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2,500 regular gpu fans I mean. (80 or 92mm?) . Yes they are 'loud' but again once you adjust its all the same. Noise should not be such a big deal on gpus as most of the time they'll only be spinning once you're gaming and by then you have gun blasts in your ears anyway. People throw around the...

The quest for a 'silent' pc is neverending.. do not even bother. Every time you get it more 'silent' you keep trying to reduce noise. Eventually you realise removing all noise is impossible and that you have tinnitus Coming from someone that tried this as far as having a passive power supply...

It's not about needing grommets - it just looks more complete and premium when there is one since there is no gap between the cables and casing. It also shows attention to detail by the manufacturer.

You really should be harder on these power supplies with not enough pci-e connectors. In this day and age a psu like this with its full 550w available on the 12v could easily power up to 2 x 7950's with an intel chip. Nobody likes having to resort to adapters. I think the psu's final rating...

PowerColor's HD 7850 SCS3 doesn't produce any noise because it is passively cooled and, as such, fanless Even coil noise? The increased idle power consumption is a deal breaker for me.. I value noise levels AND low power consumption :) It would also be helpful if you mentioned how the card...

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b1971/inno3d-ichill-gtx-780-ice-dragon.html This has a backplate and the cooler is definitely on another level to the windforce.

Not impressed with those noise and temp levels. Please review the Inno3d 780 Ice Dragon.

GTX 570 + GTX 560 TI = not working, BSOD after enabling SLI

:) I have already ordered a 750w just to be extra safe! ps: 1 more post for 1337

Yep but again that's total system usage (from the wall) not just the graphics card.

Thats the HD classified which is overclocked, mine are both at stock speeds

hehe, one is reference and the other is the evga 570 hd which is quite a bit shorter.

So my psu is fine with 500 reading at the wall (assuming that it's correct) :pimp:

Isn't the 560 from the wall. So that is around 470w or am I getting this wrong? Is it the usage at the wall that counts or what the components actually use?

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-570-sli-review/13 "Our test system is based on a power hungry Core i7 965 / X58 system. This setup is overclocked to 3.75 GHz. Next to that we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark...