Videocard fan disabled; problems?

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Re: Videocard fan disabled; problems?

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[quote="Ambush Commander"]It's all relative. My computer is very quiet, and so the video card's fan was a nasty jolt for me.
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Must be nice. I have at least 5 computers running at any given time...one is a 266Mhz and another is an a 950Mhz. I replaced the fan on the 950 a while ago but when all running at the same time, my room sounds like a jet propulsion lab. :P

Thankfully I love airplanes and the sounds of fans and the constant humming actually lull me to sleep at night... :D
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Re: Videocard fan disabled; problems?

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Ambush Commander wrote:core temperature appears to be at 71 degrees Celsius (higher than normal operating temperature, but about the same as Maugrim's stats, heh).
Mine is about 50C under a light load (surfing the net, writing code etc) with fan running at halved rpms and about 60 when running 3d intensive tasks (games) with fan running at full rpms. Like Maugrim, I have a 8800GT, thus I think his card sucks at cooling itself :P
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Re: Videocard fan disabled; problems?

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Ambush Commander wrote:Hockey: I don't know if oiling the fan will make it quieter
Wrong. Did you read my post? I did not read it somewhere or heard it from someone... I'm talking from personal experience after doing that several times myself.
Ambush Commander wrote:That sounds terribly risky (and short-term).
No it's not. It's actually more simple and effective than you could even imagine.
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Re: Videocard fan disabled; problems?

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Oren wrote:
Ambush Commander wrote:Hockey: I don't know if oiling the fan will make it quieter
Wrong. Did you read my post? I did not read it somewhere or heard it from someone... I'm talking from personal experience after doing that several times myself.
Ambush Commander wrote:That sounds terribly risky (and short-term).
No it's not. It's actually more simple and effective than you could even imagine.
Whoops, I missed it. :oops: Is it called "fan oil" or something like that?
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Re: Videocard fan disabled; problems?

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I was pretty frightened by a 70 degree running temp. I remember shutting off my PC the first few times thinking I'd screwed up horribly installing it! But it does seem to be the normal running temp - chances are if I bothered I could boost the cooling of the case itself to lower the ambient internal temperature. Might bring down towards 50, but for now at 70 it's not showing any particular operational problems after almost a year in use.

On topic, at a minimum buy heatsinks. Any hobby store or computer components outlet should stock a wide variety of heatsinks. For a video card you'd probably need reasonably long strips to cover the RAM blocks on the card (usually in two strips along the top, and rear edges), and something with a wide area but not too heavy for the GPU. presumably the original fan was attached to a heatsink block?
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