Graphics card question. dying fan

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I have an XFX R7 360 2 gig. Good for what it was supposed to do, but now the fan is dying, and due to current budgetary constraints i can’t afford an upgrade at this time. It’s sitting on a Gigabyte G1 Gaming board powered by an FX 6300. Is there a way i can help keep it cool (as it only really runs the fan under heavy load) while i game? As of now there’s NO way i can do any type of gaming, as the GPU goes from 0 to total computer shutdown in a matter of seconds if i try to game. The fan just won’t run faster than a turtle’s pace anymore.
Any info would be helpful. I will eventually replace it, though that may take a few weeks.
P.S. I put this in the off topic section but i’m also putting it here for more coverage and a greater chance of an answer.

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Edited because I was thinking CPU like a sleepy dummy. :blush:

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i once had an actual fan blowing on my cpu because of same kind of situation had open case and keep it very clean

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Its just gonna burn down , i don’t think replacing a fan cost too much op

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Cpu fans are about 35 on new egg, or do you have an old one you can take the fan out of? Otherwise i would open up the side and just have a fan blowing on the rig as long as you don’t have it in a dusty place lol.

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It’s not a CPU, it’s my graphics card. If it was my actual CPU i could get a $30 aftermarket fan easily. This not so much.

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oh i don’t know then.

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I did the fan outside the box trick before and it worked fine.

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open it, angle the fan so it allows the air from the fan to flow out and not get trapped in the case. also, has your gpu ever been replaced since you got it? sometimes the paste gets old and the card warms up too fast. in that situation, looking up specs for your gpu and replacing the thermal paste is a good idea.

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Honestly, replace the fan. Go on ebay or amazon see if you can find it, they are all pretty common sizes.
I had a similar issues a couple months ago and repaired the card for 10 bucks versus buying a new one. The innards of the card are really not that trick at all and you might even find a youtube video on your particular make/model or one similar to it.

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chances are you can pull off the plastic shroud with the fan on it. on the under side of the fan there should be a rubber plug, a sticker might cover it. pull that off, add some thick oil that will help keep the fan alive a little longer but, will slow down a fan a little. cover it back up, with a new sticker/tape or some super glue to keep the plug in.

if that doesn’t do it, i have used chapstick that i melted as an “oil” to keep a fan going for a few days till a replacement could be ordered.

while this shroud is off, look for ways to just zip tie some ~60mm PC fans to the heat sink. as a long term solution. should be 5-10$ ish. might know someone who has some old PC fans laying around.

“i.imgur. com/ SRX0tbG .jpg”

all you need to do is move air over the metal fins, look where the existing fan moves air for the critical areas.

get some some utility from vendor to monitor GPU temp, you can set alarms if it gets too hot. it will prevent the card from dying from overheating.

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If that doesn’t help, I can offer some other advice.

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too bad you dont live here in town. Microcenter up north has all kinds of fans pretty cheap.

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Yes you can get aftermarket fans that go around a video card, with high powered fans

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…Yeah.

Good talk. :L

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Too bad don’t live in Pa. I have 4 graphics cards sitting in storage. Got a ton of them for building computers. Now out parts but them.

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Dude, thats awesome! Should be a fix on the cheap too.

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fans dont just “die”

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Take the side of the case off your computer. Position a 12" desk fan next to your computer and have it blow directly into the open case onto your video card.

Or … perhaps you can get a replacement fan for your video card. This would involve taking out your video card, looking at the fan, finding a comparable one (perhaps on Ebay), ordering it and then installing it. You might need a soldering iron and skills and there’s a chance you might end up killing your card.

They do. I’ve had case fans on my desktop computer die numerous times. After years of use sometimes they just wear out and stop working (though usually they start to rattle first). This is especially so if they weren’t the highest quality fans to begin with.

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Remove your case run a box fan on the innards