Replacing Faulty Asus Phoenix RTX 3060 GPU Cooler - It's Easy
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Replacing the fan on the ASUS Phoenix RTX 3060 V2 GPU is an easy job, so don't wait until your fan finally seizes up and possibly damages your card.
Replacement fans are about $15USD/25CAD through retailers on eBay, Amazon and Newegg. It would cost me over $100 to RMA this, so decided to do the job myself. How did it turn out? Fantastic. Better than the original, at least in my case.
Edit: This was the fan I bought - RAKSTORE T129215BU 95mm Graphics Card Cooling Fan Replacement for ASUS RTX 3050 RTX 3060 Phoenix Quiet Cooler Fan a.co/d/htn5OGp
If you've never done this kind of thing before, I put this together to hopefully show how easy it is. 4 screws on the shroud, and 4 screws on the fan. That's all there is to it.
Apologies for the low quality recording. My old camera burnt out and wasn't worth fixing, so this was recorded using an iPad mini perched ontop of my CRT monitor. It did the job well enough, I guess.
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Thanks a lot for the video same card same problem.
Thank you soooo much, you are a life saver
im having troubles taking the screws out, should i take the shroud off so its easier to get to or use a smaller screw driver set?
Id try a smaller screwdriver first, if you haven't tried yet. If that one under the shroud is stuck, when the 3 are removed you are able to lift the shroud and pivot it around that 4th screw a little to unstick it. But I'd be really careful if doing that because you can bend the thin metal.
I dont like to take the heatsinks off GPU's anymore unless I need to. They put so much tension and the temperatures are so high on cards these days it's easy to break traces
Hi, which screwdriver did you use to unscrew the cooler screws?
Pretty sure it was a #0 Phillips. Maybe a 00.
@@nanonomad Thanks)
I noticed the fan blades on your replacement fan is going the opposite direction. Any issues with this? Doing the same job and noticed the same with my replacement fan so not sure if it’s okay
I thought it was weird as well. Was really surprised to get up to a 10C drop with the replacement. The old fan seems to be a pull design, right? Like, the way its spinning, its going to draw air in from the bottom and out through the top it seems. But that is drawing cool air in, over the card, and expelling it in to the case. Seems like a good idea if the designers cared entirely about the GPU temp at the expense of the system. Maybe my case cooling was terrible before, and I was getting heat pooling.
This replacement is drawing air from the case, over the card, and then sort of through the backplane, but my ambient case temperature seems low. It seems that at least in my scenario that having the reversed airflow over the GPU is better. I've been running ML training here for the last day and I'm at 74C and 81C hotspot on the GPU - so really good for 100% load constantly. I'd be over 90C hotspot before, and probably around 82C GPU temp at worst.
@@nanonomad it's my graphics card he is fixing . I have a "gamer master desktop" from cyberpowerPC I bought last year at best buy . Would the case I'm using change the temperature for me as he is using the exact same fan as you ? Also I did put over 200 days of game play on the graphics card I only know this because the game i play keeps track of the time I played. I'm pretty sure the fan is a common issue as I've been researching like crazy when I noticed my fan start grinding and getting extremely loud.
@@nanonomad I play RuneScape on ultra and I noticed it started getting to 85c . I never check temp until I started noticing the fan issues . I don't understand how such a old game is pulling so much out of my graphics card . The game always causes the graphics card fan to kick on really loud.
I haven't played runescape but maybe its just poorly optimized. I pretty much only play old games, but a sometimes things run better on my old laptop with a core2 and weird nvidia quadro card. The original Prey and Doom 3 run like garbage on the PC I use for the AI stuff. Some things relied on hacks and optimizations written specifically for cards of the time.
I use an old ugly reused Pentium4 beige box for my PC now. The metal seems to keep things cooler than my old glass side case. I dont really miss the rgb. I'd rather have it quiet, and being big heavy metal seems to muffle it a bit.
After swapping fans, I haven't manage to get the temp to spike high enough to even hear them on maximum. Maybe they did design the airflow backwards after all haha
You may need to check the airflow and make sure the heat isn't building up in there. If it has vents, make sure they're not blocked by cables. Double check any fans and make sure they are blowing the way they need to. Ideally the case should be designed with some air flow pattern in mind. Idk if yours is, but basically you dont want every fan blowing in or sucking out. You want them working in together, one in, one out.
I had an HP prebuild before. It had really bad air flow. I was able to fit an extra fan in the front of the case to push air in. And that helped a bit until I swapped to a big ugly beige metal one.
By far the best thing was just replacing that gpu fan. The card runs so much cooler now. I didn't even check the fins on the other fans available when I ordered. I wonder if all the third party ones are reversed. If they are, maybe the Asus design is just bad. The original doesn't feel like it moves much air when it's running, either.
I think we got about the same 200 day lifetime out of those _super awesome_ ball bearings Asus advertised. I guess we should count our blessings they didn't go with the regular ones haha
can you please link the fan you bought
The one I bought was this one: RAKSTORE T129215BU 95mm Graphics Card Cooling Fan Replacement for ASUS RTX 3050 RTX 3060 Phoenix Quiet Cooler Fan a.co/d/htn5OGp
It seems to work well.
