Palit GTX 460 Sonic (Loud? Hot? Rubbish?)

[bfar]

I have the gainward ones, which are pretty much identical. I was much happier when I put vrm and ram sinks on em.

In my view, any card that needs a dual slot cooler should have a heat sink over all the major components, end of story.

 

[MOOGLEYS]

I had a Palit it was not a lot quiter than my dyson hoover under load... It went back for a Gigabyte which actually runs hotter but is completely silent so much so that i can hear my hard drive chattering away.......

 

[SirCanealot]

At first this didn't concern me until I opened the box and I noticed it has a cooler that vents internally. I was of course disappointed and confused; but this didn't prepare me for what was to come next..

Coolers than vent internally are generally much more efficient than ones that don't. Although not in all cases and obviously not in your case, don't put a cooler down just because it vents internally. I mean, would you take a 20c reduction in video card temps (and fan speed) if it means CPU temps increase by 1-2c?

And running Furmark for 13 hours was a waste of power
I never run it for maybe more than 30 minutes or so at the absolute most (mostly just 5-10 minutes to check what a "worst case" does to fanspeed, etc).
I've found it doesn't even crash my Asus 5770 CuCore very reliably. The only reliable benchmark I've had is Crysis Warhead. If it can run Crysis Warhead 3 runs it's pretty stable. But I can run Furmark for ages on the same unstable overclock ¬_¬

 

[seekdestroy]

I've got a Palit GTX 460 2GB version, It also runs quite hot around 80C when playing mafia, but i didn't really notice the noise until i took my headphones off. As soon as a aftermarket cooler that fits comes out i'll be putting it on

 

[mmj_uk]

Drunkenmaster why do you think MSI etc have payed the Furmark developers for their stress testing technology? if it was dangerous to cards they wouldn't and that's pretty simple logic really.

The only reason people such as you are even giving Furmark a bad name is because AMD took shortcuts on the 48x0 series and were found out by it, AMD then did some damage limitation claiming it to be unrealistic load which to this day you are still parroting and then they conveniently rectified it for the 5 series, why would they rectifiy it if it wasn't a fault? all processors/gpu apart from the 4xxx series Radeon are designed with full utilization in mind but there will always be some duff ones that get killed (faster) by it.

 

[An Exception]

I had a Palit it was not a lot quiter than my dyson hoover under load... It went back for a Gigabyte which actually runs hotter but is completely silent so much so that i can hear my hard drive chattering away.......

Wasn't there something about Palit not putting VRM heatsinks on retail cards to save money, but review cards had heatsinks that ran allot cooler and quieter?

 

[RiGoRmOrTiS]

I had a Palit it was not a lot quiter than my dyson hoover under load... It went back for a Gigabyte which actually runs hotter but is completely silent so much so that i can hear my hard drive chattering away.......

nice to know I'm not alone.

Coolers than vent internally are generally much more efficient than ones that don't.

well regardless; its hotter than the other externally venting card regardless of whether the side of the case is on or off. So it isn't being very "efficient".

But I'm not picky; I wouldn't even care about thermal performance if this thing didn't sound like it was going to launch out of the PCI-E slot and into the wall when playing games.

as a side note; whatever 13 hours tests I've done previously are not the subject of this thread and not even related to the graphics card in question.

as for how long you should test a card. Like I've already mentioned; I was having huge problems with games locking; I used Furmark to find out which card was causing it. The first time it locked after 3 hours; this shows 30 mins isnt a long enough test. but this isnt the subject of this thread really..

 

[skotish|]

hi all; I'm at a loss; my patience is wearing thin and I honestly wish I'd never even cosidered upgrading my PC. But maybe someone can offer me some advice.

I recently ordered 2 GTX-460's from overclockers. It was the OcUK Value 1GB cards. When I first received them they were 2 Sparkle Cards. Both ran very well; were exhaust coolers and could maintain a good temperature of 78c-80c under 100% load for 13 hours straight in FurMark. They were not loud and fan speeds barely (if ever) hit 60%.

Unfortunately one of them was faulty and I had to return it for a replacement. This was done quickly; however I received a Palit Sonic GTX 460 as the replacement (appears brand new and sealed). At first this didn't concern me until I opened the box and I noticed it has a cooler that vents internally. I was of course disappointed and confused; but this didn't prepare me for what was to come next..

This thing runs 10c higher idle than my sparkle card and when under load this thing needs to throw the fans into take off speeds (80-90%) just to maintain a temperature of 80-83c; all the while the sparkle is comfortably sitting at 77c with the fans only going 59%. at these speeds the noise is totally unbearable and its making playing any game or sitting near the PC during Furmark stress tests totally maddening. If I'm being honest this card looks, sounds and feels like a dog. am I missing something here or have I been handed a cheap dud as a replacement.

When I ordered the OcUK Value card it showed a picture of a card with an exhaust cooler and didn’t say anything; anywhere that the card may come with a different kind of cooler. Indeed the first cards I received did have the correct kind of cooler as expected. What can I do guys?

Have you installed the new bios for the cards might make a difference people do have issues with the palit cards shame really as i dont

 

[RiGoRmOrTiS]

yeah i thought about that and ran the file and it told me my card doesnt need an update

 

[MeatLoaf]

When i picked up my Zotac 460 i had an OcUK card brought thru as well, it was a Palit

But if you have recieved a Sonic edition then you have recieved a card thats faster than the reference card surely?

And if youre running SLI then one card will be hotter than the other.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

I'll bring this to someone's attention and close this thread if you have raised this in the appropriate section.

 

[RiGoRmOrTiS]

I'll bring this to someone's attention and close this thread if you have raised this in the appropriate section.

Thanks