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Gigabyte GTX 1060 Windforce OC Fans going nuts

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Hello,

I just bought a new Gigabyte GTX1060 Windforce OC card.

I'm enjoing the performance of the card, but I have a problem with the fans that make it very annoying and basically unusable.
First of all, I have the latest NVIDIA driver (372.70) on Windows 10, but I also tried the driver on the Gigabyte website for this card and nothing changed.

The problem:

The card is very silent when it boots up and until I start a 3d workload. As the card heats up at about 50C the fans start to spin and I can hear them very clearly. The card seems to be quite noisy, like if they are at max or something.
The temperature barely reaches 60C at this point.
After I close the game and the temperature goes back under 50C the fan WOULD NOT SWITCH OFF and remains at very noisy levels until I reboot my machine.

This is very annoying and I think I will have to switch back to integrated graphics until this is resolved :(

Does anybody have any suggestion about this?

Also the Xtreme Gaming tool that I download from gigabyte doesn't seem to recognize my Fan speed at all.
It just says 0 RPM even if that is clearly not the case


Thanks for any help
Marcello
 

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Custom fan profile?
 
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I'd say custom fan profile as well but I'd be concerned as it's a brand new card and the fans aren't spinning down again when it's cooled down and not under load, contact your seller or the manufacturer and see if they have a newer bios revision for your card or you may need to rma it... you can download gpuz to see what's going on with temps and clocks whilst switching from 2d>3d and vice versa. You can create custom fan profiles with something like MSI afterburner.
 
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Thank you guys,

I sent a ticket request to Gigabyte. I hope they will reply timely.
I'll try MSI Afterburner when I get home tonight.

GPU-Z says the temperatures are fine (always under 60C even after load, probably because the fan is spinning so fast), the fan speed is reported as 0 RPM, but the Fan Speed in "%" units varies accordignly to temperature, but it doesn't match reality (changes in the number doesn't reflect in a change in noise).

All of this is very weird to me.
 
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Again a Gigabyte fan problem with a Pascal card....:shadedshu:
 
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Again a Gigabyte fan problem with a Pascal card....:shadedshu:

Damn, I couldn't find any feedback online about these problems ...

If I knew I might have bought another brand instead. I like Gigabyte motherboards in general, but it's the first time I buy a GPU from them.

I hope I will not have to send the card back and and buy a new one.
I'm tempted to do that considering I bought it on Amazon, so return should be easy ...
 
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Damn, I couldn't find any feedback online about these problems ...

If I knew I might have bought another brand instead. I like Gigabyte motherboards in general, but it's the first time I buy a GPU from them.

I hope I will not have to send the card back and and buy a new one.
I'm tempted to do that considering I bought it on Amazon, so return should be easy ...

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/gtx-10xx-series-zero-fan-issue.224932/

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/gigabyte-gtx-1080-xtreme-one-fan-question.224473/

There was another long thread about fan issues but it seems to be deleted?....
 
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Yeah, I didn't look here, I looked in general on google for complaints and I couldn't find anything definite. I looked specifically for the GTX1060 in particular and the fact that there aren't many cards around yet hindered a little bit my research ...

I should have looked here though :( Too bad.
 
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If you still can I think the best advice would be to send it back and get another model.
Why work to fix a problem when you can exchange the product altogether?
 
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If you still can I think the best advice would be to send it back and get another model.
Why work to fix a problem when you can exchange the product altogether?

You make a good point.

I thought it was just some kind of misconfiguration problem on my side that maybe could have been fixed very easily, but it seems to be a much broader problem.

I already had to RMA the motherboard and now this one too. I wasn't very lucky in building this computer :-/
 
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I think I solved the problem!

I reinstalled the whole Windows 10 just to give it a try and stopped the Windows Update from installing automatically the graphics driver. Installed the driver clean after all the other motherboard drivers and now it works!

The fan is very silent during 3D workload and I can see Fan RPMs into GPU-Z.
In the end it was a driver problem caused by the driver installed by Windows. I remember when I installed windows that as Windows Update installed the drivers I got a Fan spike that lasted until reboot, so it might very well be that the Windows driver screwed something up when they installed themselves.

If someone else has the same problem try PREVENTING WINDOWS from installing its own driver before installing the one from the Nvidia website. Apparently it can screw up something
 

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I had the same issue as the OP but reinstalling Windows without internet didn't help, however adding the driver manually in device manager solved the issue.
 
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I have the same car on Win7, runs like a dream. No fan issues, I use the provided Gigabyte utility (grab the latest from their page). I have a custom fan profile too, no issues with that also.
 

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Not sure whether it's still relevant but I had an issue with GB GTX 1060 WF having absolutely the same symptoms: card is deadly silent until loaded, when loaded fans went insane but software shown 0 RPM.
The cause was hanging PSU cable accidantely stucked into one of GPU fans and blocked it so it didn't spin at all.
The problem disappeared when I unblocked the fan.
 

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Hey all,

I have been getting the same, or what appears to be the same problem. The fans are mostly quiet, however every so often, especially while gaming, they will 'rev' up to what sounds like max speeds. I have the Xtreme Gaming Utility installed, tried setting custom fan profiles and everything. The temps don't ever go above 65 C playing the most graphically demanding games, so obviously the noise is cause for concern for me. I've also tried reinstalling windows 10 etc but had no success. If anyone else has found a fix please let me know. I may end up returning the card at this rate as it turned out to be even louder than my old Radeon 7870 2gb, despite the obvious increase in performance.
 

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I must be the exception when it comes to gigabyte cards. Every one I had worked flawlessly and my new 1070 Gaming G1 is dead silent while gaming.
 

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Talk to gigabyte.
 

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I had the same problem with my graphic card and I can tell you that most probably one of your fan-RPM sensor is not working anymore.
This is how you solve the problem:

Step

1.) Open the graphic card case and have a close look at the two radiators. There you will see 2 times a 4 pin cable but only one is with 3 wires the other one has 4.
the one with the 4 wires is going to give the information about the RPM of both Fans.

Most probably the one that is connected via 4 pin - 4 wire cable is the one where the RPM sensor is broken.

2.) switch the cable (you have to connect the 4pin-4wire cable now with the fan that was pluged into the fan with the 4pin-3 wire cable.)

3.) close the graphic card case (place the wires nicely not that you will have any noice afterwards or that it going to be stucked somwhere) and plug it into your computer.
Now you should be able to see the real RPM you can check if its properly working at MSI Afterburner while checking diffrent fan speeds and after you can leave it as it was before by just let windows and Nvidia doing there thing.

No annoying fan noises anymore by idle.
 
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