[MSI N275GTX Twin Frozr OC] Outrageous fan noise during boot-up

After reading a lot of reviews, I bought myself one of these babies:
I had a tremendous shock when I've powered up the system (after installing the video card): the two small fans are revving up to full speed for about 5 seconds ... and the noise is so loud that I can wake up my neighbours. Is there any possibility to modify a BIOS for this card in order to reduce the fan speed when booting up the PC? (I'm affraid I'll have to swap those fans even if losing the warranty).
Thanks for your support

The start up noise is quite irritating, but in use this cards thermal management cannot be faulted. Mine is used for regular folding and numerous 3d games. The card will go to about 75C with a fan speed steady at 35%. Higher temps and the fan gradually increases. With my case, I just start hearing the fans from about 40% and up.
I have experienced the same artifacts that you are talking about. My PSU also supplies 4 X 12V @18A max with a total of 41A on the 12V rail.
Just as a side note, I use the MSI Afterburner tool to monitor and adjust the card. Interestingly enough, the artifact problem has only occured in Direct X9 games. I run Far Cry 2 in Direct X10 everything maxed out to Very or Ultra High as available in the menu, resolution at 1920X1080 and have never had a problem.
What I have tested now is a slight downclock via Afterburner. The core clock and shader clock are linked, unless you physically unlink rhem for individual adjustsments. I declocked my core to 648 and the shader then sits at 1436. This solved the artifact problem and the card is now smooth. I started with lower core clocks and then worked my way up. at 650 it started with artifacts. So 648 seems to be about the max.
I would be suspicious of the PSU if the card did the same in Far cry2, but it doesn't. But then again, my total power consumption in that game only goes to about 320W.
With some other games it goes to 335 or 350W. So I am not convinced about the power issue. My dealer will check it out when they re-open early next year.
I am still going to try it though in the new i7 system to see if it does the same. I am fortunate that both the systems have identical cards, and the one in the i7 I can actually OC by about 10% above the factory OC. Just need to make the time to do the swap.

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