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legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1011
Reverse engineer from time to time
February 01, 2012, 06:06:32 AM
#10
Well, the "patch" has worn off. It helped, quite a lot. Now it's time for some real oil.
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1002
January 31, 2012, 08:14:52 AM
#9
Maybe because some of us in the bitcoin community still have a sense of humour.

No man.  This is serious.  Bitcoin is money.
-ck
legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
January 31, 2012, 07:37:34 AM
#8
Maybe because some of us in the bitcoin community still have a sense of humour.
-ck
legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
January 30, 2012, 09:52:58 PM
#7
So, in the end I was able to open it, making holes in some visible places, but it got the job done. Now, I am well aware of the risks involved in using vegetable oil, either way, I had no choice but to use one
since I had no machine oil and was a Sunday.

Make sure to add some fish oil for it to get some more omega 3 or the omega 6 rich nature of the vegetable oil will give it heart disease, cancer and all sorts of other awful diseases...  Roll Eyes
sr. member
Activity: 452
Merit: 250
January 30, 2012, 05:10:54 AM
#6
You will want to get that fan cleaned and properly re-oiled with machine oil as vegetable oil will quickly turn rancid and gum up, possibly making the fan performance worse than it was.
legendary
Activity: 1428
Merit: 1001
Okey Dokey Lokey
January 30, 2012, 03:34:28 AM
#5
The gzz gzz gzz sound of a dying fan is it spinning up, and then hitting some resonance frequency where it oscillates, causes a whole bunch of friction, and slows down. It is no wonder that the card is cool with a properly operating fan.
Yup, Just pretend that your fan is at 0%, Even if it rev's alllllll the way up to 90%, If it's trying to reach 92% and it goes GZZZzz--back down to 0-1-2-3-4-5-60-70-80-92%--GZZZzz 0-1-R
And we all know that No fan=heat
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1011
Reverse engineer from time to time
January 30, 2012, 03:16:10 AM
#4
Well it's just that the temps are 20C lower. I am ok with that, as long as it's not a sensor bug.
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1036
January 29, 2012, 10:05:37 PM
#3
The gzz gzz gzz sound of a dying fan is it spinning up, and then hitting some resonance frequency where it oscillates, causes a whole bunch of friction, and slows down. It is no wonder that the card is cool with a properly operating fan.
hero member
Activity: 628
Merit: 500
January 29, 2012, 09:40:20 PM
#2
What is the make of the 5850? i have some gigabyte ones with fan issues.
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1011
Reverse engineer from time to time
January 29, 2012, 06:32:33 PM
#1
My 5850 was at the brink of death, the fan was buzzing,scratching and basically the sound was horrible.

I opened the card with the intent to remove the fan and re-oil it. Sadly, some screws were stripped, so...I resorted to the hardcore method of forcibly opening it, melting the plastic where the screws were.
So, in the end I was able to open it, making holes in some visible places, but it got the job done. Now, I am well aware of the risks involved in using vegetable oil, either way, I had no choice but to use one
since I had no machine oil and was a Sunday.

Same RPM of the fan, no buzzing, HOWEVER! Temps, were reduced drastically.

Before: 75-81C core, 110VRMs at 600mhz mem,725 core, 1.075mV, 58-60% fan speed.
After: 60C core,83C VRMs, 600mhz mem,725 core,1.075 mV, 45% fan speed.

So basically, temps were reduced with me just re-oiling the fan which just fixed the horrible buzzing sound. It is extremely odd that the temps are now much lower than before.
Of course, since new furniture was purchased, I had to move the computer in a different position, which might have helped about this.
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