![]() ![]() The only changes I made to the software was to have it output CPU and GPU stats to the LCD on my Logitech keyboard. When I initially installed the software, I didn't make any changes to the card. On a different note, I think I may have stumbled across a bug in the latest Afterburner beta. ![]() So something that is just as quiet (or quieter) that pushes at least as much air as the Thermalright, I'd be happy with. The Thermalright pushes just a hair more air (73.6 CFM versus 67.4 CFM), but I mainly swapped out the Corsair for this because it is quieter and is PWM. Currently I am temporarily using a Thermalright TY-140 that I swapped out the stock Corsair AF140L for. The case can take up to a 200mm case fan, but due to the H100i V2 AIO I have installed, I am going to be limited to fans that are no deeper than 25mm. I'm also actively looking for a larger, higher flow fan to replace the case's sole intake fan on the front that is quiet. I may try to devise a "gasket" of some sort around the video card fan that presses up against the side panel vents so as to increase the amount of outside, cooler, air the video card pulls in. And while the case has ventilation in the side panel next to the video card, there is a gap between it and the video card, so I think the video card is still sucking in some warmer air from inside the case. I don't hear the fan at all, just a whooshing noise. The silver lining, at least, is all the noise is airflow and not fan whine. I usually play my games with headphones on, but I want to be able to tolerate the sound if I choose to use my speakers, thus my reason for not going straight to 100%. I know at 75% you can hear the airflow but it isn't annoying nor does it wash out the sound, but it is noisy at 100%. I may have it go to 75% sooner and may have it increase slightly higher at 80 degrees. I do plan on tinkering with the fan profiles a little more before I decide to work on the clock speed of the GPU and memory. Being in a fairly SFF setup, Corsair Obsidian 250D, I don't think that is too bad considering no other adjustments were made. My boost clock during extended plays in GTA V so far appear to stay over 1800 MHz, settling around 70-100 MHz over stock boost clock for the duration of game play. By changing the fan profile to run the fan at around 50% at around 60 degrees, 75% at 80 degrees, and 100% for everything else above my boost clock has done a much better job at settling to a fairly fixed rate and stays pretty consistently above the stock boost clock with no other changes. This would cause the boost clock to vary quite a bit, constantly going up and down and sometime dipping below the max stock boost clock (1733 MHz) but I don't recall ever seeing it dip below stock clock (1607 MHz). At stock settings the fan was capping around 50-55% which, while quiet, seemed to hit the 80-82 degree ceiling relatively quickly when playing GTA V maxed out at 4K resolutions (minus AA, since 4K on a 27" does a pretty good job at masking aliasing). I haven't done any overclock yet, but I did adjust my fan profile using the Afterburner 4.3.0 Beta 4. ![]()
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