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Really? Any 120mm fan over 1k RPM is just way too loud for me, there's no way I could stand a 2k RPM fan on a GPU. Good luck with it anyway and post some results!
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The R9 Nano Fiji Owners Thread
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Really? Any 120mm fan over 1k RPM is just way too loud for me, there's no way I could stand a 2k RPM fan on a GPU. Good luck with it anyway and post some results!
That could be the same as what to happens with GDDR Vram, it might be the ram timings slackening off a bit to ease the load on the power regulator/s? Or it could be trying to throttle a bit which could be the power regulator/s dropping the juice a bit?
This is pure conjecture on my part btw.
Really? Any 120mm fan over 1k RPM is just way too loud for me, there's no way I could stand a 2k RPM fan on a GPU. Good luck with it anyway and post some results!
I think it depends on what a person calls quiet. I personally can put up with noise to a degree when gaming, as theres other sounds that come into play, plus I use headphones sometimes. Others might find this level of noise intolerable under any circumstances. It also depends on the "type" of fan nose. An audible amount of air moving (wooshing
) is more agreeable than a howling or whining/screeching noise from the fan itself.Do you remember the old "Delta" fans? Now THAT was a loud fan!
na id rather have a Nano with a EKWB cooler. Cheaper, performs better (cooling wise) and quieter
Just picked up a sheet of aluminium today, when I get the time (swmbo has got me painting the kitchen) I'll cut a 120mm hole in it then start to work out how I'm going to cut the shroud out then bend it. Looks like it'll have a sort of "V" cross section as the 120mm is going to be wider than the whole card.I'll post up a few pics when I've got some progress done.
That could be the same as what to happens with GDDR Vram, it might be the ram timings slackening off a bit to ease the load on the power regulator/s? Or it could be trying to throttle a bit which could be the power regulator/s dropping the juice a bit?
This is pure conjecture on my part btw.
Haha, still sounds like a plausible explanation. Have you at all tried and observed similar behaviour. In hindsight I wish I checked their with all my prior Fiji based cards also.
I have to a very small degree, all I noticed was a very slight drop in performance in Heaven benchmark. I've seen this sort of thing happen many times before on earlier cards, mainly AMD ones. Its as if the card is being pushed too hard without compensating with higher voltages for stability and it starts to fall over itself trying to keep up with the settings. Obviously increasing voltages increases heat output and in the case of the Nano, throttling starts if temps get a bit high. Conversely, if voltages are kept at stock to keep heat down, and clocks are increased, then it'll start to fall over as it needs the extra voltage to keep going.
Again, this is pure speculation on my part, but kinda based on what I've seen in the past.
I think with the Nano, the user has a fairly "narrow" bad of setting ranges to work with and its a case of finding the "sweetspot" wether water cooling or air cooling.
Thats my take on it anyway and other user's results will differ as all cards are different and some are just "better" than others.
Myself, I just wanna make it quieter using air cooling and see what I can get out of it as I'm really impressed with this gpu considering it's size/performance ratio. I also like tinkering and trying other things out, hence me wanting to try a larger fan, 120mm.
It also means if I ever decide to chang me case for a lot smaller one, I shouldn't have too much bother accommodating the Nano.
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I've now got an EK Vardar 120-4ER fan strapped to it, although 1500rpm from the beQuiet fan I had on was sufficient to keep it steady at 80°C, there wasn't much headroom should I need more cooling as the fan was at 100%. The rpm range of this fan is 300rpm to 2200rpm. Temperatures at 1500rpm are actually slightly better (albeit by only a few degrees) but should I need/want to I've got some room to spare.
Just need to find a more attractive way to mount it rather than some cable ties
Just need to find a more attractive way to mount it rather than some cable ties
na id rather have a Nano with a EKWB cooler. Cheaper, performs better (cooling wise) and quieter
Cheaper? No. Performs better? No. Quieter? Yeah, slightly.
Cheaper, yes. Nano + a EKWB cooler is cheaper than a Fury X.
I quickly tested my Nano and I am not impressed at all by the noise its fan outputs. There is a good reason for Fury X to have a water cooled loop on it. Will try to direct some air from additional fan towards Nano but I am not too optimistic about the outcome. I tested at stock voltage, with Power Tune ramped up +50% and OCed at 1045 MHz.
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The need for watercooling is not true. There is plenty of Fury pro's with Full size coolers that work fine. There is also unlocked Fury Pro's running above Fury X clocks with no problem. Nano's cooler is not great from reviews. I think Amd went with watercooling to try and get away from the hot and loud rep of the 290x stock cooler. They should have let there partners supply there own cooling from the off.
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I've now got an EK Vardar 120-4ER fan strapped to it, although 1500rpm from the beQuiet fan I had on was sufficient to keep it steady at 80°C, there wasn't much headroom should I need more cooling as the fan was at 100%. The rpm range of this fan is 300rpm to 2200rpm. Temperatures at 1500rpm are actually slightly better (albeit by only a few degrees) but should I need/want to I've got some room to spare.
Just need to find a more attractive way to mount it rather than some cable ties
Got any pics mate, I'd like to have a look and see how much clearance there is between the fan edge and the components on the motherboard around the pci-e socket. Should give me an idea of the profile of the shroud I'm going to have make.
Although reading your post with your conclusions, I'm not expecting any great improvements, just enough to allow a bump in Vcore, with comparable temps, and the fan not too loud. Heres hoping.
Not at the moment, I'll try and whip it out later and take a couple.
I think your conclusion is right though, the heatsink is holding the cooling back - all you can really do (IMO) by changing the fan is make it a littler quieter.
For reference I'm running at -60mv and 1050mhz, playing The Division for an hour, or looping Valley for a while tops the temps at 80°C. Less demanding games like Rocket League I put the clocks down to 850MHz and it doesn't break 50°C even with the fan at 900rpm
I think your conclusion is right though, the heatsink is holding the cooling back - all you can really do (IMO) by changing the fan is make it a littler quieter.
For reference I'm running at -60mv and 1050mhz, playing The Division for an hour, or looping Valley for a while tops the temps at 80°C. Less demanding games like Rocket League I put the clocks down to 850MHz and it doesn't break 50°C even with the fan at 900rpm
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