Seirrah
Seirrah
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Ah okay, cool. I'll give that a try before I try a new fan.
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Seirrah
Seirrah
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Right, well I've worked out that it's not the gfx card fan that is causing the noise. Cos moving it from 50% to the max hardly changes anything.
Hard-drives maybe?
Hard-drives maybe?
if you still have the stock cooler remove the mesh thats covering the fan ( the one that stops your fingers getting caught up) you will need a small + screwdriver makes abit of difference, but if you want to quieten it more get an arctic cooler i have one and my seagate hdd is the loudest thing in my case now
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Do you have a chipset fan on your motherboard?
These are a primary source of noise
These are a primary source of noise
Seirrah
Seirrah
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Nope, no chipset fans.
After opening it up I'm now thinking it might be my PSU ...but I find it hard to tell.
Adjusting the CPU and Graphics cards fans is not making much of a difference to the loudest noise, although I can hear the change.
After opening it up I'm now thinking it might be my PSU ...but I find it hard to tell.
Adjusting the CPU and Graphics cards fans is not making much of a difference to the loudest noise, although I can hear the change.
I have almost, the opposite problem.
I have a friend with a Leadtek 6800GT ,like mine, yet when his card goes from desktop to a 3D app such as BF2, his cards fan noticably increases its speed, when I say this, I mean the fan's "noise pitch" rises noticably where I've noticed mine does not.
Am I doing something wrong? - To my ears, my cards not overly loud, certainly not when compared to my friends identical 6800GT (Both Bought last year in the Leadtek sale, on the same transaction.)
Cheers if anybody could shed some light on this for me.
Apologies for non technical descriptions!
I have a friend with a Leadtek 6800GT ,like mine, yet when his card goes from desktop to a 3D app such as BF2, his cards fan noticably increases its speed, when I say this, I mean the fan's "noise pitch" rises noticably where I've noticed mine does not.
Am I doing something wrong? - To my ears, my cards not overly loud, certainly not when compared to my friends identical 6800GT (Both Bought last year in the Leadtek sale, on the same transaction.)
Cheers if anybody could shed some light on this for me.
Apologies for non technical descriptions!