Thanks for this insight, CA_Steve, that's somehow encouraging

As written above, I did try raising the case fans speed, with little results. If I understand you correctly, my last hope to avoid an RMA is that the M12-PS are crap.

Playing Far Cry 3 in 1920x1200 with full details got the GPU to more than 80°C and, yet again, it was too loud...

I'll start by comparing my cards to other cards, in some of my friends' cases. If my card is excessively hotter in the same setups, I'll RMA it.

I tried with both case fans running at 1000RPM. It got better (Furmark wouldn't make it crash), but it was still much too loud. The GPU fans were running at 3000RPM and the temperature almost reached 90°C. I'm starting to think that the case fans are crap, CFM-wise. I'll give it a shot with my good ...

I'm still struggling to understand how two small, thin fans spinning at 2220RPM could produce but 16dB... That sounds like sheer wizardry to my ears.

I made some benchmarking, with various setups : Idle / Side panel closed: CPU: 34°C Motherboard: 35°C GPU: 40°C CPU fan speed: ~600RPM Case fans speed: ~400RPM GPU fan speed: ~1000RPM Idle / Side panel open: CPU: 27°C Motherboard: 28°C GPU: 32°C CPU fan speed: ~600RPM Case fans speed: ~400RPM GPU fa...

I have the same CPU and heatsink, and my idle temperature is 34°C, with the fan at ~600RPM.

The expansion slot covers are all ventilated. This is possibly allowing air from the middle fan to bypass the graphics card and head straight out and for warm air from the graphics card to not be expelled instead. You could try covering them up and seeing if it makes it cooler. Then try sealing the...

Given how hot graphics cards can be, it should be a separate chamber for the slots as well. Just to make sure it's the case airflow that's insufficient and there's nothing wrong with the card, have you tried running it with the case open, just for testing? Yep ! It's still very hot and noisy, but i...

Agreed 40°C is cool compared to mine at 49°C idle I can only think its recirculating the air its generating when it starts to get hot. I would suggest trying to work out how the air is flowing inside the case, either using smoke or trying to feel where its drawing its air in from the out side. That...

CA_Steve wrote:Sort of sounds like the cooler isn't mounted well on the gpu. What are you seeing for idle temps?

40°C

I cannot imagine how it could be not well mounted, since I cross-checked it; I don't think it's easy not to mount it well, really.

Thanks for your reply, I'll check the temperatures around the card as you advise. As for the card's design, I'll copy the picture from SPCR's review : http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/asus-gtx670/07.jpg Not sure how I could detect some manufacturing defect. I don't really want to tear it a...

As explained in the thread about my new gaming build , my graphic card makes a lot of heat and, of course, a lot of noise. Running Furmark for a few minutes pushes the GPU to more than 90°C and the fans ramp up accordingly (~90%). This is of course NOT what I had foreseen, having read SPCR's review ...

I do have a front fan ! The GPU stabilizes around 85°C when I set the intake front fan to 100%, but it's noisy as hell !

What temps are your reaching before crashing, a HWmoitor screen would be great, with CPU/Chispset/GPU. Last time I checked, I was around 90°C. I just tried again, same results, except that I stopped the test before crashing; the temperature gets out of control, even though the GPU fans ramp up to 8...

First impressions : I'm VERY disappointed.

Running Prime95 + Furmark for about ten minutes got the graphics card screaming, then crashing...

I cannot begin to reproduce the results of the GTX 670 review. On load, it doesn't strike me as a "quiet" card at all...

Abula wrote:Nice build, btw whats the lowest that you been able to run the macho fan?

558 RPM

CA_Steve wrote:Nice

Thanks

CA_Steve wrote:How much clearance do you have between the Macho and the case?

Pretty much nothing !

Everything is up and running ! :) It's quiet out of the box, using QFan's "Silent" mode, but it got nearly silent after Fan Xpert 2 tuning :) Now the loudest part of my build is... my screen ! (well, one of my two screens). It's a Iiyama 2403WS, and I'm pretty mad at it :evil: I'll do some stress te...

I seem to recall that the stock fan of the Thermalright Macho isn't quite that good. If this is true, you should buy another fan, preferably a PWM fan. I just reread the review, and it's true that the fan could be better. I'll see how it performs, but as long as it keeps spinning slowly and is more...

I haven't ordered anything yet (I'm waiting for the new fiscal year), but my choice of components is made. I'll be using SPCR recommended parts as much as possible. From my current build, I'm keeping : * Antec P183 (SPCR Recomended) * Antec CP-850 (SPCR Editor's Choice): There are many quieter or ev...

If you're interested, here is a link to the topic about the HTPC I made with the same case : viewtopic.php?f=14&t=63582

Thanks, Mike !

I've just taken some quick measures, and it looks like it might fit, but it will surely not make cable management easy, nor will it make the case fun to work with...

Why is an SSD not an option ?

In a previous thread, I showed how I managed to make my HTPC quiet . As always, silencing one component only made another component's noise audible :( Silencing my NAS (Synology DS-411 with 2 WD Caviar Green 2TB (WD20EARS)), which is enclosed in the cabinet where my HTPC lies, is the next step towar...

Very nice work, slippery... once again !

You rule ^^

I probably could, but I don't really see the added value; I'm pretty sure I wouldn't hear much difference (this is already VERY VERY quiet) and I would probably have to add two or three fanmates to do the trick (I have a couple of them lying around, but I'm not sure where exactly :p).

The fans make a gentle woosh, barely audible @1m (in my apartment at night).

Both cores oscillate around 50°C while playing a 1080p source

Here's the result ! :) I ended up disconnecting the front USB and audio cables to tidy things up a bit. The NF-R8 PWMs use the LNAs and Q-Fan is enabled in "Silent" mode. I have uninstalled Asus AI; I don't want my fans to ramp up and I won't need them to, as long as I don't do anything heavier than...

Small updates : * A friend of mine helped me cut the drive tray in half to make room for... * A Scythe Big Shuriken 2 that's on its way ! :) I'll try it without any fan on the heatsink and see what the temperatures are like. If it does work, as suggested in SPCR's review of ISK300-65 , I think I wil...

Here we go ! Some pics without the drive tray, to illustrate my attempt at cable management : http://users.skynet.be/fa022588/IMG_0410.JPG http://users.skynet.be/fa022588/IMG_0413.JPG http://users.skynet.be/fa022588/IMG_0414.JPG With the drive tray : http://users.skynet.be/fa022588/IMG_0416.JPG In i...