News - Asetek chills GTX 580

[HEXUS]

One part old and one part new, for hybrid cooling solution.

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[c.ruel]

annoying that they dont' actually stick a microphone next to the thing while the test is going on. No way do I believe that that was at 35 dbA.

[Asetek_Stu]

annoying that they dont' actually stick a microphone next to the thing while the test is going on. No way do I believe that that was at 35 dbA.

- The noise testing is in an Anechoic chamber that has a floor (lowest possible level) of 19 dBa

- 35dBa is the measurement of the fan on the hex and the gpu fan combined. No other system noise is measured simply because that is an uncontrolled variable.

- To isolate these two fans, we simply attach DC power supplies to each fan and run them at the same RPMs as they were spinning during testing.

- Lastly, we don't use the reading from the motherboard to determine fan speed as it could be inconsistent. We use a laser tachometer gun to measure the fan speeds.

Let me know if you have any more questions =)