bigger fan for 8800gt

[intothefantasy]

does anyone has the bigger fan version of 8800gt like those xfx alpha dog edition? which has bigger fan and black pcb? i wanted to know the temp of load and idle of those 8800gt with bigger fan..

[xMrBunglex]

i don't own one, but i imagine temps would be about the same, wouldn't they? video card makers usually set the fans to run at the minimum speed they can while keeping the GPU at its desired temperature. usually bigger fans just mean the g-cards are quieter, not necessarily cooler (unless you override fan speed control, of course).

[AC3421]

My cards stay perfectly cool with my fans at 75% on the normal fan and I could care less about the sound. I dont understand how some people call the fan sounds from computers "Loud"

[xMrBunglex]

i've seen Kingwin Mach 1 power supplies in action. they are freaking LOUD (one of the nicest looking power supplies i've ever seen though). your g-card fans probably don't bother you because your PSU made you deaf a long time ago :P

i have an Antec 900 case with all fans on low speed. i have a quiet Zalman power supply and Asus CPU heatsink. i spent a lot of money building a quiet PC and i'm not about to ruin that with a loud, whiny video card. silence is golden.


PS your Kingwin PSU has two fans: an 80mm and 120mm. i removed the 80mm fan from my friend's Mach 1 about six months ago and nothing has overheated. the power supply is now nice and quiet. it will void your warranty, but i think it's worth it if the noise ever does start to bother you.

[AC3421]

lol, I think I know what my PSU has. And I can tell you now, its absolutely silent. No offense, but you have no idea what you are talking about when it comes to my PSU. And the 80mm fan on the rear of it, exhausts hot air that rises into it from the case, which gets brought in by the 120mm fan on the bottom of the PSU.

[xMrBunglex]

i know exactly what i'm talking about when it comes to your PSU. i built a computer with one in it. the 120mm fan will push the air out whether the 80mm is in there or not. maybe yours runs quieter in your case. the one i worked with sounded like a little vacuum.

[AC3421]

You had a defective one then. It should not sound like that. That is one thing they pushed with the mach 1, an adaptive fan system that was near silent.