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GTX460 - Noisy?

KidCanary

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Bought an Asus Direct CU TOP GTX460 yesterday - And I'm a little concerned about the noise it's producing under load.

At idle it's unnoticable, but as soon as I start a game it increases quite dramatically. I know it'll obviously get louder when it's being used as it needs more cooling, but this seems a little excessive.

Are the cards normally loud, or have I got a bad one?
 
Yeah they are pretty loud, I have a GTX 480 and thats pretty loud, you can either get a custom fan or watercool it if you wnat to change the noise factor. Or if you download MSI afterburner you can change the fan profile to something more bearable if the temps are OK
 
cplhardnut said:
My Evga gtx 460 is pretty loud too.
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Gtiracer said:
Yeah they are pretty loud, I have a GTX 480 and thats pretty loud, you can either get a custom fan or watercool it if you wnat to change the noise factor. Or if you download MSI afterburner you can change the fan profile to something more bearable if the temps are OK
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Both of these are not comparable to the non reference cooler on the Asus card. Both the ECGA blower cooler on the 460 and the 480 in general are known to be pretty loud.

From what I have read they (the Asus cards) shouldn't be loud at all (at least no louder than the decent reference cooler on the 460).

It could be that you have got one with a louder than normal fan or the auto fan speed is set too aggressively. You can manually set a user defined fan profile using MSI afterburner (found under the settings section).

It could also be ramping up the fan due to poor case cooling. What case and cooling are you running?
 
My Gigabyte GTX460 is effectively silent. Doesn't ever go above 60 degrees either. Is the Asus card an external exhaust cooler? They're generally noisier.
 
oweneades said:
It could be that you have got one with a louder than normal fan or the auto fan speed is set too aggressively. You can manually set a user defined fan profile using MSI afterburner (found under the settings section).

It could also be ramping up the fan due to poor case cooling. What case and cooling are you running?
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The case is an NZXT Hush - Cooling is two 120mm case fans, and a Freezer 7 Pro on the processor.

I'll have a look at Afterburner. Most of this is a bit over my head though.

I think perhaps I'm just being a bit fussy. My last graphics card was half broken, and would only work on 2D stuff, which meant the fans never really kicked in, and I'd been using it that way since February, so I'd gotten used to a very quiet computer.
 
Been doing a bit of testing with Afterburner, and found out some perhaps useful things.

The computer gets much noisier in games/Furmark than it does if I turn the fan speed up to max in Afterburner, which makes me think it's possibly the CPU fan or PSU that's generating most of the noise.

I also tried ATI Tool. When it's displaying the rotating 3D cube there's a strange sort of whining noise coming from somewhere in the computer, fading in and out quite rapidly. I don't know if this is indicative of anything though.


Thoughts?
 
KidCanary said:
there's a strange sort of whining noise coming from somewhere in the computer, fading in and out quite rapidly. I don't know if this is indicative of anything though.


Thoughts?
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My motherboard, a socket 754 Asus K8V (Athlon-64) does this whining noise with ATI tool. It actually does it with a few specific 3d things but when it does it in a game I don't notice it because obviously I have my sound on.

I've owned the board for about 6 years now, it's prolly some kind of cap squeal or perhaps interference or something. I never did find an answer to it!
 
coupe69 said:
What PSU do you have? Is it a PWM fan on the Freezer 7 Pro?
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The fan on the Freezer 7 Pro is PWM (according to Arctic Cooling's page on it)

The PSU is a Corsair VX 550w.

Pulseammo said:
My motherboard, a socket 754 Asus K8V (Athlon-64) does this whining noise with ATI tool. It actually does it with a few specific 3d things but when it does it in a game I don't notice it because obviously I have my sound on.

I've owned the board for about 6 years now, it's prolly some kind of cap squeal or perhaps interference or something. I never did find an answer to it!
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Interesting. Has yours had the whine for the full 6 years? If so then it's probably not the sound of something about to break, which is good news for me.
 
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