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Just finished a big boy repair to my rig. One of my 2070's fans was failing and making really annoying noises. Took the gpu out and grabbed the screwdriver. Removing the shroud and disconnecting the fan and led cables was surprisingly difficult and I ended up just cutting one of the plastic fasteners rather than have to disassemble the heatsink to get to it (thanks, Gigabyte...). Once that was finally off I wasn't sure which method was the proper one to oil these fans. Peeling stickers didn't reveal anything and trying to pop the problem fan off just ended up damaging it beyond repair (apparently I should have used the thumbtack method). So I was SOL for a month while some replacement fans shipped from overseas. I was running the card shroudless in the meantime but at least the noise was gone! The new fans arrived the other day so I went to work swapping them out and reversing the process. Getting the cables plugged back in was super cramped and tricky but I eventually got everything back how it was more or less supposed to be, remounted my gpu, and crossed my fingers. Fortunately the repair seems to be a success and my rig is once again cool and quiet (crazy what a difference some air flow can make to temps). Hopefully this hassle will prolong the life of my gpu until I presumably upgrade to a 4000 series card and this can go in a secondary rig. 
