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Replacement fan for x850xt?

Zephyrus

Zephyrus

Zephyrus

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Right i've decided i want a new fan/cooler for my x850xt as the noise from the stock one is driving me nuts. I've played around with different settings for it on Ati Tray and cant come up with anything that doesnt annoy me enough to stop using headphones and start using my speakers again while gaming whilst at the same time keeping the card cool.
I've had a look at the ones on OCuK but they all say silent or quiet yet i know some will be louder than others or better so i'm slightly confused as to which one to get :p
Can anyone suggest a quiet efficient replacement cooler for this card for the sake of my sanity :p I'm not wanting watercooling as i just dont trust water around the pc. Any suggestions made could you also let me know how easily it would be to fit.

Cheers,
Zeph.
 
The card is only a few weeks old and much much louder than any card i've had before, granted the best i had before thatwas a 6600LE :eek: Even when not playing games it is significantly loud. At one point i took it out and ran the monitor through the on board graphics just to test and the PC was almost silent and thats including the Opteron heatsink which i am pretty pleased with for noise and cooling considering its the one that came with the CPU.

So time to pick between the arctic and the zalman... decisions decisions :)

Zeph.
 
Mine is a Powercolor card. The fan now runs at 50% (Ati Tray) from 60C up to 90C where i have it set to 100% which is keeping the card at around 67C while gaming. Before i used Ati Tray and was just using CCC the fan noise was very loud anyway.
Perhaps different people have different tolerances of noise level, but my tower sits In front and to the left of me at head level. Not ideal i know but thats how it has to be.

Zeph.
 
Yours idles at 33C on the stock fan? With my fan at 18% right now and i'm only using firefox to view this site mine is idling at 45C!
 
Case is an Antec SLK3000B one of the cheaper ones from the OC site. It has the fan at the rear drawing the air out, a rather large vent at the front with a dust cover thing, 2 vents at the side one of which has a funnel protruding on the inside which i assume is supposed to line up with the CPU heatsink to draw the air directly out of the case except it doesnt line up with it at all :p

While i had the side panel off it did drop to about 41C but still....
 
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