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Gpu Fan Dying!

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7/27/06 at 1:24am
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My gpu fan is making a rather bad noise and occasionally will ramp up and down in speed quickly, coming almost to a complete stop back up to normal speed. It used to idel at 50 degrees and now does at 62! Anyone else experiencing this or has experienced this? Can the fan be replaced? I found a fan/heatsink I can buy that is identical and approved by AW, but it costs like 70 dollars and isn't in stock! This thing can't die yet, I don't have my new system yet! Help, someone!
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8/3/06 at 8:17am

Gpu Problem

I had a similar problem to you m8, though my fan didn't actually stop it just kept getting faster and faster causing the gfx card to overheat.

What i did was go to my local maplins store and buy some 'akasa shinetsu' thermal pads and some thermal cleaning solution and some cleaning pads, i then cleaned the heatsink and gpu using the pads and cleaning solution then applied the shinetsu thermal pad to the heatsink and re-installed the heatsink back in my machine.

Since then my gfx card has been running perfectly.

Hope this has been of some help to you.


Steve
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