GTX 760 Leaking fluid(oil?) and freezing up randomly, bearing noise from fan

I just bought an MSI GTX 760 OC TwinFrozr couple of months ago and am facing serious issues.
Specs on my machine
>i5 3570K
>8 gb 1600 Corsair ram
>Asrock Z77 Ultimate 6 motherboard
>Thermaltake 650W Smart 650
>the GPU in question
>SSD and 2 HDD's
My screen will freeze randomly and the machine will become unresponsive and sound will buzz and slowly advance for ~1-2 minutes until my machine recovers and tells me that a driver has crashed and recovered. Sometimes the machine requires a hard reset. The driver crashing is most likely due to the system slowing down and desyncing. I have reinstalled windows and all drivers, reseated everything, checked every cable, ran without the GPU and stress-tested and I only get this issue with the 760, but not my old 550TI, which I am now forced to use due to the 760's issues. Also ran + installed windows from/on 2 different HDD's.
Before I take this product to RMA at my local shop, I want to publish this here to serve both as proof and for someone to maybe give me some advice regarding this issue, maybe a confirmation that this issue is in fact not with my PSU, CPU or motherboard. I have run stress-tests on all components and only with the 760 connected my machine will freeze. No issues with intelburn, iGPU burners, kombustor on iGPU or memtests, no issues with HDD's. Most of the time with the 760 the machine will freeze in Source-engine based games, youtube videos and VLC running, but also just randomly, without reaching any high stress or load. Haven't managed to get a freeze with ONLY kombustor, except a few times.
Here are some photos of the fans, the surrounding area has, what seems like hydraulic fluid that would come from a hydraulic bearings used in some fans: -----> imgur.com/a/5m7jY <-----. I noticed this because my case window started to get some splatter that was horizontal and adjacent to the GPU, there is also some of the oil on my motherboard, the side window has now been cleaned. The oil could not have come from an external source, since the machine is always upright and the fans are always facing down + I take EXTREME caution and care of my machine on a tri-monthly basis and my machine is a holy shrine to me.
If anyone could confirm that the 760 TF has hydraulic/fluid-bearings on the fans, I would be grateful. I just want to be 100% sure before I apply for an RMA, because if the store claims that the issue is my fault, I will have to pay €40 for collateral + other costs and I simply can't afford that right now.
Thank you very much.

Quote from: Flatlanded on 22-January-14, 09:46:28
I have the same card with the same problem. Slight rattle around 70-85%, goes away at full speed but there's an oil line running parallel to my GPU on my motherboard which I'm not happy about. Started the RMA process today, but I'm a little annoyed by the fact that MSI wants ME to pay shipping to them . For the cost of a good courier, I may as well replace the fans... I wish someone would make a water-block for this card.
Have you tried contacting the consumer protection agency in your location? Where did you get your GPU? The RMA should be handled by the reseller in some cases and when a product is malfunctioning, at least in my country, the product needs to be compensated without additional cost to the customer if it is within the warranty period.
I took my GPU in for an RMA as soon as the first response to this thread was made and now pending for a few weeks before I get a new one.
The GPU did indeed have a hydro bearing and they told me that this wasn't an unseen situation and that the product will be sent back asap. Actually, as soon as they saw it, they said that it's clearly a defected product.
Thanks to badboy2k for the quick reply and thanks Flatlanded for replying, hope you can get the card fixed.
I had a very bad experience with MSI products, just last year my cousins motherboard fried just outside the warranty period and now my 270€ GPU has both fans malfunctioning and the card itself freezing my machine. Let's hope the refurbed card wont have these issues and lives on, it's a really good card performance-vise, but unfortunately I'm not impressed by the build quality right now.

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