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Fan Noise

GHazy

GHazy

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Not so much about asking for advise more of a question on peoples set ups. I read a lot that AMD cards are hot and therefore fans are loud and so can Nvidia but how do you game???

Me I use Roccat Headset and therefore cant hear my fans even at 100% cause i'm wearing a bloody headset!!!!! What do you guys do?
 
I'm very sensitive to fan noise and it greatly sways my gpu choices. When the 5870 was vastly more quiet than a 480, I went AMD. I went with 780 Tis this time round for the same reason.
 
Surely the loader the better because you can't hear the girlfriend shouting at you to do something??? drowns out the other whine lol
 
GHazy said:
Not so much about asking for advise more of a question on peoples set ups. I read a lot that AMD cards are hot and therefore fans are loud and so can Nvidia but how do you game???

Me I use Roccat Headset and therefore cant hear my fans even at 100% cause i'm wearing a bloody headset!!!!! What do you guys do?
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I don't use a reference AMD GPU, i use an AIB cooled one, they use the same cooling systems on all GPU's, well. aside from mine as Powercolor don't make Nvidia GPU's.



 
I packed my case out with a load of Noctua fans and a 5.25" bay controller. My 780 Lightning only runs particularly hot/loud if I'm benchmarking.
I do wear a headset but I'm usually gaming until 2-3am, so it needs to be fairly quiet else I get the Mrs sneaking up behind and smacking me one!
 
ttaskmaster said:
I packed my case out with a load of Noctua fans and a 5.25" bay controller. My 780 Lightning only runs particularly hot/loud if I'm benchmarking.
I do wear a headset but I'm usually gaming until 2-3am, so it needs to be fairly quiet else I get the Mrs sneaking up behind and smacking me one!
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You're OBSESSED with sodding fans lol !
 
I game with 5.1 speakers and noise doesn't bother me too much, but I keep my fancontroller at a point where temperatures don't move much even if I set all fans to 12v.
I set a mark on my volume control that indicates my "max volume" for when the misses sleeps so she doesn't get awaken upstairs :)
 
I replaced all my fans in the Antec 1200 with Enermax ultra silent fans. As well as using silent fans on my CPU and GPU heatsinks.
 
I use a single-ear lightweight headset for voice chat, and have my game sound on 5.1 surround speakers - however, not all games need to be loud, and I spend more time in Photoshop and Manga Studio than anything else, so fan noise bothers me a lot.

Currently packing 3x 120mm gentle typhoons, a zalman CPU cooler, and a really quiet nVidia 760. Nothing gets too hot OR too loud; why would anyone not have both these options when they can be had together? Just have to select the right 3rd party cooling solutions :)
 
Just wondered that all. I am using a CM Scout I case and I dont think the airflow is all that to be honest plus I have to take the metal shield off my 780 to fit it in the case, not sure if it purely is a dust guard....

So thinking of now getting a new case as I think I had 120mm push/pull at rear, 2 x 120mm on the side, 120mm at front and a 200mm in the top.
 
My MSI Gaming 290x fans spun up to a silly level of noise (loud). Used various custom fan profiles, but in games that I was playing at the time (Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution, Dirt 3) the card with the custom fan profile got smoking hot (~90 degrees), even with out the profile it's got hot hot hot (~95 degrees but loud). Other games that didn't stress the card were fine and dandy but more graphic intensive like above did. Can't help thinking now we're into summer, how hot the card would have been peeking.

Any how, I went and got a 780ti and it's soo much better in terms of heat and noise, costs a fair bit more though, but that was something I was willing to pay to have better noise/heat peeks.
 
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Wizzfizz said:
My MSI Gaming 290x fans spun up to a silly level of noise (loud). Used various custom fan profiles, but in games that I was playing at the time (Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution, Dirt 3) the card with the custom fan profile got smoking hot (~90 degrees), even with out the profile it's got hot hot hot (~95 degrees but loud). Other games that didn't stress the card were fine and dandy but more graphic intensive like above did. Can't help thinking now we're into summer, how hot the card would have been peeking.

Any how, I went and got a 780ti and it's soo much better in terms of heat and noise, costs a fair bit more though, but that was something I was willing to pay to have better noise/heat peeks.
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I think your card was probably faulty.
 
I had two of these cards, first was replaced under RMA. The replacement was just the same and had the same heat/fan noise peeks. Maybe I was unlucky with two faulty cards, who knows, but I decided to just pay extra and get a 780ti, which so far (touch wood) has ran the games that I mentioned at much better peeks. Shame really as I had no other issues with the 290x. It played everything I threw at it, at 1080p, and I got much more for my money (bang for buck).
 
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Yeah pretty unlucky if that's the case. I had an MSI 7950 with similar problems a while back.

Which 780ti did you get?
 
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