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Yes it vibrates the card trying to move the fan when it starts and stops. I've taken the card out to inspect it during the cleaning process thinking it was a dust issue. I said this in the OP. No change in results. Ouch that option doesnt sound very pleasing currently. If that is really the case of the card's issue and not something I can actually try to do I'll consider it.

Yes I have, I had to remove the GPU from the tower for cleaning, thinking it was a dust issue. I replugged it all back in and checked everything when I was done. Problem still stuck around.

I've been scouring the internet for other people with the same issue as mine but have come with little to no results on what is actually going on here. My specs: Intel Core i7 8700 ASUS Prime B360M-K Motherboard ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 Dual Fan 8GB Team T-Force Delta RGB 2400MHz 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 Black be quiet! Pure Power 10 600W Power Supply I have a DUAL-RTX2070-8G and have been using it since January last year. About early this year(2020), I noticed that the fans had started to grind. Paying no attention to this at first thinking it'd just go away on its own or it was a feature of RTX cards I just let it be. Fast forward a month later and the grinding got worse. I let it just do this because the last time it happened it went away on its own after a day. However, this time it kept going and one of the nights I noticed my room smelled like burnt plastic. In a panic I shut my system off, the problem seem to have disappeared the next day. 3 days ago, the problem has once again come back. Since the problem came up a few months back I've been trying to wrap my head around what is going on. I came to the conclusion after a lot of testing that one of the fans was causing the grinding and odd behavior. I installed, MSI Afterburner, GPU Tweak, etc to adjust the fan curves to try to stabilize whatever was happening. None of these programs could even affect the fan curve on either of my fans. I would set it so the fans would start running at say, 45 degrees celsius. Instead it would start at the factory standard of 55 degrees. This happened across all the GPU tuning programs. Here's some pics of the general behaviour of the fans from GPU Tweak II. You can see that one of the fan runs as intended and the other just shuts itself on and off at random grinding the whole time. At the start of a session: An hour or so into a session: What I noticed that even if its coming off and on, its trying to meet the same fan speed % as the other fan, following the same curve but the RPM just isnt keeping up. I tried rolling back my drivers and looking up more stable nvidia drivers thinking that was the main cause, still the problem stayed. I've went through over 20+ drivers with no change, with DDU as well. I took the time to remove the GPU from the tower as well to clean it of dust and such. Even went so far as to try to oil the one fan that was causing troubles. I ended up learning that the fan could not be removed, neither was there the small hole that lets me oil the bearings. The problem persisted. Before I submit an RMA, am I missing anything here? Has someone else come across this issue and has solved it somehow? I read some comment somewhere else that said 650W PSU is the minimum for 2070? Could that be the issue? But I went 12 months with no problems. The card runs fine, no artifacts, no hitches, no nothing. My only issue is the fan, it grinds, on and off when under load at random. Sometimes I would run a certain program, the fans kick in and both fans would run just fine for about 2-3 hours. Closing the program and going to start another and the grinding fan kicks in about an hour in, completely shuts off then comes on and off at random. I'd go to bed, wake up and the problem would disappear and pop up again some other time during the week. I just need to know if there's something I could do before sending my GPU off. The current situation in Melbourne, Australia has their delivery services completely swamped and Im looking at at least a 2-3 week period of no GPU. Plus my line of work requires a GPU to even function properly.

Great! Will get round to getting this now. Thanks for the help!

Much appreciated! That looks almost similar to the same motherboard layout I have! What im worried about the most is that little part here: That would get in the way of the pump but from the looks of it you turned the pump around 90 degrees so it avoids it. Didn't even know that was possible! Also, I noticed from reviews online that people arent sure which direction should the fan face. Should it be sucking air into the unit or blowing air out of it?

Thank you for the info! I just need to know these things because uncertainty with a new system is terrifying. Im looking to get a Corsair - H60 (2018) 57.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler, will it reduce temps enough to make a difference? I've never used a liquid cooler before. I'm also worried that the part that is suppose to attach to the CPU itself would nudge my RAM sticks. As it can be seen pretty close to the CPU itself in the pic above.

What are your normal gaming temps? Cause I hit high 90s in most games I've tested so far that have released in the last 2 years.

I have 52 degrees on idle and 90-100 c on load Here are my temps after checking the thermal paste and resitting the heatsink. It takes about 3-4 minutes to hit 100 degrees stresstesting on Prime95 No changes whatsoever.

Do you have a recommendation for a better cooler? Because I did not realize how small this motherboard was until I got it(was in a rush and didnt have enough time) the stock cooler just barely touches the ram sticks to the right of it. So Im worried about aftermarket coolers that would be too big to fit in.

To those that requested the pic I made sure the heatsink was tightly attached first and noticed that the cable management from whoever did it slotted in wires inbetween the pegs and the heatsink for some reason. Not sure if that was intended. Will plug it back in and try again.

I dont really have extra thermal paste on hand with me now but I can confirm that the CPU fan is spinning. I can hear it rev up whenever its underload and visibly see it.

Hey everyone, Made an account just to ask this because the builders I bought this from tried to avoid my questions. I recently just purchased a new RIG that was prebuilt because of time constraints on building a new one from scratch. Here are the specs: Intel Core i7 8700 [Stock cooler no aftermarket cooler] ASUS Prime B360M-K Motherboard ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 Dual Fan 8GB Team T-Force Delta RGB 2400MHz 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 Black be quiet! Pure Power 10 600W Power Supply This is more of a concern for the temps of the CPU itself, underload it easily reaches 100 degrees celsius over a 5 minute period and it idles around 52 degrees celsius (Its currently summer in Australia and we've been hitting 40 degrees average in ambient temperature). I tried asking the builders if this was safe(for being obviously worried for the long term health of the CPU) and they said that the i7 8700 was built for these temperatures and its fine. Me, having some doubts started looking into undervolting it to try lowering some temperatures and noticed in the bios that Im already set at a voltage of 0.944 V. Slowly but surely I was lowering the voltage by 0.025- and the temperatures have been slowly reducing as well but after 0.075- my system had started to blue screen alot which I assume is from instability. So what Im asking is: 1. Is 0.944 V actually normal? I assume this was set by the builders themselves as I've never seen any of these values anywhere else on the net. HWinfo however has these values Im not sure are from where: 2. I see lots of others with i7 8700 stock coolers reach temps of 80 average on stock cooling at 1.2V(advice from others). If Im already at 100 degrees at 0.944V is something wrong? Side note: I havent noticed any performance loss yet while doing work or gaming. They all still feel very solid. This is just a concern for the lifespan of the chip.