Zotac 3060Ti Fan Noise - Rattle - Vibration

[modd1uk]

Any of you guys who were lucky enough to get a pre order from OCUK having any issues? I've installed the card today, immediately there was a noise so I shut the PC down and noticed a wire for one of the fans wasn't clipped in properly (poor QC from Zotac) and the fan blade was hitting it so I pushed that into place - noise stopped.

Running 3d mark and around the 60% - 70% RPM there's a fan noise.

- EDIT - VIDEO ADDED

I'm not complaining about normal fan pushing air noise as that's acceptable imo, it's more the rattle / vibration that is VERY noticeable and clearly shouldn't be there, I've double checked and all fan wires are seated now so it's not that.

Thanks in advance folks.

 

[Aretak]

Yeah, unfortunately it's just a design flaw with these Twin Edge cards. I had the 3060 version and it does exactly the same thing, which is why I got rid of it. If you look around the web, you'll find tons of people complaining about it. Very shoddy from Zotac. As for a "fix" you might try this:

Less than ideal, but better than listening to it rattling away.

 

[modd1uk]

For me, pushing on the shroud stops it...but obviously you're not going to sit there holding the shroud up when you're gaming.

Putting a few guitar picks in between the heatsink / shroud fixes it, this isn't a fix though as it's clearly a manufacturing defect. A real shame as I need the GPU and Zotac are the only ones with stock, well that and Inno3d when they turn up.

I filmed a video and uploaded it to YouTube in the original post ^.

A real shame as the fan noise imo is perfectly fine given the cost / performance, I can live with wooshing air but not a rattle / vibration.

 

[modd1uk]

I may have fixed it...time will tell.

 

[Feoilban]

Gibbo better throw in some blue tac with the Haribo's on this one