Welcome to SPCR. My lazy shorthand of "passive idle" should be passive idle/2D loads. I think like a gamer. :) I think most of the cards are showing passive fans to 50-60C. Didn't see it for the Palit card in a review, yet. Hi. I totally haven't been lurking here for a decade or anything. :) It mos...

Palit GTX 1070 Game Rock Premium Edition (11.22" length, 5.12" height, triple slot (xx"), 8-pin PEG, 3 DP, 1 HDMI, 1 Dual-link DVI). Passive idle. Their website claims: The operating fans only occurs while working on heavier loading such as gaming that the GPU temperature surpasses 50°C. …which doe...