It sounded as if something was stopping the fan from spinning, but the motor was still turning or something.

Then, about 1 second later I heard something that sounded like nails scratching a chalkboard, and now its running fine.


All of this happened in the span of about 2-3 seconds

GTX 980 TI (reference card) I have 2 of them, and unsure which one made the sound

Aida64 showed GPU 1 was at 80% and GPU2 was at 20% (I just booted pc up and I always have to open precisionx to get gpu2 fan started on the fan curve)

This post was edited by NecroMunga on Feb 5 2016 03:41pm

Try using afterburner

Or inspector

But only have one installed and running

This post was edited by yupitsmeh on Feb 5 2016 03:59pm

PrecisionX is nice and I like it, and dont mind having to open it up every bootup - Keeps me in the habbit of checking anyways.


I'm just super worried about wtf just happened,

rev em both see if it reoccurs.
if it does then proceed to use one card and process of elimination to figure out which.
RMA defective card then buy some sand paper and fix your fucking desk.

Unsure what you mean exactly by rev em both, but I did restart PC and recreate the same scenario, nothing happened.

I put each fan at 20% and raised 1 by 10%, and kept doing so until both were at 100% - Nothing happened, Seems fine.

GPU 2 is about 4c hotter than gpu1, and it used to be about 2 lower, but other than that everything seems okay.

I've also ran 3dmark, no problems

Um... A roach man.

probably a moth or something

Maybe there's a dead rat stuck in the fan.