so far so good, this card sounds way quieter than the last 2 also, so maybe there was a defect in some of them, just pisses me off that i spend $370 on a card and the damn fan screws up, wtf is up with that?

im gonna get an after market kit to replace the fan for now and ill grease it when i take it apart, but right now, my HDD, CPU and GPU are all running smooth and cool at 21C case temp, 30c HDD and 32c for CPU with the GPU at 43C

so far so good i hope