okay so I already did a video on the worst case scenario Acoustics of the GTX
480 so I've got this uh PNY card here
and I thought I'd do sort of a more more like a realistic video so first of all
um you should check out the other video it's on my channel lus Tech tips and uh
so here I'll put the camera close and I'll let you
listen so that's what the fmy sounds like when I'm running ATI tool which I
realize is a very very old synthetic Benchmark okay it's running at 2,000
frames per second and here are my EVGA Precision settings so you can see that
at stock speeds underload the GPU runs at about 72° and fan speeds about
68% now something you should note is that I'm in quite a chilly room and that
this is an open test bench so you put the firmy in a case add 5° at least and
um you know you warm up your room to the point where you can actually sit in it
without three sweaters and you're probably looking at another 2 to 3° so
I'd expect this to be running more like 80° or the fan speed to actually be
running a little bit higher so you can see I'm actually going to go ahead and
cover up the F the intake fan of the fery here all right so I'm going to put
this on there and I want you to listen to what happens as soon as the
temperature goes up to what what I expect would be about
80° and I want you to listen to what happens to the fan speed as soon as we
get to that kind of a temperature also please note the GPU usage is around 75
to 80% for this particular Benchmark I'm going to run a game in a little bit but
I just wanted to show you this for the
sake of seeing it okay so here have a listen now that it's reached
80° so it's easily the loudest thing in the system but not unbearably horrible
personally I'm a uh I'm a water cooler so I'm not into a whole lot of fan noise
so I'd be putting a full cover block on this thing I'd recommend you do the same
but there you have it that's what the firy sounds like at about 80° just
running ATI tool with about 80% GPU
usage