- Sep 19, 2015
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So I was thoroughly cleaning my CPU fan/heatsink assembly for the first time in ever (since, you know, thermal paste and it's hard to clean properly while attached to the mobo) and as I was doing so this mysterious part came out.
I've no idea what this is, or whether it's important. I didn't see a matching one in the other side, so for all I know it's a foreign object that fell in at some point and has been scraping against the fan blades (it WAS a very noisy fan). Does anyone recognize it? Is it something important that I'll need to replace (or more likely replace the full cooling assembly)?
If it helps, here's pictures of the fan and CPU. I don't recall who I got the fan from and it doesn't appear to have that documented; it may have just come with the CPU, I don't know.
I've no idea what this is, or whether it's important. I didn't see a matching one in the other side, so for all I know it's a foreign object that fell in at some point and has been scraping against the fan blades (it WAS a very noisy fan). Does anyone recognize it? Is it something important that I'll need to replace (or more likely replace the full cooling assembly)?
If it helps, here's pictures of the fan and CPU. I don't recall who I got the fan from and it doesn't appear to have that documented; it may have just come with the CPU, I don't know.
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