Zotac AMP 980Ti noisy fans

[Atari]

Hi all,

I bought a 2nd hand Zotac AMP! 980Ti from the MM a couple of years ago and the fans have steadily become noisier - they emit a weird almost grinding noise when the fans are spinning at around 50-70% speed.

The card is out of warranty - can I easily replace the fans or will they need to be Zotac ones? If not, can I get an aftermarket cooler for it?

Cheers.

 

[faceman123]

Hi all,

I bought a 2nd hand Zotac AMP! 980Ti from the MM a couple of years ago and the fans have steadily become noisier - they emit a weird almost grinding noise when the fans are spinning at around 50-70% speed.

The card is out of warranty - can I easily replace the fans or will they need to be Zotac ones? If not, can I get an aftermarket cooler for it?

Cheers.

check out a well known auction site or contact Zotac its fairly easy to do, while doing so clean the card out and re apply tim.

 

[Atari]

check out a well known auction site or contact Zotac its fairly easy to do, while doing so clean the card out and re apply tim.

Yeah I asked Zotac and other than telling me the warranty was valid due to it not being registered within the first 28 days, they were pretty useless!

On the plus side, I can now reapply some decent TIM to the card.

Thanks for your help though, I'll keep an eye out for some fans!

Cheers.

 

[MikeTimbers]

Which exact model is it? it's pretty easy to buy broken 980ti cards where the cooler is fine but the card won't boot. Alternatively, you could get a used AIO and a Kraken G12 and easily watercool the card.

 

[Grandmaster Fap!]

Or do what ive just done to my GTX1070 and take shroud and fans off, get yourself a Gelid PWM fan adapter cable and hook a couple Arctic Cooling P12 fans to it. Cooling is way better and its silent

 

[Atari]

Well, it took the opportunity to strip the cooler off last night to give it some fresh thermal paste - the old stuff was horrible and dried on and came off in pieces rather than as a gunk.

A quick application of thermal compound and it's MUCH quieter. Before it'd have the fans screaming almost as soon as I got into a game, now it's a good whack quieter! Very happy.

I'll try and source some fans for it from somewhere, I've got a part number for the fans now so I know what to look for.

The card is a Zotac AMP! GTX 980Ti - the fan part number brings back people selling sets of fans from a quick Google so the option is there to replace.

 

[pingu666]

Or do what ive just done to my GTX1070 and take shroud and fans off, get yourself a Gelid PWM fan adapter cable and hook a couple Arctic Cooling P12 fans to it. Cooling is way better and its silent

did this with my dads msi 390 last week, huge improvement in temps (added new paste too) before it would sit at 94c (thermal throttling i guess at that temp) now it runs 74c with 1150core and 1650 ram, +15mv and the fans not at full speed. 1200-1450rpm out of 1800 max

added a rear soft pad between gpu rear board and heatspreader backplate, intend to stick a old heatsink on that top too, would help a little bit.

think we used the ek pwm adapter cable from here