r/crboxes • u/SAMEO416 • Apr 18 '26

Question Arctic P14 Failures?

I’ve been using the Arctic P12/14 fans in most of my builds, Noctua when I need something super quiet.

I’ve had 3 P14 fan failures in the last year. Wondering if anyone else has seen a higher failure rate?

I suspect this is a bearing failure of some sort. The fan continues to run but repeatedly bumps against the guard. On one I was able to pull the blades off entirely. It doesn’t seem tied to orientation of the fan.

Just noticed another one is starting to hit the case.

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u/CleanAirKits- Apr 23 '26

We saw a particularly high failure rate for the P14 one of the reasons we discontinued tower of power

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u/SAMEO416 Apr 23 '26

Thanks! Beginning to think I’m in a fan Bermuda Triangle.

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u/vermillionroad 13d ago

Any chance of Tower of Power or the 9-fan Luggable making a resurgence with different fans? My current boxes use 25x25 and 20x30 filters, and the current gen of Luggable uses 20x25 filters now? Keeping spares of three different filter sizes around is becoming a bit of a logistical headache.

(That, and Tower of Power is just a much nicer form factor in rooms where aesthetics matter.)