Fan issue?

[Vectraat]

So, I had been playing Classic World of Warcraft pretty often over the past year and a half. Logged in yesterday after a month and a half of inactivity and noticed what appears to be a front case fan revving up, going quiet then revving up again and this happens often! I'd assume this means that one of the fans is shot and should be replaced? I haven't yet tried out any other games in an attempt to reproduce this issue, but I imagine when my PC is under heavy load (gaming) that for whatever reason It's likely this fan will rev up. I do not notice this behavior at all when I'm outside of the game doing whatever. I've attached a video so you can hear the revving behavior twice. Thoughts?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XBtpAwifey8G-v5fLbQss1czPALeaYxM/view?usp=sharing

[OfficialTechSpace]

Check your temperatures. Fans automatically adjust their RPM to counter the heat that your system is generating.

Use this: HWiNFO64

[Vectraat]

12 minutes ago, OfficialTechSpace said:

Check your temperatures. Fans automatically adjust their RPM to counter the heat that your system is generating.

Use this: HWiNFO64

Is this what you're looking for?

 

[OfficialTechSpace]

1 minute ago, Vectraat said:

Is this what you're looking for?

 

Sorry, I should've been more specific. When you launch HWiNFO64, make sure this is what's selected. The other one just shows us your systems specs 

[Vectraat]

5 minutes ago, OfficialTechSpace said:

Sorry, I should've been more specific. When you launch HWiNFO64, make sure this is what's selected. The other one just shows us your systems specs 

Didn't have the game open very long. Tabbed and took a screen shot of HWiNFO when I noticed the fan noise.  
 

[bmx6454]

6 minutes ago, Vectraat said:

Didn't have the game open very long. Tabbed and took a screen shot of HWiNFO when I noticed the fan noise. 

temps look good, but if you could post a pic of the motherboard temps as well, that may help. it may be going off of a mobo temp sensor.

[OfficialTechSpace]

Welp, as far as I can tell, your thermals on the CPU seem to be perfectly fine. 

It peaked at 46°C after you ran the game, which is actually very good.

4 minutes ago, bmx6454 said:

post a pic of the motherboard temps as well, that may help. it may be going off of a mobo temp sensor.

I agree with this. As far as I can tell, everything else is fine. This might help. 

[Heliian]

Could be a bad fan, could be your psu.  What are the specs? 

[Vectraat]

1 minute ago, bmx6454 said:

temps look good, but if you could post a pic of the motherboard temps as well, that may help. it may be going off of a mobo temp sensor.

MB Temps on the right. 

[Vectraat]

3 minutes ago, Heliian said:

Could be a bad fan, could be your psu.  What are the specs? 

Hardware: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/hJZK6s
 

[Vectraat]

So, what do you guys think the problem is? Should I just hit up Fractal Design for a new fan? If it was a fan issue, wouldn't it be present outside of gaming as well? 

[bmx6454]

39 minutes ago, Vectraat said:

MB Temps on the right. 

they look good as well. you might want to set a custom fan curve to see if you can get the fan running how you want. there are plenty of programs that can be used for that, or your bios probably has the ability to do a curve as well. msi afterburner can do fan curves, but imo bios is better. if it still acts up after setting a custom curve, then it is probably faulty.

[Vectraat]

Just now, bmx6454 said:

they look good as well. you might want to set a custom fan curve to see if you can get the fan running how you want. there are plenty of programs that can be used for that, or your bios probably has the ability to do a curve as well. msi afterburner can do fan curves, but imo bios is better. if it still acts up after setting a custom curve, then it is probably faulty.

Hmm, not sure how comfortable I'd feel about doing that. By "custom fan curve" you're talking about trying to get the fan to throttle down or something? 

[bmx6454]

13 minutes ago, Vectraat said:

Hmm, not sure how comfortable I'd feel about doing that. By "custom fan curve" you're talking about trying to get the fan to throttle down or something? 

yes, you would be adjusting what rpm each fan(or all of them) will be at depending on what temperature the given sensor is reading. it isn't something i would consider risky,  worst case scenario you can always clear the cmos to undo the custom curve, which you shouldn't have to do. no warranties are voided by doing this either. not 100% sure which bios you have, but it should look something like this:

 

there are a million videos that can be found on youtube to walk you through it as well.

 

edit: should mention that this can require a fair amount of patience as it may take a number of tries to get it fine tuned how you want it, but once it's set, your good to go.