Tried asking this in the Hardware Q&A but there was no response. Hope this would be a better place to ask, else would need to trouble the Mods to move it to the correct section.

I have a friend who has a Powercolor 6870 X2 which has 2 of the fan fins broken off due to hand itchy while assembling.
Looking through reviews in Google yields that the fans are 9-blade diameter of 85 millimeters and a 33mm motor. and the other fan is 75 millimeters and has 11 blades. Its motor is 29 millimeters in diameter. The GC still runs fine and temps are at 50C on idle and 80C on gaming (I know it is acceptable temps). The annoying part is when the GC's fan spins up faster during graphic intensive scenes (passing through smoke) during gaming which causes the pain.

Read somewhere that if to "balance" the fan back is to brake off another 2 fins off the opposite of the current broken fins. This is really extreme fix and not too sure whether this will effect the GC's performance in the future.

Am looking for a safer option to have the fan fixed. Sending it for repair takes 5 weeks and he has no no spare GC to use with during the period. Tried looking for aftermarket vga coolers and there is none for this card.

Current options are:

1. Superglue the broken fins and hope it fixes the problem but unsure on how strong will the glue hold while its exposed to the heat
2. Get AC F12 fans and remove the original GC housing + fans and cable tie them somehow onto the GC. Concerened whether the fans will run at 100% speed all the time or it can be regulated as the original fans are.
3. Get another GC for temp use until the 6870 X2 comes back from repairs.

Any advice(s) are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

how about buy new aftermarket coole

You shouldnt went reviving an old thread at QnA and should instead open a new one. But since you opened one here, doesnt matter lorh

Option 1 might not be very long lasting as I dont think super glue can hold strong at such small plastic blade
Option 2 is quite okay as F12 is not noisy type fan even running at full speed but you cant regulated the fan speed as original gpu fan because they supposed to hav difference power socket AND it would look ugly / messy in my opinion
Option 3 would be my choise But gona sacrifice few weeks gaming time

Teamloks, aftermarket don't have as most of it for reference card n powercolor is not...

Jayi, agreed, learnt my lesson d, don hijack ppl thread, yeah, option 3 seems to b d best bet at a price though.... Thanks for ur advice...

Option 1 might not be very long lasting as I dont think super glue can hold strong at such small plastic blade

ok dont use super glue..it not strong enough.....use 3 ton glue..."gam bancuh" usually got 2 part....need to mix the glue then paste on it....the glue will dry within 10-15 minute.....the colder will help the glue to dry...try this..it will help..this glue type is last long

3rd party cooler can?
erm..
can modding buy new fan and attach it.

Agree. the cheapest is to remove the plastic cover (including the fans) and just attach a normal fan.
if the card IS the one like in this review then i'd say 3x of 92mm fans should be enough to cover the lenght of the cooler.
then i would look something like this. Heck, even aftermarket coolers sometime just use normal sized casing fan.
take Deepcool's vga cooler for example

Else get a good performance casing fan to blow in cold air into the GC ... like side panel fan