its silent at idle, but when i play games it gets pretty loud and hot, bout 60-67 celcius, and it also makes my whole pc hot, i have gotten latest drivers, and my house is at 70-72 deg farenheit, so i dont know why, but im getting a few fans later and that might do the job, also my gpu is over my psu and has bout 3-4" of space for air, all power is connected with 480w psu, so no prob, and my pc got supah hot when i got the card, and even at idle it isnt that quiet.