DIY Two Ball Bearing Video Card Cooling Fan for Zotac GTX 1060 Mini

If you don't already know this, The original fan on the zotac geforce gtx 1060 3gb is prone to failure and will at some point fairly early in the cards life completly fail. If your lucky, It will happen while you are right there so that you can catch the temp rising and or hear the awful noises the oem fan makes as it is failing. I was in the middle of a Heaven benchmark run at max settings on a heavy overclock and had the fan manually set to 100%. My card had roughly 6 months of light use on it prior to it being given to me by a friend. Upon failure I immediately exited the benchmark and shut down my machine and pulled the card for inspection. the fan barely spun by hand. So I got online and typed in the card spec and the inRobert DIY double ball bearing replacement showed up and had good ratings. It cost less than $10 Dollars and arrived in 1 Day. Installation is pretty simple. Fans 3 screw holes line up perfect, fan pwm plug is identical as well as the wires being the same colors. The only thing you will need to do is snip part of the plastic piece which guides the wires away from the fan as it will not sit flush or work otherwise. I noticed it appeared that the original zotac fan had the same modification. The 2nd thing to note is that the fan wiring is a fair amount longer than the original fan. All you need to do is wrap the wire around once and tuck under heat sink and good to go. I would recommend at this time to also pull the heat sink and clean/ then re apply a high quality thermal paste but this is optional. Fan works great and I believe at full speed spins faster than the original as well. At moderate speed the fan is virtually silent. Even if your fan is fine i would purchase this replacement to keep on hand... I was even able to transfer the zotac sticker off the front of the original fan and onto the replacement. Without knowing, no one would even be able to tell the difference.

We will see if this fan lasts any longer than the others. The ball bearing feature should help. It is a 4 wire speed regulating brushless fan made of the usual plastic. Three hole mount, may be super glued to the video controller heat sink repairing old controllers where the original is no longer around. This fixes the situation where your computer shuts it self off after playing a graphics heavy game. The old fan is probably stuck or not able to spin up very high. Repeated resets eventually damage the video controller.

Fan is amazing! Quiet and cool. Fit like a glove on my Zotac GTX 1060 6GB. The Zotac logo wasn't on the fan like the original, but it's not like it matters. It sort of makes it even more discreet. Thank you!

My GPU is around 4-5 years old and I recently had issues with my gpu overheating. Also I could literally hear the gpu fan skidding on the heat sink. Bought this as a replacement and now everything works perfectly again. Couple of issues, the cable guide was a little too long so I had to snip that off and the actual fan connecting cable was a bit long as well. I just guided it outside of the gpu case as opposed to cutting it and rewiring...

Worked great on my Video card.

As the headline and description says, this fan WILL fix inside a Zotac GTX 1060 mini (I have the 6gb version, and apparently it works in the 3gb version as well). There are several Youtube videos out there that show exactly how to replace the fan, but they all mention two problems - 1) there is a hard piece of plastic running along the power wire that makes it so the fan won't fit in the old heatsink, and 2) the power wire itself is way too long. So yes, you'll have to 1) cut the plastic piece with wirecutters or something strong, and 2) fold the wire up somewhere and hope it doesn't pop out or interfere with anything else inside your case. So yeah, it's a little questionable that this is sold as a replacement fan specifically for the 1060 mini when you need to do some modifications to get it to work. But I'm happy enough with the results that I'd still recommend!

Just as long as you plan on drilling and taping new holes, then your ok. The fan works good. But the fact that the holes do NOT match is frustrating

Replaced the fan on a stock GTX 1660TI mini (HP Omen Obelisk) and works well. Perfect fit. Previous fan would intermittently stop spinning, causing over heating of the video card. Replacement fan resolved the problem.

After searching through many fans these were closest to what I needed to replace my noisy cooling fans on my ASUS GTX580 graphics card. (An old card but still useful performance for a backup gaming PC). These fans are about 5mm smaller diameter but had the correct 3 leg mounting with 40mm diag spacing for screws (NB! need to use the old screws). Also the 4 pin plugs are of the correct gender for this card. NB! Use a well fitting small cross head screwdriver to remove the fan cover screws (3 screws are hidden under orange flashes on the body of the cover) Route the fan cables carefully to prevent fouling with the fans. Reinstalled and tested using 3D Mark software and adjusted cooling curve to maintain good cooling with lowest possible fan speed. Nice and quiet. BTW not too noisy when set at 100% speed. Cant comment on reliability as early days. Very pleased I can still get service from this GFX.

Bien embalado. Pedido el 21 de mayo y recibido el 2 de junio (25 días antes de lo previsto). Es idéntico al original, pero con el cable unos centímetros más largo y que le sobra un soporte para el cable. Se corta ese soporte, y listo. Importante poner el cachito de goma que evita que el cable se mueva y roce el ventilador. Tarde 10 minutos en cambiarlo y porque aproveché para cambiar la pasta térmica también. El sobrante de cable, lo fijé con una brida. Volvería a comprarlo sin dudarlo.

Habe mir den Lüfter zwangsläufig bestellen müssen, da der alte bei meiner GTX970 einen Lagerschaden hatte. Die Produktbeschreibung ist mit den dazu geschriebenen Abmessungen sehr gut und genau, nach 5x nachmessen am alten Kühler hab ich dann den hier bestellt. Amazon-Typisch schnell geliefert worden, hab ihn direkt eingebaut und hab seit dem wider eine leise -und kühle Grafikkarte. Anmerkung: ich hab eine GTX970 mit HP Referenz Design, d.h. Das der Lüfter nicht zwangsläufig auf jede 970er passt, also vorher Lüfter ausbauen und nachmessen!

Fits perfectly my single-fan AMD Radeon RX 580 FH.

Funciono muy bien para mi GPU. Tuve que hacer una pequeña modificación, mínima. Para que el cable pasara bien. Pero de lo demás Perfecto. Muy silencioso y no se balancea ni nada