Hercules 9800 Pro / Noisy fan when gaming!

[Mark]

Hi, When playing Medal of Honour, Call of duty etc, one of the fans in my
tower goes bananas and sounds like a hair dryer!! It's pretty quite at other
times. Is this the fan on the video card speeding up when it's under load
and is there anything I can do to make it less noisy?

Cheers

Mark

 

[[neil]]

Hi, When playing Medal of Honour, Call of duty etc, one of the fans in my
tower goes bananas and sounds like a hair dryer!! It's pretty quite at other
times. Is this the fan on the video card speeding up when it's under load
and is there anything I can do to make it less noisy?

Cheers

Mark

As far as I know, the fan on your graphics card isn't linked to the load
it's under, ie: it spins the same speed no matter what (I could be wrong
though).

I would imagine it would be much more likely that it's your cpu-fan that's
the culprit - there are lots of cooler/fans out there that throttle the fan
speed (to aid noise-suppression) when the cpu isn't busy - put it under load
such as when playing games, and the temp goes up, the fan speeds up to try
and keep the cpu cool, and you get the wind-tunnel sounds.

Your best option is to get a "better" cooler - either one that is marked as
"silent" (eg: zalman etc), or at least one that doesn't push as much db your
way! I use an Arctic Cooler Copper Silent TC2 which throttles fan speed
depending on cpu temp... It keeps my cpu at around 50c no matter what load
(just slows the fan down when the cpu is idle), unless I'm playing UT2004
and then it might hit 60c - I've never heard the fan, so it must be quiet!
Only thing is when you turn the pc on, the fan doesn't spin at all because
the cpu doesn't need cooling, and I get a bios warning saying my fan has
died

HTH,

Neil

 

[Dodgy]

As far as I know, the fan on your graphics card isn't linked to the load
it's under, ie: it spins the same speed no matter what (I could be wrong
though).

I would imagine it would be much more likely that it's your cpu-fan that's
the culprit - there are lots of cooler/fans out there that throttle the fan
speed (to aid noise-suppression) when the cpu isn't busy - put it under load
such as when playing games, and the temp goes up, the fan speeds up to try
and keep the cpu cool, and you get the wind-tunnel sounds.

Your best option is to get a "better" cooler - either one that is marked as
"silent" (eg: zalman etc), or at least one that doesn't push as much db your
way! I use an Arctic Cooler Copper Silent TC2 which throttles fan speed
depending on cpu temp... It keeps my cpu at around 50c no matter what load
(just slows the fan down when the cpu is idle), unless I'm playing UT2004
and then it might hit 60c - I've never heard the fan, so it must be quiet!
Only thing is when you turn the pc on, the fan doesn't spin at all because
the cpu doesn't need cooling, and I get a bios warning saying my fan has
died

I'll second that.

My original Intel P4 fan on a GA8-KNXP board would be quiet as a mouse
until I started to get it to do things, then it would try to take
off... Never seemed to slow all the way back down again after either!
(Would drop a bit, but never back to silent).

Ripped it off, and Zalman'ed the bugger.

Alternatively turn up the volume/use head phones when playing medal of
honour... ;-)

D0d6y.

 

[JAD]

open the case and find out..... I don't get that with a P4 w/stock
cooler paired with a 9700 pro w/stock cooler
Any MB / fan controller card and/or PSU that has throttling will have
that scenario, and if the fans are dirty/older/cheap they will get
noisy.

 

[Mark]

Thanks for your help, it is the CPU fan that's making all the racket.