Framework 12 fan endurance

Just curious about this because I don’t want to break anything by stressing it too much. If I run the fan at 100% duty cycle for maximum cooling perf while doing some heavy CPU-limited work, maybe 2 or 3 hours a day, is there a strong likelihood the fan might stop working within like 10 years?

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Even if it did, you would be able to get another fan assembly from Framework with out much issue, I’d imagine.

That said, I remember reading somewhere that running the fan at 90% duty is better than long term 100%. Like you run at 90% and burst to 100% for short windows of time.

Don’t quote me on that, but it seems reasonable.

That said, I don’t think the cooling efficiency is as high with the FW 12. If you had a way to isolate cool air from the exhaust heat air, I think that would be the more effective way to keep things cooler there.

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If you do this the fan probably won’t exceed 60%

Yeah, some other things are gonna overheat and permanently damage the motherboard on that lol