So recently I noticed my ASUS GTX 970 STRIX was being loud so I poked my head around in my case and I noticed my outer-most fan was not spinning, but the fan closest to the card's I/O was. I was able to temporarily fix this by taking the card out of the PCIe slot and putting it back in, but that only lasted about 10 minutes. Sort of poking the fan to give it some help to spin up didn't help either. My guess is the fan isn't getting power or something along those lines, but I'm not sure. This card is 9 months old BTW.