Thinkpad Yoga (TPY) Cooling Fan Failing Already

The cooling fan in my TPY (20CD0033US) has already nearly failed. The fan makes loud grinding noises at all times while spinning, and starts making a much louder noise (which won't cease until the fan is stopped and restarted) if the TPY is tilted past a certain point during operation.
I bought my TPY for doing work, but I've also been using it for some gaming while in bed, due to my bad back. My guess is that due to the fan working hard on a regular basis, its bearings are prematurely failing. So now I keep the power profile set to limit my clock speed to 800mhz to prevent the fan from spinning most of the time. Naturally, 3-D gaming is out of the question at this point.
Even with my usage pattern, I'm very surprised that the cooling fan is already failing. I want to believe that my cooling fan came with defective bearings. Is anyone else's cooling fan grinding to a halt already?
I probably should have gotten the T440s, it appears to have a superior cooling system afforded by its thicker chassis.

During the second repair session they were able to fix the problem. But I am really unsatisfied with the repair service. I opened my Lenovo to switch hard drives, they "forgot" 3 screws, one was lost unscrewed somewhere inside the laptop and none of the two harddrive screws remained.
In essence, I would suggest to send in the TPY and stress the problem, telling them that the fans start to physically scratch against the laptap case when the CPU has an elevated work load. I think they have replaced the fans in my case, but you can never be sure and have to test your hardware again.

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I’m sorry to hear that fan in your Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga is making noise.
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Hope this helps!
Best regards,
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Do any of you have Kaspersky Anti-Virus or Internet Security? Seems like few T540 owners also got the same problem and one of them discovered it is Kaspersky causing the problem. I can comform it too.
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