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New cooler for 6950/6970?

Gti

Gti

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When are we going to see companies putting on new cooler designs for these cards?
I really wanted to buy one of these before the VAT increase along with a new system but the reports of grating tonal noise when xfired puts me off as i was thinking of going that route at some point.
 
I can only just hear my 6970 fans at 50% over my antec 900 case fans. Card never goes above 70C at 950/1450. I do agree though that any higher and we have a jet fighter on our hands :P
 
I might add that I run two monitors in HD, so fan sits in windows @ 32% and temps are around 67C, but even with this the noise is fine, it's when it goes into gaming, for example, i was just in Napoleon total war and the fan noise is unbearable, but oddly it's fine in BO and not too bad in BC2 with full Graphics.

It has good airflow with fans close by in a big case and mesh side panel, could do with a bit of a tidy mind!
 
I run two screens also and it's still so quiet and runs very cool

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I don't know what total war is like but
If your playing a game like bfbc and the noise is ok this must be because of all the guns and stuff on the game cancelling out the fan noise ?
Total war I'm guessing is a quieter game ? Hence you can hear the fan more
 
Was hoping too see something from ac cooling, there Accelero XTREME for 5970 looks quite good but I dont think it supports the 6970 sadly....

Am sure theres one in the pipeline.
 
blimey, that is cool, my GPU clock sits at 500Mhz and 1375MHz in windows.

Total War has lots of noise in it too, and you can defo hear the fans, BC2 only starts to get noisy when there is a lot of smoke, and BO runs fine once Vsync is on (60FPS), otherwise it is very loud (130-140fps). I don't think it's optimised for total war tbh.

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I can only just hear my 6970 fans at 50% over my antec 900 case fans. Card never goes above 70C at 950/1450.
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This pretty much sums it up.

To this guy, 50% fan speed gaming is acceptable, and at that speed it ll run really cool. He is quite clearly used to a case much louder than mine. I m not saying his case is noisy, but at that speed the fan TO MY EARS would be benchmark only loud. Anything above 28% brings it above the noise of my case.

There are two schools here; I dont think there is much difference in the cards; those with standard noise cases and those who really go for silence.

Bottom line is this; if you run it at stock card is pretty damn quiet no question, and temps are standard, nothing to worry about.

If you crossfire, don't expect silence. The tonal noise has actually died down in my card, or I have got used to it.

In my experience airflow isnt all too significant, the card relies on pressure- its not like a low speed cpu heatsink where you need to keep cool air rushing over it, it is a far more brute force affair to cooling.

If you overclock a custom fan profile becomes advisable as the stock fan profile tends to only really ramp up a bit once the gpu has already got warm and even then will not really start dealing with it.

Edit; forgot to say that with a custom fan profile you can tailor it to your needs and noise is pretty reasonable and I just came off a zalman vf3000.
 
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I came from having my previous gpu on water which was perfectly silent. My 6950 is pretty inaudible at 40% and at 50% I find it noticeable but not too much of an issue. It's flashed so running at stock 6970 speeds and I find 50% is reasonable whilst keeping the temps reasonable too. Definitely will put it on the water loop at some point though
 
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I run two screens also and it's still so quiet and runs very cool

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WOW thats something else!!

hmmmm i have two 6950's and i thought one of them ran cool but compared to that it doesnt. well i shall be applying arctic to one of them tomorrow, will see how it goes. both vtx's.

wonder why theres so much difference, i can have a room temp of 18c with a very well vented case and not get those temps. it cant be just heatsink application and paste can it?
 
WOW thats something else!!

hmmmm i have two 6950's and i thought one of them ran cool but compared to that it doesnt.
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You for real?

Those are idle temps and could be related to any number of things that have absolutley nothing to do with how hot the gpus get when it counts...at load.
 
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Oh right, so you can't judge a load temp off a known idle temp?

One of my vtx's idles at 44 and can get to 83+ normal gaming.. The other idles at 38 and if I really get the explosions and smoke going in a game, it can get to 72 for a split second. Not saying you are wrong, just want you to know what I'm going off.
 
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470 OC in SLI

Idle

Core:- 35 top / 32 bottom
PCB:- 27 / 26

They are anything but, cool running cards on load :rolleyes:
 
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