Sapphire 6870 strange clicking sound

josephtdavey

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Jan 24, 2011
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I bought an Sapphire ATI Radeon 6870 and got it in the mail today. I installed my card successfully and booted up my computer, then got the drivers. I started gaming immediately and about 2 minutes in, I heard my video card clicking really really loud. I think it's the fan, but I've found no way to get rid of the noise. It only happens when I'm getting somewhere graphically intense in my game, so I think it's when the fan speed picks up. Normally i would just turn up the speakers, but this clicking is REALLY loud. Any suggestions?
 

skaz

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First make sure your cable management is tight. Sometimes when laying your computer sideways to install hardware cables can get a little loose. And as soon as you turn that sucker upright they can fall into the weirdest places. Like a fan. I had that happen when installing a new CPU. The heat-sink's fan cable just kept slighting touching the fan blades when the computer was in the upright position. Freaked me out when I booted it up and heard that clicked clack a rack sound.

If that's not it then it might be the fan itself. If you narrow it down to a fan on your graphics card I would get a RMA.