What They Never Told You

While trying to fix a sudden disk breakdown in my desktop pc I stuck my finger in the fan of my cpu cooler, breaking one of the blades. Yeah, that’s so funny keep on laughing… Done? Anyways, I removed the broken blade leaving the cooler as can be seen in the foto. When I turned the power back on the cooler made a horrible noise. I put a vacuum cleaner to the cooler and found that the loss of the single blade made it completely unstable at high rpms. I was a bit worried that the amount of jumping by the cooler on the old Athlon XP 1800+ processor would kill it. I acquired a new cooler (as seen in the other picture) today and luckily the processor still works, phew. The moral of the story is this; keep your bloody hands away from a fan spinning in excess of 4000 RPM, this goes for man-size fans as well!