Please Help - Case Fan Broke Off

[ThumperOG]

Last night I was wondering why my temps were so high. I thought I had to reapply thermal paste, clean dust etc, you know, the usual check ups.

I couldn't see so I waited til morning to inspect it thoroughly. As soon as i take a peak I can see the the fan literally broke (the wings not the whole fan) and fell (it was a top fan 140mm) onto the gpu and only damaged the silver northbride I believe it's called. I am very lucky that this thing didn't damage anything or everything else should i say.

How should I go about this? Complain? Replace the fan? I will provide detail pics.

http://postimg.org/image/e33evgrcl/

the broken fan

http://postimg.org/image/7lfmukuh9/

See how it moved the northbridge teeth like pins

http://postimg.org/image/6qfl6yflh/

You're looking at the top part of the case where the fan used to go, it fell from there (only the wings of the fan not the whole fan)

http://postimg.org/image/8f1feof9p/

 

[drtoast]

id replace the fan... but how old was it? you cant really complain after a few years (judging from the dust)

 

[ThumperOG]

I barely bought it in march, The Rosewill Challanger came with all the fans in use.

 

[drtoast]

Then I'd bitch like crazy too, find any and all sideeffects since the incident that can be attributed to the damage it caused and harrass them for compensation. considering it should have a standard set of electrical warranties applied to the fans.

 

[DSzymborski]

That's actually the heatsink on the Northbridge. A couple of bent pins on the heatsink aren't going to cause any problems, unless the base itself has been physically warped, which doesn't look to be the case.

 

[scout_03]

the grill with the hole in it is part of the case and the north bridge is on left of the cpu and below cpu it is the south bridge ,fans are cheap to buy so get a new one and put it on .

 

[ThumperOG]

Thanks all, already ordered a replacement but they will definitely hear from me. I can only imagine how worse this could have been.

 

[Saberus]

Replace the fan and you'll be fine. If that's a DG35 board, I'd recommend a small blower or fan to blow over that northbridge, it gets hot enough to crisp up bacon.