all right guys as promised I'm going to be doing a temperature and Acoustics
comparison between the reference GeForce
GTX 560ti and the assus direct cu2 GeForce
GTX 560ti and since uh I had so many
requests to also include it I will be including the MSI GTX 560 TI twin frozer
2 version of this graphics card so this will be a three-way Roundup I'm going to
be using fir Mark yes I know it is not a
perfect temperature and load testing application for GeForce cards because
they will all Throttle Down when running
firmar it is a software patch that NVIDIA has implemented to keep users
from burning out their cards however since we're comparing three like gpus
they're all GeForce GTX 560 TI my theory
is that they'll all ramp down equally so we will at least be able to compare
these three cards against each other both in terms of load temperatures as
well as in terms of
noise so for our stock reference cooled card we're looking at a load temps of
about well not about exactly 75° C once
it levels out since our room temperature is about 24° C we're going to round that
up that means we have a Delta of
51° C so I'll do all the audio clips uh
at the end but uh just to show you guys how loud they are but the stock fan
actually doesn't ramp up very high in terms of the overall fan speed so it
remains fairly quiet now the direct cu2 is
significantly louder than the stock fan
but I think a big part of that is because the fan ramps right up to about
2400 RPM but the good news is that with
its hybrid of like a straight heat sink
and then you see those heat pipes coming out there and and like a fin heat pipe
design where the one fan is blowing at the heat sink and the other fan is blowing at the heat pipe fins they
actually achieve significantly better temperatures than the stock cooler so at
61° in a 24°
room that is a Delta of only
37° compared to the stock cooler which is significantly
better all right so our room is closer to about the almost 27 so we'll call it
uh 26° in our room right now it's gotten
warm from doing uh from running fir mark on these video cards it's not a very
large office that I have as you can plainly see all right so with the twin
frozer 2 we're looking at LAD temperatures of
50 okay we'll look over here load temperatures of 57° focus
focus there we go 57° so when we take our room temp really
wow it's going up really fast now so
27° I will call it call it 26 cuz that's
what it was before okay so 57us 26 gives
us a 31 Dee Delta there it is yeah 26
it's just air currents in the room right now so you guys got to understand that
all of these results are only going to be accurate to within a couple degrees
Delta because it's not a super controlled environment you can see my
temp probe is uh generally positioned at the intake of the fans
so yeah pretty much they're they're fairly equivalent I'd say in
subjectively the noise from the Twin frozer 2 is pretty similar to the noise
from the direct cu2 but I'll leave that for you guys to judge with the audio
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