7900gto or 7950gt
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That's odd... Is the noise whooshing or is it bearing or motor noise? Is it noisier now than it was when new?
Because if i unplug all my hardrives and stop the case and CPU fans i still think its very quiet at 25%, in that situation the NeoHE is the noisiest part even though its not ramping up. have you tried slowing the fan down?
Because if i unplug all my hardrives and stop the case and CPU fans i still think its very quiet at 25%, in that situation the NeoHE is the noisiest part even though its not ramping up. have you tried slowing the fan down?
I'd had enough of the stock GF7900GTX cooler so replaced it with a Thermalright HR-03 passive cooler instead.
The main issue I had with the Nvidia cooler wasn't that it's particularly noisy in itself. It just seemed to add to the overall noise from the PC.
The PC now only has the single exhaust fan running as before.
Standard Antec PSU's aren't particularly quiet. Replacing it with something such as a Nesteq Semi-Passive PSU in ASM mode makes a big difference.
http://www.nesteq.de/
PC with Thermalright HR-03 GPU heatsink fitted.
Idle temperatures 13 October 2006 Room temperature is 19c
The main issue I had with the Nvidia cooler wasn't that it's particularly noisy in itself. It just seemed to add to the overall noise from the PC.
The PC now only has the single exhaust fan running as before.
Standard Antec PSU's aren't particularly quiet. Replacing it with something such as a Nesteq Semi-Passive PSU in ASM mode makes a big difference.
http://www.nesteq.de/
PC with Thermalright HR-03 GPU heatsink fitted.
Idle temperatures 13 October 2006 Room temperature is 19c
Update on my 7900GTO: I've tested out Nibitor and it seems it can't do overvolting due to hardware limitations....BUT IT CAN do undervolting! I haven't tried under 1.3v as that requires voltage table setting. The standard settings are 1.3V for 2d and 1.4V for 3d. So I've set everything to 1.3v now. Hope more people get a chance to take advantage of Bios editing for undervolting, it's an awesome free and easy soft video card mod for us quiet addicts.
I find it rather funny because now the card isn't stable at stock clock speed. Normal speeds are 650 core/660 memory. I now have it at 623 core/725 memory and this seems fully stable. At full burn, based on an estimate off my UPS monitor, I'm using around 140-150 watts for my full system. My highest gpu temp so far is 63C. And it's amazingly quiet, I love the stock cooler
I'd definitely recommend this card to anyone who wants a low power beast of a gpu at a great price. If you don't mind dropping the clocks a bit, it's an extremely easy thing to undervolt to 1.3V...and possibly even lower...although at that point a 7900GT might make more sense as it's basically an undervolted 7900GTX/GTO at 1.2V.
I find it rather funny because now the card isn't stable at stock clock speed. Normal speeds are 650 core/660 memory. I now have it at 623 core/725 memory and this seems fully stable. At full burn, based on an estimate off my UPS monitor, I'm using around 140-150 watts for my full system. My highest gpu temp so far is 63C. And it's amazingly quiet, I love the stock cooler
I'd definitely recommend this card to anyone who wants a low power beast of a gpu at a great price. If you don't mind dropping the clocks a bit, it's an extremely easy thing to undervolt to 1.3V...and possibly even lower...although at that point a 7900GT might make more sense as it's basically an undervolted 7900GTX/GTO at 1.2V.
Ah crap. I still cant get fan speeds working automatically. I flashed the card to a GTX to see if it would work like that, it does not. Kind of irritating. I have tried both editing the BIOS with nibitor and custom fan settings in RivaTuner. The only thing that works is "low-level fan control" in RivaTuner, but with that i can only set it to a fixed speed, and i can't get that to load with windows either...