Fan on this 275 driving me nuts!!

philstanbridge · 7 Jul 2009 at 16:31

I've just installed a brand spanking new 275, and I can see the difference over the 260 - however, it is also much noisier, even at stock, and idle. I've installed Smart Doc, but are there any better ways to control the god awful fan? What do people have their settings at?

Speed · 7 Jul 2009 at 17:09

Have you tried Rivatuner? It's a pretty good background monitoring tool in addition to creating fan profiles.

Don't own a GTX275 myself, I have a GTX280, but as long as the temps stay sub 100 and it's stable you should be fine. Just experiment with fan speeds that you find acceptable noise wise and see what temps they get in high GPU load tasks like gaming and benchmarking.

philstanbridge · 7 Jul 2009 at 18:08

So if I turn it down to say 25% in Riva, and leave it set to manual when I'm running a 3d game, it will be ok?

Ducky Spud · 7 Jul 2009 at 19:50

I got a GTX275 this weekend too and it seems to stay at 40% no matter what, despite being set to auto. Its barely audiable to me so you may have a faulty fan, or may just be running faster?

But yea, Rivatuner should let you turn it down when you want. Should work fine

Speed · 7 Jul 2009 at 20:26

philstanbridge said:
So if I turn it down to say 25% in Riva, and leave it set to manual when I'm running a 3d game, it will be ok?

I would suggest starting to lower it slowly and not knock it down to 25% under load. Just do it stage by stage and monitor the temps in the background.

philstanbridge · 7 Jul 2009 at 20:34

I've set it to 40% under riva, but it's still whines too much compared to the 260. I'm quite surprised. Are there any third party coolers for these?

Kelt · 7 Jul 2009 at 23:24

philstanbridge said:
I've set it to 40% under riva, but it's still whines too much compared to the 260. I'm quite surprised. Are there any third party coolers for these?

I used to use Riva to linearly control the fan on my 8800GT, much better than profiles.

Overslop · 7 Jul 2009 at 23:33

philstanbridge said:
I've set it to 40% under riva, but it's still whines too much compared to the 260. I'm quite surprised. Are there any third party coolers for these?

Whines?

Are you sure it's the fan that's causing the noise and not a capacitor/coil?

Big.Wayne · 7 Jul 2009 at 23:38

Yeah what Overslop said!

You could check that by stopping the fan for a few moments to listen if the whine goes away or not?

Sasso · 8 Jul 2009 at 01:39

i have mine at 45% min speed and an auto profile and it tops out at about 75% (or a bit lower) with temps of 57ish. i dont find it that noisy tbh, i usually have the sound up quite a bit so dont really notice it, and got the antec fans on med so theres a drone anyway.

Dutch Guy · 8 Jul 2009 at 08:48

Default idle fanspeed for my MSI GTX 280 SuperOC was 40% and I lowered that to 30% at idle so the fan spins at <1000rpm.

This does not change the fan characteristics other than lowering the min fanspeed, it stil ramps up to 100% in games so it is the best solution for me as it is quiet(ish) at idle and ramps up in games when needed.

philstanbridge · 8 Jul 2009 at 10:23

It's definitely not cap whine - in fact, I haven't heard any cap whine at all which is very nice. It's definitely fan related because if I turn it down to 20% it's about silent. I will play some more with the profiles in Riva. By the way I'm using Riva with Win 7 if that makes any difference. By the way I'm not setting the fan in the 'low-level' settings - I'm changing it under 'driver settings'.

D13 · 8 Jul 2009 at 10:28

Out of curiosity which brand is it?

philstanbridge · 8 Jul 2009 at 10:31

It's the Asus. Got it from ocuk yesterday to replace my 260. I can immediately notice the difference in games, even if it is only slight. But it's a good improvement for the £30 or so it cost me. (I got a good price for me 260).

AMG · 8 Jul 2009 at 13:20

try rivia tuner, *note* if have 64bit OS you need to get some extra rivatuner drivers for 64bit, cos I can't get the damm thing working, I m not the only one it seems:\

and yes I have seen these 64bit things

philstanbridge · 8 Jul 2009 at 13:27

I've got 32 bit Win 7 and I had to fudge Riva to work properly, but it seems to be behaving.

Sasso · 8 Jul 2009 at 14:37

AMG said:
try rivia tuner, *note* if have 64bit OS you need to get some extra rivatuner drivers for 64bit, cos I can't get the damm thing working, I m not the only one it seems:\

and yes I have seen these 64bit things

philstanbridge said:
I've got 32 bit Win 7 and I had to fudge Riva to work properly, but it seems to be behaving.

im on 64 bit win 7 and i had to do the same as when i have vista ultimate 64but. had to go into power user and open up the little rivatuner file to see more options and then "forcedriverversion" to allos me to see the over clocking settings and also get my fan profiles to work. is this what ya both meant but "fudging" and "extra drivers"?

AMG · 8 Jul 2009 at 15:42

propely I must have seen a fix for it, I think it was over techpower up of the top of my head.

philstanbridge · 8 Jul 2009 at 16:21

Sasso said:
im on 64 bit win 7 and i had to do the same as when i have vista ultimate 64but. had to go into power user and open up the little rivatuner file to see more options and then "forcedriverversion" to allos me to see the over clocking settings and also get my fan profiles to work. is this what ya both meant but "fudging" and "extra drivers"?

Yep. I had to enter a number in the forcedriver so that it allows me to use the overclocking and fan features of riva - but it is running in compatability mode, whatever that means.

AMG · 8 Jul 2009 at 17:07

windows has like a emulator of the older windows, it is quite effective tbh don't always work through