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- ReTyger
Hi guys, hope you can help here. In some situations lately I've found one of the fans in my PC is speeding up a lot and making a lot of noise in certain situations. I am assuming it is the PSU fan, but want to make sure before I replace it. Some facts:
1. My PC is only about 20 months old, but I guess gets a lot of use. I don't do a huge amount of gaming on it but do use it for Second Life, which seems to make the fan work hardest. However other games such as Minecraft (which I play on fairly high settings) seem to be fine. Second Life streams a lot of its content so when things get busy the fan goes into overdrive. I can still run quite high settings though and get very high FPS in most "locations"
2. My graphics card is a GeForce 560Ti (or something like that, am at work now)
3. A while back, my PC started freezing intermittently, then frequently, sometimes resulting in BSOD. I opened it up, it was pretty dusty so gave it a thorough clean with an air duster, no freezes since but just the overworked fan issue...I think this is symptomatic of general overheating and a dying PSU rather than graphics card?
The fan I am hearing is the one that spools up briefly when I power the PC on, so again, assuming that is the "main" PSU fan?
I just want to make sure I am on the right track and it's not the graphics card frying. Any way of diagnosing where the issue lies?
1. My PC is only about 20 months old, but I guess gets a lot of use. I don't do a huge amount of gaming on it but do use it for Second Life, which seems to make the fan work hardest. However other games such as Minecraft (which I play on fairly high settings) seem to be fine. Second Life streams a lot of its content so when things get busy the fan goes into overdrive. I can still run quite high settings though and get very high FPS in most "locations"
2. My graphics card is a GeForce 560Ti (or something like that, am at work now)
3. A while back, my PC started freezing intermittently, then frequently, sometimes resulting in BSOD. I opened it up, it was pretty dusty so gave it a thorough clean with an air duster, no freezes since but just the overworked fan issue...I think this is symptomatic of general overheating and a dying PSU rather than graphics card?
The fan I am hearing is the one that spools up briefly when I power the PC on, so again, assuming that is the "main" PSU fan?
I just want to make sure I am on the right track and it's not the graphics card frying. Any way of diagnosing where the issue lies?
