Palit RTX 5080 fans grinding. Would you consider this loud?

[Grayblade]

Hi! Got myself Palit RTX 5080 GamingPro as birthday gift. Out of the box these fans were doing weird grinding sound. Unfortunately in my country there is no return policy so I'm stuck with this card.

I'm going to try RMA it next week and hope for the best. I was told by the vendor that many cards come deemed as normal operation sounds. So I'm bit worried.

 

Would greasing/oiling these fans help if RMA deems them as normal?
These are double ball bearing fans.

 

Would you consider this loud?

 

[Hinjima]

11 minutes ago, Grayblade said:

Hi! Got myself Palit RTX 5080 GamingPro as birthday gift. Out of the box these fans were doing weird grinding sound. Unfortunately in my country there is no return policy so I'm stuck with this card.

I'm going to try RMA it next week and hope for the best. I was told by the vendor that many cards come deemed as normal operation sounds. So I'm bit worried.

 

Would greasing/oiling these fans help if RMA deems them as normal?
These are double ball bearing fans.

 

Would you consider this loud?

 

This is not acceptable.  Fans should not be making this kind of noise.

Yes, its loud.  

[BowlOfSomething]

This doesn't sound alright to me. You can stop the fans one by one to see if which one of them has a faulty bearing.

I would RMA the card if you can; if you can't, you can usually find replacement fans online for fairly cheap if you feel confident enough to repair it.

[leclod]

In case you don't rma the card.

Find out which fan makes the noise by tuning the curves in Afterburner or Fan Control.

Tune the curves to use less the faulty fan.

Also consider undervolting as it will lower all fan speeds and it's easy.

Edited June 21 by leclod

[KidKid]

56 minutes ago, Grayblade said:

Hi! Got myself Palit RTX 5080 GamingPro as birthday gift. Out of the box these fans were doing weird grinding sound. Unfortunately in my country there is no return policy so I'm stuck with this card.

I'm going to try RMA it next week and hope for the best. I was told by the vendor that many cards come deemed as normal operation sounds. So I'm bit worried.

 

Would greasing/oiling these fans help if RMA deems them as normal?
These are double ball bearing fans.

 

Would you consider this loud?

 

Is there anything obstructing the fan's movement? Is ir properly greased?

[xAcid9]

1 hour ago, Grayblade said:

What grinding noise? Timestamp?

[leclod]

32 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

What grinding noise? Timestamp?

0:13 you see the fans (and the noise) starting.

But it's true, difficult to judge not knowing rpm...

Edited June 21 by leclod

[Grayblade]

4 hours ago, leclod said:

In case you don't rma the card.

Find out which fan makes the noise by tuning the curves in Afterburner or Fan Control.

Tune the curves to use less the faulty fan.

Also consider undervolting as it will lower all fan speeds and it's easy.

I have undervolted the card to 0.875mV@2800MHz.
Fans start around 1200rmp and then fan speed goes up to 1400 rpm.

I'll try RMA the card next week.

3 hours ago, xAcid9 said:

What grinding noise? Timestamp?

Fans spin up around 0:12

 

3 hours ago, KidKid said:

Is there anything obstructing the fan's movement? Is ir properly greased?

It's how it came out of the factory. I haven't greased them my self.
Nothing obstructing the fans.

[xAcid9]

17 hours ago, Grayblade said:

Fans spin up around 0:12

Honestly, I can't hear it. Is it the bearing noise? 
Can you identify which fan? Try give it a little tap in the middle when it making that noise.

[KidKid]

17 hours ago, Grayblade said:

I have undervolted the card to 0.875mV@2800MHz.
Fans start around 1200rmp and then fan speed goes up to 1400 rpm.

I'll try RMA the card next week.

Fans spin up around 0:12

 

It's how it came out of the factory. I haven't greased them my self.
Nothing obstructing the fans.

Try to get a refund under the warranty.

[freeagent]

Welcome to double ball life.

 

It is normal. The guys saying RMA are soft haha. Stick to your SFDB.

[jmwhite33]

21 hours ago, KidKid said:

Is there anything obstructing the fan's movement? Is ir properly greased?

 

18 hours ago, Grayblade said:

 I haven't greased them my self.
 

can't really be done easily and trying will probably make things worse. most of these fans bearing hubs are sealed. When they dry out or get gummed up with dust, they just run slow or don't spin-up, rarely will they make noise. The only scenario where I personally have seen fans make grinding noises when failing have been PSU fans.

usually when fans like these makes excessive noise it's because it is either because the blade assembly is mounted on the hub incorrectly and/or it is not balanced properly.

 

[Grayblade]

On 6/22/2025 at 4:42 PM, jmwhite33 said:

 

can't really be done easily and trying will probably make things worse. most of these fans bearing hubs are sealed. When they dry out or get gummed up with dust, they just run slow or don't spin-up, rarely will they make noise. The only scenario where I personally have seen fans make grinding noises when failing have been PSU fans.

usually when fans like these makes excessive noise it's because it is either because the blade assembly is mounted on the hub incorrectly and/or it is not balanced properly.

 

Interesting. I've noticed sometimes it fans do sound like out of balance, it's like fan sound going up and down with same RPM.
Also there are moments where grinding stops and then it comes back again.

On 6/22/2025 at 4:04 PM, KidKid said:

Try to get a refund under the warranty.

For that I have to RMA the card, if repair fails then I can as for refund.

Hope they see fault in the first place.

On 6/22/2025 at 3:33 PM, xAcid9 said:

Honestly, I can't hear it. Is it the bearing noise? 
Can you identify which fan? Try give it a little tap in the middle when it making that noise.

