Don't the G1 970 cards still have that 1600RPM minimum fan speed limit?

I've got the Z77 version of this board and while the fan control works well, I'm having trouble with the PCH(?) heating up to 52+C which is by no means hot but enough to cause the rear case fan to spin a bit too fast... it also takes ages to get the temp back to low 40s. I wonder if there are any su...

Bump. I've got a short video clip of this diesel engine-like sound my V450S makes. Thought you might be interested. The unit is not exactly noisy but it's the loudest component in my rig along with the WD Scorpio Black 2,5". No whoosh or anything else, just this kind of sound no matter what kind of ...

I've owned this card for a week now and I just did some small testing with 50% power limit and fans set to 30% (650RPM). After two runs of Heaven 4.0 Extreme, I got 56C for the core in a Cooltek U2 case with 120mm Slip Stream running at 700RPM. Lowest core clock 1200Mhz, highest 1380, average 1250is...