Anyway I can quieten this, it really is a joke ?
I cant hear myself think, its new out the box, anyway to reduce the speed?
I have a fan controller but dont know if I can hook them up and dont want to void my warrenty
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Anyway I can quieten this, it really is a joke ?
I cant hear myself think, its new out the box, anyway to reduce the speed?
I have a fan controller but dont know if I can hook them up and dont want to void my warrenty
Gosh!... Never knew XFX cards have such noisy fans... Shouldn't be that way..
yep ridiculously loud at the minute, there must be a way to change it ?
mmmmm I've heard you can use Expertool from Gainward to reduce the fan speed? Not 100% on that.
Or buy a Zalman VF700CU cooler.
expertool whats that ?
bit loathed to take the fan off, only had it a short while and dont want to mess up the warranty
Take a look here
hmm will it work for xfx though ?
worth a shot I guess
expertool was a god send that I never knew existed! now the card is whisper silent on normal 2d mode with 50% on idle and then on 3d mode i have throttled the fan speed down to 80% temperatures never exceed 60oc either which is excellent.
my cards a BFG 6600GT btw :)
oh how do i change the fan speed settings on it, cant find it anywhere ?
click the expertool icon on the startmenu near the clock and select performance from the list that comes up then you should see in that pane something that says 'fan speed control' click that and then have a play in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by kinkladze10
If your card supports this feature then you will be able to change the settings otherwise i presume they will remain greyed out actually do nothing.
Ive got a XFX 6600gt and its pretty noise the fans going soon.
it was greyed out, think im screwed , dont know what to do paid 350 for a gpu that is just too noisy to bear, my last xfx card was great how can this be so bad ?
hmmmm their is a post on overclockers.co.uk that guides you through playing around in the cards bios to enable the temperature reader which is built onto all 6000 series nvidia cards which in turn enables you to control the fan speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by kinkladze10
In saying that though surely you have a temperature reading on your card for the price you paid????
I have heard a few people say the fans are loud but mine runs silent out of the box. If you really want to lower the noise you will have to change the sink and fan for a Arctic NV5, runs at lower noise levels which is what you are after.
Mine weren't silent by any means, but they weren't hugely loud either. Of course now they on water they're completely silent.
I mean an arctic cooler for the cards only going to be £20, i dont think you can start slagging it for been noisey. If the new asus ones are anythign to go by, http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD0xMjc5 big heatsinks and fans are jsut whats going to happen. They have to do someting with that heat. It is a shame that the fans are cheap and noisey, mabey soom we will see OEM grapics cards that you chose you own heatsink for.