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How much noise does your gpu make?

Bjornvarthr

Bjornvarthr

Bjornvarthr

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My asus rtx 2080 sounds like a hairdryer, it's more than 70db when I measure the noise with an app on my phone holding it close to the card under full load. At 50 cm away I get 40-50db. Is this normal? It is so loud. I read reviews, but I dont know how they measure noise. How much db noise do yours make up close? Listen to attachment, I really need your numbers, is the card behaving normally? Thanks a lot in advance.
 
Bjornvarthr said:
My asus rtx 2080 sounds like a hairdryer, it's more than 70db when I measure the noise with an app on my phone holding it close to the card under full load. At 50 cm away I get 40-50db. Is this normal? It is so loud. I read reviews, but I dont know how they measure noise. How much db noise do yours make up close? Listen to attachment, I really need your numbers, is the card behaving normally? Thanks a lot in advance.
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What's it's airflow like?
 
My HD5770 makes a lot leads noise now since I cleaned out all the dust from around the heatsink (about 9 years worth).

I can't hear over my headphones when gaming whereas before I could as I had to run it at 80% to prevent it from overheating.
 
Yes it does seem too high. Simply the fans are running too fast, so I would suspect dust or lack of decent ventilation in the case. Alas I don't have a meter to check mine.
 
snips86x said:
My PSU makes more noise than my GPU powering my 35".
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That also sounds odd lol. Modern PSU's are deadly quiet - their fan either doesn't spin or when it spins its like 400rpm and making just 20db. If your PSU is really noisy it might be working a tad hard
 
Grim5 said:
That also sounds odd lol. Modern PSU's are deadly quiet - their fan either doesn't spin or when it spins its like 400rpm and making just 20db
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To be fair, it's just when the fan kicks in otherwise I can't hear it.
Corsair HX850+, probably close to 8yrs old now but works well.
But my GPU is mostly silent (2070s)
 
Have to say me 3070 FE can be a bit noisy depending on the game and how demanding it is. Certain sections of horizon zero dawn have it kicking up a real racket :(
 
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