Bloody loud Titan Fenrir

zoozoo · 5 Jan 2010 at 13:12

Hey,

Currently using a Titan Fenrir on a Q6600 and it is dam loud. On XP I used speedwitch software to slow it down and make it quieter, but having just recently upgraded to Windows 7 I haven't found any equivalent software.

Anyone have any ideas, or I am thinking I could maybe just take the fan off, as the heatsink is HUGE, and I don't overclock it at all at the moment.

Cheers for help!

lionheart766 · 5 Jan 2010 at 13:16

Get a quieter fan, one of these for instance.

petriodet · 5 Jan 2010 at 13:17

the titan itself is not loud

, have you checked the fan is attached properly?

Pneumonic · 5 Jan 2010 at 13:57

speedfan

zoozoo · 5 Jan 2010 at 14:01

So, a new fan seems like best option, over say just slowing it down with software....

Cheers for ideas (and I am pretty sure it is attached properly, took hours to do mind!) - such a big bugga!

khulershaker · 5 Jan 2010 at 14:21

The fenrir fan is only loud at full tilt!! The only time you need your fan full tilt is when you are stress testing the CPU with Linx & prime95 and all that jazz. So what I did is have the fan blowing full blast (noisey) and then once I had determined I was stable, dropped the fan to the PWM setting in the bios. Now it blows pretty quiet and ramps things up if the CPU starts getting hot. However nothing I know of batters your CPU like those testing apps so even encoding in handbrake (multi thread aware encoder) only made the fan noise up a little. Gaming it gets a tad louder but you dont need your fan blowing full tilt all day when its downloading things etc.

zoozoo · 5 Jan 2010 at 15:01

wheelscene said:
dropped the fan to the PWM setting in the bios. Now it blows pretty quiet and ramps things up if the CPU starts getting hot. QUOTE]

PWM eh...care to expand a little, a bit unsure of these things, cheers!

khulershaker · 5 Jan 2010 at 22:27

the titan has 4 pin connector - which gives it special abilities - on the ud5 as long as you have the 4 pin on the CPU FAN Header (labeled on the board nr CPU) you can activate the PWM function in the bios. Get to BIOS - then PC HEALTH STATUS - in there you have an option (I forget ) like SMART FAN - enable it - then you can set the mode to PWM. Have a look in there and you should get what I mean. This way the fan runs according to CPU stress, idle with nothing going nice and quiet, heavy duty action might get a bit noisier, but not so loud as FULL BLAST.

zoozoo · 5 Jan 2010 at 23:33

Cheers for all your help, made it into the bios an just enabled everything to do with fans to auto, now as quiet as quiet as can be, thanks.

khulershaker · 6 Jan 2010 at 22:22

cool - I think auto is the same/similar - just make sure you can here the fans speed up if you stress the system out - just so you know for deffo it's working as is.