My graphics card sounds like a jet engine
It's Christmas and I finally have time to play some games I turn on Age of Empires and every 3 seconds the fan gets louder and louder, until it sounds like a jet engine that I can hear from the room next to mine. It didn't used to be like this. I vacuumed the dust out from inside the computer but it's still as loud, though a bit less when the cover is off. When I turn the game off, the fan gets quieter and quieter until it dies into the normal computer noise.
I've got an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT that came with my Dell XPS 420 I bought Feb 2008. I only got the warranty for 1 year from Dell but because I bought it with my Visa Card, Visa automatically extends the warranty by 1 year. So right now it's still under Visa warranty.
I've searched Google and it seems people have been taking the fan apart and putting a bit of lube on it to stop the noise. I don't really want to be taking apart the card.
Should I just phone up Visa and say my graphics card is broken so they pay me for a new one?
I've got an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT that came with my Dell XPS 420 I bought Feb 2008. I only got the warranty for 1 year from Dell but because I bought it with my Visa Card, Visa automatically extends the warranty by 1 year. So right now it's still under Visa warranty.
I've searched Google and it seems people have been taking the fan apart and putting a bit of lube on it to stop the noise. I don't really want to be taking apart the card.
Should I just phone up Visa and say my graphics card is broken so they pay me for a new one?