- Jun 27, 2014
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Hello TH community, I recently built a new rig. My graphics card is the Radeon Sapphire Dual-x R9 280. It has ran perfectly aside from one small hiccup- my graphics card fans make a light clicking noise. Apparently this model series is notorious for this. It is very likely the fans lightly scraping the heatsink or fan cover. It really isn't that noticeable with headphones on. This does not seem to affect cooling, as my GPU runs at about 51 degrees C when running skyrim on max settings for 2 hours. The clicking noise also does not increase or decrease with the load. I tried juxtaposing the orientation of my case, but that did not help. I shined a flashlight between the blades, and I don't see any wires or coverings in the path of the fan blades. I am not going to RMA this GPU because apparently with this particular model, Radeon sends back refurbished ones that have even worse issues. I also do not want to open the GPU up and oil/try to fix the fans, because in all likelihood I am going to exacerbate the issue even more- as many people have tried fixing this issue only to make it worse. All I need to know is if this graphics card or one of its fans will completely die out on me in under a 2 year span due to this light, seemingly innocuous clicking noise. In the event of this I will probably just either get a new card or send the old one to a computer shop for repair (I am not doing this now because the price tag for said shop is ridiculous).
Here is a soundfile of the clicking noise, just so you can get a general idea of what it sounds like.
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Here is a soundfile of the clicking noise, just so you can get a general idea of what it sounds like.
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