Le Tuesday 23 September 2008 09:17:03 David C. Rankin, vous avez écrit :
Listmates,
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.
Returning fan control to auto, the Duty Cycle varies between 30 and 50% depending on the demand on the system. Board temp and GPU temp average 45 and 49 deg. C, respectively. If my son cranks up a full screen graphic intense game, then the temps rise to about 51 and 57, respectively. The fans, sounds like it is about to cause the case (a heavy one at that) to attempt a vertical takeoff. Fan RPMS run between the 600s up to the 1,200s. The fan doesn't sound like a bad fan, it just sounds like it wants to fly.
Are there any other ways to interface with the fan or any more setting with nviia-settings that will lesson the noise this thing produces? As always, thanks for your help in advanced and hopefully somebody has a silver bullet that will strip a few decibels from this propeller mounted on a card.
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Hi, I have no soft solution, but those high-end cards need a good cooling, and are often noisy. However, if the sound is really unusual, it could be because of a fan problem in the card ventirad. Could you RMA it ? The other option I have in mind is to replace the factory ventirad by a better one. Brands like zalman have good reputation not only for CPU cooling but also for GPUs and Northbridges.... Hope it will help Cheers Matthias -- / \ /_!_\ My e-mail address has just changed. Please note the new one : matthias.titeux@inserm.fr _____________________________________________________________ Matthias Titeux, PhD Département de génétique des maladies cutanées et allergiques dans des modèles animaux et chez l'homme. INSERM U563 - CPTP Pavillon Lefebvre, 5ème étage CHU Purpan BP3028 31024 Toulouse cedex 03 __________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org