Gainward GTX 260 GS - How do I unlink 2D/3D Fan Speed?

[Khrest]

Title says it all. I have read some info on the net about it being possible to have a seperate 2D / 3D fan speed on the Gainward, but Expertool links the 2D and 3D fan speeds together when you choose Static Speed.

Also I cant use dynamic as that doesn't seem to want to go slower than about 40% in 2D which is too noisy.

TBH I'm really disappointed how much noisier this is than my BFG 8800 gts 640, given the number of reviews that said it was quiet

 

[prt]

i must say it is a loud fan on them, was glad when i put mine in me water loop

 

[Khrest]

Hi guys, no takers on this one? Has anybody out there successfully done a bios mod on these cards to reduce the default fan speed on the dynamic setting?

What I cannot understand is why there is a 2D fan speed slider AND a 3D one when they are both locked together and cannot be set independantly. It would be perfect with 30% for 2D and 40% for 3D but you cannot seperate the sliders.

At the moment I am running with their 'safe' clock settings so that I can use 30% across the board but that kinda seems to defeat the object of having a card with a built in overclock....

 

[AgedIdiot]

My 'Answer' is to run 'Dynamic' when gaming and expert tool fixed @ 32% when not. A bit cobbled together but it works

 

[reflux]

You dont need to bios mod, just set up some fan profiles that trigger at certain speeds in rivatuner. Its a bit of a fudge to setup but thats what i did with mine.

 

[Khrest]

So I can use rivatuner to set the fan speed based on a profile; cool, i only ever used that to monitor temps and overclock. Will investigate, I dont mind a fudge, as long as it works and would prefer not to mod the bios

AgedIdiot; I take it you mean adust manually each time I switch tasks as the tool wont store seperate speeds for 2D and 3D unfortuntely, the sliders are locked together.

 

[reflux]

Yeah, you have to create some fan profiles, and then enable the hardware monitoring thingamy so that when the clock speed crosses a certain point, the fan speed changes. That's what I did with mine; I was also a bit annoyed at how loud it was. It's not loud loud (for that, get a 4890) but it's loud if you've got a quiet case.

 

[Khrest]

It's not loud loud (for that, get a 4890) but it's loud if you've got a quiet case.

I know what you mean, I do a lot of 2D work and so I had my case quiet as a whisper with 120mm fans and so on. My 8800GTS was also whisper quiet, even overclocked slightly.

I could kick myself tbh, the last time I bought a Goes Like Hell card from Gainward it too sounded like a tornado was in my room, but that was several years ago so I didn't make the mental link that Gainward's custom solutions are maybe always noisier than others.

Thanks for the advice, profiles sound fine for my needs; I dont mind it a bit noisier in games but can't deal with it whilst I am working..

 

[darren.head]

Have you tried msi after burner?

 

[reflux]

Thanks for the advice, profiles sound fine for my needs; I dont mind it a bit noisier in games but can't deal with it whilst I am working..

Yeah, you can pretty much stick it on minimum in RT and it's almost silent. 25 or 30% or something, but obviously check that the card doesn't get to warm on that setting.

 

[Khrest]

Have you tried msi after burner?

Not dealt with that before, looks like a shiny front end; I'll probably check that out as well.

I think I made the mistake of assuming that the Gainward tool was the only way of doing this, when in fact its pretty pants looking at what else is available