1060 Rattle (Started Recently!)

[HeyCya]

Hi all, 

 

I own a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE OC 6GB card, which I bought back in 2016, and I've been using for gaming ever since. Recently, a rattle has been audible at around 60 degrees, at around 70% fan speed.

 

I put my finger on each fan to see if I could stop the sound, and I'm quite sure it's the right fan rattling.

 

Here's a YouTube clip I uploaded of the sound: 

 

 

If you could help me find a solution to this that would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks!

[cacoe]

I've heard of some fan cables coming lose over time so the internal cable powering the fan on the card could be brushing against the fan.

 

More likely the bearing is going and it's borked.

[Kon-Tiki]

Rattling fans are hard to fix in my experience. If it isn't the cable then my bet would also be the bearings, as @cacoe suggested. As a temporary fix, if the rattle only occurs at certain fan speeds, you could try manually adjusting the fan curve so that the fan spins a bit faster or slower, hopefully eliminating the problem.

Have you looked for replacement fans already? Perhaps you can find one that fits or that you can adapt accordingly.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Another temp fix, take off the rattling fan and use some lubricant, i used gp9 lubricant on my psu and it stopped rattling

 

You can prob use wd40

[Levent]

14 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

You can prob use wd40

You should not use WD40 as lubricant. WD40 can be used as a short term lubricant (for example when fitting tight rubber components to a metal pipe) but WD40 is not a long term solution. Correct lubricant is lithium grease. Fan grease will dry out and leak out over time and properly re greasing the bearings (or completely replacing them) is possible but it's not easy and OP will risk breaking the fan completely. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Just now, Levent said:

You should not use WD40 as lubricant. WD40 can be used as a short term lubricant (for example when fitting tight rubber components to a metal pipe) but WD40 is not a long term solution. Correct lubricant is lithium grease. Fan grease will dry out and leak out over time and properly re greasing the bearings (or completely replacing them) is possible but it's not easy and you OP will risk breaking the fan completely. 

What about gp9?