How loud is the Gainward Gf4 4200 stock fan?

[SlipperyDog]

I'm trying to create a really quiet comp

 

[nutxo]

it aint, well, i couildnt hear it over my other 7 case fans and the 80mm sanyo denki on my hsf anyways,..hmmm

 

[oldfart]

Dont know about that card, but in general, if you want a quiet GF4 card. Be sure to get one that uses the reference nVidia GPU cooler. It is super quiet. Watch out for MSI. It looks similar, but they crank up the RPMs and ruined it.

 

[pyrokk]

You could allways go with a passively cooled Zalman heatsink for it and produce zero decibals.

 

[cockeyed]

I have the Gainward Golden Sample GF4 Ti4200. It is very quiet and I cannot hear it running. I also had a Gainward GF3 Ti200 and it was also very quiet.

 

[fluxquantum]

i have an albatron geforce 4 and the stock fan was okay. to get more cooling i used this thermaltake, but the fan was way too loud. so eventually i got this zalman. i am very pleased at how cool my video card runs and how quiet my case is.

 

[bulldawg]

Originally posted by: cockeyed
I have the Gainward Golden Sample GF4 Ti4200. It is very quiet and I cannot hear it running.

 

[SlipperyDog]

any difference in fans between golden sample and non golden sample?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: cockeyed
I have the Gainward Golden Sample GF4 Ti4200. It is very quiet and I cannot hear it running.

My 2000 RPM 80mm case fans make more noise than that fan.

 

[Jeff7181]

Golden Sample cards are supposed to be more overclockable... they have an enhanced setting, 260/520 over the 250/444 stock speeds for that card. Gainward guarantees it will run at that speed, but I've been having problems getting it to run at more than stock speeds after my A7N8X XP2500 upgrade.

 

[SlipperyDog]

so does that mean the golden sample has a better fan than the non golden samplE?
*also, does the fan get louder if you overclock it?

 

[cockeyed]

The fan turns the same speed no matter if you OC the card and there is no additional noise. I think the only difference in the Golden sample cooling is the size of the heatsink, being a little larger on the golden sample. I could be wrong, but I also think another difference is that the golden sample has heatsinks on the memory. For about the same price, I would get the golden sample with the enhanced performance guarantee.