Is this normal?

[avantlyfe]

I tried a search before posting, mostly because my attempt at video is embarrassing. Regardless, there were plenty of cases that talked about fan issues but none seemed to cover what I noticed here. 

 

I only noticed this happening as my fans were rubbing on my power cable and made an audible click. I looked down to see both fans cycling like this, where they would attempt to spin, make roughly 2-3revolutions and come to a stop that almost resembled a wobble (likely just due to magnets in the motor, but I'm speculating). It is a new to me, but used card. Evga 1060 6gb ssc. 

 

Is this a typical behavior, sign of a failure, or all together just a new oddity? 

 

T.I.A for any info, and sorry for the truly potato quality video. 

[KoeppColto024470]

It's quite possible since you claim its used that it could be failing and that's why the person was selling it. Personally I never buy anything used unless I absolutely have too cause if that card is in fact failing your stuck with it now can't send it back to manufacturer to RMA and I doubt the seller will want it back if you got it off E-Bay. That or when the cables were dragging on the fans or whatever it damaged them

 

 

[MedicTim78]

Is the video card under load, like playing a game or rendering video when it does that?

[IkeaGnome]

That GPU has a silent fan mode. Fans will stay off until around 60 or 65C. What were your temps?

You can also use MSI afterburner to manually set fan speeds. If you set the fan speed with that do they still act weird? 

My guess would be that the GPU was under enough load to be going back and forth around the temperature the fans are supposed to kick on. Get hot, kick on, cool down, kick off etc. 

[avantlyfe]

The computer has no cpu currently and it was a simple power cycle to verify it even lit up. So I couldnt confirm load or really anything, and will find more as other parts arrive.