My self assembled desktop PC has as far as I can remember randomly made an odd grinding and clicking sound. It hasn’t bothered me too much, but as I’m sitting at my desk if I start to pay attention to the grind click (silence) … grind click (silence) … repeating over and over, it’s pretty clear something is up with one of my fans. I did a quick search and found this exact discussion here. I also have and EVGA RTX 2060, so it sounds like this is a common thing with this model. The thought in this thread is that the fans on the GPU are not able to cycle between idle and slow spin speeds, until the GPU gets more active, the fans spin faster and then the issue goes away.
In the thread, it was suggested to change the cooling curve so at a minimum the fans are never below around 35% … and that’s done the job. Problem solved.
