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This would probably be better suited to a review, but I haven’t taken any photos or anything like that. So a blog post it shall remain.

My nVidia XFX 9800GT has been annoying me with its fan for the past year. I don’t play games often, but when I do, it likes to remind me by doing something even more annoying than just merely being loud. The card, like most cooling systems, has a threshold where the speed of the fan will be increased when the detected temperature gets to a certain (higher) value.

That’s generally a good thing, but not here. While running a game (not often, but it happens), the temperature of the graphics card drunkenly tries to stay on that threshold line. Being drunk, of course, it veers to the left and it veers to the right. This results in the fan going on high for a few seconds before plunging back to medium for a few more seconds. Then the cycle repeats, depending on how much graphics action is occurring on-screen.

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