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CuteTurtle

CuteTurtle

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I have an E3500, and I had it overclocked to 3.0Ghz for about a week, but then I found it wasn't so stable so I put it back to its factory settings, now however the fan tends to make such a loud noise, and it keeps getting louder, im afraid it will overheat so i turn it off

what should I do?!?!
 
I have found out it's my VGA Display board, the fan on it is making the sound, I cleaned it but its still making it. I've reduced it by tightening it and putting in a loose thing, but there's still some noise. Suggestions? And is it bad if its making the sounds?
 
What GPU is it and how old is it?

It could be down to a software issue causing the fan to rev up and down (something is applying load to it). Does the same still happen if you leave the PC sat in bios for 10-15mins?

There is some program in windows 7 (I'll fish out the name of it later) that I was having a similar issue with late last week, anyway it was randomly choking up my resources and making my fan speeds pulse, killed the task and all was back to normal.
 
Have you tried another card in its place, or using the onboard gpu (provided your motherboard has one) to make 100% its the GPU?

The process that was pulsing my fans was winsat.exe (some windows assessment tool?)
 
I'm checking temperatures right now... It states

"NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250"

"Temperatures" (Current): 65 (Min) 62 (Max) 68

Fans PWM (Current) 74% (Min) 70% (Max) %82

:x

(This is whilst doing nothing)

Also I'm sure is the GPU, I listened to it when I opened the case.
 
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Somethings not right, perhaps the card is not getting enough cool air? what case are you using?

Worst case, the cards heatsink could need a re-seat.
 
Give that system a good clean, remove all the dust and what you can try doing after doing that and trying it again, if it still makes the high rpm noises, check your drivers are installed correctly for the graphics card, and if you use anything like afterburner disable them. Also if that fails take the cooler off the graphics card and clean the GPU and cooler and add new thermal paste and seat it back carefully. See if that helps, but do make sure you don't have some program running that is making the fan ramp up and make sure the graphics drivers are working too and no harm reinstalling the video cards drivers and updating them.

P.S there is a nice blanket of dust on the back of the card too, use a paint brush to remove the dust from there, do it outside :D you don't want to breath that dust.
 
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You may need to buy a new cooler for the graphics card then if it is still making them noises, but is that graphics card any good ? I can't even tell which one it is there. Can you list its model number and make please. You maybe better off buying a new graphics card then investing more money on an old card, but lets see which card you have first. Fans die in different ways and it sounds to me that the fan on that card has died or the circuit that controls its speed is on the way out.

NVM: I just read up its a Nvidia 250, maybe try find a cheap GPU cooler for it mate.

but you do state this

I'm checking temperatures right now... It states

"NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250"

"Temperatures" (Current): 65 (Min) 62 (Max) 68

Fans PWM (Current) 74% (Min) 70% (Max) %82

:x

(This is whilst doing nothing)

Also I'm sure is the GPU, I listened to it when I opened the case.



It could also be a damaged GPU and overheating and not the cooler and fan causing the problem. You have to decide if it is worth testing a new cooler on it, but have you made sure 100% that the cooler is on the card correctly and tried new thermal paste too ?
 
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You won't do anything wrong mate, just take a look here how to do it. Also many more video on youtube how to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bED3bfzToSU Aslo in this video he says wiggle it, don't wiggle it put a 4-5mm blob in the centre of the GPU and lower the cooler down and screw it back in, the pressure will spread the paste evenly and with no air bubbles then.

Just buy some thermal paste, don't use the arctic silver he mentioned use something like this (IC Diamond 7-Carat Thermal Compound (1.5g) because it is Non capacitive or electrically conductive, arctic silver is capacitive and conductive.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=TH-000-ID&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=27
 
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