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- Fri Jan 13, 2017 4:00 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Quiet Gaming PC - yet another one of those
- Replies: 0
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Quiet Gaming PC - yet another one of those
Hi. Preparing to get a new PC. Initially I just wanted to replace motherboard, CPU, RAM, plus maybe another SSD, replacing my old 2600K system. But things went wrong along the road - lack of a spine - and now looking at a new case and PSU too. Keeping my GPU - Asus Strix 970 - for now. Not upgrading...
- Fri Jan 13, 2017 3:36 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Please, help me to build a very quiet PC!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6274
Re: Please, help me to build a very quiet PC!
Looking at a new build as well. Shares a few items with your build. Doesn't look like there is much benefit from 7700K over 7600K in most software, especially not in games. Yet I think I'll go for 7700K. CPUs have a relatively long lifespan these days, at least compared to GPUs, and if I'm going to ...
- Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:02 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
Using the Asus GPU Tweak tool it's a bit confusing if the fans turn off or not, because they're shown as on all the time between 0-30%, but I can't hear them. My guess is that they are turned off below 30% although the tool shows otherwise. Thats my experience at least, with the fans not turning on...
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 12:41 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
Can't hear any coil whine from mine, but it seems totally luck based. And maybe PSU based (mine is Corsair AX750)
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:11 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
I can't make a fan curve in Afterburner with decreasing fan speeds at increasing temps. At least it gives me that message when I try
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:06 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
Any idea how high the temps can go and still be 100% safe? It's set by the power envelope (the "adjustable TDP"), AFAIK: on most of non-reference GM204, IIRC it is something around 91-93°C. Adjusted the profile, resulting in 76-77 C, at 880 RPM constantly during the run. Which is the minimum speed ...
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 7:01 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
You can force the fans to always spin, but it is acting a little weird. With the default profile the fan starts to spin at 32%, but to force the fan to start I had to set it at 36-38% - which is 770-870 RPM. Changing to 34% => 650 RPM. 32% => 560 RPM 30% => Fan switches off. Then after it turns off,...
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:30 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
So, went on to try a custom profile. Going to 800 RPM at 67 C (like it does normally). and 1100 RPM at 77 C (where it would before go to ~1350 RPM) and at 80+ C to 1350 RPM. During Unigine it seemed to stabilize around 77-79 C, and switching between 800 RPM and 1100 RPM (due to the max temp being ju...
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:08 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
Yeah, did that with my previous card. Right now I'm just seeing how the card performs without any adjustments.quest_for_silence wrote:Shadout wrote:Would certainly prefer if the fans never goes above 1200 RPM in any real scenario.
You might use Afterburner to limit the max speed (at least up to the throttling temp).
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:01 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
During Unigine Valley temps rose to 73 C max. 1380 RPM max. Since it was a constant load on the GPU there was of course no fan speed up/down here. Above 1200 RPM the fans started to be quite audible (even if they are likely still a lot quieter than a standard card -and quieter than my old car during...
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 5:24 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
Glad you can't really hear it at 800rpm - I think the on/off/on cycle would be annoying otherwise. Hopefull, there's some user hysteresis adjustment. Yeah, it really could. I'm going to play around with a custom fan profile later to see if the ups/downs can be made more consistent. As long as its p...
- Sat Oct 04, 2014 6:17 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
Mine arrived today. Seems like it spins up at 66 C. Played some Dark Souls 2, where it starts out at 58 C and slowly increases to 66, fan goes up to 500-800 rpm, temp decreases down toward 58 again, fan stops. Repeat forever after. 4-5 minute cycle. At 800 rpm I cant really hear it. Guess I'll need ...
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:38 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
I think I'll buy an Asus 970 in a few weeks - not available here yet. Was planning on buying a card early next year (in time for Witcher 3), but this card seems like it might be worth it, and it sounds less and less likely that 20nm is anywhere close to being released. Would have been great with som...
- Sat Sep 20, 2014 2:59 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphi ... 0-review/1
Another review with both the Asus and MSI card. No focus on noise at all, but some on the build quality and fan control.
Another review with both the Asus and MSI card. No focus on noise at all, but some on the build quality and fan control.
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 4:07 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
Kitguru has a review of both Asus and MSI. Not particularly focused on noise of course.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graph ... oc-review/
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graph ... 4g-review/
SPCR tests would be great in any case.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graph ... oc-review/
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graph ... 4g-review/
SPCR tests would be great in any case.
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:06 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus GTX970 STRIX
- Replies: 106
- Views: 88402
Re: Asus GTX970 STRIX
Looks very tempting. I wonder if this 'Strix' fan setup can be controlled with the Afterburner software however. Given how they are already set to turn off the fan below a certain temp. Would be nice if you could lower the fan speed above that threshold as well, since the temperature doesn't seem to...
- Tue Jun 25, 2013 5:08 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GTX 760 review compilation
- Replies: 28
- Views: 34094
Re: GTX 760 review compilation
The MSI 760 seems somewhat interesting, if not from a perfomance/watt perspective, at least as an overall package of price, performance and noise. The big question I would like to know the answer for, is what the fan speed % is on the card. As in, could the fan speed be lowered even more with Afterb...
- Sun Mar 17, 2013 12:00 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Help picking silent Graphics card!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5493
Re: Help picking silent Graphics card!
