PC Boots up, Works normally but the CPU Fan is acting wierd

kanthesharvaj

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Basically I've got this 4 year old pc and one day (2 days ago) its CPU fan started wavering (as in it was up one moment but once i started playing a game say, overwatch, it will cut off and go into low frequency mode) and, on downloading speedfan and testing ive got atleast 60 C on the processor temp which rises to about 65ish now this problem wasn't faced before until 2 days ago when i wasn't doing anything on the computer the fan just died and it was ghastly silent until i thought to look into the problem
Pc specs:

AMD fx 8350 4Ghz
8GB DDR3 RAM
AMD RadeonHD 6670
Gigabyte mobo (not sure which one)
600W Corsair PSU

Just some info that it was working fine until that day
 

Nick501

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I would go ahead and purchase a new fan, they're not extremely expensive and it will be relatively simple to install, just make sure you clean off the old thermal paste with rubbing alcohol and a clean cloth before putting on the new paste and fan and you'll be back in business.
 

kanthesharvaj

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I tried Popping out the cpu cooler and the cpu came out with it so the thermal paste had solidified I took care of it and put a new paste on it and put on the fan but it still persists so I think I will consider buying a new fan
 

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