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this online guide conversion is that we
are basing the video on content that was posted on our own website by the user
lays where he or at least I assume he
based on the pitch of his voice but you never can know demonstrates that you
don't have to buy an ASUS strick or EVGA
card with a fanless mode to get your GTX 900 series Maxwell based graphics card
to run completely silent at idol or even in lightweight games so let's start by
addressing the big question that a lot of people have first why on Earth would
you want your fans to turn off they're not that loud in the first place and
they're just going to turn back on again when can you fire up any kind of
demanding game or other application anyway get a good pair of noise
isolating headphones and call it a day well that's where you're partially wrong
for one thing perceived loudness is dependent on the environment in which
the PC is being used and personal tolerances to you the ambient noise in
the room or the other fans in your system might overpower the quiet idle
noise of the NVIDIA reference or MSI twin frozer or whatever other cool you
have on your graphics card but for people up late writing for example in a
quiet room a nice quiet PC can be pretty
important and as they start replacing fans in their system they quickly get to
the point where the graphics card fan one that they have is pretty tough to
replace is the loudest part and to address the whole get headphones
suggestion I mean not Everyone likes headphones and why should I have to put
something on my face or just deal with
it when there is literally no reason my
computer should be making any noise when I'm playing music for example something
that's been possible to do on fanless low power portable devices for decades
at this point which leads us to the guide now normally unless your GPU
supports fanless operation out of the box your MSI afterburner custom fan
profile which you can access like this will have these dotted lines on it to
denote the maximum and minimum values that your fan will operate at you can
drag the button down to Zer RPM but it won't do anything without the
modification posted by lays which will summarize but I'm sure he'd also
appreciate if you check out the link in the video description and post some
positive comments in the Forum thread if you liked his guide all right so first
you need to gather the tools you'll need Maxwell BIOS tweaker GPU Z and envy
flash save your BIOS using GPU Z to a
folder of your choice in the root of your drive we're going to call it Envy
flash by pressing this button copy all
the zipped files from Maxwell BIOS tweaker and envy Flash and blah blah all
that stuff into the same folder as your backed up BIOS open the BIOS tweaker app
open BIOS by clicking here and navigating to it it should be pretty
close by then there's a bunch of stuff that you can tweak in here but most of
it goes beyond the scope of this guide we're just going to change RPM 11 per 01
and RPM 01 to zero to change the minimum
value in RPM and percentage of our fan to zero when that's done save your BIOS
as some other file name so you retain a
copy of your original BIOS that you can Flash the card back to so that it's in
its stock configuration in the event that you ever need to send it in for
warranty service then go into device manager and disable your graphics card
don't worry if the screen goes black or does anything funny this is only
temporary next press Windows and type
command then right click and open as administrator type in CD space see colon
back Envy Flash and press enter Then type Envy flash space- 6 space and the
name of your BIOS. ROM then press enter
press y wait for the flash process to complete I'd actually highly recommend
being connected to a battery backup during this time restart reenable your
graphics card and Device Manager reboot again for good measure then fire up MSI
afterburner and it's Off to the Races now you can configure your custom fan
profile however you want so depending on if you just want silence at idle and
otherwise a pretty normal fan curve or if you want to be able to you know limit
your gpus load through the use of vsync gsync or some other frame rate limiter
in-game for example to try and get silent gaming going you'll want to tune
this differently but this follow-up Post in the Forum from L has a solid looking
suggested curve that ramps up the fan to keep your GPU safe as it heats up while
keeping it quiet when nothing's shaken once you've got it dialed in and you
like the GPU's overall behavior and
noise level under various loads simply put a value between 10 and 15° into the
hysteresis box this keeps the fan from
constantly ramping up and down when the
temperature is right on the threshold of a of a major RPM shift which can be
annoying and then you're done so the last things to address in this video are
these lonus I did this and my GPU is running at like 60 to 65° at idle at the
desktop is that okay the answer is
pretty much yeah while lower temperatures are better for electronics
60° is nowhere near the fast and painful
death danger zone and if NVIDIA thought that this was bad for it none of these
cards would feature a fanless mode what about this one then lonus how does
this affect the warranty of my card well
if your GPU manufacturer does not allow BIOS flashing under the warranty terms
my recommendation would be to like I said before flash that backup that you
saved back onto the card before attempting to get any kind of warranty
service they can't tell you did it but
with that said if you were to Brick your card as part of this process the honest
thing to do would be to suck it up since it's not covered and take better
precautions like using a battery backup next
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