Radeon X850 Pro making weird noises.
Two days ago my Radeon X850 started making weird noises. The only moving parts in the card is the fan. It's working just fine. No clicking noises, just louder then normal and makes a weird chirping noise.
Just to make sure it was the I took out all other hardware and used the integrated card and everything else is nice and quiet except for the fans of course.
The noise is irritating, and I can't see a problem with the fan.
Just to make sure it was the I took out all other hardware and used the integrated card and everything else is nice and quiet except for the fans of course.
The noise is irritating, and I can't see a problem with the fan.
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You might be able to extend the fan's life by lubricating it. If there's a label on the spindle (the round hub at the center of the blades) pull it back and see if there is a pinhole. If there is, put in a drop of 3-in-1 or light machine oil. Manually rotate the fan for a couple hundred revolutions before reinstalling the card to avoid excess oil being thrown on computer components. I've got some ancient 40mm fans running that originally came from Abit KT7 motherboards. Those little Abit 40mm fans were notorious for early failure, but I've kept them running through re-lubricating them.
If that doesn't work, you'll need to purchase an aftermarket video card cooler.
I thing the ball barrings (I think that is what it is called) were destroyed do to the fan being used all the time. I do rendering for extended periods of time. This is what I believe the cause is for my card. I would recommend using an after market card with a larger fan on any graphics card to keep it cooler.
I will be using the ATITool to see how cool the card runs after I receive the new card. I would like to thank all of you for the help, it really helped me get through this problem.
If you haven't already done so, replace the thermal interface material ("grease" or "paste") on your card's GPU chip when you replace the fan. I don't know if you are replacing the heatsink as well. Remove all the old factory silicon past and apply something high quality like Zalman's or Arctic Silver. On CPUs, northbridges, and video card GPUs, the factory applied grease is the cheapest they can find.