Best NVIDIA card to buy at the moment?

[mrix]

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i have a 480 & i find it loud, my cpu is watercooled on a quad rad, the fans are on a fan controller as are my case fans. the 480 sticks out like a sore thumb as a consequence, ive managed to get it to 85C & climbing with the fan speed at 70% & climbing during a prolonged session of BFBC2, but i tend to game at a min of 1600x1200 with all the bells & whistles maxed out. for me, the 480 is the shreiking monster sat in the corner.

In all honesty I can hardly hear my GTX480... my temps are 35 to 45 idle and I was playing BFBC2 earlier for a couple of hours and my GPU temp was 76c
Basically the card is set as default.


have no idea why your appears different.
Mind you I do have 2 120mm fans blowing air directly on it
Cheers
mrix

 

[Raikiri]

In all honesty I can hardly hear my GTX480... my temps are 35 to 45 idle and I was playing BFBC2 earlier for a couple of hours and my GPU temp was 76c
Basically the card is set as default.


have no idea why your appears different.
Mind you I do have 2 120mm fans blowing air directly on it
Cheers
mrix

What's the actual fan speed on the 480GTX, in RPM? You can check with GPU-z if you don't mind having a look for me

 

[mrix]

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What's the actual fan speed on the 480GTX, in RPM? You can check with GPU-z if you don't mind having a look for me

Hi there, I have just checked the GPU-z and its showing as 44% 1695 rpm............ what it is while gaming I`ll have to get back and edit this post a little later as I have no idea at the moment..



Just took a screenshot of the GPU-z idle settings...

And one here ingame for around 3/4 hour, the server was the arica harbour which is huge and it was a full server this time so temps have increased more.

Cheers
mrix

 

[smilertoo]

The one thing most reviews that go about the fermi temps dont mention is the case cooling, the better your case the lower the temps will be.

 

[Raikiri]

Hi there, I have just checked the GPU-z and its showing as 44% 1695 rpm............ what it is while gaming I`ll have to get back and edit this post a little later as I have no idea at the moment..



Just took a screenshot of the GPU-z idle settings...

[ig]http://www.online-gaming-forums.com/images/gputemp/gpuidle.jpg[/img]



And one here ingame for around 3/4 hour, the server was the arica harbour which is huge and it was a full server this time so temps have increased more.

[im]http://www.online-gaming-forums.com/images/gputemp/gpugame.jpg[/img]

Cheers
mrix

Hey, that's great cheers. I'll have a proper look later when I get in. Thought it might be interesting to see an actual speed comparison for the fan rather than in %.

For comparisons sake, my 5870 at idle and after about 40 mins on the same map:

At idle, near enough silent.

Under load, fairly audible. Max I've seen it go to while gaming is 31%, about 2100RPM which I would consider quite loud, personally.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Not sure if anyones interested in an update, but I decided to splash out and buy the new 470.

This thing is freakin' awesome. Maxes out every game on ultra and I'm not exaggerating when I say it's whisper quiet. I was expecting it to be quite loud, but it's not at all. Compared to the 4890 it's as though it isn't even running.

Very pleased. Well worth the 300 quid

Glad you're enjoying the card