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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
The custom cooler on this card runs very quietly, almost inaudible under most load situations – and better than any other GTX980 we have tested to date. Under synthetic load, the fan speeds rise a little further, hitting just over 33dBa.
Aren’t the clockspeeds of this card the exact same of the KINGPIN 980 from EVGA?
Yes same clocks. Ian’s card offers high performance out the box without the need to block it, KPE you need to block it and rely on the beefed up VRM plus Vince said it’s built for LN2. Only the Asus GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition offers higher factory clocks at 1431MHz, and again beefed up VRM.
Still not as high a clock as the 980 Classified…
INCORRECT. The stock clock speed for the 980 Classified is 1442MHz. I would know, I own one.
See?
INCORRECT. The stock clock speed for the 980 Classified is 1442MHz. I would know, I own one.
Factory clocks are minimum clocks, what they vary to during gaming/benchmarking is another matter as well as filtered chips and the game in question. Good to see yours doing well even though your voltage is showing it at the maximum of 1.212V to give it that increase in clocks.
If the graphs here also stated the max boost clocks during each test it would make comparisons a little easier, only performance indicator is the FPS. All relevant when talking about benchmarking cards at stable maximum attainable clocks.
Nope, that’s all stock how this card came. I can even hit a stable 1585MHz OC.
Good to know. Post your max OC 3D11 score to compare to this card, I have a huge interest in GPUs and benching 🙂
I don’t use 3D11. also with benchmarks like that my CPU becomes an issue with bottlenecking. I’ve had a friend beat my score in Unigen Heaven with a 970 because he was using a 4770k vs my FX-8320… I can’t wait till the 6700K comes out! 😀
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Will be irrelevant when GTX 980ti ships out this or next month.