The laptop is NOISY sure, I'm cool with that, the whirr of the fans as it turns into a jet engine on full afterburners. I game with headset on so that's not an issue, and it has the grunt I need for my work. It has to cool a decent spec GFX card and CPU.But. The fans go all the time, it doesn't switch to passive, so it is always noisy, but again a constant low wishing of fans is fine. However what is not fine is the tractor that I now have sat next to me. I'm not a farmer.The GPU fan's bearings (I guess) have worn. Now even on idle it sounds like an idling Massey Ferguson on small jackhammer being constantly operated by some Acer dwelling Fraggle. Again, this is fine when I'm gaming in the evening, but not fine during the day when I'm working.It's 6 months old, it has the Aeroblade 3D 4th gen, a fancy fan it seems, BUT possibly too fancy... I'm sure any intolerance in the spacing of the aluminium blades will upset the balance and cause a bearing to wear out. This kind of thing is not an issue with plastic/vinyl fans, which wouldn't be so easily bent during installation. I contacted support who agreed it needed be sent into repair. But this is my only unit as my backup machine, (that this replaced) is not up to task anymore. So I want to buy a replacement fan and fix it myself. Can I find the right fan anywhere? NOPE. I also added an SSD with the provided adaptor, as a trained engineer, this was no issue, but I'm sure it will give them the option to wag a "voided warranty" finger my way anyway and see it sent back in the same state.Acer aren't going to send me a replacement fan... Of course, it has to be sent back in for repair, I understand this. And honestly I'm concerned the fan could seize at any minute. Rendering the laptop a brick. I've been building my own desktop PCs for 30 years, and only now just switched to this laptop as I had to move to somewhere remote where the electricity is very unreliable, and I knew it was going to be a pain in the ass. Every rig I've ever built has been operated for 2-5 years without any issues, and my last one - that just retired was going for 10. This is with 16 hour a day usage 7 days a week 8 hours of which each day saw the hardware utilised to high percentages of their viable loads.This would be a 4 to 5 star laptop had it lasted at least until its warranty without issues. But hey... It is what it is. And if I can get a painless resolution, and more than 6 months out of the fix then I'll update for reference.I dunno what to do now.Pretty lost and pretty pissed off.