Graphic card fans making weird noise. Then stopped working.

[meat_loaf]

Hi,

I have Asus R9 270 (dual fan type), and this morning when I turn on the computer, my graphics card fan was making a huge noise (which was running fine yesterday).

I took the card apart, checked each one. One fan was spinning smoothly, but the other one felt like the motor was resisting against the spinning motion. I got rid of any dust and reseated the card and try again.

After the turning on the computer, one fan spun, but stopped after a while, the latter fan (above) just didn't work at all. I manually gave it a push to see if the motor would spin, it tried but was making a bad static noise. The temp was rising just on idle screen.

I manually had to force MSI afterburner to fan 100% speed, so that the one that was working, continued to spin, otherwise it would just stop.

Any thoughts? Sign of dying fan motors?

 

[Mark RM]

yep worn out fans. if you cross reference the exact card model number you might be able to get the fans cheap enough. But really if you sold it as working with problems to someone who had a good cooler for it and bought something else you might come out ahead.

 

[bishopi5]

Ull be able to find fans for cheap, its asus, and fans die often

 

[meat_loaf]

yep worn out fans. if you cross reference the exact card model number you might be able to get the fans cheap enough. But really if you sold it as working with problems to someone who had a good cooler for it and bought something else you might come out ahead.

I could on ebay. But the market for R9 270s are kinda low when its quite old. Guess its time to invest in a new card.

 

[meat_loaf]

Ull be able to find fans for cheap, its asus, and fans die often

Most of the time the used parts will mainly be on ebay, not many local computer shops carry spare R9 270 fans from asus. I definitely do not want a replacement part from ebay, since most of it are left overs from bitcoin mining and many of those miner cards have fan problems as well.