Fans on stuff like Motherboard Chipsets and Video Cards can and do make noise. And when a card has to speed up the fan because a game, like SWTOR does tax a system more a problem with the hardware can come out. That's not the game, that's a bad bearing in your fan.
My last machine had the similar problem with a northbridge chipset fan running noisy. It appeared while I was playing a game. It was not the game but the bearing going out. It just happened when I was playing the game. It could have happened when I was working on MS Word. Should I have blamed Word for it?
Sorry but there's a think called coincident at play sometimes.