What can I do to 'tweak' a 6970 in 2021 for temps and noise?

[Rob_B]

I bought a 6970 to go in my 'living room' PC as it was a good price/performance combination but it's by far the loudest thing in the case so there is no 'silent' option for me when browsing/not gaming.

I've repasted it but I know these cards are pretty hot running and the fan only spins down to 20% (can't seem to get 0% working correctly in Afterburner or Catalyst CC)
I'm using the drivers Windows installed as they seem to work as well as the latest version from AMD and don't have much bloat.

I'm well aware this thing is fairly ancient (DX11, 2GB VRAM!) but it runs a lot of stuff pretty well @ 1080p (the cards max res over HDMI) and let's face it, it cost me £30 so I don't expect miracles.
Is there anything else I can do driver/application/mod wise to reduce temps or noise? I'm not wanting to overclock, in fact I already undervolt and downclock a little.

It's a Powercolor dual BIOS version running in:

A320m-k
Ryzen 2600X
12GB DDR3 @ 2666-ish

Thanks!

Rob

[kalniel]

If you've got the fans down as low as they will go and it's still too noisy.. then no.

If it's only noisy then the fans spin up more than their minimum then possibly - use fan control software to set a maximum fan speed at whatever level you're happy with the noise from. Then give it a play and watch the temps - it may be fine with hotter than normal temps, or it might auto throttle, at which point check if there's actually any impact on gameplay, and continue to undervolt/underclock until it's stable.