fan making grinding noise

bnn

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Hi

Ever since i got my 280x Toxic the far left fan has been making a grinding noise randomly a few times but the last few days it's been happening more, i have tried taking the GPU out and cleaned it and checked it anything was broken or anything, but it spins fine and looks like the others, so what can cause this?

i've been thinking of RMA'ing it, but does it do any harm to GPU or is it just really annoying listening to? i've never tried RMA'ing before so don't know how long i'll have to be without a GPU hehe
 
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Yeah, sounds like that fan will eventually die, or become so slow that it won't be effectively cooling. My suggestion is RMA it when it is most convenient for your schedule.

Kekoh

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Yeah, sounds like that fan will eventually die, or become so slow that it won't be effectively cooling. My suggestion is RMA it when it is most convenient for your schedule.
 
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