Visiontek GF4 Ti4200 dba

[jiggavo]

Does anyone by chance know (or stumbled on an article) how loud the stock fan on these cards are? I'm still getting a loud noise from my pc after all the panaflo L1A swapping and the only thing left are the vid card and my mobo's bridge fan.

 

[Lizardman]

Just get rid of the Stock heatsink and put one of your own on there. If you have a large enough heatsink your dont need a fan. Check my sig for a what I did to the stock Geforce2 heatsink.

 

[Crucial]

If you want to be sure just stop the fan for a few seconds while everythings on and you will know if that's what the source of your problem is. From my experience most aftermarket gpu fans are noiser than the stock ones.

 

[Lezboy]

I find video card fans to be entirely too loud. I'm running a completely silent PC and the fan on my visiontek geforce 3 was horribly loud. It is louder then my northwood stock cooler which is pathetic. Anyway, I removed the ENTIRE heatsink/fan and replaced it with a good northbridge heatsink which has no fan. Just used thermal adhesive to keep it on there. the back of the card runs just as cool as it did before and there are no stability problems.

 

[Lezboy]

I think this is exactly what you're looking for. They compare the noise levels of Ti400 and Ti4600s from various manufacturers including visiontek.

 

[Lezboy]

No motherboard chipset actually NEEDS a fan on it. Some manufacturers such as MSI offer a low end version of a board and a high end version with the same chipset. One has a fan and the other doesn't. The reason for this is that the fan is only necessary for overclocking. If you're not overclocking you don't need the fan and can simply install a passive northbridge heatsink. Same goes for MOST videocards (not ti4600) but definiltey 4200.

 

[jiggavo]

thanks for a lot of repsonse. i went ahead and tried stopping the fan on my vid card, and thre seems to still be a a loud whirring noise. i even stopped the fan on my northbridge, no luck. i dunno what else could be causing the noise.

 

[jiggavo]

i actually think it's coming from my harddrive. i got a maxtor 80gb 7200rpm... are these known to be loud?

 

[Lezboy]

LOL! I just so happens that I also have a maxtor 80gb 7200 rpm. Mine is one of the fluid bearing ones. It does make a very loud whine and there's nothing you can do about it. It's the only thing that can be heard in my system and there's nothing you can do about it. It sounds sort of like a soft whistle or something. Seagates are supposedly quieter but no other brand. If you have one of the non-fluid bearing drives (one of the ones made in Japan) it will be louder then mine. Of course, I have no case fans. If I add even 1 (antec smartfan @1900rpm) I can't hear the HDD.