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I'm still championing the stock reference card and cooler. After an hour of BC2, a couple of hours of WoW, and a few laps of 3D Mark just to make sure I've cooked it, 71° is the highest I reached all day with a fixed 45% on the fan and tweaked clockspeeds and voltage (I can't hear it over ambient case noise at this speed). This is in unflattering circumstances as well, its hot as hell in here at the moment, 32° case ambient, 38° idle on the card.
Edit: After fiddling around with it I noticed theres a noticable whine that starts around 65% fan speed, I left it on auto for a bit and even at 70° the card seems happy enough and the fan stays below 50%.
Edit: After fiddling around with it I noticed theres a noticable whine that starts around 65% fan speed, I left it on auto for a bit and even at 70° the card seems happy enough and the fan stays below 50%.
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As a point of reference for anyone thinking of getting the 768 meg KFA o/c version. I went straight in at these settings and it has been stable for an hour on AVP dx 11.
Also benches fine on Kombuster. Seems like a good card, at 45% on fan, still very quiet.
Now updated to show Kombustor score, is that a good score or bad?
Also benches fine on Kombuster. Seems like a good card, at 45% on fan, still very quiet.
Now updated to show Kombustor score, is that a good score or bad?
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I'm starting to get nasty artifacts. Green sparkly dots in dark areas in 2D or larger areas of green or purple dots in 3D. The weird thing is it's pretty much identical to what was happening to my 8800gt and is what prompted the upgrade in the first place. Could it be something else casuing the artifacts? Motherboard, ram, drivers/dodgy install? Seems a bit strange that I get graphical artifacts with one card, then change the card and get exactly the same artifacts??
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Interesting, my psu is a 520 watt corsair jobby. It's sli ready so I'd have thought it'd be fine for a single card albeit one with 2 pcie connectors. The card's connected directly to the psu via 2 pcie connectors, rather than the dual molex to pcie adaptor, if that makes a difference?
Faulty motherboard would be the worst case scenario, is there any way I could find out for certain other than trying a different motherboard. I suppose I could maybe borrow a working gfx card from a mate to rule out my new card as the problem.
I think I'll definately try a fresh install of windows before all that though. Aaargh, so many problems!
Faulty motherboard would be the worst case scenario, is there any way I could find out for certain other than trying a different motherboard. I suppose I could maybe borrow a working gfx card from a mate to rule out my new card as the problem.
I think I'll definately try a fresh install of windows before all that though. Aaargh, so many problems!
Who knows, trial and error is the only way, rule things out one at a time. Though it's very unlikely that both your graphic cards have developed the exact same fault.
It may not even be hardware, I'd definately rule out all potential software issues first, try new drivers, even try older ones, before diving into the full windows reinstall.
It may not even be hardware, I'd definately rule out all potential software issues first, try new drivers, even try older ones, before diving into the full windows reinstall.
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I use gpu-z and gainward expertool.
Yeah, did you not see that first report I gave? I said the sound cuts through all my other fans, 3 antec 120mm tri cool case fans on low, arctic freezer 7 pro on optimal speed, hiper which cant be heard in bottom of case.. and graphics card fan is easily heard because of its unique whine, even on the lowest 40%. Any load on the fan and it cuts through loud and clear. However when I am in game I usually wear my headphones, but it can be an issue on quieter moments, or if I play over my sound system instead.
I've been playing alien swarm for hours tonight, and the fan was hitting 60% and the temp was only reaching 50c, seems like bad noise to make for that kind of speed and temp. I'm going to put my 8800gtx back in, just to compare again - it never bugged me like this on dynamic fan profile, even at 60%.
going to try and upload a sound clip.
yeah, you're a bit late there m8, look at the date of the article
was discussed earlier in the thread, but a refresher is all good 
even with that heatsink, it's not going to change the sound of the fan unit they fitted.edit: have made a quick recording, holding a mic just outside of the side panel of my antec p180 case, which is all solid, boosted the volume a bit after, but not normalized as it would sound too deafening. You can hear the fan at the start idle around 40%, then I load uningine, and you can hear the fan spin up (reached 60% i think at least), you hear a slight rattling for a tiny bit, but that is just the mic picking the sound up, you can hear the sound of the graphics card fan though, and the rest of the white noise is basically the whoosh of the other fans.
Click here to download the zip containing the .wav recording 23mb zip file.
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How long does it usually take for manufacturers to pump out third party coolers for new GPU's?, what with a lot of these cards fans being quite noisy whoever comes out with a good solution will surely make a few quid.
Excellent thanks! That kinda ties in with the 26th that I'm hearing. Hopefully I got on the pre-order early enough.
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im guessing a while i still cant find any gtx 470 3rd party coolers and because so many gtx 460 are custom pcb its not like they can do 1 model to fit all..
re my order:
"Your package is ready to be sent. Please find your package number below. Product Current availability in stock
SPARKLE GeForce GTX 460 - 1024 MB GDDR5 - PCI-Express 2.0 (SXX4601024D5SNM)
but it hasnt actually been sent yet.
