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this is going to be a quick video on the temperatures and noise of the radon

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6870 so I've got my handy dandy little thermometer here showing us the room

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temps because remember if the room temperatures go up by even 1° then the

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card temperatures will go up by exactly 1° those are the rules they must be

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obeyed so whenever you're comparing temperatures you have to remember you

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have to know the ambient temperature so here you can see we have a 41° idle at a

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2 2 and 1/2 uh 22 to 23° room temperature we're

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going to treat this as sort of plusus one I mean look how sensitive this thing is if I put my hand next to the probe

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over here watch the temperature Skyrocket just from the heat my hand's

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giving off I'm not even touching the thing pretty crazy so you got to sort of

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see look at that it's already up to like 25° just because of the heat from my

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hand anyway so here it is at

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idle it's basically silent at idle

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it's got a little bit of a a little bit of fan normal fan sort of a grinding

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noise uh within probably about 12 to 14 in but beyond that and especially inside

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a closed case you will not hear this thing so 41° idle silent now let's see

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what it looks like under a gaming load now we've got what would represent a

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worst case scenario gaming load so you can see the room temperatures here and

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you can see that running furmark in extreme burn mode is going to yield an

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83° temperature you can also see that

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the whoops fan speed has ramped up a fair

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bit wow not really much at all that's

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incredible oh wait no it has it's just not detected by After Burner okay so you

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can listen you can compare those two clips

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against each other so it is uh quite a bit louder but still quite tolerable

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especially for like a performance like a mid-range performance graphics card so

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I'm going to give you uh just some comparisons against the GTX

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480 there's full speed in case you were wondering but I'm going to give you some

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comparisons against the gtx480 as well as the 5870 just so you got a reference

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point here's the 5870 for my noise

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comparison getting nice and close to the fan now the 5870 is a touch louder than

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the 6870 at least for my particular

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samples um one thing that

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I mean those fans look so similar but it almost looks like the new fan is a

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little bit bigger you know what I'm going to compare that just a sec uh no

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the fan is exactly the same diameter for some reason there's a little bit more

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wor to this one it could just be that it's older it is a bit of an older card

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so you can see that my idle temps on this particular card are

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38° at least you'd be able to see that if my camera could focus on a monitor

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for a change maybe that'll help there you go 39° 38° and then my room Temps

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are around 22 23° so there you go now we'll ramp it

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up now bearing in mind that this is a more powerful

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card the noise level is quite a bit louder and it does get hotter so it runs

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at about 90° using the default fan profile remember with afterburner you

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can always uh change profiles around if you want so you can see we're running at

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about 44% on the fan speed and uh 87° on

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the GPU I think I said that yeah I already said that so I'm just going to show you just for context so remember f

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mark is pretty much a worst case scenario for a game running uh like

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absolute worst case scenario it won't get this hot it won't get this loud in

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any sort of real game and this this only if you set it manually but I'm going to

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go ahead and turn it up to 100% just so you see

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it there you go okay moving on and

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finally for comparison we have the GTX 480 which is uh in some ways the Top Dog

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in terms of uh of noise generation due to the power and size of the GPU inside

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it so you can see our idle temperatures are a little bit higher than the other

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two cards that we were looking at at about 50° my room temps just for your

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reference are around the same they're 23 1/ 12° okay and then in terms of fan

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noise you can see that Fan's barely spinning I

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mean look at this it's not going very fast at all um this is quite a quiet

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card at idle but it's a bit of a different story underload so our gtx480

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peaked at around just over 90° under

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load can see here in fermar I want to stress again uh that not only for the

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gtx480 but for the other cards that we're looking at here that furmark

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represents an unrealistic gaming load it's mostly a tool for uh finding out

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the absolute Max temps and uh making

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sure that your card is 100% stable with an overclock

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so there's your reference point for listening to it and just for fun I'm

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going to turn this one up to 100% if you really want

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to blow your ears

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off quite quite loud at that particular

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setting so go ahead and put it back to Auto I mean bear in mind the G x480 does

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ramp up to about 80% fan speed um under

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under an intense load like this anyhow