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 Posted: Wed, 25th Jun 2014 20:02 Post subject: gtx 470 super noisy |
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a few weeks ago a friend gave me his old gtx470.
before that i had a gts 250 so it was a huge performance boost for me.
he already told me that the card gets extreme hot and loud but i wasn't aware of it how loud it will really get.
it's almost impossible to enjoy any game.
while being in idle everything is ok but as soon as i start any kind of new game it's getting crazy.
im using afterburner and put a custom fan curve in it. like this the card isn't getting over 85 degree at 80% (without 105+) but the noise...
so is there anything i can do?
ghetto mod a case fan on it? got a 92mm left lying around somewhere.
has anyone already did something like that before?
i already did new cooling paste on it and also im using afterburner with custom fan curve.
another aftermarket cooler for this "old" card would be ok if it would be under 20 euros.
found some like from arctic and there all 40 euros+. but then again i have to buy from oversea because no one in europe sells this old shit anymore.
please help
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Jun 2014 20:38 Post subject: |
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Sounds to me like your only real option is a new card tbh if you don't want to buy a new cooler for it.
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Jun 2014 20:41 Post subject: |
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You could buy a custom cooler, but honestly, then you might as well just get a GTX 750 Ti or something.
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Morphineus
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Jun 2014 21:13 Post subject: |
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Dear god it looks nasty  (even your improvised cooler isn't clean)
Clean it up (Compressor or Compressed air canister is easiest, otherwise get dirty with earsticks and such), get the cooler off & clean it properly... re-apply paste and I bet you don't need to ghetto mod it. That being said, nothing wrong with keeping it afterwards if it keeps the temp down a bit extra 
Try to make a habit of really cleaning your parts every few months. (used to do it every month, but slacked off a bit to every two/three months now )
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Jun 2014 21:29 Post subject: |
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Looking at that tiny shitty fan, I can already hear it whirring in my head. No way to fix that.
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Jun 2014 22:24 Post subject: I have left. |
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Jun 2014 22:47 Post subject: |
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I hope you are still running that old fan with minimum speed or you will burn your VRM.
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