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potatochobit wrote:sell the 5770 on ebay and buy a different card
an aftermarket cooler will cost you like 60$ and you have to clean the VRM chips
if your gpu fans are on stock settings and it's too noisy for you then you may have different problems like a computer case with big holes for fans
a 6850 or 460 might be quieter though, I have a sound proof case and I can't hear the 6850 under 50% fan speed
BlackStar wrote:My 4850 with reference cooling is silent at idle and when gaming it doesn't bother me. Do you guys need silence when gaming? That's unnecessary for me.I can feel you. I bought the 4850 back in the day and it's stock fan drove me crazy (it never passed 41% under normal use but it was still too loud - even though review sites said it was silent).
flip-mode wrote:My 4850 with reference cooling is silent at idle and when gaming it doesn't bother me. Do you guys need silence when gaming? That's unnecessary for me.
BlackStar wrote:Wow, that sucks. Mine has never done any such thing. It's been a model citizen; best GPU ownership experience I've ever had.flip-mode wrote:The 4850 was obnoxious while gaming and very annoying during idle. Even worse, the fan would spin up and change pitch while scrolling windows and playing flash content.My 4850 with reference cooling is silent at idle and when gaming it doesn't bother me. Do you guys need silence when gaming? That's unnecessary for me.
Weird. I also have a Scythe Ninja, some special $16 Scythe that is the loudest thing in the system when the system is at idle. That fan is slated to be replaced. I'm somewhat upset about it because I've never spent so much on a fan. Something in the bearings is making noise, although the bearings are those FDB type. The Antec fan that came with my case is quieter.That said, I was using a Scythe Ninja CPU cooler with a 800rpm fan, a Seasonic S12 430W (older model, which is completely silent) and three Samsung HDs on elastic suspension[1] (plus a silent Intel SSD). The 4850 on idle was at least twice as loud as any other component in that system.
flip-mode wrote:BlackStar wrote:Wow, that sucks. Mine has never done any such thing. It's been a model citizen; best GPU ownership experience I've ever had.flip-mode wrote:The 4850 was obnoxious while gaming and very annoying during idle. Even worse, the fan would spin up and change pitch while scrolling windows and playing flash content.My 4850 with reference cooling is silent at idle and when gaming it doesn't bother me. Do you guys need silence when gaming? That's unnecessary for me.
Weird. I also have a Scythe Ninja, some special $16 Scythe that is the loudest thing in the system when the system is at idle. That fan is slated to be replaced. I'm somewhat upset about it because I've never spent so much on a fan. Something in the bearings is making noise, although the bearings are those FDB type. The Antec fan that came with my case is quieter.That said, I was using a Scythe Ninja CPU cooler with a 800rpm fan, a Seasonic S12 430W (older model, which is completely silent) and three Samsung HDs on elastic suspension[1] (plus a silent Intel SSD). The 4850 on idle was at least twice as loud as any other component in that system.
flip-mode wrote:I have a 5770 with the reference cooler and, again, it's basically silent when idling. Under load, the fan is a little more noticeable than the 4850 fan because the fan produces something akin to a growling sound, but, I'm OK with it.