I have to take the desktop into the shop to see what’s with this loud fan/power goes out thing. Hopefully, at least one of these problems will be fixable, because it’s going to be a while before I can justify to myself getting a new machine. Although I may price some more RAM, just for the heck of it. Or putting in a second hard drive to get some more room. Haven’t decided yet. One thing’s for certain: if I have to replace the video card, it ain’t going to be with another AMD. It’s pretty much impossible to play Conan Exiles with one, and it’s apparently not the only game with that problem…
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I’m sorry, Moe. It’s the CPU. 🙁
Sounds similar to my brother’s problem. He had the video card fan fail, which caused the box to heat up until the CPU shut down. We worked around it by increasing the case fans and swapping the video card with my spare. Limited success though, because 6 months later the replacement GPU fan failed. So yeah. You can open up your case and see if the GPU fan still spins. If not, see if you can swap in the card from your wife’s machine for a few minutes and test it out; might save you a few dollars on diagnosis.
I do hear good things about the value of the RX series from AMD, but if your must-play game isn’t optimised for that chipset then the value is reduced. Hope it works out for you.
The fans all work; I’ve checked that. Hopefully, it’s something straightforward.
Eh, swapping out the CPU is within-budget and my go-to computer guy is solid.
If it’s a loud fan, it could be the CPU fan, not the CPU, that’s the problem. Those are far cheaper to replace.
It’s pretty easy to figure out which fan is the noisy one, if you don’t already know: put your finger on the hub for a second and stop it. If the noise goes away, you found the bad fan. You can do that to case fans, CPU fans, video card fans, all pretty easily. The only ones that are problematic are the power supply fans.