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eppur_se_muova

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1. Can you find out if there is a fan on the graphics card ?

Reply to IrishAyes (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2014, 06:31 PM

Sep 2014

I doubt a laptop would have that, but people forget that sometimes the GPUs have their own fans. I had to replace a graphics card on our ancient Dell workstation, and the guy at the shop pointed out that the fan wouldn't turn smoothly -- bearings were worn out -- and you could see scorch marks on the board. A $5 card replaced it. If I can replace the fan on the old GPU, I'll try it in one of my later machines, since it does support dual monitors.

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Weird postscript on my earlier computer problems [View all] IrishAyes Sep 2014 OP

Can you find out if there is a fan on the graphics card ? eppur_se_muova Sep 2014 #1

Yes, the MSI has an internal fan that works fine. I keep it elevated too, which is probably one IrishAyes Oct 2014 #2