R6670 Fan Speed will not adjust/Too Noisy

[Ratman6161]

I just installed my new MSI R6670 card. This is my first ATI/AMD card so I'm probably doing something wrong. This card was reviewed as being very quiet but I immediately thought just the opposite. It sounds like the fans are running at 100% all the time overwhelming the sound of all other fans in my system.

I uninstalled my nVidia drivers from my old GF 7900GS then powered down and swapped out the cards.

The CD came with AMD's 8.84 driver so instead I went ahead and downloaded the latest 11.6 and included catalyst control center. CCC acted like it was adjusting the fan speed but there was no change in sound - like the fans were still running at full speed even though it said they were not. So I uninstalled CCC but left the 11.6 driver in place and installed MSI's Afterburner software. In the left hand pane it claimed the speed was set to Auto and currently at 44%. But in the hardware monitor section (of MSI After burner) it lists the speed as 0% with occasional blips but mostly staying at zero. Turning off auto control and dragging the fan speed slider all the way to the slow side and clicking "apply" seems to have no impact on the sound and the hardware monitor keeps reading zero. Its showing the temperature at a steady 37 which doesn't seem excessive. CPUID's Hardware Monitor also shows it at 37c. Its looking to me like the software may not be able to monitor the fan speed so its just staying at 100% all the time.

Please help! I bought this card because the Radeon 6670 was supposed to be the most powerful card that would run without its own PCIe power cable and also because the reviews said it was very quiet. Right now it is anything but quiet! Anywone have any insight on why the fans are so noisy?

 

[RAPTOR550]

Hey,

I was having the same problem, and so far I am extremely disappointed with the product. I bought mine for a media center design for its compact design, power required vs power output, and what I thought to be its noise factor. I figured it would be silent.

I performed mine on a new clean build of Win7 Enterprise (legal) with the latest drivers as well. I figured that once I loaded the CCC the fan would spin down, but no dice. I also loaded all the MSI tools including Afterburner. Afterburner lowers the fan speed to a graph, it works fine to ironically increase the fan speed on my silent GTX 260, but does not work with this R6670.

Anyone else have suggestions? I will look at putting a rheostat on the cable going to the fans in a bit, but if I can't easily find a solution then I will send it back. I'm going to ask MSI what they think too.

 

[Phynaz]

a 6670 should very quiet.

Since you installed CCC, what are temps / fan speeds displayed there?

 

[RAPTOR550]

The temps are in the 30's, if I stress test it the temps go up but the fan speed remains the same, very loud.

Also my media center is limited by space due to the density of the build, its a Silverstone LC-13e with over 12tb inside, so I can't have gfx card any larger than the port it occupies. Otherwise I would have kept my GTX260 or probably went with your suggestion on the AMD as I like their HDMI and triple display solutions.

 

[Phynaz]

Fan speed?

 

[toyota]

a 6670 should very quiet.

Since you installed CCC, what are temps / fan speeds displayed there?

what makes you say that though? it probably has a fan that is locked at a certain speed and has no way of being adjusted. I had the same issue with a 4670. its was very loud but it was annoying that I could not turn it down a bit more.

EDIT: looking at reviews, the fan is loud and cannot be adjusted. and this is why I always check reviews now before buying something.