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We have built a system inside a Lian Li chassis with no case fans and have used a fanless cooler on our CPU. The motherboard is also passively cooled. This gives us a build with almost completely passive cooling and it means we can measure noise of just the graphics card inside the system when we run looped 3dMark tests.
We measure from a distance of around 1 meter from the closed chassis and 4 foot from the ground to mirror a real world situation. Ambient noise in the room measures close to the limits of our sound meter at 28dBa. Why do this? Well this means we can eliminate secondary noise pollution in the test room and concentrate on only the video card. It also brings us slightly closer to industry standards, such as DIN 45635.
KitGuru noise guide
10dBA – Normal Breathing/Rustling Leaves
20-25dBA – Whisper
30dBA – High Quality Computer fan
40dBA – A Bubbling Brook, or a Refrigerator
50dBA – Normal Conversation
60dBA – Laughter
70dBA – Vacuum Cleaner or Hairdryer
80dBA – City Traffic or a Garbage Disposal
90dBA – Motorcycle or Lawnmower
100dBA – MP3 player at maximum output
110dBA – Orchestra
120dBA – Front row rock concert/Jet Engine
130dBA – Threshold of Pain
140dBA – Military Jet takeoff/Gunshot (close range)
160dBA – Instant Perforation of eardrum
Not the quietest GTX980 cooler we have tested, but the results, considering the cooling performance are stellar.
When gaming the fans are clearly audible, but low pitched and not intrusive at all. Most case fans are likely to drown them out completely, depending on the chassis being used.
holy sht!! this is a monster of a card! im impressed by the temperatures and still decent noise.
Any hint on how hot the VRM’s were? I don’t suppose you could monitor them in GPUz?
you just need an infrared thermometer like the PCE-777
looks cool and is a giant dust trap! lol closed circuit liquid cooling like some amd cards have done would be much better imo
While i want to agree, it will make it harder to fit. Especially if you go for an SLI setup.
They would likely have a fan on there regardless so they can cool the other components such as memory and VRMs. Plus if you have filters on your case, dust shouldn’t be too much of an issue if you set it up properly.
Why does this video card have a name created by a 9 year old Cawwadooty player?
Will an SLI of these fit in an Asus Maximus vii hero board? D:
How the vrm temp under furmark??
How the vrm temp under furmark??
it’s a triple slot card
I meant the depth, when it is in your case, not the thickness.
Thanks though!
just bought 2 of them… can’t wait!!! 😀
D:
Please do tests again with 347.52 this can’t be right. My 970 1557/3888 1.275v gets 13581 in firestrike!!
For about that money I will get me an evga hydro 980 ti, and kick it’s ugly ass.