Jeez, Focus Dude!
You're the one saying they are quiet while the AUTHOR of THIS thread says they are loud. You back up that they are 'Quiet' as you say. I can provide audio AND video of the cards and show you that they ARE loud, but the onus is on you for your delusive statement that they are quiet. They may indeed be, 'not as loud as the previous versions of the cards', but that does NOT make them quiet.
And comparing them to ATI depends on the card you compare to the HIS is significantly less noisy than other R9800 XT/PRO solutions which would then make it MUCH more quiet than most FX5950U boards. But then you could add into the mix and R9800XT Ultimate Edition or a Gainward Liquid Cool Solution and mess up the whole thing. However for the most part the FX5950 card is not quite, only '<i>quieter</i>' than previous models, and for the most part the R9800XT cards are louder than the previous generations, however it's still not completely clear which is louder outside of the reference cards.
Some people even find that the R9600P is more annoying because while it's not a high on the decibel level/meter. it's fan eminates a higher pitch sound/noise which cuts through the jumble of case fan white noise in the average case.
Wusy said:<font color=purple>Sorry buddy, that's how FX5950 are meant to be.</font color=purple>
to which YOU replied:<font color=green>Several reviews have said that the reference 5950 cooler is very quiet. Do you have anything to back up your claim, or are you just spewing anti-NV bs?</font color=green>
I'd have to say it's you who's providing us with BS, obviously you read more into Wusy's reply than was actually there. Sensetive are we?
After all, if the 5950 is actually loud, reviewers would certainly be mentioning it.
Reviewers don't usually mentions things that have come to be a given. Both companies have stated that they will need to move to big loud cooling solutions, so restating that the top FX coolers are loud is redundant. Few people have come to expect 'quiet' cooling from the top of the line reference cards. Read any review of the Ultimate Edition cards by Sapphire and you will see reference to both companies making loud cooling solutions.
This thread is about the FX5950 sounding like a vacuum cleaner to the author, and if we can give fix that.
<b>Sleeper_uk</b>, I don't know of any program that will override nv's choices for fan speed. Like Wusy said your only real solution (other than getting a different card) is to replace the HSF, and like W said that's not a simple task.
You aren't likely to find very quiet solutions out there. I have seen ONE passive cooling FX5900(non-ultra), but I don't know if they have the FX5950U setup like that. And a Gainward liquid solution isn't a simple answer either.
My suggestion, get a few case fans to act as white noise to run a little turbulence in your rig, it may lessen the noticeability of your card, but it will still leave you with a rig that is anything but quiet.
Of course that's just my two frames worth, as usual.
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