- May 13, 2016
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Hey everyone. So,
in the past few weeks i've noticed my CPU fan has been spinning a little faster than usual and the temps have overall gottne higher. Not a big deal, i took cpu & fan off, and got a bunch of dust out of the heatsink and carefully cleaned the actual fan, then, i cleaned heatsink and cpu from the old thermal paste and put everything back together. Everything is technically fine, the temperatures are excellent with the new paste (MUCH better than before) because i also spreaded it evenly with a credit card so that i wouldn't have to take it off again in case it didn't spread with the pressure from the heatsink. So, i turn on the pc, everything is good, temperatures are good during stress tests but i noticed one issue; when the fan is spinning at a specific speed (i would say around 30 to 50%) it makes a very high frequency whine, and it is so high pitched that i can even hear it through my headpones with loud music playing. If the fan speed goes below or above this speed it stops making this sound, but still, it is quite annoying and it's not probably not a good thing, even though the fan and cpu themselves seem to be fine. I've mounted plenty of stock intel fans in the past 2-3 years but this is the first time this happens. Perhaps (even though it's very unlikely), there might be a tiny cat hair stuck in there and it hitting the fan makes that noise?
There proably no point in sharing this detail but since i know it i might as well, the sound is about 7500hz, so yeah, it's pretty annoying.
Thanks in advance.
in the past few weeks i've noticed my CPU fan has been spinning a little faster than usual and the temps have overall gottne higher. Not a big deal, i took cpu & fan off, and got a bunch of dust out of the heatsink and carefully cleaned the actual fan, then, i cleaned heatsink and cpu from the old thermal paste and put everything back together. Everything is technically fine, the temperatures are excellent with the new paste (MUCH better than before) because i also spreaded it evenly with a credit card so that i wouldn't have to take it off again in case it didn't spread with the pressure from the heatsink. So, i turn on the pc, everything is good, temperatures are good during stress tests but i noticed one issue; when the fan is spinning at a specific speed (i would say around 30 to 50%) it makes a very high frequency whine, and it is so high pitched that i can even hear it through my headpones with loud music playing. If the fan speed goes below or above this speed it stops making this sound, but still, it is quite annoying and it's not probably not a good thing, even though the fan and cpu themselves seem to be fine. I've mounted plenty of stock intel fans in the past 2-3 years but this is the first time this happens. Perhaps (even though it's very unlikely), there might be a tiny cat hair stuck in there and it hitting the fan makes that noise?
There proably no point in sharing this detail but since i know it i might as well, the sound is about 7500hz, so yeah, it's pretty annoying.
Thanks in advance.
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