7800 GTX Noise levels?

[EricMartello]

Someday when two 7800GTX 512MB cards are available for purchase, I wanna get me a pair...but I do not want noise. What kinda noise levels are we talking about with a pair of these?

Right now I have an X800XL 512 which had a very noisy stock cooler. I replaced it with a thermalright VGA cooler (awesome, very quiet, better than that artic cooling junk) and love it as far as noise is concerned. That's about as loud as I want any video card cooler in my system.

 

[mrkun]

By the time they're available, the R580 shouldn't be far behind. If you've got that much money to spend, I think you're better of just buying the top card every generation, rather than spending $1300 on video cards all at once.

 

[nts]

The stock cooler on the GTX512 is a bit louder then the stock cooler on the X1800's and X800s.

7800 GTX and GTX512 noise
X1800 noise
X800XL noise

scroll to the bottom of each page for the noise values, you have to compare across reviews unfortunately (no direct comparisons).

HTH

 

[EricMartello]

I've been using ATI for the past few years, they served me well, but this time I am looking for the ultimate in performance. The X1800 is ATI's answer to the 7800, and to me it looks like the 7800 has it beat. I'm planning two 7800/512 in SLI.

Looks like they're all as loud as or louder than the X800XL, which sucks, cuz that is loud.

 

[w00t]

which X800XL with 512mb did you get?

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: nts
The stock cooler on the GTX512 is a bit louder then the stock cooler on the X1800's and X800s.

7800 GTX and GTX512 noise
X1800 noise
X800XL noise

scroll to the bottom of each page for the noise values, you have to compare across reviews unfortunately (no direct comparisons).

HTH

I don't think so. LINKY

 

[EricMartello]

I got the sapphire X800XL