[GTALUG] I guess I should buy a new video card

[Don Tai]

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 at 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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