nVidia GeForce GTX 480 Noise & Tempertatures in ATI Tool Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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440 words · ~2 min read
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okay so I already did a video on the worst case scenario Acoustics of the GTX
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480 so I've got this uh PNY card here
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and I thought I'd do sort of a more more like a realistic video so first of all
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um you should check out the other video it's on my channel lus Tech tips and uh
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so here I'll put the camera close and I'll let you
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listen so that's what the fmy sounds like when I'm running ATI tool which I
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realize is a very very old synthetic Benchmark okay it's running at 2,000
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frames per second and here are my EVGA Precision settings so you can see that
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at stock speeds underload the GPU runs at about 72° and fan speeds about
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68% now something you should note is that I'm in quite a chilly room and that
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this is an open test bench so you put the firmy in a case add 5° at least and
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um you know you warm up your room to the point where you can actually sit in it
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without three sweaters and you're probably looking at another 2 to 3° so
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I'd expect this to be running more like 80° or the fan speed to actually be
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running a little bit higher so you can see I'm actually going to go ahead and
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cover up the F the intake fan of the fery here all right so I'm going to put
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this on there and I want you to listen to what happens as soon as the
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temperature goes up to what what I expect would be about
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80° and I want you to listen to what happens to the fan speed as soon as we
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get to that kind of a temperature also please note the GPU usage is around 75
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to 80% for this particular Benchmark I'm going to run a game in a little bit but
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I just wanted to show you this for the
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sake of seeing it okay so here have a listen now that it's reached
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80° so it's easily the loudest thing in the system but not unbearably horrible
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personally I'm a uh I'm a water cooler so I'm not into a whole lot of fan noise
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so I'd be putting a full cover block on this thing I'd recommend you do the same
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but there you have it that's what the firy sounds like at about 80° just
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running ATI tool with about 80% GPU
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usage