Story is, my stock AMD CPU fan died on my good old Athlon 64 4000, so I replaced the entire with some 15 bucks cheap CPU heatsink/Fan, which was stated to be compatible with the Athlon 64 series.
However, whenever I boot, I would get the message "Warning, CPU Fan Fail or Speed Too Low, Press F1 to bypass." So I do, and it's a little annoying but PC works fine once booted, even if left on for 2-3 days.
However, whenever I try to play any sort of graphic intensive games, such as Oblivion or Fable, everything would work fine for maybe 15 minutes or so, and then my sound would get massively distorted. This starts around the 15 minute mark, and the distortion gets progressively worse until all sound effects become distorted rumbles.
I have no idea what causes this, I checked the temperatures on the GFX card and CPU under load, both seems pretty normal. Is this a problem caused by the CPU fan? Or maybe my video card is dying? Thanks in advance for replies.
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