Sapphire Tri-x minimum fan RPMs.

[richiegore]

Hi guys,



I've been looking for a 290 which cools well and is quiet at idle. The sapphire seems great but the some say it is a bit noisy at idle. The link below shows it running at 1300-1400rpm at idle which is pretty high. My computer is on my desk so I know I will hear it. I was wondering can you set it lower than that with saphire trixx or msi afterburner? If not, I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to flash the windforce bios onto their card to see what fan rpm it goes to at idle and how it performs. Not much risk with the dual bios after all. If I don't decide on a card soon I think I'll have to wait for 20nm O_O



Thanks in advance,

Richard



http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290-and-290x,3728-7.html

 

[dust]

My 290x Tri-x idles at 20% fan, 1475~ RPM, and I can't hear a thing. Actually I can't hear anything over the case fans even in BF4.

 

[richiegore]

Thanks for the reply, what case fans have you, I only have three and they idle at 800rpm so 1450rpm just seems very high to be quiet. Also I had an 780 evga acx which idled at 1300rpm and I found I could hear it over the rest of mu case and it bothered me so I sent it back... Don't want to have a repeat of that... :/

 

[dust]

Three 120mm, one intake, two exhaust, running at 750 Rpm-ish

 

[richiegore]

Ok that's good, still seems strange they won't go below 1450 rpm...