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Coatleque · **05-17-2015, 02:16 PM**

(05-17-2015, 02:09 PM)Steel Wolf Wrote: Not a gripe, per se....but something I felt would be suitable for posting here.

On the very not-often occasion, the fan of what I assume is my GPU suddenly runs very high. The hum of my machine overall is pretty soft, so when that fan queues up for what I assume is an emergency heat spike, it's very noticeable.

It doesn't have me too worried, and I do keep my sinks as clearn and unobstructed as I can without taking a brush to the vents...but it does make me go o.o when it happens.

An unfortunate side-effect of active cooling. Older nVidia cards were much more noticeable. As a rule of thumb, the bigger the fan the quieter it will be.

For example, this card is very quiet (I speak from experience):
[Image: msi-gtx-980-review-card.jpg]

This card is very noisy:
[Image: geforce_gtx_580full.jpg]

Those sideways blowing gear-looking fans are horrible in my experience, both for cooling and from a dB (noise, decibels) perspective

Depending on your brand of video card, you may have access to 3rd party software which MAY help the noise issue. Note, you need to be very careful doing this! MSI Afterburner, for example, should work with any nVidia cards, and if I recall it has the ability to limit the fan speeds to the % of maximum that you specify. You could cap it at 80% if that is a more pleasing experience. Just keep in mind that if your card starts to overheat, games will start having graphical glitches, followed by crashing

(The machine will probably crash before you actually damage the card, but there is always a risk)

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