dear god the gfx noise

Fibretip

okay, i'm running a geforce 7800GS AGP card. love it, great card, performance is great, temps are fine, etc etc. Trouble is.. it is LOUD. It has a massive heatsink and fan on it, which is somehow joined without visible screws. I've just invested in a case full of acoustic dampening foam and even that hasn't stopped the racket. Is there anything i can do to stop this, or at least calm it down? I don't have a floppy drive, I really don't want to change the card's bios settings to make the fan spin slower..because i don't feel confident knowing what to change etc.

Does anyone have any experience with this or similar cards?

please help H/A!!

noobert

ATITool!

With SOME cards you can set the fan to spin at various percentages based on temp, it takes a lot of tweeking, but i got my rawring x1950pro to be pretty much silent went running idle and only rawr when it was required.

http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

Fibretip

looks good, i'll give it a go, thanks!

edit : I'm not finding any "fan control" settings like the wiki says i should... could this be because it's an Nvidia card and not an ATI one? evertything else shows up, but no fan control :S

Scott_Cameron

Fibretip wrote: »

okay, i'm running a geforce 7800GS AGP card. love it, great card, performance is great, temps are fine, etc etc. Trouble is.. it is LOUD. It has a massive heatsink and fan on it, which is somehow joined without visible screws. I've just invested in a case full of acoustic dampening foam and even that hasn't stopped the racket. Is there anything i can do to stop this, or at least calm it down? I don't have a floppy drive, I really don't want to change the card's bios settings to make the fan spin slower..because i don't feel confident knowing what to change etc.

Does anyone have any experience with this or similar cards?

please help H/A!!

I have the exact same card and the exact same problem. I could use a solution too!

Technicality

You could try rivatuner or ntune.. Not tried either myself as I am also an ATI man, and use ATITool for sweet sweet silence.
Keep looking, its totally worth it when you get it working.

Fibretip

I tried rivatuner earlier, i can set "driver level fan control" but it won't let me change the settings for the actual card. The walkthroughs say "click on system settings" but i only have access to "low level system settings" which does me no good as it doesn't have fan speeds. Is this because of the card ?

I've tried configuring the driver level fan control speeds but that hasn't changed a thing.

confusion reigns supreme!

i shall persevere.... anymore input is of course welcome. Thanks for the help so far.


edit: is it normal that the ntune thing takes over 10 minutes to load? i clicked it and my pc basically crashed, then 10 minutes almost exactly later it suddenly appeared

edit 2 : Ok... Ntune won't let me change the fan except for during 3d. I don't care how much noise it makes when i'm playing games, it's just 2D fan speeds i need to change... this is doing my head in!