Optical Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 All the sudden my video card has been running very loud - I mean it sounds like a jet engine! I fixed it the other night by taking it out and blowing some air on the fan which seemed to do the trick.....until I rebooted tonight and it's back. WTF? I'm thinking about just taking it out and using 1 instead of both.Tips?edit: after taking it out and blowing air on it twice it seems to be working again. My guess is that it could be over heating but then why would it only start happening when I restart the computer and not while I'm using it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelz Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Whens the last time you cleaned inside your tower? LOL The fan is probably full of dust bunnies inside. It needs to be vacuumed.I take mine apart and clean the fan. I even take my power supply apart and clean that fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optical Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Whens the last time you cleaned inside your tower? LOL The fan is probably full of dust bunnies inside. It needs to be vacuumed.I take mine apart and clean the fan. I even take my power supply apart and clean that fan.I cleaned it about a week ago(usually clean about twice a month) Then about 3 days later it started the jet engine noise again...blew it out and it worked. Sometimes even after cleaning it, it will still be loud....but not all the time, just every once and a while. LAst night was the worse its done it because I had to clean it two or three times before it went away.*shrug* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcpepperson Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 check your cards flux capacitor.... i heard newer video cards are having problems with those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelz Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 What kind of video card do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optical Posted July 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 nvidia geforce 460 gtx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustTheZ Posted September 24, 2011 Report Share Posted September 24, 2011 Do you have EVGA Precision to tune the GFX card? I recently updated mine and the fan speed was stuck at only 40% so when playing games it would heat up and the response was to override the fan speed....which caused a loud fan speed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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