Comments on: How to silence a loud video card fan

By: John

John — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:57:52 +0000

I used a small amount of dry graphite spray and it worked just great!

By: Philovance

Philovance — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:17:11 +0000

Very useful tip with enough documentation to make it worth trying. I am keeping my fingers crossed my noisy 7600gs agp stays quiet for a while. Not a good time to be buying unnecessary pc stuff.

By: best

best — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:59:34 +0000

ok, i’ll try it tommorow,kinda night now. at the service they charged me about 3 euros for making my fan silent again (because they didn’t have an other one), when i came back at home there is just a small diference in the buzz, but it still exist…
hope i’ll fix it, you have a ati x1550 like me

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:44:05 +0000

Ow sorry, your site is english and i’m dutch.
I was so happy with your solution that i writed it in Dutch.

I tried above and you helped me alot with the info “under the sticker”.
Now my videocard is quit again. Many thanks

Alex

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:41:35 +0000

Beste Ross,

Ik zat al weken met een videokaart die een gruwelijk geluid maakte, de laatste dagen verschrikkelijk veel harder dan de weken ervoor. Ik had hem helemaal uit elkaar gehaald en schoon gemaakt maar het probleem bleef. Tot je met de G-e-w-e-l-d-i-g-e tip van ‘onder het stickertje’ kwam.

Een beetje olie heb ik erop gedaan met hulp van een wattenstaafje en ik zit weer met een stille PC naast me.

Mijn dank is zeer groot!

By: Muddy

Muddy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:03:07 +0000

Thanks man, the old girl now be as quiet as a nun!

By: Joel Kayley

Joel Kayley — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:45:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing this tip, Ross. I have an old desktop with an ATI Radeon 7000 that was making so much noise I couldn’t stand having it on any more. After putting a couple of drops of oil in it, the fan is now whisper-quiet.

I didn’t have machine oil or a hypodermic needle, so I used some 3-in-1 and fed it in with a push-pin. This may prove to be a bad move, but at least the card is quiet for now. I was set to just tear it out and replace it, so the 3-in-1 certainly shouldn’t make things any worse.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:43:41 +0000

Awesome, my fan has been buzzing off and on for months now, finally to the point of occasionally buzzing and waking me up at night. I’d tried removing the fan and dusting it off, but the machine oil seems to have done the trick. Here’s hoping it works for the long haul!

By: pinspeed1

pinspeed1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:28:59 +0000

Bravo! You gave me the incentive to try it. i wasn’t able to puncture the label, but was able to apply oil to the shaft after raising the fan blades up and it worked! i save a nice chunk of $$$$.

thanks so much!

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