 degrees C, just from a secondary fan failure.

Now for my question. Has anyone ever run into a Thermaltake fan failing before it's time, on its own, not due to other factors?

I have seen one fail due to other factors (short out) and then mine, it just, up and failed.

 

[Jack_Karverboy]

I have Thermaltake Its almost a year old It works fine! :burp: