On 26 Feb 00, at 22:24, Rick Kelly wrote:

> 
> The box that I usually sit in front of at rmkhome.com is a
> P200 with 128 megs of memory that I cobbled together myself.
> 
> I built the machine in 1/97. The original CPU fan died last
> July. At one point I bought some fans from compgeeks.com for
> $5(US) apiece. They are probably sleeve rather than ball bearing.
> 
> This machine has eaten three of these fans since July...
> 
> I'm looking for recommendations for solid, ball bearing, cpu
> fan distributors that I can buy from on the web.
> 
> Thanks in advance!!
> -- 
> Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com

Hi,

you might try one of the manufacturerers I can recommend and 
have contact lists somewhere on their homepage (both offer fans 
with a lifetime of 85.000 hours):

http://www.ystech.com.tw/

http://www.papst.de/english/home.html


or a german online shop I had no problems with:

http://www.thetatech.de/index.html


or try one of the links at:

http://www.heatsink-guide.com/

and

http://www.overclockers.com/


HTH

mike