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Originally posted by giblfiz
I don't see why it would be a problem, they are just standard fans.
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No, they aren't.
Many power supplies have the fans soldered down, and only have two leads. If there is a socket, its not standard.
I thought I could do this and I killed a perfectly good power supply. All I did was clip the wires on the old fan, then spliced in the wires on the new fan. After that the power supply wouldn't work with the new fan. Put the old fan in, it would work.
Of course, this won't apply to all power supplies, but exercise caution... if you touch off a charged capacitor in a PS you could lose a finger, no joke.