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Which GTX 580 is the quietest?

Treznor

Treznor

Treznor

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As the title suggests, I'm looking for the one which has the quietest fan under load.

I currently have crossfire 5870 - so I know the performance is similar, just that the noise from both the cards is now more than I can bare.

I'm not keen on purchasing a seperate cooler, so whichever 580 has the quietest fan, I'm certainly interested in to know your experience and advice on this matter.
 
The performance is similar, no its not, 5870 is hugely faster than a 580gtx, like, 50% average maybe, not even the same ballpark.

Noise though I'll give you, the fans are silent but any increase in temps, two cards too close or warmer case and they start to get irritatingly loud.

Have you got yours in slots next to each other so one card is almost blocked by the other, any chance you could put the 2nd card in another slot 8x pci-e slot wouldn't matter, not all boards have the option. 3rd party coolers and xfire can be an issue unless you have a mobo with great spacing of the 8/16x slots.

As for a 580gtx, stock fan is supposed to be pretty quiet, not as quiet under load, the hotter your case/room/overclock the louder that fan will get.

THe phantom, gainward version is supposed to be quiet, and I'd expect the ASus CU version to be quieter(but for such a big sink and two fans my 5850 version wasn't particularly quiet under load), MSI twin fan jobby will likely be your quietest versions though not sure on cost.


If you want something quiet then http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-143-GW&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1010 that seems like the best bet.

A 570gtx isn't much slower than a 580gtx, both get spanked by a 5870 xfire, both would have similar raised noise issues if you went with SLI with a couple of either.


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-115-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

Something like that in xfire is likely the best bet performance wise, hmm, thought it was a 6870, you lose gpgpu functions but get quieter, still very fast performance, 2x6870's definately out perform a 580gtx, I believe 2x6850's do aswell, decent quiet cooler.

OCUK don't have a great option of 3rd party cooled 6870's so you might look elsewhere for something similar.

Obviously switching to 2x5870 with third party cooling IF you can find some cheap 5870's with 3rd party cooling, or looking at something like a Zalman cooler for each card, but that would only work if you have spacing for the cards.
 
Performance wise

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_580_SLI/8.html

remember that 5870 xf is noticeably faster than a 5970, which is quite easily beating a 580gtx there, and newer drivers seem to be even better for xfire scaling.

One reason 2x6850/6870's might be better for you is what they lack in overall speed vs the 5870, they make up for and even surpass in xfire on occasion as 68xx and 69xx scaling is a good 10-15% better than 58xx scaling.


http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_6870_CrossFire/8.html

as you can see the 6870 xfire spanks the 5970, which spanks the 580gtx.

From your setup I'd say the 580gtx is a very expensive downgrade, so I'd look for a cheaper downgrade, or a side grade. IE a 570gtx at least would save you £100-150 yet only offer 15% less than a 580gtx, or a 6950 and unlock to a 6970, about the same performance as a 570gtx yet £200.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_6850_CrossFire/8.html

2x6850's, again faster than a 5970, but not by as much and probably quite close to your current setup, are fairly cheap cards and they overclock pretty damn well.

Honestly cost wise 2x6850/6870's would probably cost not much more than what you could get for selling your cards, offer the same/improved performance, better xfire scaling and VASTLY better value than a 580gtx.
 
It's not just the noise that is putting me off, just a combination of several little issues, that are making me want a change.

I'm just getting fed up of the issues with crossfire. 11.2 drivers were released, I uninstalled and reinstalled to 11.2, no option to enable crossfire, no matter what i did, there was no tick box to enable crossfire, so go back to earlier driver revision and crossfire tick box is there.

While reinstalling, it blue screen's everytime it tries to installed the HDMI drivers, so had to remove that from the install options.

The noise of both fans is insane, unfortunately in crossfire they are close together, I could put one card in a slot further away, but then the crossfire cable is not long enough.

In a single card setup, I can barely hear the fan's at full load, so it would seem that its just the proximity of the cards, even though the temps dont go too high

I've had to recently RMA one of them as it had seperate issues, and the returned card just will not run at its default clocks, so I have to downclock them for it to be stable. I could RMA it again, but just a combination of things, make me want to just get rid of crossfire altogether.

I know the scaling of 6950's is cheaper and makes more sense for price and performance, but I just dont want to be dealing with the noise.

Having to turn the sound up very loud or wear headphones should not be needed to drown out the noise of the fans!
 
Treznor said:
As the title suggests, I'm looking for the one which has the quietest fan under load.

I currently have crossfire 5870 - so I know the performance is similar, just that the noise from both the cards is now more than I can bare.

I'm not keen on purchasing a seperate cooler, so whichever 580 has the quietest fan, I'm certainly interested in to know your experience and advice on this matter.
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Why not get GTX 460 in SLI ? It will laugh at your 5870CF in most cases and will be a quiet setup and cheaper than a single GTX580.

If your flush though, you could go for GTX580 in SLI which will annihilate the 5870CF. Granted it will be not be as quiet, but if you can afford 580 SLI you could get some good 3rd party cooling.
 
Hmm, most motherboards that have alternative spacing I've had will come with a longer xfire cable. I think basically all my AMD cards for ages have had a standard spacing xfire connector but my Crosshair mobo came with a extra long connector as its got the 1st/3rd pci-e slots set up for crossfire as standard.

