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[Pseudopsia]

Sound like you may have a defective GTX 580 or a case cooling problem. That's really high fan speed.

I probably hate PC noise more than you. I have my PC set up that it's almost silent idle and still very quiet when playing a game. Using H80i CPU cooler set on low fan profile and a giant intake fan on my case set on low as well. I can only hear the H80i pump on idle.

Below is my videocard's cooler. Even though I have it overclocked a lot it doesn't make much noise. Max temperature during benchmark was 67 C and max fan speed hit 36%.



My slim PS3 sounds about twice as loud as my PC.

[Rogue]

Sound like you may have a defective GTX 580 or a case cooling problem. That's really high fan speed.

I probably hate PC noise more than you. I have my PC set up that it's almost silent idle and still very quiet when playing a game. Using H80i CPU cooler set on low fan profile and a giant intake fan on my case set on low as well.

Below is my videocard's cooler. Even though I have it overclocked a lot it doesn't make much noise. Max temperature during benchmark was 67 C and max fan speed hit 36%.



My slim PS3 is about twice as loud as my PC.

Its not defective and its not an airflow problem, its just they provide the bare minimum for reference coolers. even though the cards are easily £300+.

On top of that i think the software spins the fans up faster than they need to be at a given time

The card was running rock solid albeit loudly for about a year before i had the idea of manualy setting the fan speeds,

so i ended up messing with fan speeds and keeping an eye on temps, like i said. At 60% the fans are whisper quiet and the temps barely get up to 80c (anything under 90c is acceptable) the compromise was a slight underclock.

Interestingly more aggresive underclocks didnt give nearly as good results.

I looked at the card in the picture recently but i think im going to wait till the 700 series is out. at which time i will take a great interest in the stock cooling.

Incidentally there are 3rd party GPU coolers like the "Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus II" which from reviews gives very excellent results- probably lower my temps AND allowing me to overclock instead of my current underclock. but i kind of resent spending another £60 on a £300+ graphics card

At the end of the day i managed to get my PC silent for no money and it will still play games on maximum so i thought it might be interesting.