ZOTAC GTX 560Ti extremely loud

[Slap]

Hi, my recently purchased ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card sounds like a jet plane taking off when playing games... Any advice to sort this problem out would be much apreciated thanks.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Hi, my recently purchased ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card sounds like a jet plane taking off when playing games... Any advice to sort this problem out would be much apreciated thanks.

Download MSI Afterburner and set custom fanspeed profile. Also, you can use it to overclock your card as well

Also use it to set the frame rate cap at 60fps, so the GPU usage would only work up to the point of just delivering 60fps max, rather than placing additional burden and work the card harder (higher power consumption and temp) to deliver like 60-100fps+ which won't make any different on your 60Hz monitor.

 

[Slap]

Thanks for the heads up Marine, very helpfull. Will download it now and give it a bash.

 

[umboma]

+1 for afterburner, My GTX470 gets very loud untill I used Afterburner now all I hear is the case fan, not loud at all

 

[Slap]

Cheers umboma.
Fab bit of software this is!

A couple of questions:

1) What fan settings should I be looking at/how do I know what is safe for my card?
2) Do I have to have afterburner running in background to keep the settings on my GPU?
3) I'm not sure where to start regarding overclocking my card, are the gains in fps worth it?

Thanks for help and advice

 

[Slap]

After playing about with the software it looks like you do need afterburner running in bakground so I told it to start with Windows np.

I also figured out how to set fan speeds to kick in at certain temperatures but I am still unsure what temps/fans speeds I should be aiming at. Ideally I'm after a silent-ish system but don't want to blow-up the GPU with to much heat...

Anyone have any recommended settings?

Cheers

 

[HeX]

Fire up Kombustor, manually adjust the fan speed until you have a max temp and fan noise you are happy with, make a note of this temp and fan speed.

Close Kombustor.

Open up the MSI Afterburner Fan Curve.

Set fan to 25% @ 50C, set fan to whatever % at whatever temp you wanted under max load.

That's your basic fan curve sorted. You now know no matter what you're playing you aren't ever going to break that temp you wanted as your max.

 

[Marine-RX179]

After playing about with the software it looks like you do need afterburner running in bakground so I told it to start with Windows np.

I also figured out how to set fan speeds to kick in at certain temperatures but I am still unsure what temps/fans speeds I should be aiming at. Ideally I'm after a silent-ish system but don't want to blow-up the GPU with to much heat...

My friend's MSI GTX560Ti Twin FrozeRII OC 2GB overclocked to 950MHz max temp in BF3 multiplayer is around 72C. Considering the Zotac's cooler won't be as effective as the Twin FrozRII cooler, I think below 75C would be a good target to aim for. With that said, up to 80C it is absolutely fine as well...but beyond 80C, I think you might need to start to look at improve the cooling, possible the the airflow of your case, and if your PSU cables are tidy and out of the way etc besides just ramping up the graphic cooler more.

So basically try to aim for 75C max, and find the higher noise level of your cooler that YOU find acceptable during gaming (bare in mind unlike at idle web-browsing etc, when you are gaming you have speakers that will cover some of the sound from the cooler), and then work your way down during lower temp.

 

[Slap]

Thanks chaps. The MSI Kombustor icon is greyed out/does no function in the Afterburner software. Do I need to download it seperatly? I'm using afterburner version 2.1.0

 

[HeX]

Kombustor should be in the zip file you downloaded for Afterburner.

It's a separate install, but can be run directly from within Afterburner.

 

[Slap]

thx HeX!

 

[Slap]

Ok on the standard test I get a max temp of 62c, on the extreme test I get 95! all a bit confusing for me tbh. Nice bit of testing software.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Ok on the standard test I get a max temp of 62c, on the extreme test I get 95! all a bit confusing for me tbh. Nice bit of testing software.

I wouldn't bother too much about kombuster, since in actually gaming it will never stress that much. Try download something like Heaven Benchmark 2.5 instead.

 

[HeX]

Kombustor will stress your card more than any game will, it's an extreme.

So what you want is to find the fan speed needed to stop your card exploding, this will be your upper point on your curve. Your failsafe fanspeed, so you know that if by some fluke some game does maximum stress to your card you will have sufficient cooling to stop it going bang.

The lower point on your curve is the cards idle temp when the fan is running at about 20-25%.

So say for your card, to maintain 95C in Kombustor you need 80% fan speed, and to maintain an idle temp of 50C you need 25% fan speed.

You will then have a linear fan profile where your fan increases incrementally from 25%-80% as your card heats up.

With that kind of fan profile, if most of your games load your card at about 70C say, your fan would never go any higher than 45-50%.

e.g.

 

[ALXAndy]

Kombustor will stress your card more than any game will, it's an extreme.

An extreme chocolate teapot.

I could easily get my lightning stable in Kombustor at 1000mhz. Take it to Crysis 2? hard locks, resets, artefacts.. You name it.

 

[HeX]

Stress was a poor choice of words on my part, as I was really referring to heat.

I never said to use it as a stability test, I am talking heat, and Kombustor will heat your card up nicely. As will OCCT, or Furmark. It just needs to be something you can run in the background to heat the card up while you play with the fan speed.


I never use Kombustor to stress test, I use OCCT for that, but for the sake of making a fan profile, Kombustor will work fine.