Video Card Grinding?

Impulse Fire911 said:

Hello, now before anyone posts,
"oh, the ball bearing is broken" or w.e
hear me out
as we all know, its cold outside and when i came home today to turn on my pc, the card started to grind for no reason. i restarted and same thing. i noticed it was around 30C on the card, and i started up sc2 to see if it still worked.
i noticed, as the gpu got hotter and hotter, the less sound it made. at about 41C it completely stopped making any noise. i then turned off sc2 and still no noise. ive had this happen before. my question is. could the metal inside the card be contracting that much, that the fan actually comes in contact with it? i swear, the hotter it got, the less noise it made and vice versa.
anyone familiar with this behaviour?

Very weird indeed mate.

I've heard of cards suffering from whining capacitors and such (only happening when the card is put under extreme stress or when pushing VERY high frames per second [200 plus]).

Have you tried messing around with a fan profile? Like putting it all the way up to 100%? to see if the grinding gets worse or....

Impulse Fire911 said:

yes, i have. when it is grinding if you turn the fan up it doesnt do much, just grinds louder. however the card stops grinding as soon as it reaches above 40C. i never ever ever up the fan speed to more than 30% when im playing a game, and it gets up to 60C max even then. i dont play games over 200fps haha, more like 60

So the grinding stops completely as soon as the card reaches 40c?

I don't know what to tell you mate.

This is the 1st time I've heard of such problem.

The one thing I'd do is, remove the fan completely to see what's up.

My Radeon 4890 has done it for almost two years now. Only noticeable in winter.
With my card, it's the fan itself, internally, it doesn't like the cold, as soon as it warms up, no issues.

I wouldn't worry about it, especially if you have a warranty. Although I'd have a look at it.