After more than a month of multiple exchanges of Fury Nano cards at NewEgg I finally received a Fury Nano that doesn't sound like crowded concert of cicada's on a hot summer day.
Sure the coils still vibrate a little under load and even cause all three of the power supplies tested to also independently sing the coil whine song (which I found somewhat surprising) but stuffed in a Thermaltake ITX case a few feet away from where I sit the coil whine is no longer LOUDER than the fan noise the Nano makes under full loads. I can live with this as the noise is on par or perhaps a tad louder than my EVGA Geforce 960 SSC card but much quieter than the Asus 970 Strixx I got rid of a while ago.
AMD really messed up the QC of VRM of these cards. I know the reviews pointed this out and I'm not sure how popular this card is overall due to the niche market they target but I'm glad I stuck it out and got a good one.
Other than the price the card is a fantastic performer paired up with my 4790K and a MG279Q Freesync monitor. The challenge will now be to fit this build into my Osmi ITX case but if successful it should be pretty awesome
I should mention with Freesync enabled and running max or almost max details in GTA-V, Witcher 3 and BF4 the coil whine, while still noticeable, was finally acceptable even with huge swings in framerate. The loudest I could get the card to scream in a normal gaming situation was in Borderlands 2 which was annoying but still acceptable. Also with Freesync disabled and if set to 144hz monitor refresh rate with lowered details the noise was a tad louder but still very acceptable.
The two Sapphire Nano's were just RIDICULOUSLY loud performing the same tests, to the point my wife from another room asked me during the flyby test in 3DMark "What is that awful noise?"
For others who may be interested in getting a good one. The first two cards were from Sapphire and screamed equally as loud and the last one came from XFX. I understand these are all "reference" cards and are probably produced by Sapphire but there is a clear difference between my last card - the XFX unit - and Sapphire cards NewEgg is selling.
Like most other high end cards it's luck of the draw but I believe *all* Nano's suffer from some amount of coil whine due to the very tight design of the VRM's. The point is you can get one that's acceptable but just make sure you either buy one locally with a good exchange policy or it may take a long time to get a good one (unless you're lucky!).
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How video card manufactures think it's acceptable to sell cards with features such as "zero fan" technology yet the coil whine of some of these same cards is so loud it makes the zero fan technology pointless is beyond me. This trend really needs to stop.
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Sure the coils still vibrate a little under load and even cause all three of the power supplies tested to also independently sing the coil whine song (which I found somewhat surprising) but stuffed in a Thermaltake ITX case a few feet away from where I sit the coil whine is no longer LOUDER than the fan noise the Nano makes under full loads. I can live with this as the noise is on par or perhaps a tad louder than my EVGA Geforce 960 SSC card but much quieter than the Asus 970 Strixx I got rid of a while ago.
AMD really messed up the QC of VRM of these cards. I know the reviews pointed this out and I'm not sure how popular this card is overall due to the niche market they target but I'm glad I stuck it out and got a good one.
Other than the price the card is a fantastic performer paired up with my 4790K and a MG279Q Freesync monitor. The challenge will now be to fit this build into my Osmi ITX case but if successful it should be pretty awesome
I should mention with Freesync enabled and running max or almost max details in GTA-V, Witcher 3 and BF4 the coil whine, while still noticeable, was finally acceptable even with huge swings in framerate. The loudest I could get the card to scream in a normal gaming situation was in Borderlands 2 which was annoying but still acceptable. Also with Freesync disabled and if set to 144hz monitor refresh rate with lowered details the noise was a tad louder but still very acceptable.
The two Sapphire Nano's were just RIDICULOUSLY loud performing the same tests, to the point my wife from another room asked me during the flyby test in 3DMark "What is that awful noise?"
For others who may be interested in getting a good one. The first two cards were from Sapphire and screamed equally as loud and the last one came from XFX. I understand these are all "reference" cards and are probably produced by Sapphire but there is a clear difference between my last card - the XFX unit - and Sapphire cards NewEgg is selling.
Like most other high end cards it's luck of the draw but I believe *all* Nano's suffer from some amount of coil whine due to the very tight design of the VRM's. The point is you can get one that's acceptable but just make sure you either buy one locally with a good exchange policy or it may take a long time to get a good one (unless you're lucky!).
<RANT>
How video card manufactures think it's acceptable to sell cards with features such as "zero fan" technology yet the coil whine of some of these same cards is so loud it makes the zero fan technology pointless is beyond me. This trend really needs to stop.
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