There are some cards with custom coolers that are quite powerful and silent. Check the Asus Direct CU II line (AMD 280X / nVidia 770), among others.
Passively cooled GPUs have a hard time dealing with demanding games.
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There are some cards with custom coolers that are quite powerful and silent. Check the Asus Direct CU II line (AMD 280X / nVidia 770), among others.
Passively cooled GPUs have a hard time dealing with demanding games.
i got the Asus Direct CU II 770gtx 4ig vram - it is quiet, can't hear it in the fractal design r4 silent tower. unless you start serious gaming, but even then it is v good.
the best current gpu with regards to noise emission is the MSI GTX twin frozer range. (out of stock in germany for all 770/780 models)
any more silent than that and you have to get the Arctic's Accelero Xtreme III cooler.
or for the very demanding the awesome prolimatech mk-26 with ideally noiseblocker eloop fans.
depending on gpu manufacturer you loose the warranty if you change the custom cooler (EVGA offers warranty despite)
Been upgrading my PC on a tight budget, picked up a nearly new (high end) GTX 670 for £130 and a refurb Dell P2414 for £89. Once I have sold my two previous cards, I'll have about £100 left to spend (Beta!).
i5 2300 @3.4 Stock Cooler
Asus P877-V-LK
8 GB DDR3 1333
750w Corsair PSU
EVGA FTW SIG2 GTX 670 2GB
Dell P2414H
Oddly, upgrading my SLI GTX 460 768s to a single GTX 670 has caused my CPU temperature to rocket.
At idle it stayed the same - about 35 degrees
Under load it has shot up massively to a toasty 85 degrees!
Guessing that the big 680-sized EVGA card has blocked the air flow round my case. Yes, I know a picture would be helpful but I am at work...
Just wondering:
Is there any real reason why I can't mount the card in the second PCI-e 16x slot? I think it might help.
Surely I should be fine on the stock cooler with such a modest over-clock?
Should I just man-up and buy something with a 'K' on the end and a tower cooler?
i5 2300 @3.4 Stock Cooler
Asus P877-V-LK
8 GB DDR3 1333
750w Corsair PSU
EVGA FTW SIG2 GTX 670 2GB
Dell P2414H
Oddly, upgrading my SLI GTX 460 768s to a single GTX 670 has caused my CPU temperature to rocket.
At idle it stayed the same - about 35 degrees
Under load it has shot up massively to a toasty 85 degrees!
Guessing that the big 680-sized EVGA card has blocked the air flow round my case. Yes, I know a picture would be helpful but I am at work...
Just wondering:
Is there any real reason why I can't mount the card in the second PCI-e 16x slot? I think it might help.
Surely I should be fine on the stock cooler with such a modest over-clock?
Should I just man-up and buy something with a 'K' on the end and a tower cooler?
Speaking of tower coolers (is the Hyper 212 Evo a 'tower cooler'?) if you get one of those, along with a 'K' i5 processor and maybe even the second fan option on the Hyper 212 Evo, then would you be good to go for safe overclocking when the time comes?
NEVER use stock coolers. I'm running a lovely Gelid Tranquillo (maybe v2 can't remember), CPU @stock 3.4ghz, overclocked to 4.2ghz never goes above 50 degrees.
air flow can be a BIG issue, what case have you got?!
1. you can mount the card in the 2nd pci-e 16x slot, sure.
2. i always always upgrade to a custom cooler from a good maker, even it is just a modest one
3. overclocking, i don't get it. instead get best bang for bucks and go for the awesome xenon 1230 v3
ps: the 670gtx you have clocks 324/162mhz in idle and low tdw watts. gaming will see it clock 1085mhz+ and use 250 watts. your old card had max. 150 watts. cpu will be more used by the 670gtx, too. ... some heat right there
i don't like the brand
but yes that would be enough. an i5-2500k via prime95 100% runs with that tower cooler 4,8mhz at about 73°C - the max that intel advises for that chipsetshould do, or
i don't like the brand
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My CPU will be a Core i5 4670k running at about 3.40ghz I believe.
Thanks deusx for your responce,
Off the top of my head my case is a Cooler Master Elite 330, a budget case from about 7 years ago with the PSU mounted at the top. I added a 120mm intake fan at the front-bottom, and a 90mm intake fan at the side-bottom, as it only came with a 120mm exhaust fan at the rear-top and the PSU exhaust fan rear-top.
1. Cool. Might try that in the interim.
2. Guess I might have to get something, it will be nice to have a quieter machine. Will look at the Thermalright you suggested.
3. Great advice I'm sure, that said, not for me as I think that is a Haswell generation chip. I only overclocked the i5 2300 as I read that at 2.8 the CPU just starts to impact the performance of enthusiast level cards.
Re: power use. Point taken, though it was 2 GTX 460s in there before.
in that case the evo is slightly on the weak side even with 2 fans, oc not recc'ed much beyond 4,0ghz
if you are going for higher oc then get a serious cooler such as the excellent noctua d14 or cheaper but huge & effective macho
To be honest, it'll just be overclocked to give it a little boost when it begins to struggle towards the end of its useful life. I'm not a hardcore overclocker or anything like that.
Some motherboards will only run the second Pci-e at x4 even with only one card connected so watch for that.
That's a decent overclock fom that CPU, I have the same but run it standard, is the 3.4 its base freq now or is that it in turbo mode as before it would of been 2.8 - 3.1 ?
This might be for way in the future especially for me as I can't afford one but since windows 8 supports touch screen monitors, will ED be able to use them so that you can more easily target something or select something from the menu.
(I wad just imagining my ideal setup with a huge touchscreen like a cockpit window and me pressing the screen in order to activate something but then reality struck home and thought that the screen would have to be out of arms reach so a pointer stick will be needed etc )
(I wad just imagining my ideal setup with a huge touchscreen like a cockpit window and me pressing the screen in order to activate something but then reality struck home and thought that the screen would have to be out of arms reach so a pointer stick will be needed etc
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So, you do some heavy duty stuff other than gaming then?
Any thoughts on this rig? It's a couple of years old now, but I think it should be sufficient.
Core i5 760 2.8GHz O/Cd to 4.0Ghz
8GB dual channel DDR3 1600
250GB Samsung SSD
Coolermaster 700W PSU
Current gfx card is a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 Vapour-X 1024MB, which I'm planning to upgrade - probably to some variety of an R9 270X (although I'm undecided on how much on-board memory to go for). Not sure if I really need to throw any more money at the gfx card?
Core i5 760 2.8GHz O/Cd to 4.0Ghz
8GB dual channel DDR3 1600
250GB Samsung SSD
Coolermaster 700W PSU
Current gfx card is a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 Vapour-X 1024MB, which I'm planning to upgrade - probably to some variety of an R9 270X (although I'm undecided on how much on-board memory to go for). Not sure if I really need to throw any more money at the gfx card?
Nope, this is just for elite, and counter strike
lolwas a jk, I'm only looking at a 760-780 gtx.
So far we have nothing else than 2 Alpha builds for reference, your PC should run them fine. IMHO you should wait and see how it performs before deciding on any upgrades.
Hehe, got me.Nope, this is just for elite, and counter strike
was a jk, I'm only looking at a 760-780 gtx.