6600GT Howling??

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6600GT Howling??

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Simple question, my graphics card seems to 'howl' when i play games or anything like that any reason why and is it a bad sound like maybe it might die soon.
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Re: 6600GT Howling??

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it just sounds like the fan bearings(or the like) are gone(which basically makes the fan REALLY loud), and if so you would need a new fan, not new card(unless you want one) unless your card has passive cooling, then, you might be having some serious problems
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Re: 6600GT Howling??

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yea its got a north pole 1000 on there fanless cooling, oh Bugger?
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Re: 6600GT Howling??

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kappage wrote:yea its got a north pole 1000 on there fanless cooling, oh Bugger?
lol :lol:

Is it loud enough you can hear it over the CPU fan? Try reinstalling it, make sure it's properly installed. Make sure the AGP bus is locked at 66Mhz, 100Mhz if it's PCI-E.
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Re: 6600GT Howling??

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Forgot to mention it only happens when i am in game. And that was the first thing i checked Zert i made sure it was seated properly
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