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Does warranty cover this?

Terepin
Level 8
Video: https://goo.gl/uwVlXK I was told by member on Guru3D forum that the whine it's coming from fan's bearing. I want to know if warranty cover this so I won't be pointlessly sending my brand new card for repair.
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Korth
Level 14
ASUS GTX1080Ti Founders Edition, yes?

It's a "low-pitched" whine (to my ears), although your recording and my playback might not be reproducing the sound accurately. Seems a little too low to be fan bearing (and worn ball bearing tends to have more of a metallic "rattling" sound). And much too low to be coil whine. Is the fan imbalanced?

You might try different rpms. Sometimes (well, very rarely) a fan hits a "perfect" harmonic frequency which causes the fan (or other nearby things in the environment) to oscillate/vibrate at audible frequencies. Notching rpms up or down by just a couple percent can solve this.

Are you sure that noise is on the GPU card? Not on the CPU cooler (pump, it kinda sounds like) or on the PSU fan?
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[/Korth]

Korth wrote:
Is the fan imbalanced?

As a matter of fact, it is. When I compared it to my previous 1070 FE, fan on this card is slightly loose .

Korth wrote:
Are you sure that noise is on the GPU card? Not on the CPU cooler (pump, it kinda sounds like) or on the PSU fan?

Dead sure. Once I stopped the fan the noise also stopped.