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We take our noise measurements with the sound meter positioned 1 foot from the graphics card. I measured the sound floor to be 34 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The power supply is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in, while all CPU and system fans were disabled.
A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times. An idle reading comes after leaving the system on the Windows desktop for 30 minutes.
Another fantastic result here – the Gaming OC is an incredibly quiet card. Not only does it benefit from the so-called ‘3D active fan' – meaning the fans stop spinning in low load situations – but even when running our 3DMark stress test on loop, the card was barely audible. Considering it was sat two feet away from me, on a open-air test bench no less, the fact that I could barely hear the fans spinning tells you everything you need to know about just how quiet this card is.
