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5870 Noise level help

Skeng

Skeng

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Well I'm in two minds about buying a 5870. I was going to wait until the GTX380 and then decide which to get. Although the Nvidia card will most likely cost a small fortune and will most likely operate around 10% better than a 5870.

Anyway here's the point I was getting to...Currently I am able to get a XFX 5870 for bang on £300 I have more than enough money. I once had a 4870x2 and returned it due to the fan being stupidly noisey. I was hoping that this issue would have been solved with the 5000 series cards but I think they havnet bothered with solving it at all after watching a few videos.

I stumbled across this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m3IdFaD4-c
(Yes I know its a 5850 never the less I'm sure its the same fan)

Anyway I was hoping someone on this site with a 5870 could tell me what speed the fan is normally set at and if it has any risk of overheating. Before I had a terrible case with 1x 120mm fan. My 4870x2 was always up in the 60c-77c region (77 being under heavy load such as crysis etc) to keep it around the 50's I had to have the fan speed on 60% now that I have an antec 1200 I was hoping that this new card could operate at a good temp at around 40% fan speed.

Thanks for reading :)
 
I think all the 5 series cards hover around 40ish% under load, afer all it's better to have a powerful fan at low speed than a weak fan that can't do high speeds if needed. If you want a quiet, cool ati card grab a vapor-x edition. True it cost a bit more but, wonderful cooling aside, you do get better capacitors and chokes too and it'll keep the gpu a few degrees below stock and quite a few db too.

Then again, I'm slightly bias. I like the idea of basic water cooling on a gpu :)
 
40 ish under load...not a chance!!!

mine purr along COD4, COD5 etc etc etc but are normally at 70 on full load. as soon as I come out of the game the temps drop off to 40 ish...lol

Read the reviews... plenty out on the net. These babies run hotter than other GPU's and can cope with stock cooling.

Vapour X cooler...nice... but why pay more still? watercooling...lots of nice blocks, adaptors, tubing and water but again for the custom water enthusiast only really.
 
Skeng said:
Well I'm in two minds about buying a 5870. I was going to wait until the GTX380 and then decide which to get. Although the Nvidia card will most likely cost a small fortune and will most likely operate around 10% better than a 5870.

Anyway here's the point I was getting to...Currently I am able to get a XFX 5870 for bang on £300 I have more than enough money. I once had a 4870x2 and returned it due to the fan being stupidly noisey. I was hoping that this issue would have been solved with the 5000 series cards but I think they havnet bothered with solving it at all after watching a few videos.

I stumbled across this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m3IdFaD4-c
(Yes I know its a 5850 never the less I'm sure its the same fan)

Anyway I was hoping someone on this site with a 5870 could tell me what speed the fan is normally set at and if it has any risk of overheating. Before I had a terrible case with 1x 120mm fan. My 4870x2 was always up in the 60c-77c region (77 being under heavy load such as crysis etc) to keep it around the 50's I had to have the fan speed on 60% now that I have an antec 1200 I was hoping that this new card could operate at a good temp at around 40% fan speed.

Thanks for reading :)
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My 5870 fan runs at 22% at idle and is silent. (Check reviews) & 30% at load (Again very quiet and can't be heard over games).

If you looking for cool n quiet then the 5870 is for you.
If you want even more silence then get a Vapor X!
 
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He said 40ish%, a fan speed I'd assume, not a temperature.

He also wasn't referring to fitting a watercooling block and a building a custom watercooling loop, but referring to how Vapor-X works. Maybe you should read up on what Vapor-X actually is...
 
The 5870 isn't anywhere near as bad as 4870x2 but if you play games without v-sync it will still be noticeable, that said I can't see Fermi being any quieter with 50% more transistors pumping out heat.

The best thing I ever did noise wise was fit watercooling for my i7/5870.
 
Running a 5870 in a Haf 932 case (not the best case at masking sounds !).

21% fan - silent - idling.

30% load - If you 'listen' for it you can hear it - Certainly not invasive.

Much quieter than my old 4870 512mb (standard cooler) and the more recent Gainward 260 GS (twin fans). :)
 
Depending on room temp 20-22'c cen-heating on my 5870(870/1250MHz) idles between 33-35'c fan 21% at load never goes over 64'c fan about 28% using FTO1 and is very quiet indeed. When room is quite cold seen idle temp drop to 29'C. my case is right next to me and the only thing l hear is the dvd-rw spin up.
 
Its very quiet for me, fan speed has never gone above 33% which is about 20 - 25 db

Playing Crysis Warhead (eyefinity 3 monitors)
 
Totally agree. Before I watercooled my 5850 it was much quiter than my gtx260/4870 and 8800GTS i had previously.
 
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