If all are reading over 100C and there is no more than 10% aberration then it is just a faulty core (it heats up the rest due to a cooler design). It is extremely unlikely fans PWM control dying without fan being at 100% all the time. So as long as it visually spinning okay and does change...
Try checking all 4 readings with Everest 5+ e.g. memory/ambient/diode/gpu should be idling within 5C of 50/50/60/50 at habitable room temperature/goodish airflow. Report any aberrations.
As far as i know only GPU diode reading is affecting fan speed on this card so as long as you have a good...
Why not simply to pin mod it to 3.0 - very easy, all at stock, power saving and speedstep are also stay on, just 333 instead of 266 fsb forced. i've foil[ed] plenty of 420 dells with q6600s in their days (it was a local craze a couple of years back when these went for £600 with 22" monitors)...
You do not have to have bezeless displays to combine them into x3 setups just modified side bezels to make the middle unit, which working surface would be slightly in front of other two appear connecting seamlessly with other two (done by rotating x1 unit 180). Requires left/right sides of a...
[Jumps on the already jam-packed boat]
Have Q6600+8800GTX 3.2/Ultra speeds on one of the very first x38 boards since Autumn 2007 only added ram/changed system & storage hdds. Still handles every game perfectly at full settings @ 1600x1200 on Dell 2007FP S-IPS.
Itching to upgrade but...
Thanks for your replies.
No i did not confuse the noise with HDDs – it definitely comes from the PSU and disconnecting HDDs does not change it. It also happens a wee bit later after HDD heads are parked. I say it is capacitors because it cannot be any heat-related noise so early after...
Does it indicates problem with PSU?
430W 80% Antec runs Q6600@3 with speed step on, 4 sticks of ram, 8800GTX @ stock, 3 HDDs, optical and 3 fat 120x38 pwm .55A server-type fans one of those runs from GTX. Calculator shows 430W is more than enough but pc sometimes (once every 10 times or so...
When Vista just came out it was indeed too many hoops to jump trough to make it work properly (not impossible though but simply resource ineffective considering present working XP) and obviously offered no immediate advantage. Microsoft spent bns to hype it and still was forced to offer XP...
I am replacing very noisy Delta fans with PWM Kamas in an out-of-warranty Dimension 9200 (XPS 410) and need to be certain of what wires are what on that cd-audio-type connectors. Mainly i do not want to mess up +12. I believe Dell has misplaced the standard [G,+12,RPM,PWM] and my guess is the...