I have seen people claim that the DirectCU II is less effective in a FT02. Others claim it makes virtually no difference... Sitting on a FT02 myself it would be damn interesting with more tests regarding this subject. I'm not sure MSI twinfrozr is actually more noisy than DirectCU, the fan just seem...
- Thu May 10, 2012 5:19 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GTX 670 launched
- Replies: 38
- Views: 27868
Re: GTX 670 launched
I'm not planning to buy a new GPU anytime soon, but the Direct CU II surely sounds interesting if it is as quiet as Techpowerup claims, on an overclocked version of the card even. And considering they are not slowing down the fan in any way with Afterburner or similar it might possibly get even quie...
- Fri May 04, 2012 1:55 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quiet harddrive for gaming and storage
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5207
Quiet harddrive for gaming and storage
My good old WD 640AAKS seems to be entering its dying state. Last two days it has sometimes disappeared in Windows, and when scanning for errors with WDs diagnostic tools it find bad sectors, but then gets an error when it tries to fix them. So I'm now looking for a new drive with the following crit...
- Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:05 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Poll - are Sandy Bridge early adopters affected by the flaw?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7296
Re: Poll - are Sandy Bridge early adopters affected by the f
Someone claimed they estimated it by taking into consideration how many customers actually used the 3G ports, so I guess the chance of failure if you use the ports might actually be a lot higher than those 5-15%. Hard to say though. It would be surprising if they overestimated it at least, they woul...
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:54 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AMD & Asus DirectCU Radeon HD 6850 Graphics Cards
- Replies: 51
- Views: 37953
Re: AMD & Asus DirectCU Radeon HD 6850 Graphics Cards
MikeC: I agree there is usually some variation, but 500 rpm (mine is rinning at ~2000 rpm, 22 %PWM) seems to be a bit much, so I guess I'm not a lucky one... "Modding" is on the way, ordered a Twin Turbo Pro earlier this week and should get it tomorrow. However, I am still curious about the why... ...
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:23 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Poll - are Sandy Bridge early adopters affected by the flaw?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7296
Re: Poll - are Sandy Bridge early adopters affected by the f
Loving it is a strong word. I still have some minor issues like double boot screen (which 2 BIOS in a row should supposedly have fixed). Still, nothing serious. I'm not even sure I'll get the board replaced tbh. I wont ever run lots and lots of hard drives so should be able to just use the 6G sata p...
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:18 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AMD & Asus DirectCU Radeon HD 6850 Graphics Cards
- Replies: 51
- Views: 37953
Re: AMD & Asus DirectCU Radeon HD 6850 Graphics Cards
Interesting, it seems I got another BIOS for the card than both of you.
Gpu-Z says 013.009.000.003.000000
Which mostly tells us that the BIOS version has nothing to do with anything I guess.
Gpu-Z says 013.009.000.003.000000
Which mostly tells us that the BIOS version has nothing to do with anything I guess.
- Thu Feb 03, 2011 4:41 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus EAH6850: does yours meet up to the review?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13265
Re: Asus EAH6850: does yours meet up to the review?
~1800RPM at 20%PWM (also at 25 %PWM) Its hard for me to judge if it is as quiet (as I can't measure it), but it isn't running as low RPM at least. Maybe people should mention if they got V1 or V2 also as it could be a change in the V2. It's mentioned on the packaging (product number or something) - ...
- Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:59 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Couple pictures from my "Quiet sub-$3k build" thread.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5374
Re: Couple pictures from my "Quiet sub-$3k build" thread.
I don't think there will be much issues with optical drives on the 3G ports tbh. If a hard drive will have a 5-15% (according to intel) risk of breaking down one of those ports within 3 years (or am I misinterpreting it, and it will break down all 4 at the same time?), what chance will a much less u...
- Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:31 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New SB gaming build
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6433
Re: New SB gaming build
Asus answered that the card might be defective. They wouldn't answer what the lowest RPM is supposed to be though :/ Not sure I want to take the chance of getting it replaced. If other peoples experiences on these forums is anything to go by, I might get it replaced with another which has an even hi...
- Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:55 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Quiet sub-$3k build
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10599
Re: Quiet sub-$3k build
Congrats.
Is your 180mm fans just set at 'low' or undervolted? Mine was ridiculously loud at the standard low setting.
My hard drive in the Fortress II is creating quite some vibrations currently, so looking for a better solution.
Is your 180mm fans just set at 'low' or undervolted? Mine was ridiculously loud at the standard low setting.
How is that working out for you?NoiseMagic NoVibes III
My hard drive in the Fortress II is creating quite some vibrations currently, so looking for a better solution.
- Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:59 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New SB gaming build
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6433
Re: New SB gaming build
Yeah good idea. Contacted their support. Now we will see how many weeks they need to answer it
Though my guess is, it is a change they have made in their so-called 'V2' model of the card, considering a few others have the same problem here on the forums currently.
Though my guess is, it is a change they have made in their so-called 'V2' model of the card, considering a few others have the same problem here on the forums currently.
- Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:17 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Best passive and quiet performance GPU for fortress ft02
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7191
Re: Best passive and quiet performance GPU for fortress ft02
the only truly quiet fan setting on the ft02 is when the big fans are so undervolted that they tick for a couple of minutes on startup, and you've replaced and undervolted the top fan... anything beyond that is very audible, and the noise comes right out the top of the case. Not really. The Air Pen...