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Weird Fan Behavior

gabe927
By gabe927
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My system consists of an Intel Core i5 4690k currently being cooled by the stock heat sink and not overclocked, an Asus Z97A, 8GB of RAM, and an EVGA GTX 970 ACX 2.0.  Recently I was playing a game on my pc and I started hearing a loud, fan noise and a grinding noise coming from my pc. At first the grinding noise sounded like coil whine from my gpu, and the fans on the gpu ramped up.  After I alt+tabed out of my game which should have stopped the coil whine, the grinding noise was still occurring.  Going into further investigation, I found that the Intel stock heat sink was running at 3000 RPM compared to the rated fan speed of 2000 RPM.  I rebooted my system, opened fan xpert 3 and reran the fan speed test, and it also said that the fan had a max RPM of 2000.  Does anyone know why this may have happened, how I may prevent it in the future, and whither or not my fan is damaged? Thanks.

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Quick. Underclock the CPU. DO something. Shut it down. Let it cool down for 10-20 minutes then turn it back on.

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