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I mean really loud. Out of the blue last night the fan started making this horrible noise. Sounds like the bearings are shot or going out. Seems to only kick in when the GPU gets hot or is under load. Im going to take it apart and see if it just needs cleaning. I’m guessing it needs to be replaced. I check and they are not cheap. $50 to $60 online and some places are out of stock.

I couldn’t get a good audio recording of it since listening to the playback to hear a recorded noise when the same noise is still present is impossible. So here is a video on youtube that sounds exactly like mine does now.

UPDATE:
I booted into windows and fired up a game to test to see if GPU load really caused the fan to sound bad. This is when I figured out that the fan sounds much better full speed at 6000 rpms VS the default normal. Don’t get me wrong its still broke.

Heres where Iam going to buy the fan from since they say its in stock welovemacs.com

This is the place that has the illustrated guides for taking apart macs and they sell the fan, but they are out of stock. ifixit.com