Are my fans just junk? Or did I buy a bad card?

[Anthony_F_Thompson]

Since a month after a bought my GTX 970 G1 Gaming OC Edition from Gigabyte off of Newegg for some reason it has been bugged in the fan settings. I know its way too late to complain since I got it in 2014 but I'm really curious now. It only happens when it has drivers to run on. Other than that, no drivers, no 100% fan speed, no noise but also not good for quality and performance, obviously.

I have tried several solutions like clean operating system, windows 8 - 10. I have installed a new motherboard, CPU, SSD, memory, case, case fans, CPU cooler.. literally every thing has been replaced since I bought this card. Nothing literally solves it. Even leaving it out of the computer for a good while or flashing the bios. Overclocking software doesn't help, either. I've taken it apart several times and unplugged, re plugged, even arranged the plugs into different plugs.

I've adjusted to the noise and have realized its killed my fans over time. It no longer runs below 30C on idle like it used to. Nope, it just sits there at 100% @ 30 something C when it could be half that speed and at least 25C doing nothing. Heck, when I turn my computer off I have to take my case window off just to give the GPUs 3rd (The one near the 8pin/6pin connectors) fan a nudge just so it would start spinning.

Such a weird little problem.

Just give it to me straight doc, are my fans shit?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684

 

[Logan finch]

Fairly old GPU, but if you are using GPU tweak 2 I some times have the same problem, and I have an RX 480 red devil 8gb

 

[jaslion]

Since a month after a bought my GTX 970 G1 Gaming OC Edition from Gigabyte off of Newegg for some reason it has been bugged in the fan settings. I know its way too late to complain since I got it in 2014 but I'm really curious now. It only happens when it has drivers to run on. Other than that, no drivers, no 100% fan speed, no noise but also not good for quality and performance, obviously.

I have tried several solutions like clean operating system, windows 8 - 10. I have installed a new motherboard, CPU, SSD, memory, case, case fans, CPU cooler.. literally every thing has been replaced since I bought this card. Nothing literally solves it. Even leaving it out of the computer for a good while or flashing the bios. Overclocking software doesn't help, either. I've taken it apart several times and unplugged, re plugged, even arranged the plugs into different plugs.

I've adjusted to the noise and have realized its killed my fans over time. It no longer runs below 30C on idle like it used to. Nope, it just sits there at 100% @ 30 something C when it could be half that speed and at least 25C doing nothing. Heck, when I turn my computer off I have to take my case window off just to give the GPUs 3rd (The one near the 8pin/6pin connectors) fan a nudge just so it would start spinning.

Such a weird little problem.

Just give it to me straight doc, are my fans shit?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684

If you need to manually try and start a fan by poking it then I advice you do a rma on that card. It's a good card but probably has some bad fans / bad controller.

 

[Anthony_F_Thompson]

Since a month after a bought my GTX 970 G1 Gaming OC Edition from Gigabyte off of Newegg for some reason it has been bugged in the fan settings. I know its way too late to complain since I got it in 2014 but I'm really curious now. It only happens when it has drivers to run on. Other than that, no drivers, no 100% fan speed, no noise but also not good for quality and performance, obviously.

I have tried several solutions like clean operating system, windows 8 - 10. I have installed a new motherboard, CPU, SSD, memory, case, case fans, CPU cooler.. literally every thing has been replaced since I bought this card. Nothing literally solves it. Even leaving it out of the computer for a good while or flashing the bios. Overclocking software doesn't help, either. I've taken it apart several times and unplugged, re plugged, even arranged the plugs into different plugs.

I've adjusted to the noise and have realized its killed my fans over time. It no longer runs below 30C on idle like it used to. Nope, it just sits there at 100% @ 30 something C when it could be half that speed and at least 25C doing nothing. Heck, when I turn my computer off I have to take my case window off just to give the GPUs 3rd (The one near the 8pin/6pin connectors) fan a nudge just so it would start spinning.

Such a weird little problem.

Just give it to me straight doc, are my fans shit?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684

If you need to manually try and start a fan by poking it then I advice you do a rma on that card. It's a good card but probably has some bad fans / bad controller.

That's what I was thinking too. I wonder what could have caused it though. Maybe it was a power outage, or possible a bad surge just popped and the fans hardware didn't like that. You can't even get an RPM read on them.