Loud fan on Radeon 9500 Pro

[zepkin]

I installed the Radeon 9500 Pro in my system last night and it is great so far. The fan, however, makes a lot more noise than my previous card (a GeForce4 MX 420). Is there anything I can do to kill its "buzz" at bit? Maybe replace it with another fan? I am not overclocking it at this point and probably won't for at least a while, seeing how well everything ran last night.

 

[Squints]

I dont know about the fan, but I did just order one and I'll see how loud it when it gets here. It might be just the card you got. BTW What system are you running it with? I'm having trouble finding benchmarks with "real world" computers and not the 3.06 ghz hyper needle technology super computers.

 

[zepkin]

I am running a p4 2.4 GHz system. I didn't do any benchmarks, but the difference in Return to Castle Wolfenstein was dramatic. I was running it at 1280 x 1024 with everything turned on, and it was super smooth. Before, with the MX 420 it was playable, but a little clunky.

 

[Conehead]

Did you encounter any instability or installation issues?
I am currently debating the Radeon 9500 Pro or the Geforce4 Ti Albatron Turbo, both at a similar price. On one side, the Albatron exceeds the Geforce4 when overclocked and has drivers that have been proven to be much more reliable then the ATI drivers. On the other hand, nothing from the Nvidia side can compare with the quality of AA and AF that the ATI Radeon 9500 Pro provides...what should I choose?

I'm running an XP 1600+ @1600 mhz
256MB of CAS 2 PC133 SDRAM
MSI K7T Turbo2 (KT133A chipset)
Geforce2 Ti

"When you can cook eggs on your video card, it's time to get extra cooling..."

 

[Squints]

I've never had problems with drivers with my Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO so It wasnt an issue buying the Radeon 9500 pro. My cpu is going to be a big bottleneck though, its only a 1ghz. Leaves room for big imrovement later on .