I noticed this one cord is not plugged in. I have no idea what it does, but it looks like something that's part of my fan. Since it's not plugged in, is it possible it might caused some of my computer problems?
It's highly doubtful that's related to the fan in any way. Of course, if you can't see anywhere to plug it in, then it's not! It looks like part of the usual heap of spaghetti connected to the front of the case: LEDs, USB ports, extra audio sockets, etc. If you don't notice any functionality missing from any of those, then this cable probably doesn't exist to provide anything essential/useful. It might be hard to work out its original function, at least in the absence of a manual/datasheet/whatever for your case. But, either way, this almost certainly isn't related to the problems you've reported.
Incidentally, I replaced my Athlon 64 3800+ with an Opteron 180, and it's almost overheating under load. This thing runs hotter at its native 2.4 GHz than the 3800+ ran overclocked from that to 2.7 GHz. :| It might be due to the extra core and/or my poor heat-paste-applying skills, but I think I might have to be a new heatsink/fan either way.
Does anyone know of an equal or better alternative to this fan? I can't find any sellers who have it in stock anymore. Also, I found out last night that my graphics card fan had a fuckload of dust which might be the main problem why I'm having this issue. I'll post pictures and more details when I have the time.
Well, I just ordered this fan. Should be a good replacement and might even be more powerful too.
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It's estimated to arrive in two days. Didn't know Amazon Prime shipped stuff on Saturday. I wish I ordered this sooner. Oh well. Also ordered two cans of compressed air the other day because I ran out. That isn't estimated to arrive until sometime between March 5th through the 20th. :/
This post has been edited by W.A.C.: 28 February 2013 - 12:52 PM
In the meantime, have you tried just running your PC with the side off? Maybe even point a room fan at it, if the former doesn't work. It must be shifting a lot of air for its failure to cause the entire system to crash.
Finally took your advice yesterday and was able to play ASRT for over six hours so thanks for the advice. ^_^
Unfortunately, I still have crashing issues if I set my fan to anything below high which makes it really loud. Can't help but feel like the replacement fan I ordered yesterday won't be powerful enough to keep my computer from crashing. :/ I think my years of neglect toward one of my fans caused some of my other computer components to age faster. I hope I won't have to replace anymore parts. I'm in a tight budget right now.
My new fan arrived a day early so I installed it and the crashing issue continues unless I have a giant fan next to my computer with its side unsealed. :/ I don't think the issue is related to my hard-drive. After the last crash, neither of them were hot but my graphics card sure was. It was also hot the last few times my computer crashed while playing a game. Considering how I only experience this crashing issue while gaming and my computer normally runs fine, I think my graphics card is dying. This really sucks. I didn't want to do any majors upgrade for at least two years. Outside of this crashing issue, nearly any game I play can run at the highest settings without any serious issues. Not to mention PC game requirements will probably skyrocket not long after the PS4 and next Xbox come out. It's also worth noting that financial aid cut me off this semester because I attempted 90 units/credits and I plan to take a year off from school. So financially, this is a horrible time for me to do any major upgrades toward my computer. At the same time, having to use a giant fan next to my PC whenever I want to play newer games would be a horrible longterm solution. :/ I dunno what to do.
You may be lucky and only need to clean the graphics card. You could go as far as re-applying the thermal coundpound to help with cooling, yes that would cost money and you would need to watch a few youtube videos to get the idea of what to do properly but it could be the least expensive option (or it could do absoluetly nothing).
Does your gfx card look really dusty under the fan or anything? Is your gfx card still under warranty? I see that evga gives that card a 2 year limited warranty so it's possible it could still be covered depeneding on when you bought it. If your card is still under warranty then don't do any cleaning or thermal paste applying, just get it sent off.
You may be lucky and only need to clean the graphics card. You could go as far as re-applying the thermal coundpound to help with cooling, yes that would cost money and you would need to watch a few youtube videos to get the idea of what to do properly but it could be the least expensive option (or it could do absoluetly nothing).
I talked to a friend about my computer issues yesterday and he mentioned that the thermal compound paste has probably dried up because I built my computer 3 1/2 years ago. Just watched a couple of videos and it doesn't seem difficult to apply it so I'm going to buy this. Hopefully that product will fix my problem.
acrazyplayer, on 02 March 2013 - 03:35 AM, said:
Does your gfx card look really dusty under the fan or anything? Is your gfx card still under warranty? I see that evga gives that card a 2 year limited warranty so it's possible it could still be covered depeneding on when you bought it. If your card is still under warranty then don't do any cleaning or thermal paste applying, just get it sent off.
Recently I discovered my graphics card fan was a lot dustier than I realized but cleaning the fan didn't seem to help with the crashing problem at all. As for the warranty, it expired over a year ago.
If you haven't already ordered anything then I would personally recommend this product Here
Unfortunately, I ordered one shortly after making my post but the one I ordered got solid reviews so I'm not concerned about the quality of the product.
acrazyplayer, on 02 March 2013 - 03:14 PM, said:
Also what does this program report your gpu temps as, both idle and running a game?
Dunno yet. I'll try running that next time I play a graphically intensive game. Though I usually play games in full screen mode so it might be difficult for me to check that program while in-game.
Yeah that Arctic Silver 5 will work fine, there isn't much of a difference between all of the good ones like you said. If it gets good reviews then that's what matters.
BTW you could push "Alt + Tab" to switch out of the full-screen game to check the temperature program. I did some looking and found that your gfx card should idle at anywhere around 40 degrees Celsius and gets as hot as 75 C *normally*. I wouldn't doubt it though if yours is getting much hotter
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W.A.C., on 16 February 2013 - 02:40 PM, said:
