Well.. additional fan fitted and those two progs downloaded. A quick look at the second (GPU-Z) shows lots of 96deg going on which in anyones language means fa-hookin hot :o It's also reporting the fan speed at only 53% so a quick bit of logic would suggest the graphics card fan is on the way out
Next question.. anyone got a spare fan for an nvidia 6800GT??
It's turned off now and I'm on the newer one. The thought of all those 96's going on was just too much for me
Would the fan not be running at 100% by default?? OK.. I appreciate there's a certain amount of thermal protection but when put pwr onto something like this.. it lasts only a few seconds before it says 'Help.. give me the fan' Should it be the case that the fan is on it's way out (dunno how you can check that) forcing it, or trying to force it to go faster would not be a good thing me thinks :think: TBH.. it owes neither me or Ben anything. He bought it as his 'ultimate' FS9 card and it only came my way when he upgraded his system from the 3gigHT intel to his current Quad setup. I can't put that into years but it's had a hard and distinguished life thus far. If I can find a replacement fan for it.. I'll get one. If I win the lottery.. Alienware will be getting a call from me
No.. it's the GPU fan on my old Nvidia 6800GT ;-) I've not looked at the CPU temp yet.. that would be tempting fate
Ian..
I don't know what to do now. If the GPU is running at 96deg and the fan is only running at 53%.. surely (and don't call me Shirley) the GPU would be asking for more cooling. It doesn't take a lot to confuse me but I'm getting there rather quickly
Another possible thing to try is take out the 6800GT, remove the cooler from it and apply some new paste (assuming you have some?) - that seems to be a recommendation from various fora on the web. Just a possibility that the cooler is not making good contact with the GPU.
As it happens, I DO have some heatsink paste so I'll take that under consideration ;-)
I have to go to Maplins asap so I'll see if they have a new fan anyway. I went to grab a ticket off the kitchen printer yesterday.. missed the ticket and knocked the printer onto the floor! :doho: That's bad enough but it didn't hit the floor before it had ripped the wires out of the network plug leaving me stranded with wires out and no support from the company. My hope is that someone at Maplins can fit a new network plug onto what's left of the wire. This has not been a good couple of days :@
