Sapphire 5850 rattling fan

[nitram100]

Hey guys, just installed my Sapphire 5850 that i bought from OCUK last week and the fan is rattling, quite annoying really.

Is there anything that can be done about this?

Cheers for any info.

 

[dan7777]

i use same card and no rattling here..

 

[R34pz]

Have a look and see if your card is bent slightly to the side, when I recently put my old 4850 in the 2nd machine the fan was rattling. It turned out the power cable was bending the card slightly causing the fan to play up.

 

[Gerard]

Seems to be a common occurance on 58xx cards, seen quite a few complaints over at hardocp with 5970 fans rattling,

 

[Simon42]

Apart from making sure there's no card distortion as mentioned then it could be RMA time as any kind of fan issue isn't likely to get any better.

 

[R34pz]

If your card isn't bent (even slightly can rattle the fan), I would say the fan is already on its way out. Pretty dissapointing really considering the price of the cards, you would think they would put a really nice ball bearing fan on them, instead of a cack sleeve bearing one. I have an ancient ball bearing case fan that's 20 years old, all rusty from being out in the yard in the rain for 2 years, that is still quiet as a mouse and as smooth as new. I wouldn't imagine anything is half that quality nowadays inside a PC.

 

[nitram100]

I moved the 6 pin connectors around a little bit and it does appear as though the rattle has gone! It was a little bit stiff and could have been bending the card a bit.

Thanks a lot for the help guys

 

[R34pz]

No worries matey, I wouldn't have thought it could make that much difference to the fan, my card barely appeared bent but it was making a hell of a noise.