Which 780ti has the lowest fan noise when gaming?

[OLDPHART]

My gaming PC is in the bedroom and sometimes I game at night while the Mrs is sleeping.

I feel for you l have to sleep with mine.

 

[tommybhoy]

My gaming PC is in the bedroom and sometimes I game at night while the Mrs is sleeping. I currently have a 7970 with the Arctic cooling Accelero Xtreme after market cooler which is pretty much dead on silent and performance is good at 1440p with a few options turned off (MSAA) but I think it's time to move up in the graphics card world and just go all in for a 780ti.

Why compromise, once you have went Extreme, there is no going back, any other AIB cooler is noisier than the AC Extreme with but one exception.

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1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 780Ti iChill OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (C78T-1SDN-L5HSX) £559.99



That is an AC Extreme cooler(with a custom fan shroud) that sits atop that 780ti.

 

[Rroff]

Doubt the wf3 is any noisier than that under normal operation - atleast mine is impossible to hear outside the case until it hits ~60% fan speed and normally doesn't get faster than high 30s.

Seriously need to ditch the kuhler - the psu runs passive upto 250watt and is pretty much silent until it hits 80% load, case fans are apaches on min speed, etc. the pump noise is by far the most noticeable thing from my pc.

 

[setter]

Been very impressed with wf cooled cards, (ive owned 5 in the last few years). Extremely quiet, but not ideal in sli though as ive found out.

 

[jh30uk]

The OP has already appeared to have bought the EVGA card (going by post #34).

 

[thefogo]

Doubt the wf3 is any noisier than that under normal operation - atleast mine is impossible to hear outside the case until it hits ~60% fan speed and normally doesn't get faster than high 30s.

Seriously need to ditch the kuhler - the psu runs passive upto 250watt and is pretty much silent until it hits 80% load, case fans are apaches on min speed, etc. the pump noise is by far the most noticeable thing from my pc.

Yep same reason I ditched the kuhler for a Noctua Much better temps too.

 

[MrZippo]

The OP has already appeared to have bought the EVGA card (going by post #34).

Yeah that's right, I was all set on being the windforce one but stumbled across a 3 month old evga 780ti superclock for a really nice price so I decided to give that a try first and see how I get on with it.

 

[Rroff]

Yep same reason I ditched the kuhler for a Noctua Much better temps too.

Temps I can't fault - outside of "quiet" mode it will tail ambient temps within 1-2C which is pretty impressive would be good for benchmarking if not using exotic cooling. But the pump noise on this 1250 is like a small fridge seeing as everything else in the case is pretty close to silent in normal opeation I'll probably go back to a decent air cooler when I get around to it.

 

[setter]

Yeah that's right, I was all set on being the windforce one but stumbled across a 3 month old evga 780ti superclock for a really nice price so I decided to give that a try first and see how I get on with it.

Good choice, hope it works out ok for you.

Temps I can't fault - outside of "quiet" mode it will tail ambient temps within 1-2C which is pretty impressive would be good for benchmarking if not using exotic cooling. But the pump noise on this 1250 is like a small fridge seeing as everything else in the case is pretty close to silent in normal opeation I'll probably go back to a decent air cooler when I get around to it.

Something like the D14, Alpenfohn k2 or a silver arrow of some sort would be a nice addition. Running a k2 with dual PWM corsair sp 120's here. Pretty quiet when gaming and deathly silent at idle.

 

[thefogo]

Temps I can't fault - outside of "quiet" mode it will tail ambient temps within 1-2C which is pretty impressive would be good for benchmarking if not using exotic cooling. But the pump noise on this 1250 is like a small fridge seeing as everything else in the case is pretty close to silent in normal opeation I'll probably go back to a decent air cooler when I get around to it.

Ah I only had the 620, the temps weren't very good. The pump made a right racket, like a buzzing noise. Pretty horrible.