Why Pentium 507
Would you be willing to bet far more costly system downtime for corporations? You have an arbitrary context of what is important.
I didn't ask you if you understood it?
It would seem you don't understand fans well either if you think a good quality reliable fan is "de-luxe". It's merely appropriate for a system intended to run for several years.
On the one hand we have you who cannot make sense out of buying parts that last long enough, and on the other hand we have people that have learned and demonstrated it works.
You mean that video by Tom's Hardware? If that was the same cause as your system failure, then I would have to say the cost and cause...
Resolve your misunderstanding towards a fruitful end- fans don't have to be the first or second, etc, failure point in a system... at least not the CPU fan, northbridge and video card are more difficult to employ for an entire system lifespan... though not impossible, but parts manufacturers aren't providing the clearance or mounting methods for many people, parts changes.
kony writes: Motherboard protection is less reliable, since it requires two working components, not one. The lack...
Nobody said you had to recognize "THE most reliable frand of fan". Where you paying attention while reading? There's certrainly more than one brand one could use.
... because a good ball bearing will last long enough, when the fan and implementation is good. Any bearing can be made to fail if the load on it is beyond the spec for the part and the corresponding lifespan.
Why this lofty theory? You don't know much about fans. Maybe some lofty giant fan but not small, cost effective and reliable computer fans. If you are so sure your idea is good, make some fans. Multi-billion dollar major fan manufacturers have already done the hard work and have excellant products. Only when one buys some generic or off-brand, relabled parts do they start having trouble. In other words, if you leave parts choices to penny-pinchers, they'll choose a part only a few cents cheaper even if that part was a most significant failure point when it didn't need to be.
Are you a glutton for punishment? You seem to be suggesting that we should take what works fine and change it. Good fans dont' need your lofty theories applied, merely people need to stop using crap fans and pretending they can just trust someone else to use good quality parts in the weakest links.
It's the same situation as any (device), the weaker links need to be made so their lifespan is at least comparable to the other parts. Fans need to last at least as long as the rest of the system, but they don't need to be engineered at some great theoretical benefit and significantly higher cost such that they would run for 300 years.
You have no idea, your bet is meaningless words.
If you knew how to implement fans properly you wouldn't fee the fans were the weakest link. As for "that fragile", learn something plainly:
You have demonstrated that you are not using fans very well. Others have very good success and long life, they don't consider them fragile at all. This is YOUR failure to do something well, not an excuse to condemn fans in general. If your vanity prevents you from choosing and implementing fans properly then it is not the fan that is fragile, it is the methodology.
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