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Ignore your noisy fan at your peril!

"An eventful 30mins at the Network3D HQ home to CPU3D and AMD3D.Some time last week one of my SLI graphics card decided to making buzzing and whirring noises."



Posted on Apr 26, 2006, 3:29 AM UTC by

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An eventful 30mins at the Network3D HQ home to CPU3D and AMD3D.Some time last week one of my SLI graphics card decided to making buzzing and whirring noises. So i decided to take action and removed the noisy SLI card and proceeded to dust and clean the heatsink and fan.Having cleaned it out quite thoroughly i continued to re-install my card back into the computer and powered it up...But to my disappointment the noise continued, buzzing and whirring, high pitch and low pitch. I decided to ignore it since I had so much more work to do on CPU3D

A week past and the previous two days my computer no longer eminated the annoying sounds of a lawn mower, I thought peace at last the fan has lubricated itself. And this evening a strong and pungent smell of burnt PCB and electric motor hung in the air near my PC."Holy Sh##" realising my graphic had made no further noises because the fan is broke.An immediate shutdow and dismantle of my system is a must.And to my shock and horror....  And like the title of my blog says... "Ignore your noisy fan at peril!" Discuss it here in our forums!

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