Received on 11 October 2023. I installed it and it’s been running perfectly up until a couple days ago (almost exactly 6 months later).
I initially bought this as a replacement to the original MSI fan as that one started making really bad noise 9 years after buying the laptop.
Now, this replacement started to make noise… not as bad as the previous one but it seems it’s on its way there. The issue must be with the bearing as after tilting the laptop a million times and smacking underneath the fan area seems to temporarily silence the noise, until the next time that it decides to start again - usually after waking up from sleep. It might be helpful to note that the laptop is used daily, almost all day and very often on fan boost mode.
I’m just very disappointed because it’s hard to find this particular fan for a good price and inexpensive shipping. I don’t think it’s a good deal to have to replace it every 6 months for ~€17.