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. It isn’t a real world situation to be measuring with a case panel off only a few centimeters away from a video card.
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 Refridgerator
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 Palit GTX 750 Ti Storm X Dual is a quiet card, although it is outperformed by the more substantial cooler on the MSI GTX 750 Ti Twin Frozr.
Great card, I have one from DABS already, love it. very quiet and works great in my tiny silverstone case.
The link to the dabs site is for the single fan cooler version and not the StromX Dual. Does anyone know whereb in the uk I can get a StormX Dual from please?
Ginger 6 has them in stock, ordered one earlier!
I dont really matter which one you take, Edit the bios and get same performance.
1320 easy without touching voltages
im at 1410/3111 @ 1.175 on the gigabyte one ) = 265 easy