It's the first one on that list: Graphics Processing Unit. It does the 2D and 3D accelerated graphics.
BTW, one thing you might try before replacing the fan: Take a can of dust-off or equivalent and blow it into all the fan vents so it clears out the dust and spins up the fan. Sometimes it's just a dust buildup that causes noise like this. This cleaning is a good bit of preventative maintenance to do once in a while. -Mike On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you George, Phil and Stuart for your suggestion and encouragement. > I will order the fan now. One question I have, though, what is a GPU? > I looked the term up in the <www.acronymfinder.com>, but I could not > select one (positively ) from the options. > > Thanks again, Gentlemen, > Zoltan > > Zoltan Bokeny > bokeny at earthlink dot net > Fayetteville, North Carolina > > I will not shop at "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. of China"! > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
