Allegedly, on or about 05 November 2013, Jonathan Ryshpan sent:
My current card is a GeForce 8400GS, with which I replaced
GeForce 9500GT when its fan burned out. As I remember it, the GeForce
9500GT had less trouble with Firefox, but there have been many changes
to other software
Perhaps your easiest solution, then, is to replace the fan.
I've got a donated graphics card which had a seized fan. So, it's
graphics operations got slower and slower until the original owner
didn't like it anymore (the card slows itself down, to avoid cooking
itself).
I just aimed a case fan across the whole card, cooling the whole card
better than the original fan which only cooled one heatsink.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.