What would happen if...

[DrumminBoy]

I unplugged the fan on my video card? Its making the loudest screeching noise ive ever heard, and it wont stop for anything. I tried compressed air, and it didnt help any. Its a GeForce 2 GTS.

 

[nick1985]

only good things will happen im sure

no seriousy, you will probably be fine, but i would take a passive heatsink and put that on there instead

 

[spanky]

maybe it needs some oil?

 

[Ralidan]

stpuid fans.. the one on my PSU is enough to drive me to the psyciatric ward... IT BURNS...:disgust:

 

[TheCorm]

Some of the cheaper video card manufacturers love putting fans that can look fans but are horrendously noisy, I hoovered some dust off my Inno3D Tornado MX440 fan.....(with a low power dustbuster type thing, didn't actually touch the fan) and for a while it was horrendous.....is quite now though.

I have seen Geforce2 MX (Original) cards run without any kind of cooling at all, things get quite warm but no lockups occur, their GPU is running at 175mhz....I would say with the 200mhz GPU of the GTS you might need some passive heatsink cooling, does it have much of a heatsink under the fan?

Corm

 

[bgeh]

yup, add some oil into it and it'll be fine