My old Radeon 5850 fan was making a knocking sound so I took it apart to clean it.
Cleaned up, fresh thermal paste, etc.
Hooked it back up, turned on the computer, quietest the GPU has ever been...then I realized then fan wasn't even running when my heat monitor came up and it was already at 170f.
Any idea why the fan would just stop working after being taken apart? Any possible weird connections I could be missing? I don't have any idea what could have caused this. The only relevant connectors I can find are the little 3 pin thing connecting the fan, my PCI-E connectors, and the connection to the mobo. All seem perfectly fine.
It seems impossible that I broke the fan by cleaning it, so I'm lost.
Also I wore gloves so static shouldn't be a concern.
>>54743648
>impossible
oh you're one of those guys
>>54743648
Sounds like the fan bearings were already on the brink of giving up, and your cleaning attempts pushed them over the edge and they seized.
>>54743648
Buy a replacement fan online or it's time to upgrade.
>>54743679
>>54743702
This seems reasonable. Poor fan.
To re-purpose this thread, I'm out of date on GPUs, any recommendations for a replacment? I have a first generation i7 processor so I imagine I'm not CPU limited, but it has to be compatible with PCI-E and I only have 4gb of RAM.
>>54743727
960? You are fine, but honestly wait for polaris release. If nothink else it might shake nvidia prices.
>inb4 I get called faggot by amd/nvidia camp
>>54743727
Well, there's nothing stopping you from buying another fan for the GPU, provided it hasn't taken a horrendous amount of thermal damage from the bad fan yet.
Just about anything you'd look at is going to be PCI-E compatible. (Do they still make cards that aren't?) Why not just buy another AMD GPU? I understand the 390s are pretty nice.
>>54743648
Exactly same thing happened to me a few months ago, same card and everything. My fan didn't break though.
Sitting here with my 920 and 5850, I really wish there was a reason to upgrade.
380 4gb version
mars will get the best out of 1080p and it's better than a 960 by a long shot
>>54743727
>>54742219
If you wait a little, everyone and their dog will be buying the GTX1070, and you can grab some decent last-generation GPU for cheap, like GTX 970 or R9 390.
>>54743821
Depending on your mobo you could get a cheap 6 core xeon, x5650 has the same clockspeed as a 920 with a slightly higher turbo. (22x across all cores, 23x single core).
I hate to keep asking stupid questions, but again, I've been out of the loop since I built this computer in 2009.
Is 750w PSU sufficient for my i7/4gb RAM if I just go simple and buy a 960?
>>54744094
>750w
>960
You would probably be fine with even just 500w
I have a cooling solution for your card OP
>>54744134
Great. I bought the 750 as waaaay overkill because newegg was having a stupid sale where they were cheaper than the 500w I thought I needed. Just making sure GPUs hadn't made a huge jump in power consumption.
>>54744138
thanks. I'll work on this right away
>>54744138
No memory or vrm cooling?
>>54744266
Just buy a few small Aluminum or copper heatsinks
>>54743648
with your specs and if your 5850 did everything you needed there is no reason to upgrade. You can get an artic cooling kit for like 30 bucks on ebay for this specific card. Its very quiet and the card is on 30-40celsius.
I had two 5870 and one alone was enough for everything, even for hard gaming. Had arctic kit too, 38c on load.
Updated later to an gtx670 because i got it for 40€. Got also a kit for it, 25€. Gtx is better on paper but i didnt feel any difference besides some fps improvements where it wasnt needed anyway.
>>54743648
fan is broken. buy a identical one in ebay from china. 5$. Change it yourself and you are done.
source: done myself.
>>54744604
This. This GPU is good, buy a fan.
>>54743648
Wait for polaris and then get a new gpu buying a new gpu until then would be retarded.
>>54744281
or blow a fan on them at the cheap
