Are the fans on my Asus GTX 560 dying?

[skipsneeky2]

I purchased this card about 2 months old and first impressions were that even at full load fan wise it was pretty quiet.

Lately though it seems its gotten a bit louder and this morning i booted up and ramped up the fans to 100% as always and i noticed it was alot louder then ever.

Hell its louder then my old GTX295 ever was and even at 70% fanspeed its louder then a prior gtx580 i got rid of for noise and heat reasons.

Also according to msi afterburner the full rpm is now 3780/3810 on and off on those two when it used to be 3840/3870 like clockwork.

Card is a asus direct cu gtx560 non ti with current 280.26 drivers.

Thanks for any input anyone might have

 

[jiffylube1024]

I think you'll need some clarification to your post.

When you first got the card at full load it wasn't that loud -- do you mean when gaming or running 3d apps, or did you use a utility to set the fan speed to 100% back then?

The fact that the card is really noisy at 70% and 100% doesn't mean anything; many card manufacturers deliberately put high RPM fans on their cards for absolute worst-case scenarios. Card manufacturers know that in normal conditions (ie not super overclocked cards running with 120F/40C+ ambient room temperature) the cards will never go anywhere near 100% fan speed, but it's there just in case.

If you were letting the card's BIOS control the fan speed before (ie. not playing with fan speed at all) and you are setting it manually now, then you have nothing to worry about. You're comparing apples to oranges (card-managed fan speeds vs. manually setting 70% and 100%). My 6870 sounds like a jet engine if I set it to full speed, but if I let the card's BIOS control it the card is virtually silent.

Also, The fact that the full rpm numbers are down by about 1.5% isn't really alarming.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Lately though it seems its gotten a bit louder and this morning i booted up and ramped up the fans to 100% as always and i noticed it was alot louder then ever.

So you manually set the fans to always run at 100%?

 

[skipsneeky2]

So you manually set the fans to always run at 100%?

When i plan on gaming or if the gf wants to game sure

 

[skipsneeky2]

I think you'll need some clarification to your post.

When you first got the card at full load it wasn't that loud -- do you mean when gaming or running 3d apps, or did you use a utility to set the fan speed to 100% back then?

The fact that the card is really noisy at 70% and 100% doesn't mean anything; many card manufacturers deliberately put high RPM fans on their cards for absolute worst-case scenarios. Card manufacturers know that in normal conditions (ie not super overclocked cards running with 120F/40C+ ambient room temperature) the cards will never go anywhere near 100% fan speed, but it's there just in case.

If you were letting the card's BIOS control the fan speed before (ie. not playing with fan speed at all) and you are setting it manually now, then you have nothing to worry about. You're comparing apples to oranges (card-managed fan speeds vs. manually setting 70% and 100%). My 6870 sounds like a jet engine if I set it to full speed, but if I let the card's BIOS control it the card is virtually silent.

Also, The fact that the full rpm numbers are down by about 1.5% isn't really alarming.

I always manually set the card to 100% for best thermal control done this since 2006 and never changed it.

The card simply sounds much louder now while it doesn't annoy me as most times i got headphones on,it only concerned me as a friend of mine had bad bearings on his card for years and in the end it just died.

Just the first card iv'e owned that just got louder for no apparent reason.