Roaring Fans

[Diggy toots]

Ok, I was wondering if loud fans when just browsing the web and everyday stuff could be a sign of needing to repaste and seat my cpu cooler?

 

I have a newegg diy system with a AMD FX-6300 (stock cooler and had preappied thermal paste) with GTX-750TI (zotac) on a gigabyte mobo.  two 120MM case fans sucking out air (they maybe run 50% speed most of the time.)

my temps tend to run 28C to 33C unless running Fallout 4 then I get to 55-60c  

 

Should I do a reseat of my cpu cooler or look to upgrade to a better air cooler?

[Jurrunio]

if it's the CPU cooler fans, you could set a slower fan profile

[Diggy toots]

Did a restart, set the CPU and case fan to silent mode and that reduced the sound.  apparently most of it is coming from the GPU blower fan cause fiddling with those settings changed the sound but still a bit loud.  Looks like another reason to upgrade my graphics card when i get the money lol.

[LogicalDrm]

16 hours ago, Diggy toots said:

Did a restart, set the CPU and case fan to silent mode and that reduced the sound.  apparently most of it is coming from the GPU blower fan cause fiddling with those settings changed the sound but still a bit loud.  Looks like another reason to upgrade my graphics card when i get the money lol.

Rather than that, save up for completely new system. Any newer GPU you get will be horribly bottlenecked by the CPU. Which was budget when it was released 7 years ago.

 

In the meanwhile, you can control GPU fan too. Use Afterburner for that.

[Diggy toots]

On 11/11/2019 at 7:04 AM, LogicalDrm said:

Rather than that, save up for completely new system. Any newer GPU you get will be horribly bottlenecked by the CPU. Which was budget when it was released 7 years ago.

 

In the meanwhile, you can control GPU fan too. Use Afterburner for that.

Ironically it's not as bad if I don't let afterburner launch and let the GPU do its own thing.

 

 

BTW upgrade was loose for something in the GTX 9 series or Radeon equivalent.  While I know it ain't a strong system, it runs decent enough.  Plus the only thing that would be able to go on for a new system would be the case and maybe the ram though I believe it's only ddr3 

[Demonic Donut]

3 hours ago, Diggy toots said:

Ironically it's not as bad if I don't let afterburner launch and let the GPU do its own thing.

 

 

BTW upgrade was loose for something in the GTX 9 series or Radeon equivalent.  While I know it ain't a strong system, it runs decent enough.  Plus the only thing that would be able to go on for a new system would be the case and maybe the ram though I believe it's only ddr3 

If temps are manageable, I wouldn't worry about anything.

 

If they are hot, or you like to tinker with things, order some decent thermal paste and make a project out of taking apart, cleaning and repasting the CPU and GPU coolers.

 

I had the same problem with upgrading my old system. It's just not worth it generally. Used graphics cards aren't that cheap and I was stuck with an old CPU socket. I just put it off for a long time until I saved some fun money up to blow on a new build.