Realistically you've got to RMA the faulty card because, you're going to want to do that before you sell it anyway so I'd try that. Drivers can be iffy if you've got a faulty card because that fault can be making it not be picked up properly and the like.

I have to say I never had any issue with 5850 xfire, in terms of drivers or anything else, just trying to fit two cards in with 3rd party cooling was a little, creative.

I'm sure somewhere sells the extra long xfire connectors, but then if the mobo has the slots but isn't set up for it, you don't really want to put a card in a 4x slot, 8x won't matter much at all.

I'd RMA the card, often if you've received a faulty card back companies tend to be a bit better with quicker delivery/collection from experience, order a longer connector, then try them further apart when the replacement comes, if its still loud then sell them and grab whatever.

Just know performance wise 580gtx won't come close and isn't great value. 6950/570gtx will be a better option but won't match performance obviously, to maintain performance you'd have to sli/xfire one setup or another, 460's, 560's, 6870/6950's would be the best value/performance combinations. Something with third party cooling like those 6850's should do drastically better in xfire setups with limited space.
 
CUDA said:
Why not get GTX 460 in SLI ? It will laugh at your 5870CF in most cases and will be a quiet setup and cheaper than a single GTX580.

If your flush though, you could go for GTX580 in SLI which will annihilate the 5870CF. Granted it will be not be as quiet, but if you can afford 580 SLI you could get some good 3rd party cooling.
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Why would you even bother lying? :rolleyes:
 
kylew said:
Why would you even bother lying? :rolleyes:
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So where are the lies ?, or could it be you just do not have a clue ? I'll take a pop shot at the latter.
 
http://hardocp.com/article/2010/09/16/nv_gtx_460_1gb_sli_vs_ati_hd_5870_cfx_redux/

you really are a donkey aren't you, I'm too lazy to post pictures WITHOUT LINKING TO THE REVIEW.

But the fixed results take the BF2 result 90fps max, 62fps average, or 20% faster

The AvP result goes to 194fps max, 109.9 average, or OVER 40% faster.

No, clutching at straws with incorrect results, well done, real results in the two games you list put the 5870xfire on average of just those two games, 30% ahead.

EDIT:- I was comparing the incorrect results you posted to the corrected 5870 results, but the 460gtx results went up marginally. Though of course you failed to mention the 460gtx is overclocked 20% and is relatively near its limit, while frankly a 5870 with good cooling will easily do 950Mhz and both my 5850's with good cooling did over 1000Mhz overclocks, so add 20% more on to the 5870 results for "fair overclocking" results, and you actually end up roughly 40% ahead in BF2 and 50% or so in AvP............... 460gtx is not even in the same ballpark.
 
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nayan89 said:
Wait for GTX590 and sell your 5870's to cover for most of the cost.
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The GTX 590 is going to be mighty powerful, but if the OP wants a quiet card then I don't think this is going to be the one for him.

As for covering the cost with two 5870s, they seem to be selling for around £150 on the MM - so £300 for both. Most likely the OP would need to add in another £300 to cover the cost of a GTX 590.
 
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To answer your question. i'v just bought a Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "GOOD Edition" and the fans on it are exceptionally quiet. I haven't heard other gtx 580s to compare but you can't get quieter than no noise.
You can start to hear the fans at 50% speed and they'r pretty damn noisy at 100% but they never go over 35% unless i manually turn them up.
 
CUDA said:
Why not get GTX 460 in SLI ? It will laugh at your 5870CF in most cases and will be a quiet setup and cheaper than a single GTX580.

If your flush though, you could go for GTX580 in SLI which will annihilate the 5870CF. Granted it will be not be as quiet, but if you can afford 580 SLI you could get some good 3rd party cooling.
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I guess this is the wrong forum for you to troll :D
 
drunkenmaster said:
http://hardocp.com/article/2010/09/16/nv_gtx_460_1gb_sli_vs_ati_hd_5870_cfx_redux/

you really are a donkey aren't you, I'm too lazy to post pictures WITHOUT LINKING TO THE REVIEW.

But the fixed results take the BF2 result 90fps max, 62fps average, or 20% faster

The AvP result goes to 194fps max, 109.9 average, or OVER 40% faster.

No, clutching at straws with incorrect results, well done, real results in the two games you list put the 5870xfire on average of just those two games, 30% ahead.

EDIT:- I was comparing the incorrect results you posted to the corrected 5870 results, but the 460gtx results went up marginally. Though of course you failed to mention the 460gtx is overclocked 20% and is relatively near its limit, while frankly a 5870 with good cooling will easily do 950Mhz and both my 5850's with good cooling did over 1000Mhz overclocks, so add 20% more on to the 5870 results for "fair overclocking" results, and you actually end up roughly 40% ahead in BF2 and 50% or so in AvP............... 460gtx is not even in the same ballpark.
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Well that guy doesn't even have a common sense about graphics cards so it might be a waste of time taking it seriously with him

Next time we could expect ppl of his kind saying that GTX 240 could destroy 6990 by a large margin
 
Thanks for the advice, I game at 1900 by 1200.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I could tolerate the noise of dual cards before, now its just more of an irritant, but that could be perhaps as I'm playing rift and its not the kind of game you drown the noise out with rocket or machine gun fire, so I guess I'm just noticing it more!

Guess I will wait for the 590 see what that brings to the table, at the very least it should bring the prices of other cards down a bit
 
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