When I listen with speakers I can't hear it too but clearly hear it with headphones.
I'll try to figure out which fan is it.

[Grayblade]

I've tested GPU fans individually and first 2 fans are harsh and noisy and 3rd fan is slightly audible and soft sound.

[DNooby]

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Would you consider this loud?

Yeah I would consider that loud, my GPU even at 100% isn't anywhere near that

It sounds like my 9 year old grimy laptop fan
Since this is a new product, I'd RMA it if I was in your shoes... if it was second hand sure whatever, but it's new...

[starv]

On 6/22/2025 at 4:39 PM, freeagent said:

Welcome to double ball life.

 

It is normal. The guys saying RMA are soft haha. Stick to your SFDB.

Exactly this, unfortunately. This is normal for almost all* recent (40xx, 50xx) Palit & Gainward cards. It's not faulty, it's just how their double ball bearing fans sound. They are supposed to last longer but are also really noisy. You can find a bunch of different vids all sounding exactly the same with some slight variances. This is probably the best one.

 

 

Unfortunately, you can't really do anything about this save for deshrouding the GPU and replacing the fans altogether. 

 

*Gamerock Classic is the exception.

[Poinkachu]

Could just be my "library" of noises is limited, but..

I don't hear grinding type of noise.

I do hear what I call "wind tunnel" noise though.

[starv]

Grinding is just a description. In the video above there is a very distinct difference between Palit and all the other GPUs. (Though Zotac is arguably even worse.)

[freeagent]

1 hour ago, starv said:

Grinding is just a description. In the video above there is a very distinct difference between Palit and all the other GPUs. (Though Zotac is arguably even worse.)

My Zotac can rev to over 3000RPM.. for sure balls haha.

 

Not loud to me, mostly because I focus on case flow.

 

And they never run that high unless I force them to.

[Ralf]

4 hours ago, starv said:

Exactly this, unfortunately. This is normal for almost all* recent (40xx, 50xx) Palit & Gainward cards. It's not faulty, it's just how their double ball bearing fans sound. They are supposed to last longer but are also really noisy. You can find a bunch of different vids all sounding exactly the same with some slight variances. This is probably the best one.

 

 

Unfortunately, you can't really do anything about this save for deshrouding the GPU and replacing the fans altogether. 

 

*Gamerock Classic is the exception.

Not exactly. Gainward, Palit and some Zotac cards use this crap fan, its motor noise nothing to do with bearing.

 

Somehow other manufacturers can use double ball bearing without this noise. Even Arctic or Thermalright double ball bearing case fans don't make this noise.

[starv]

7 minutes ago, Ralf said:

Not exactly. Gainward, Palit and some Zotac cards use this crap fan, its motor noise nothing to do with bearing.

 

Somehow other manufacturers can use double ball bearing without this noise. Even Arctic or Thermalright double ball bearing case fans don't make this noise.

Fair enough, that's the explanation Palit support gave me. It definitely is crap.

[Ralf]

3 hours ago, starv said:

Fair enough, that's the explanation Palit support gave me. It definitely is crap.

After returning four cards(two Gainward and two Palit) I asked Palit with a video of the sound and they said: 

Sometimes the air flow of the fans might cause sound in some specific environments. It's a normal status and won’t cause graphics card errors or shorten its lifetime. Customers can fix it by changing the fan speed or making a custom fan curve by GPU utility (e.g., ThunderMaster).

 

Gainward said:

The 5070Ti Phantom should not have loud noises, depending on the fan curve and usage.

 

4000 series was easy to deshroud, so I could just take off the fans and test it with a 12V power supply, as soon I cut the power the sound disappears.

 

There are people complaining about this annoying sound all over the internet, 4000 series had the same problem and they continued to use the same fan.

[freeagent]

10 hours ago, Ralf said:

Thermalright double ball bearing

Yeah.. they are loud at speed. I have a TY-143. The only current double ball fan they have right now is the B12 Extrem afaik. I don't have any of those though.

[Ralf]

18 hours ago, freeagent said:

Yeah.. they are loud at speed. I have a TY-143. The only current double ball fan they have right now is the B12 Extrem afaik. I don't have any of those though.

Yeah TY-143 max speed is 2500rpm, my TY-141 with 1300rpm  and Arctic F14 PWM PST CO at 1350rpm do not make weird noises like Palit/Gainward and possibly Zotac card that use absolute garbage fans with a certain motor noise. Gamerock/Phantom heatsinks are okayish(stupid shroud blocks air), but that motor noise penetrates every obstacle and it's just there even at 30%.

[Grayblade]

On 6/28/2025 at 12:03 PM, starv said:

Exactly this, unfortunately. This is normal for almost all* recent (40xx, 50xx) Palit & Gainward cards. It's not faulty, it's just how their double ball bearing fans sound. They are supposed to last longer but are also really noisy. You can find a bunch of different vids all sounding exactly the same with some slight variances. This is probably the best one.

 

 

Unfortunately, you can't really do anything about this save for deshrouding the GPU and replacing the fans altogether. 

 

*Gamerock Classic is the exception.

My card sounds close to Zotac Trinity in this video.

Sounds like someone is drilling a hole. I couldn't live with that sound.

On 6/28/2025 at 8:15 PM, Ralf said:

After returning four cards(two Gainward and two Palit) I asked Palit with a video of the sound and they said: 

Sometimes the air flow of the fans might cause sound in some specific environments. It's a normal status and won’t cause graphics card errors or shorten its lifetime. Customers can fix it by changing the fan speed or making a custom fan curve by GPU utility (e.g., ThunderMaster).

Fan sound would shorten my lifetime.