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I've been looking at the MSI Twin Frozr. But does anyone know if these cards are actually silent enough (at idle) to qualify for the elusive SilentPCreview badge of honor?
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Thanks for the suggestion! It's quite a bit more expensive than the MSI (and the like) though...lodestar wrote:The Gainward Phantom GTX 560TI is the quietest. Not currently sold in North America, but as you live in Europe you are in luck http://www.proshop.dk/Grafikkort/Gainwa ... 44193.html.
Define flimsytanassi wrote: Not too keen on gbyte for GPU's. Theyre very flimsy and some dont have voltage regulators.
Biggest issue with most nvidia cards is the horribly high fanspeed at iddle. This is fixed at 40%. You will have to flash your bios to get it any lower.
It goes for all nvidia cards, with the exception of a few (like the Galaxy Anarchy, etc). If you use afterburner you cant lower the fan speed below the 40%. You have to flash your card''s BIOS for that. Which is no biggy if you know your way around these things but daunting if you don't.kater wrote:Define flimsytanassi wrote: Not too keen on gbyte for GPU's. Theyre very flimsy and some dont have voltage regulators.
Biggest issue with most nvidia cards is the horribly high fanspeed at iddle. This is fixed at 40%. You will have to flash your bios to get it any lower.- lots of GB cards actually use their UD technology - not sure if this really helps, but at least they put more copper there and thicker PCBs. Not thinner or anything.
Are you really sure the hi fan speed at idle plagues Nvidia? That's exactly what happened to some Radeons made by GB. never heard about this problem for Nvidias, tho. Still, this issue can be easily resolved by manually adjusting fan speed.
I won't be getting the new card for a while yet, so I don't have any impressions just yet. But I've heard the Hawk is louder than the Twin Frozr II cooler (don't quote me on that thoughmerin wrote:So what are your impressions?
I'm considering one of these two cards myself:
Gainward GeForce GTX 560 Ti Phantom 1GB
MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB Hawk
Any idea wich one is the quietest?
The Hawk has an Twin Frozr III cooler which is in general better (quieter and cooler) than the Twin Frozr II.merin wrote:So what are your impressions?
I'm considering one of these two cards myself:
Gainward GeForce GTX 560 Ti Phantom 1GB
MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB Hawk
Any idea wich one is the quietest?
The reason I'm considering the Hawk is because of the high clockspeed and
because I want to be able to play new games on high settings.
Both cards cost about the same, so price isn't a factor.
So, if the Hawk is more noisy than the Phantom, the final question would be:
Is it worth getting the Hawk even if it is more noisy than the Phantom?
1200-ish @ 30% if I remember correctly.kater wrote:Give us some RPM figures
Flashing the BIOS is pretty easy with any nvidia card. You just need the latest version of Nibitor and the nvidia BIOS flasher to read and then reflash the edited BIOS. IIRC, it's called NVFlash... I did a 550 Ti that had a minimum fan speed of 40% and was able to get it down to 25%.corrion wrote:Is it hard to flash the BIOS on the Gigabyte card? I have the Gigabyte GTX560 Ti non-OC, and the minimum clock speed isn't low enough for me (I think it's set to 40%).
To answer the OP - I have the dual-fan version: it's quiet at idle (barely audible), but I can definitely single out the fan noise out of my Solo II. I'm hoping I can lower the fan speed to like 25% in MSI Afterburner if I flash the BIOS. I don't care if it's loud when I game, so I have the fan ramp up quickly when it gets hot. By default, it's pretty quiet during load as well.