How Noisy are the new PCI-E nVidia boards?

[TantrumusMaximus]

I'm building an SLI setup and am concerned about how loud 2 6800GT's will be. Anyone?

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: TantrumusMaximus
I'm building an SLI setup and am concerned about how loud 2 6800GT's will be. Anyone?

If they are anything like the AGP 6800GT reference cooler, they would be pretty damn quiet. I cant even hear my 6800GT reference AGP card.

 

[TantrumusMaximus]

That is good to hear....whew. Do most of the boards use that type of cooler?

I am thinking about the BFG Technologies 6800GT's can someone comment on that?

 

[Todd33]

Unless they did something smart (and expensive) any small high RPM fan is going to be noisy.

 

[SilverTrine]

The last fairly quiet card I've had was the 9800pro. People have different concepts of quiet, I had a Ti4200 prior to the 9800pro and it was fricking noisy. Its too bad review sites arent posting .wav files of the noise a card makes like they were at one time.

 

[TantrumusMaximus]

I plan on ordering 2 of those Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5's with my cards. That should do the trick.