970 fanless idle

[Telecaster]

Are all 970s capable of this?

Only I've tried running the BIOS tweeker and removed the low fan limit as per here and it still isn't fanless at idle

MSI AB shows 0% but it's actually at 900RPM

 

[Aretak]

No, only certain models (I know Palit, MSI and Asus' cards all do). If it didn't do 0rpm out of the box, it's not likely to do it at all. Which exact card do you have?

 

[Verk]

Main one I know of that does it is the Asus Strix. Fans stay off until it reaches a certain temperature.

 

[Td0g]

Which card did you try it on. I saw in that thread they got it going on the g1 and a few others, is interesting it doesn't work on all cards

 

[D1craig]

The EVGA have an official bios update you can get that gives them a 0% fan mode. I done it for mine.

 

[Telecaster]

Which card did you try it on. I saw in that thread they got it going on the g1 and a few others, is interesting it doesn't work on all cards

Yeah, altering the bios seems to work on most of them, with a few exceptions.

I'm wondering what prevents it even when you set the values to zero, somesort of hardware limitation? Card is the Zotac amp core edition extreme, cooler is more than capable, one of the best I've seen.

 

[Td0g]

Yeah, altering the bios seems to work on most of them, with a few exceptions.

I'm wondering what prevents it even when you set the values to zero, somesort of hardware limitation? Card is the Zotac amp core edition extreme, cooler is more than capable, one of the best I've seen.

That card is awesome looking + great performance, im sad it cant do fanless. Yeah im not sure what could cause it. Maybe the minimum fan speed is controlled by a different value than other 970s, that isn't editable in this bios tweaker.
I remember the guy who made the video saying he had to mess about a lot with changing differnt values/ combinations of before he got it work, seems a bit risky if your feeling around in the dark, but he got it to work, so was worth it.
He said he had to set min fan speed to 0 and set some other value.

 

[Alternateline]

MSI AB shows 0% but it's actually at 900RPM

I know this isn't the issue but is your card noisy at this level? I liked the sound of this feature on the 970 and was (marginally) factoring it into my own purchase plans!

 

[Telecaster]

Not noisy at all, in fact most people would class it as silent and it doesn't even shift from 900rpm until it gets to about 65c.

I'm just a bit OCD with noise and the rest of the rig is totally passive at idle except for the GPU.

 

[Alternateline]

I totally get it!

 

[mahius]

Linus Techtips on Youtube has a tutorial for this. Check it out, since apparently all 900 series cards can do the idle fanless.

 

[Telecaster]

Linus Techtips on Youtube has a tutorial for this. Check it out, since apparently all 900 series cards can do the idle fanless.

Yeah, that's the link I posted in my OP, that tutorial doesn't work for every card it seems, hence my post.

 

[EVGAdominik]

The EVGA have an official bios update you can get that gives them a 0% fan mode. I done it for mine.

Hi, this BIOS update is now already preinstalled on all cards with the ACX 2.0 cooler. BR

 

[Telecaster]

Is flashing the bios to that of another card a wise idea? won't I lose all the power and clock settings etc?

 

[Telecaster]

I think it must be a hardware setting or something outside of the BIOS, I've just flashed one of the other 970 fanless BIOS to it and it does exactly the same. Shame.

 

[bobboberts]

I presume Gigabyte have shown no interest in a BIOS update for the 970 G1 card?

 

[ShivP]

Which card are you running Telecaster?

 

[Td0g]

Which card are you running Telecaster?

Zotac amp extreme core, think he mentioned above. Nice card!

 

[Telecaster]

Yes it is a stunning card, shame about this issue, must be a hardware limit or something.