I have installed the above card in a new build and the fan noise is a real problem, specifically the noise coming from the fan on the card itself. The radiator fan is not an issue. The fan on the card goes from off to "way too loud" all the time, back and forth, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it. I have installed Precision OCX and tried changing the fan settings but nothing I do seems to make any difference. The card remains in the state I received it as far as settings go and I have not tried to overclock it in any way, yet if I run any game the noise goes off the charts. 
 
My temps are fine - this is strictly a noise issue. I have tried observing the temperature values in Precision OCX to determine exactly what is triggering the fan but at I am at a loss to find a consistent cause. What can I do about this fan noise? It is not reasonable.

Video would really help.. plus also having the OSD showing the fan % and temp.

If you can't control the fan speed it sounds like you have a faulty fan controller.

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Nice.. so when that happens what's the temps?? Does the pc lockup?

And you've tried to change the fan curve and hit apply afterwards and the fans don't change?

I have tried but I will admit that XOC's fan controls are a bit confusing to me and I have tried various things with little impact. If I grab the sliders and move them up to 100 and hit apply, the fan spins up for sure. If I do the same and slide down to 0 the fan turns off. However, nothing I do seems to be able to permanently stop the spin up via Automatic Fan Control settings and the temperatures I set in the curves don't seem to matter. It certainly could be user error as XOC is challenging. I have tried the quiet preset as well as custom to no avail but perhaps I am not applying and saving things correctly.
 
The quiet settings are supposed to not see a change in fan speed until 60C yet that is clearly not the case for me. I don't think the card has ever hit 60C, it usually stabilizes in the low to mid 50s, yet the fan is cranking away. Can you show me a screenshot of how the correct settings would look to ensure mine are correct? The mini fans above each slider under auto, what do they mean? Should they be in the blue state or the white state? I was assuming blue meant auto was enabled. What does it mean if I set only G to blue and not P or M, does that mean only the GPU temp can trigger the fan speed changes? If I set all 3 to white does that mean auto fan control should be off and it should never spin up - that was my thought but the fan still spun up as usual when I tried that.
 
Also, I set XOC to run at startup, minimized so I expect my settings will always be in effect and I have only a single profile. 
 
 

Fangarr
The mini fans above each slider under auto, what do they mean? Should they be in the blue state or the white state? What does it mean if I set only G to blue and not P or M, does that mean only the GPU temp can trigger the fan speed changes? If I set all 3 to white does that mean auto fan control should be off and it should never spin up - that was my thought but the fan still spun up as usual when I tried that.

The mini fans must be blue for any fan curves to take effect. When the mini fans are white it means you're in manual mode. When setting G, P, or M to blue it will show the current rpm for the fan selected. Yes, when all three are set to white the fans should stick to a static speed.

There's hope it's just a user issue since he was able to start and stop the fans.. that wouldn't happen if the fan controller was broke on the card.. well let's just hope it works for all 3 fans.

Trying the settings in the attached screenshot which is the default for quiet.
 
if you see anything wrong please let me know.
 
Thanks for all your help!
 

So evga's bios wouldn't take over at a certain temp even if the sliders at manual and 0? So one could cook the card if wanted?

If it will override the settings maybe it's just a bios issues and re flashing the vbios fix that?

AHowes
So evga's bios wouldn't take over at a certain temp even if the sliders at manual and 0? So one could cook the card if wanted?

The vbios shouldn't kick the fans on until the card hits its thermal slow down temp. The OP said his fans were kicking on high at around 33c.
 

Definitely wouldn't hurt to try the other vbios.

Yeah I'm forgetting he has a hybrid.. single fan.

I have now switched to the other vbios as instructed. Precision XOC didn't seem to recognize the switch after I did it so I uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled. Now the Power Target slider goes up to 127%, so it looks like XOC is acknowledging the switch. I also reconnected the radiator fan back to the wire from the card instead of the MB just in case that mattered. Sadly all of this made no real difference. I am typing this now listening to 60db of fan noise for now real reason. I played a game for a little while with the Quiet preset set in XOC and the fan came on with the GPU temp at 38C and the fan speed in OSD stayed at 30 percent - no change. 30 is what it should be at based on the Quiet preset curves and it should not change until 60C.
 
It really seems to me like the XOC software just doesn't work with the single fan hybrid version of the card. There is obviously some other decision making process going on with the fan that overrules anything the XOC software has configured. If all is quiet then I can use the manual sliders in XOC to turn on the fan as well as turn off the fan; however, if the fan comes on by itself then nothing i do through XOC seems to matter. What is extra puzzling is that I see no correlation at all between when the fan comes on and the 3 temperatures displayed in XOC. There is an observable correlation with the card working harder and the fan coming on because the issue will start when I am gaming and not when I am just working on my desktop. Once it comes on, even if I stop gaming, it usually stays on for an extended period of time even when back at the desktop. 
 
This makes me wonder if it is somehow being triggered by the temp of the coolant as opposed to the temps I can see in XOC?
 
I am a bit unhappy right now with this card and I know there is no way that I can live with the noise. Even my wife complains it about it as she can hear it from the living room.