Fan motor irritation

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-10-31 10:05pm

Having moved my shit back to my house, my GPU fan has started whining. Stopping the fan motion doesn't stop it immediately. It'll stop a second later, and then instantly come back when the fan restarts. I figure this means it's the motor and not the bearings, but it's an incredibly irritating high-pitched whine that carries around the whole house. Before moving it, it was so quiet people didn't realise it was on, and the other fans are quiet and have nice low whooshing noises.

So explain to me how totally boned I am and how there's nothing you can do to fix the lameass $5 fan on the card, and how replacing the cooler on it will cost 25% the value of a new card.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2007-11-01 01:21am

A new hs/f should cost like... $25, there must be a dozen decent ones on newegg.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-11-01 01:36am

InnocentBystander
I know I make fun of the worthless SDN advice thing, but I'm in Australia and Newegg doesn't ship there.

Since I'll be buying a new GPU in a month or so anyway, I'm not sinking any more cash into this piece of shit. What's the deal with putting worthless tiny fans on cards worth hundreds of dollars anyway? The fans on my case (worth maybe $10 each) are more reliable! PS the card is maybe two weeks old, but since I'd never be able to convince anyone 'fucking annoying noise' is a 'fault', I doubt I'd get away with RA.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2007-11-01 03:14am

Well, you could just unplug the fan. The fan on my northbridge started doing the same thing a few weeks ago, rather than buy and install a replacement (somewhat time consuming) I just unplugged it. No fan, no problem.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-11-01 07:22am

InnocentBystander
Um, it's an 8600GTS. Wouldn't unplugging the fan result in a sharp smell of ozone and a dead GPU?

My northbridge has a ridiculous heatpipe, so no tiny extra-noisy fan for me.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2007-11-01 12:37pm

Stark wrote:InnocentBystander
Um, it's an 8600GTS. Wouldn't unplugging the fan result in a sharp smell of ozone and a dead GPU?

Maybe, maybe not. What kind of temps does it hit under load?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-11-01 05:17pm

Hey, actually that's an interesting point. When I installed I had to shuffle cables etc around inside my case, because it was around 70 idle and rising to nearly 80 under load: now the temp sensor constantly reports 58 all the time. I'll have to do a bit of experimenting, but maybe the temp sensor is malfunctioning.