I've been building a HTPC machine for my living room, the motherboard has a built in 7100, but I decided to beef it up a bit with a good graphics card so I could play a few games, nothing too OTT but enough to run the latest games at a good frame rate.
At first I opted for an Gigabyte ATI 6470 I quickly found out this card was rubbish, the fan speed was stuck at 100% all the time and it sounded like a hoover. They don't have any fan speed control at all.
I sent this back and bought an XFX 9600 GT. As soon as I booted it up the fan went to 100%, Started to get a bit worried however once the drivers were installed it throttled down and it was virtually silent. Great i thought!
Problem is if I put the PC into sleep mode the card throttles back up to 100% and I've got another hoover.
I've had bad luck so far, I've contacted XFX and they say a BIOS update isn't available I've tried tweaking it myself but nothing has worked.
Can you guys recommend a good card at this level that doesn't sound like a leaf blower?
Thanks
At first I opted for an Gigabyte ATI 6470 I quickly found out this card was rubbish, the fan speed was stuck at 100% all the time and it sounded like a hoover. They don't have any fan speed control at all.
I sent this back and bought an XFX 9600 GT. As soon as I booted it up the fan went to 100%, Started to get a bit worried however once the drivers were installed it throttled down and it was virtually silent. Great i thought!
Problem is if I put the PC into sleep mode the card throttles back up to 100% and I've got another hoover.
I've had bad luck so far, I've contacted XFX and they say a BIOS update isn't available I've tried tweaking it myself but nothing has worked.
Can you guys recommend a good card at this level that doesn't sound like a leaf blower?
Thanks
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