EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX2.0 - Fan VERY loud > 40%?

[flexy]

Is this normal?

I mean my temps are ok (75C max in Heaven with fan at 30% or so), but if I were to set my fan higher than 40% this thing is loud like an AIRPLANE. In fact, I don't think I ever had a fan that loud...it's crazy.....but then I see in Afterburner that thing turns as high as 5000RPM at 100%?

Just wondering....40% is really the max tolerable in my opinion.

 

[Qwertilot]

Its certainly rather silly when dealing with power draw of a 970

Don't think it was until the 960 that Nvidia managed to get all of the OEMs nearly arranged behind the being very quiet lark.

 

[96Firebird]

Check to make sure both fans are spinning and one isn't stuck/broken. My card gets up to 64°C while playing Battlefield, and looking at my fan curve in Afterburner that is around 54% fan speed. I can barely hear it, and I don't play with headphones on.

Don't believe the max RPM in Afterburner, mine goes up to 10000RPM...

 

[flexy]

I will test that later more in detail, keeping an eye on temps. But 54% would be WAY too high. If I look at the SC bios, the latest, they have the fan at idle at 0 RPM and at 79C at 34% (!!)...there is also entries in the bios about 4500 something RPM so I do indeed think those fans can turn crazy fast. Let's put it that way....if I were to see that I would *need* to set the fan higher than 40% to keep temps decent I would certainly RMA the card. But as it seems, if they set the max for high temps in the BIOS to 34% I assume it's really supposed to run that slow.

Edit:

So, max temps I've ever seen on the card is 75/76 (Heaven Benchmark, BF4 etc.), this with my fan at 38% when it hits 75C. So there is likely never a reason to go higher than 40% since the card would only throttle at 80C or higher...so temps look good.