Hi, out of curiosity what brand is your card? nice OC btw!
There's a video review of the Palit card here which shows the fan noise:
It's at around the 5 minute mark.
It's a very annoying sound that's always there, but is really noticable in quiet moments. It's not particually loud, but you can't easily ignore it as the whine cuts through everything.
It's at around the 5 minute mark.
It's a very annoying sound that's always there, but is really noticable in quiet moments. It's not particually loud, but you can't easily ignore it as the whine cuts through everything.
I've noticed if I have a fan blowing directly on the back of my Sonic Platinums that they heat up A LOT as the hot air gets trapped whilst being expelled out of the back of the card, so its best to avoid this as quite a bit of heat comes out of the back.
Have a fan blowing on the side and the less air pressure at the back the better.
Have a fan blowing on the side and the less air pressure at the back the better.
What's the warranty on that Sparkle?
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not sure... in the US sparkle offer a lifetime warranty though...edit found a uk web tech support brief on the sparkle europe site that says all post 2008 gfx cards have a 2 year warranty.
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yes. but my order is about to be dispatched... any minute now....Now...NOW!!!?
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OK, I'm definitely back in. Here's a quote from a guy who's just bought 2 x Gigabyte 1GB OC versions...
"The good news for me is they ARE very quiet.... I have it at 82% fan speed and it is as quiet as the rest of my case fans for this Gigabyte 1GB pair (dual fans). Color me impressed on that. The other good news is that they run like gangbusters in the only game I've tested so far, BattleField Bad Company 2. Also, I was able to flash them with an MSI BIOS that was modded to allow up to 1.212v (thank you NCspecV81 of XS) instead of the 1.087v normal cap in Afterburner.
Running at 2560x1600 8x CSAA, 16x HQ Anisotropic Filtering (AF), max in-game settings with HBAO on in DX11 mode *AND* Transparency MSAA enabled in the control panel, my overclocked Gigabyte 1GB GTX 460's in SLI are pulling off around 55minimum (usually 60), and 75-80 average FPS for me across the different maps of BFBC2. This is, mind you, with them running at PCI-E 2.0 x4 instead of the full x16, which means around a 10% performance loss from what I have read.
The bad news is I can't nail down a stable overclock yet like I was hoping to that is sky-high. So far I am running 880mhz core on both cards with 3900mhz on the memory... not quite as high as I was looking for, and this is with 1.100v on the cores. They currently max out at around 76c for the pair at these speeds after an hour+ of gaming in BFBC2 with the 82% fan speed (note again that it REALLY is quiet, these fans don't get loud at all
).
The silver lining here, however, is that I am able to get 950+mhz on the core with 4000mhz-4100mhz memory with 1.212v, but the temperatures go up into the mid-high 80's... I haven't fiddled enough with lower voltages and various clock combos yet to see if I can get a fully gaming-stable setup in the low-to-mid 900's, though it should be possible since some report doing it with single cards. I'm not sure if I'm just running into a barrier due to SLI or what, yet, but we'll see.
I really must say how quiet these are, again, even at 82%... it sounds like my eVGA GTX 470 did at 45-50% fan
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"The good news for me is they ARE very quiet.... I have it at 82% fan speed and it is as quiet as the rest of my case fans for this Gigabyte 1GB pair (dual fans). Color me impressed on that. The other good news is that they run like gangbusters in the only game I've tested so far, BattleField Bad Company 2. Also, I was able to flash them with an MSI BIOS that was modded to allow up to 1.212v (thank you NCspecV81 of XS) instead of the 1.087v normal cap in Afterburner.
Running at 2560x1600 8x CSAA, 16x HQ Anisotropic Filtering (AF), max in-game settings with HBAO on in DX11 mode *AND* Transparency MSAA enabled in the control panel, my overclocked Gigabyte 1GB GTX 460's in SLI are pulling off around 55minimum (usually 60), and 75-80 average FPS for me across the different maps of BFBC2. This is, mind you, with them running at PCI-E 2.0 x4 instead of the full x16, which means around a 10% performance loss from what I have read.
The bad news is I can't nail down a stable overclock yet like I was hoping to that is sky-high. So far I am running 880mhz core on both cards with 3900mhz on the memory... not quite as high as I was looking for, and this is with 1.100v on the cores. They currently max out at around 76c for the pair at these speeds after an hour+ of gaming in BFBC2 with the 82% fan speed (note again that it REALLY is quiet, these fans don't get loud at all
The silver lining here, however, is that I am able to get 950+mhz on the core with 4000mhz-4100mhz memory with 1.212v, but the temperatures go up into the mid-high 80's... I haven't fiddled enough with lower voltages and various clock combos yet to see if I can get a fully gaming-stable setup in the low-to-mid 900's, though it should be possible since some report doing it with single cards. I'm not sure if I'm just running into a barrier due to SLI or what, yet, but we'll see.
I really must say how quiet these are, again, even at 82%... it sounds like my eVGA GTX 470 did at 45-50% fan