On 4/15/25 09:48, Jean-François Bachelet wrote:
Hello Eben :) Le 13/04/2025 à 22:15, Eben King a écrit :I have a video card which has fans (GTX 970) on Debian Bookworm (12.10). Unfortunately the card is broken in such a way that the fans almost never work, and I can't afford to replace it with one that isn't broken. Changing the GPU's internal clocks has little to no effect on temperature (or performance, oddly enough), but changing the CPU clock speed does. So I wrote a script that modifies that for me automatically based on the GPU temperature, and that usually works. Not always though. I have 2-4 case fans (I forget exactly). Is there a way to change their speed? Maybe that'd be enough. Thanks.when you say 'broken' is it the card fan control or the fans itselves that are deads ?
It's something in the software. The fans spin normally by finger, and once or twice they've operated. Very rarely though.
because, if you are good at soldering or know someone that does, you can just disconnect the fans from the graphic card, and -possibly via an adaptator or soldering- connect these card fans directly to a +5 or +12v line so it are always running, your graphic card will be happier than with only the case fans doing the airflow... at lieast that is what I will do :)
If this decides to stop working one day, I will definitely go for a hardware mod like that.