Suggest fan profile for Asus R9 280X DCIIT
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volcanoscout
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Here's what I told another poster yesterday:
There are too many factors that have to be counted in for anyone to give you a pat answer. What's your avg ambient temp? How good is the cooling in your case? How hard do you rock your card in games? Benchmarking? What temps are you comfortable with? What is your noise tolerance level? Etc, etc.
Your best bet is to go with the default settings and run a graphics benchmark like FireStrike or Unigine Heaven. See what noise levels are associated with what fan duty level at various temp marks (i.e. noise level at 30C with fans at 17%, noise level at 40C with fans at 35%, etc). Take notes at each arbitrary checkpoint along with your impression of the acceptability of the noise level. You can then set a custom curve to fit your preferences.
Some people accept higher temps for lower noise (say, gaming at 80C with fans at 50%), and some accept higher noise for lower temps (fans at 90-100% but temp at 70C). If you reach your noise tolerance threshold, but the GPU temp is higher than you find acceptable, you can try adjusting your case fan settings. The fans on the GPU are small and noisy at high speed; presumably your case fans are larger and quieter - cranking up your case fans will blow more cool air across your GPU and help cool it. So you may end up with a ceiling of 50% on your GPU fans, your case fans at 80% and your GPU temp at 70C.
There are too many factors that have to be counted in for anyone to give you a pat answer. What's your avg ambient temp? How good is the cooling in your case? How hard do you rock your card in games? Benchmarking? What temps are you comfortable with? What is your noise tolerance level? Etc, etc.
Your best bet is to go with the default settings and run a graphics benchmark like FireStrike or Unigine Heaven. See what noise levels are associated with what fan duty level at various temp marks (i.e. noise level at 30C with fans at 17%, noise level at 40C with fans at 35%, etc). Take notes at each arbitrary checkpoint along with your impression of the acceptability of the noise level. You can then set a custom curve to fit your preferences.
Some people accept higher temps for lower noise (say, gaming at 80C with fans at 50%), and some accept higher noise for lower temps (fans at 90-100% but temp at 70C). If you reach your noise tolerance threshold, but the GPU temp is higher than you find acceptable, you can try adjusting your case fan settings. The fans on the GPU are small and noisy at high speed; presumably your case fans are larger and quieter - cranking up your case fans will blow more cool air across your GPU and help cool it. So you may end up with a ceiling of 50% on your GPU fans, your case fans at 80% and your GPU temp at 70C.
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I currently have 3 fans in my case. They are stock Fractal's. One in the front which is blowing air in the case, one on the top which is taking hot air away and one in the back which is taking the hot air out too. I want my card to be quiet in games and to keep safe temps. Can you suggest something now?
volcanoscout
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I'm assuming you got the Fractal Silent Series R2 fans? If so, they're supposed to be rated at 66 CFM at 18.5 dBa for the 140mm, and 40.5 CFM at 15 dBa for the 120mm's. My experience has been that they are very quiet (other than a ticking noise), but they also push very little air regardless of the manufacturer's claims. I love the cases (own three of them now), but the fans...not so much.
I think that you'll find that if you are willing to spend the money, you can get much more aggressive fans without losing control of the sound level. There are many folks on this site who will disagree, but if you're looking for low noise, good air movement, and high quality I would recommend replacing your stock fans with Noctuas. The colors may not be anything to write home about, but they have great performance, are very quiet, have great customer support and come with 6 year warranties. Two NF-A14 FLX in the front, and either another A14 or an NF-S12A in the back the back will cost you $60, but will radically improve your case air flow, which will in turn reduce the load on your GPU fans. You can add in a top/rear fan for an additional $20 - it won't make a huge difference as far as your temp top end goes, but will allow you to step the other fans down ~10% and maintain the temp curve. With a non-reference card, adding in an exhaust fan on the side will have more of an effect than a top/rear. Running SLI 770 OCs in an R4, the side fan dropped my GPU temps a solid 7C.
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-case-fan-nfa14flx
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-case-fan-nfs12aflx
As for profiles, I would wait until you upgrade the fans before you decide whether the UI software profiles are of any use. I have Asus mobos, which have better UI support IMO, but whose Fan Xpert was pretty much a waste of time with the stock fans. Once I replaced them, I found that the stock profiles were more than sufficient to cover my needs.
I think that you'll find that if you are willing to spend the money, you can get much more aggressive fans without losing control of the sound level. There are many folks on this site who will disagree, but if you're looking for low noise, good air movement, and high quality I would recommend replacing your stock fans with Noctuas. The colors may not be anything to write home about, but they have great performance, are very quiet, have great customer support and come with 6 year warranties. Two NF-A14 FLX in the front, and either another A14 or an NF-S12A in the back the back will cost you $60, but will radically improve your case air flow, which will in turn reduce the load on your GPU fans. You can add in a top/rear fan for an additional $20 - it won't make a huge difference as far as your temp top end goes, but will allow you to step the other fans down ~10% and maintain the temp curve. With a non-reference card, adding in an exhaust fan on the side will have more of an effect than a top/rear. Running SLI 770 OCs in an R4, the side fan dropped my GPU temps a solid 7C.
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-case-fan-nfa14flx
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-case-fan-nfs12aflx
As for profiles, I would wait until you upgrade the fans before you decide whether the UI software profiles are of any use. I have Asus mobos, which have better UI support IMO, but whose Fan Xpert was pretty much a waste of time with the stock fans. Once I replaced them, I found that the stock profiles were more than sufficient to cover my needs.
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