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my only complaint with 7970...noise!!!

yannis76

yannis76

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Hi,

I have been using the 7970 for a couple of months now and have only one but serious problem: Noise at load level is high!! How does the GTX680 behave at load level? Is it also loud?

Thank you in advance
 
Saw it and read good reviews about it. However installation seems not that easy...
I just put my 7970 on sale. If I can get the amount of money I want I might revert to a used 680. Otherwise I will seriously think about the Accelero, which btw is quite expensive (60€)
 
the fans on mine were dead quiet, but the sound of an Arc Welder at 1.24V wasn't :eek:

my next card will be dead quiet because there's no way that i'm going over stock volts.... not a hope in hell !

i aint waiting another 6 weeks with all these great games about to come out
 
One of the reasons I didn't get a 7970 at launch was noise on the stock cooler, the Ghz edition is even worse.

680 stock is fine, quieter than my 5870 and therefore much quieter than 7970
 
If noise is an issue, you shouldnt've bought a non-custom cooled card?

I'm guessing you're using a stock cooler.

I got the Asus 6850 DirectCU, and no matter what anyone says, this is the loudest thing in my system, even at stock (i.e. when playing CS:GO @ max settings). Can't wait to get rid of it for something quieter

Cooling consists of :

Fractal Design R3 Case (2 x case fans - 1 @ front, 1 @ side)

OcUK H²Flo Extreme Liquid Dual Fan CPU Cooler with 2 x Akasa Apache Black.

All Fans are connected to motherboard at lowest possible speed.

I'm gonna get rid of the 1 x side fractal fan, and replace with the foam, should make it even quieter (that's when I get a nice quiet, cool card)
 
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I have to admit that my stock cooled 7970 is a little on the loud noise under load, but not too bad once i had sorted my fan profile out. Seeing the coolers like that I am slightly tempted by the accelero though. I am just slightly worried I will break something as I am trying to prize apart my expensive card. I have taken a couple of gtx 470's apart before, but they were a lot cheaper.
 
shawsy109 said:
I have 2, both my 6950s have acceleros. they are the mutts nuts. cool and quiet. Recommend them very highly.
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When did you get them?

yannis76 said:
Saw it and read good reviews about it. However installation seems not that easy...
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There's nothing hard about installation, just take your time, this was on a 6950 but the process is more or less the same:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=19041495&posted=1#post19041495

Your not going to get any quieter on air than an extreme whether you go custom cooled 7970/680.

yannis76 said:
I just put my 7970 on sale. If I can get the amount of money I want I might revert to a used 680. Otherwise I will seriously think about the Accelero, which btw is quite expensive (60€)
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There is no reason doing a sidegrade for a second hand gpu considering the money lost from selling your gpu probably won't be enough for a used 680.

Personally I wouldn't betting a used 7970/680, chances are someone has tried clocking the nuts off them or it's a poor clocker anyway or possibly just as loud as your 7970.

A stock 680 realistically isn't that much quieter than a 7970, no doubt someone shall post noise level comparison, for me to counter that, but noise levels are subjective and 2 same stock cards can have different noise levels too, it's in my thread above.
 
Playing BF3 on an OC ref 7970, not noisy at all


If your getting coil whine leave it running Heaven overnight, if it's excessive fan noise you're doing something wrong!
 
You have a good one dave, as I was saying above about reading my thread, I had two stock blowers on my gpu's, one you could have thrown it out the window it was shockingly loud, the other was 'whisper' quiet in comparison, it was nowhere near the same kind of volume despite being identical.
 
this can't be solved with a good cooler. the 7970 suffers insane coil whine if you're unlucky, and most of them suffer minor coil whine anyway. custom pcbs solve the issue, but the only ones around in the uk are from asus (vram heat and overclocking problems) and the msi lightning (no dual dvi). the his iceqx2 is custom pcb as well but it's either unavailable in the uk, or overpriced as hell. i'm waiting for the ghz edition release, and i hope it brings more custom pcbs with it
 
Nice to see you read the whole thread PorkPieCat.

The op isn't talking about coil whine, he's talking about the whoosh.

dave just pointed out coil whine.
 
There is no reason doing a sidegrade for a second hand gpu considering the money lost from selling your gpu probably won't be enough for a used 680.

Personally I wouldn't betting a used 7970/680, chances are someone has tried clocking the nuts off them or it's a poor clocker anyway or possibly just as loud as your 7970.

A stock 680 realistically isn't that much quieter than a 7970, no doubt someone shall post noise level comparison, for me to counter that, but noise levels are subjective and 2 same stock cards can have different noise levels too, it's in my thread above.[/QUOTE]

thx for all the replies!

My 7970 was also bought as used so I am not really losing that much...
the following reviews say that the 680 is indeed more silent in load:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review/19
http://www.xbitlabs.com/picture/?sr...rce-gtx-680-msi-radeon-hd7970/zdnoise-xbt.png
http://techreport.com/articles.x/22653/13

Has anyone really used both of these cards and tell us whether the GTX680 is more silent?
 
yannis76 said:
There is no reason doing a sidegrade for a second hand gpu considering the money lost from selling your gpu probably won't be enough for a used 680.

Personally I wouldn't betting a used 7970/680, chances are someone has tried clocking the nuts off them or it's a poor clocker anyway or possibly just as loud as your 7970.

A stock 680 realistically isn't that much quieter than a 7970, no doubt someone shall post noise level comparison, for me to counter that, but noise levels are subjective and 2 same stock cards can have different noise levels too, it's in my thread above.
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thx for all the replies!

My 7970 was also bought as used so I am not really losing that much...
the following reviews say that the 680 is indeed more silent in load:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review/19
http://www.xbitlabs.com/picture/?sr...rce-gtx-680-msi-radeon-hd7970/zdnoise-xbt.png
http://techreport.com/articles.x/22653/13

Has anyone really used both of these cards and tell us whether the GTX680 is more silent?[/QUOTE]
 
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