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PCI slot fan

This shows how to make a custom PCI slot fan

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Step 1Materials Needed

Material List:

1 Old PCI card
2 Fan (old 60mm cpu fan works best)
3 Hot glue gun
4 Screwdriver

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4 comments

Sep 13, 2010. 6:49 PM

adamazing says:

And of course, if you don't have a spare PCI card to dismantle, you could use the PCI slot blanks that come with the case.

Sep 21, 2010. 8:07 PMzack247 says:

unless they are those snap out ones...
i want to make a blower fan, so that i can make a pci blower fan, but i dont know how

Sep 26, 2010. 11:00 PM

adamazing says:

True, had forgotten those existed and didn't see the ones on your case!

I know the kind of "blower" fan you're talking about, but I can't think of a surefire way to do it using a regular case fan. Blocking the "from" side of the fan and removing strategic parts of the fan housing and PCI slot blanking plate could work, but I doubt it would be terribly efficient. There'd also be a limit to how much you could remove from the fan housing before you weakened it I guess.

Sep 26, 2010. 11:48 PMzack247 says:

i tried experimenting with a 120mm fan once and it wasn't very effective, and i have a blower fan from a old laptop, but i cant get it to spin.