@@nanonomad Thanks so much
I recently had the same issue with my fan not spinning with high temps. I bought the same fan you linked and have just replaced it. The fan is spinning which is great but now my monitors arent getting signal. Any thoughts? I made sure i connected everything correctly, plug wise and on the gpu. My monitors were working fine prior to this. Side note, before replacing my gpu fan I had gone into the bios and put my other 2 fans on turbo to try help with the heat. Not sure if that has anything to do with it as I'm not a computer head.
There's always a possibility that something was damaged during the swap, but its more likely that the GPU just isn't slotted in all the way. PCIE16x devices are not at all forgiving if they're not properly slotted in, since they use most if not all of those little connections are used. Dont try to force it in, though. It should just drop right in the slot if the card is properly lined up with the backplane. The little metal bit the screw goes in should be perfectly flat with the case and the screw hole should line up perfectly with the slot/hole on the metal bit on the GPU.
Does your motherboard have any error indicator LEDs? Some do, some don't. If it does, they should light up in some sequence pointing to the general problem (RAM, video error, etc). Some boards still use POST beeps for a code on startup. Does yours do beeps? (Some do, but dont even come with a speaker anymore)
Does the PC try and boot and feed video through the motherboard's video first? Some have odd options about which display is selected on boot. _maybe_ its set to just initialize the integrated video (if any) and the GPU only kicks on when Windows boost (very unlikely with current gen boards)
I would check the error codes (if any) first, then look at the GPU installation, then worse comes to worse, if it seems fine, try another card if you have one. If you don't have another card to test, I would move on to try resetting the BIOS settings and trying to boot again.
@@nanonomadthere's no error lights or beeps. I already tried removing ram, resitting the GPU, removing the motherboard battery. Everything was working fine yesterday prior to the fan replacement so I don't really know what to do. I don't have another GPU to test. Both my monitors are connected to my GPU, one HDMI and one display port and they worked fine yesterday.
Its unusual for a motherboard to have no error indicator, or support for one, at all.
Does it have a status indicator LED when functioning properly? There has to be some way to fault trace, because it could be anything.
Do you have integrated graphics on that board/cpu? Im assuming not or you would have used it, but sometimes I forget it exists.
Are any SATA devices plugged in/powered correctly?
You mentioned the fans spinning, is it actually booting and just getting no display? I have a bunch of spinning disk drives in my system, so I can hear how far my desktop is in booting through all the rumbling.
Is the PSU plugged in to the MB correctly, and are any supplemental power connectors attached? (4pin molex, or whatever yours uses) Sometimes its tough to spot if those werent plugged in all the way.
If you're stuck with a pile of parts and no way to test any individual one, you'll need to try barebones and go from there.
Board+cpu+no ram, check status indicators, you should get an error re: ram
board+cpu+1 stick of ram, should get a video error if you dont have igpu, some systems will clean boot and error at no boot devices
etc
board+gpu+ram+gpu
Craigslist is usually a good source if you need a cheap GPU to hold you over or test things. Something actually usable like a GTX1650 (if you need to work or edit a video or something) is about $30USD, and tester cards like 1gb assorted Radeon cards are like free to $20USD
@@nanonomad I'm not entirely sure what half of that means 😅 however I put my old fan back in to see if that would make a difference as that was all that I changed and it didn't. I also tried various things like plugging my monitor into the MB and removing GPU but monitor still had no signal. I've removed ram, reset the MB battery. I left it a while then I tried turning it on earlier and my monitor had a picture and I was able to enter the bios for a few seconds before the screen went off again. So I kept trying and was able to do it again twice but it would still go off. Then the last time I tried it, it actually took me to the desktop but low and behold the screen went off after a minute or so. I could also feel a lot of heat coming from my GPU which doesn't seem normal considering it was idle. Seems like the monitor is making it use too much power and it can't cope. Prior to all of this my PC was running okay but my GPU fan was broken so maybe the excessive temps have done something to it? Not sure if thermal paste would help?(I don't know that much about technicalities of PCs) I'm yet to put the new working fan back in to see if the GPU is still hot
Try getting a working fan on there. You cant run the card with just the heatsinks as far as I know.
Case airflow also makes a huge impact with this card because the fins are sl close together.
Try to avoid repasting the card. Its risky with modern gpus especially if you aren't used to it. The back screws place a lot of tension on the board and its very easy to break the traces inside the board
Yup my fan is broken !!! I bought my computer last march
Its insane it happened to everyone i know who owns it
Could legit be a lawsuit
@@cedman7704 I ended up replacing the fan myself. I'm going to amd in a couple months gonna go with a 7800xt and 5800x3d and call it a day. Im done with invidia I don't care about "ray tracing" I play emulators and old games
How many pins does this fan have?
It's a 4-wire fan, but I think the header is larger with a couple unused pins. There are some zoomed in pics on this amazon page: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BCVJQTGL?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
@@nanonomad I appreciate your help