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PC Is Noisy
What video card do you have? It is an ATI 9600 |
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PC Is Noisy
kony wrote:
CBFalconer wrote: wrote: A couple of days ago, my pc became rather noisy. The noise is nonstop and loud. I'm not overly comfortable with opening up the pc, but at work, when we have issues like this, usually IT staff will isolate the cause to a failing hard drive or bad fans. Is there any software that I can use at home to determine the cause of the noise? Yes. It is that gray flabby material that connects your ears. LOL, you're becoming as much of a cranky old fart as I am. I suspect I have had more practice :-) -- [mail]: Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) [page]: http://cbfalconer.home.att.net Try the download section. |
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What video card do you have? It is an ATI 9600 Any of the pictures I'm finding for the plain old ATI [Radeon] 9600 are using passive cooling -- ie, no fan. Perhaps you have a 9600xt or 9600pro? Maybe you have a licensed card, like an *Asus* Radeon 9600. Maybe you can find a picture online that matches your card. At any rate, I'm see rigs like this on a lot of those cards: http://techreport.com/r.x/radeon-9600xt/hsf.jpg Apart from the four screws holding the fan to the heatsink, there are a couple of tension pins (or whatever they're called) that mount the heatsink to the card. The distance between those pins may well fit a standard, which would make a third-party replacement viable. Clearance is pretty close, though, so be prepared for complications. Alternately, you could probably take the existing fan off, and get a small case fan (40mm) to mount on the remaining heatsink. The card will end up being wider, so you might have to move some stuff around in your case to make it fit, but it should cool as well. |
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What video card do you have? It is an ATI 9600 Find a fan and strap it on the card with some wire ties. Connect it to spare power connector. Done. Jon |
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