The fan on my VT GF3 is too friggin LOUD!! HELP!!

[oldfart]

Ok, the Visiontek GeForce 3 is nice, 2D is good, nature scene is purty, blah blah blah. The fugging fan on the thing is WAY too loud. It's driving me nuts. I don't have a silent system, but did have a fairly quiet one until now. I have a Panaflow case fan, thermal controlled PS fan, GORB CPU fan. The Radeon made just a tiny bit of sound. This damn thing is loud as all get go. Its all I can hear. Any ideas? Maybe some of that sound deadening stuff?

 

[vss1980]

Replacing your Radeon already oldfart?

One question. Is it the airflow that is making a noise or the fan itself?

If its the airflow, the only option is to slow it down or replace it. If the fan itself is making a noise (not good considering its new), you could always try giving it a little machine oil by peeling back the fan cover sticker and giving it a small drop.

 

[kw3i]

try putting a drop of wd-40 on the fan bearing area. or you could try getting a lower rpm fan to stick on there, but i dont htink i would mess with the cooling ability of it myself

 

[kw3i]

jesus can we give the same advice or what: )

 

[vss1980]

'jesus can we give the same advice or what'

LOL, Yeah.

Problem is, due to the age of the card, I am betting that only a damaged fan (ie. maybe dodgy bearing) or the actual air movement is causing the noise. In either case that would usually mean a replacement to get rid of the noise.

 

[cnhoff]

I would build a card cooler with a quiet 80mm fan.

First build yourself a "pci-card" dummy of some non conducting material like plastic, then cut out a 80mm hole and attach a quiet 80mm fan to the dummy. Take of the original fan of the GF3 (only the fan, not the heatsink) and put the cooler card in a slot next to the GF3.

Good things:

better airflow than most stock fans
graphics memory chips are in the airflow too

bad things:

you cannot use up to 2 pci slots depending on how thick the dummy is

 

[SonofVengeance]

Just realized how im going to keep my msi starforce geforce II mx cool once I decide to OC it a tad.

 

[oldfart]

cnhoff
Interesting idea. I don't know if I'm ready to modify the card yet, but if that's what it takes, I may try that. How about sound deadening material? I think I'll try that first. Anyone know a good place to get some?