On Tuesday 23 September 2008 20:31, David C. Rankin wrote:
I have an EVGA 8800GT board that is just plain Loud! No overclocking, just the default 600,900 gpu and memory speeds. I have searched and the closest thing to rivatuner for linux is nvclock. I have installed and worked with nvclock setting the PWM Duty Cycle between 20-90% (nvclock -f -F 20, etc. returning to 'auto'). The change in sound from the fan is almost imperceptible.
Hi David,
I've got a 9500 GS board in a new HP desktop that was also very noisy with the stock 11.0 install. It was quiet with Vista, before I blew it away. It quieted down when I installed the Nvidia proprietary driver. It's now noisy when the box is first turned on, but quiets down when the Nvidia module is loaded during boot-up. Sure, my kernel is now "tainted", but it seems to be worth it...
Regards, Lew
Thanks Lew, all:
I have the latest nvidia binaries installed with the accompanying taint, a small trade-off for glxgears at 11,000 FPS and my son's full screen video games that just fly to the screen. (savage 2, spring, etc.). The blanket idea is a good one, but I think I will have to resort to the zalman solution. Thanks all for confirming that the fan noise is just expected on the 'hot' video cards. Too bad the card manufacturers don't put more emphasis on the annoying fan noise, but again, I guess the card would cost $3.00 more with a good fan.
I just looked at the Zalman site. If you really want quiet, they have passive coolers for the graphic cards too.. What I find amazing though is as the processors have gotten faster and hotter, the fans have gotten bigger and quieter. The CPU cooler I've got on my amd X2 is really big. Heat pipes, and fins, and a 92mm fan that runs between 300 and 2500rpm. And the CPU has not gone about 40c even with high demand. It's the same for graphic cards too. One of my older AGP cards didn't even have a fan. Now the pci-e card in the X2 computer has a big heat sink and an 80mm fan. Heat pipes running around the card, and all sorts of things.. But it is quiet. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 9:20pm up 21 days 7:46, 5 users, load average: 1.47, 1.41, 1.24 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org