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Powercolor R9 nano couldnt resist!
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Custom fan profile in MSI AB?
Found the fan very smooth and quiet on mine. The coil whine however was there on one of them.
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Just had a listen to the Nano in a Techpower review. The card they used suffered from coil whine at load. The fan was fine for a while but as temperatures rose it is not a pleasant sound to my ears. I would see if your case can manage the temps at 30% possibly 35% as that still sounded not bad but when the profile went to 38-39% along with that whine it was unbearable to my ears.
Your card could possibly suffer from the coil whine as well which made this card worse. Here is the link. The first 30 seconds are at idle which sounds like most other cards.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Nano/35.html
Who ever at AMD sent this card out for review should be shot.
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While I know what you mean, I actually think it's nice to think that AMD don't cherry pick the review cards. Downside is obviously things like that, plus point would be that review sites don't see better temps or performance than we're likely to.
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It's good he got sent that, it lets people know what they can be like and from what I've read plenty are like it. It's another lottery just like the Fury X pump, although that was a lottery you were sure to win
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Yea we would all love honesty but the Nano while i do here reports of Coil whine does not seem any worse than just about every other powerful card these days. It's just more incompetence where it's certainly not needed.
It's good he got sent that, it lets people know what they can be like and from what I've read plenty are like it. It's another lottery just like the Fury X pump, although that was a lottery you were sure to win
As above Nano like every other powerful card can come with coil whine. For AMD to send a card to Techpower who are obviously a big Tech site having that Whine is just criminal. I can't remember any reviews of the gtx970 having this but i could be wrong. The gtx970 is known to suffer from whine more than any recent card. It's like men versus boys when it comes to presentation which makes all the difference.
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There's no coil whine, I can safely say. What is disappointing is that I moved from a GTX970 and that was silent under load. This card is not that at all, in fact without some kind of frame rate limiter it's borderline unbearable.
I'm really not happy, I thought this card was supposed to be "OMG LOOK AT HOW GOOD WE CAN DO POWER DRAW"?
I'm really not happy, I thought this card was supposed to be "OMG LOOK AT HOW GOOD WE CAN DO POWER DRAW"?
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With the Nano having a stock cooler i am not surprised to much as they are never usually as good as what the vendors use. I take it your case has good airflow as obviously that would be another factor along with ambient room temperature.
Edit: having looked at your Sig the case looks small but more than up to the job. Most likely another stock cooler that does the job but not up to people's standard's who enjoy there quietness.
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Are you overclocking at all? Also what GTX970 are you using that is silent under load by comparison. I do understand your dilemma and would not put up with a GPU that you cannot bare due to noise levels.
Well I'd happily trade some card length for a silent cooler. I'm going to try some things and see what happens, I have 14 days to try and tame this thing.
Not overclocked, only at stock. And this is coming from an inno3D GTX970 dual-fan. Even when Furmarked that card would only spin up in a way that isn't intrusive, i.e it's more of a moving-air sound whereas the Nano is whiney and piercing.
Not overclocked, only at stock. And this is coming from an inno3D GTX970 dual-fan. Even when Furmarked that card would only spin up in a way that isn't intrusive, i.e it's more of a moving-air sound whereas the Nano is whiney and piercing.
I know what you mean when it comes to a different type of wind noise, some GPUs may actually be quieter according to a dBa meter but it's the type of noise that's important. I had a Gigabyte Fury X briefly and the pump whine was unbearable to me.
I'm not sure waiting 14 days will help you fix the problem other than learning to adjust to the different noise.
Well I have mine and I'm impressed. Sure it has a slight bit of coil whine and the fan is a tad noisy, but I cannot hear it while playing GTA V with my surround speakers hehe.
The performance on the otherhand is mind blowing for the price. I'm getting solid 60fps+ in GTA V at 4k res with everything just about maxed out except AA compared to the R9 290 (had to tone down a lot of settings to keep it above 30fps).
Upped the power to +20% and I think it stays at 985 on the core.
The performance on the otherhand is mind blowing for the price. I'm getting solid 60fps+ in GTA V at 4k res with everything just about maxed out except AA compared to the R9 290 (had to tone down a lot of settings to keep it above 30fps).
Upped the power to +20% and I think it stays at 985 on the core.
Well I can mount a 120mm fan right below it, I was wondering if putting a Corsair AF120 there to just feed it it's own supply of cold air would make a difference.
Looking at pics of the NCASE, is there room? Being so close the deadspace around the motor/hub and way most fans push air around the periphery might hurt temps but worth a try.
edit: loving the case, tempted to get one.
edit: loving the case, tempted to get one.
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12.4% Overclock on that sample is much better than I thought these cards could do.
The thing is a Nano is a full Fiji card apart from power draw. So these are binned chips that run at ~875-975 MHz at stock. You can and will be able to push these to close to (or equal) normal Fury X speeds by simply raising the power limits to 50%. Obviously all that power efficiency goes out the window and the noise levels increase dramatically but unless you plan a small mini HTPC build that won't matter.
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Is it a decent aftermarket card? Then imo yes. 980 is the card for now (DX11 game, next 12-18 months) and the Nano for me will only get stronger (esp w/DX12 games)
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Mine came today
I ain't bought a new graphics card in over 4 years and I must say all you get now a days is a box with a card, a driver disc and that's your lot. I remember getting molex adapters, dvi to vga, dvi to hdmi, crossfire bridges the lot.
How times have changed.
I ain't bought a new graphics card in over 4 years and I must say all you get now a days is a box with a card, a driver disc and that's your lot. I remember getting molex adapters, dvi to vga, dvi to hdmi, crossfire bridges the lot.
How times have changed.