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*Official OMG I got my 460 thread*

It is annoying, when you are paying about £200 for the card you would at least think they would try to use a good quality fan! MY 5770 has a Vapor-X style fan on it, though it is just the basic model, and that is good, though above 70% fan speed it just gets annoying! :D
 
Michael_10 said:
If it doesn't cool the memory chips, is it still safe to overclock the memory?
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Well the Palit one comes at 4GHz mem stock, which is 400MHz over the normal card, so seems it's fine :D


This is the one i'm looking at now, MSI Cyclone, has a 90mm fan on it (instead of the 70mm on the Palit), and a beefier heatsink.

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the vapour X coolers arent even dear sapphire put them on their cheapest 5830 models.

the Gainward and Palit seem to have come from the same factory i believe ganward is a sub division of palit. i thought the cooler looked similar. their noise and performance is simlar too.

Well the Palit one comes at 4GHz mem stock, which is 400MHz over the normal card, so seems it's fine
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the mem chips are samsung rated to 2000mhz thats why they are okay but wont generally go much further.
 
I feel the same way Hex, I'm loving the performance but the fan is annoying, although 90c should be safe for these things, my GTX260 used to hit mid 90's all the time.

Mirrors edge runs butter smooth maxed out with physX enabled, looks absolutely beautiful.
 
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Yeah, but I'm hitting 90C on a cool day like it was yesterday (with all the rain etc), on a hot day I can see that creeping close to 100C.

And anything past 55% fan is just far to noisy.

Watercooled, or with a good cooler these things would be beasts.

But the cooler on the Palit, imho is just nasty. Guru3d need shooting for claiming that it's 'whisper quiet' and 'very very quiet'.

Yeah, maybe if you are sat next to a speeding locomotive. :rolleyes:
 
What I find strange is that the stock fan seems to be quieter and cool the same or better, why do companies develop a different cooler that is noisy and cools the same?
 
lowrider007 said:
So your sending it back then?
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Yup, requested a return this morning, just waiting to hear back, then it'll be in the post tomorrow for a refund.

Problem is, I don't know what to buy now... do I risk a different brand 460 and hope for a quieter fan?

Kinda wishing I'd not sold my 5770 Vapor-X now :o

The GTX460 is exactly what I want from a GPU, I just want it with a good quiet cooler!
 
Dutch Guy said:
What I find strange is that the stock fan seems to be quieter and cool the same or better, why do companies develop a different cooler that is noisy and cools the same?
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They can probably make the fan/heatsink assemblies cheaper themselves (even if they look fancier), plus it gives your products something to differentiate themselves from the rest. It's a pretty awesome stock solution tbh, whoever designed it did a very good job. The Gigabyte cards with the twin fans look very nice though, and they are supposedly quiet, i think i'll pick one of those up when i can find them in stock somewhere.
 
Yeah, I think I'm going to get the Gigabyte twin-fan 1GB. Added bonus no crappy VGA connector on the back!
 
lowrider007 said:
I feel the same way Hex, I'm loving the performance but the fan is annoying, although 90c should be safe for these things, my GTX260 used to hit mid 90's all the time.
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The thing is, you've gone from a card that exhausts the hot air out of the case to one that dumps it into the case. Unless you have a case with super efficient air flow it will just recycle it's own air causing the temps to climb up and up meaning higher fan speeds are needed and it's a viscous cycle.

Is it possible that you just need to improve the flow of air through your case somehow? Something as simple as moving the case away from a wall can have a profound effect on air flow through a case.

On a side note, is it my imagination or are all the 460s on OcUK cheaper today?
 
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Air flow is fine in my case, got a big 200mm fan dumping all the hot air out the top.

Plus i've had a 5770 in there for the past 7 months that's been totally silent.

My system temps haven't changed from going from a 5770 to the GTX460.

The only thing that has is the noise coming from my PC.
 
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