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Best way to stop the fan noise?

dan958

dan958

dan958

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Hi,

I have the Bitfenix shinobi case and recent purchased the HD 7870.


It is very noisy. I recently posted a thread about the GPU getting very hot, I notived the fan was caught by something so I cable managed (took hours) and now it's great. I also had the exhaust fan the wrong way round.

I want to get a few more fans on the front and top.

The only fan that is driving my crazy is the GPU fan, to the point where I like to have headphones on to drown it out. I am using after burner, on 30% it is perfectly fine. Once it gets to just over 40% it starts getting very loud and obviously even louder when I play some games.

Is there anything I can do? Are there any replacement fans that do a good job but with minimized sound (just for GPU)?
Are the Bitfenix Noise dampening kits worth it?
 
Great, will definitely get that! Thanks.

So what about the foam silencing kits? Worth it or not? (at £20+ for a few bits of foam, i'm thinking no. But I could also buy some from a hobby store and cut it myself if it does do some good.
 
dan958 said:
Great, will definitely get that! Thanks.

So what about the foam silencing kits? Worth it or not? (at £20+ for a few bits of foam, i'm thinking no. But I could also buy some from a hobby store and cut it myself if it does do some good.
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I wouldn't recommend silencing kits if you're worried about heat inside your case - they will only make it worse. If your pc is sat on a hard floor, then you could get a silencing mat or an old bit of carpet to put it on - that'd make a huge difference.
 
foster grant said:
Can you not just use Afterburner to adjust and play with the GPU fan speed ?
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I can, but then it will get very hot, burning hot.

I needed something that can cool well, but be a tad quieter. From the looks of it, the fans the great people above recommended it a great idea.


s1xtyn1n3 said:
I wouldn't recommend silencing kits if you're worried about heat inside your case - they will only make it worse. If your pc is sat on a hard floor, then you could get a silencing mat or an old bit of carpet to put it on - that'd make a huge difference.
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Hmm, on the product on here it says its good for cooling as well - couldnt see how though. It's on a carpet. I may raise a few inches off the floor and put a few fans on the bottom and front. Probably better having a more fans on a low % speed. I have no fans pulling air in at the moment, probably my problem.

How many fans do you think I need pulling in and pushing air out? ( as well as that GPU fan they recommended)
 
I have the Arctic Accelero Xtreme on my 6950, the fans stay at 24% constantly. Never usually even reaches 60°C when gaming :)
 
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There's no real answer to how many fans you'll need. I have had a rig that just wouldn't stay cool - full size atx case, aftermarket coolers and thermal compounds and I had to resort to adding loads of case fans in a positive airflow configuration just to keep it from setting fire to itself!

I now have a tiny Prodigy case running an i5 with stock cooler and compound, a GTX 770 and only the 2 fans that came installed in the case. The thing is virtually silent even under load and the temperature inside the case never breaks 60.

Having said that, more, larger fans are far preferable to few smaller ones spinning quicker.

You could also investigate using one of the discounted H60/H80's for cooling your GPU. I've seen a few people do it - just remember to buy heatsinks for the VRAM.
 
That's on my to buy list! (when/if it comes back in stock, otherwise I may need to buy from elsewhere)

I have my fan on 33% at the moment (idling) and it's sitting at 37C, gaming goes up to 85C on 80-100% fan speed.
 
I bought it with the cooler on so I'm not sure. My old 8800GT had the same kinf of fan though, that was hideously noisy.

Here's a quick vid of going from 24% to 100%. It's not as lous as the video makes out, listen for the mouse clicks :)


But the fans never go above 24%, even when gaming, they're at about 580rpm, so virtually silent at that speed.
 
Thanks for taking the time to make a video.

Lets just say I could still here the noise of my fan over yours at 100% (mine was only on 46%) while wearing headphones.
 
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