Before you give up, try taking the video card out of your machine, clean and vacuum it, and inspect the fan. Clean out any gunk on the spindle, then drip a very small amount of machine oil. If all these things don't quiet down your fan, then go shopping. On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 at 15:14, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I finally decided to try and figure out which fan to replace in my linux server machine since it was being rather noisy lately. I thought it was one of the cpu fans or maybe a case fan, but after checking both cpu fans, all 4 case fans, the chipset fan and the power supply fan, I finally realized it was the video card fan. I guess that isn't one you just get a replacement for.
The video card is an EVGA Nvidia 8600GT. It has date codes of 0728 on parts. I guess after 17 years of service I can't complain.
I am thinking maybe I will try an AMD 7600 XT and see how that amdgpu driver in the kernel is doing these days. I haven't given AMD a chance in a very long time after all.
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