well I've got a GTX 480 on my test bench here with a core i7 975 extreme Edition
EVGA classified some uh highspeed
mushkin memory I got the ocz vertex Le
200 gig SSD so this is a pretty uh pretty cool system anyway um I'm just
installing crisis Warhead right now and I've also just gotten evga's Precision
Tool installed and I've had quite a few people ask me about the acoustics of the
um of the GTX 480 okay so here we go I'm going to set
the fan speed to 100% now I want to give
you some idea of what it's like when you're running a game and when you're
not running a game but this is just to show you what it will sound like when
it's running at 100% so the fan speed is 45 until I hit apply 45% and the GPU
temperature is 40° at idle now I'm going to go ahead and click apply over there
and remember this system has an optical drive running full boore in the
background so I'm going to get close to that so you can hear the noise
level and that's most of what you're hearing right now now just also for
context I'm going to go ahead and turn the Intel stock cooler onto performance
mode okay so that's what that sounds like it doesn't make much of a
difference so here we go I'm going to kick the uh GTX 480 here into high
gear yeah yeah that's pretty loud now
I'm not sure that it'll actually run at
that speed while you're gaming but like
I can feel the air blowing out the back of the card here it's um it's pretty
incredible anyway so uh there you
go here I'll turn it back down to 45
before uh before I sto filming here and it won't actually the EVGA Precision
Tool is funny it even if you set the fans speed not to Auto so
there we're back to 45 even if you set
the fan speed not to Auto okay so you take Auto off and you try and turn it
down it won't let you turn it down any lower than 34 I believe yeah 34 is the
lowest you can go and when you're at 34 wow you can see the GPU temperature went
down 3° just from having it 100% for a little while now it's creeping its way
back up but yeah here's what it sounds like at 34 so thank you for checking out
my video on the acoustic of the GTX 480