My GPU is a jet engine on load

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Hey guys so I am finally tired of my GPU sounding like a jet engine when I am in games. It is dead silent when the computer is just sitting idle. Mostly due to the fact of the 0 RPM mode. However, I want my computer to be quieter during load. I have tried applying fan curves within Afterburner and even lowered them as low as 25% and it is still loud. Now granted, I have 3 fans on my GPU and it seems that I can only control two of them through afterburner. Im not really sure why.

How do I know it is my GPU? Well it only gets that loud when doing anything with 3D applications. I have also gone into my iCue software and turned on 0 RPM for all 6 of my case fans. That leaves the GPU fans, and the power supply. Ive ruled out the power supply as I stated before, it only gets loud during 3D operations and not while idle.

This has actually been an issue since I got the card and I never really paid any attention to it but over the last year or so it's been grabbing my attention and im tried of hearing it.

Any suggestions? Why can I only control 2 fans in Afterburner and not all 3?

 

[r9]

Hey guys so I am finally tired of my GPU sounding like a jet engine when I am in games. It is dead silent when the computer is just sitting idle. Mostly due to the fact of the 0 RPM mode. However, I want my computer to be quieter during load. I have tried applying fan curves within Afterburner and even lowered them as low as 25% and it is still loud. Now granted, I have 3 fans on my GPU and it seems that I can only control two of them through afterburner. Im not really sure why.

How do I know it is my GPU? Well it only gets that loud when doing anything with 3D applications. I have also gone into my iCue software and turned on 0 RPM for all 6 of my case fans. That leaves the GPU fans, and the power supply. Ive ruled out the power supply as I stated before, it only gets loud during 3D operations and not while idle.

This has actually been an issue since I got the card and I never really paid any attention to it but over the last year or so it's been grabbing my attention and im tried of hearing it.

Any suggestions? Why can I only control 2 fans in Afterburner and not all 3?

I don't think anything it's defective it's just a power hungry GPU.
You can try undervolt and underclock the GPU and make sure the case has good airflow.

 

[caroline!]

Why can I only control 2 fans in Afterburner and not all 3?

Probably an override in case the software hangs or you purposedly set the fans to 0%, that would make the temps skyrocket, and that's bad. Making the fans run faster is an attempt to lower the temperatures before the OTP kicks in.

The reason for noise is the size of the fans, with bigger blades you'd need less RPM to blow the same amount of air into the heatsink. I have a small mining rig and the fans on the cards were not only loud but terrible to dissipate heat to the point half of the cards hit thermal throttling EVEN while undervolted.... there, you could try that as well, undervolt the card so it doesn't gets too hot, that ought to make the fans run slower.
Anyway, your last resort would be replacing the fans or the HSF altogether, I've read good things about Arctic coolers.

 

[elghinnarisa]

Nvidia reference design only specifies 2 fans, anything else is up to the third party to magic up on their own. Which also means that MSI afterburner will not go around adding support for other vendors custom solutions to fan control for more than 2 fans since they can implement that in several different ways. You are after all trying to use a MSI branded software for a Asus card and who knows what solutions Asus use.

 

[GerKNG]

because you control 1 fan with "fan 1" and the other two with "fan 2".

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Nvidia reference design only specifies 2 fans, anything else is up to the third party to magic up on their own. Which also means that MSI afterburner will not go around adding support for other vendors custom solutions to fan control for more than 2 fans since they can implement that in several different ways. You are after all trying to use a MSI branded software for a Asus card and who knows what solutions Asus use.

Just because it's MSI branded doesnt matter. The software works on all cards regardless.

With that being said, however, I have tried Asus' GPU Tweak utility and tried setting custom fan curves to no avail as well.

So I am just doomed to listen to the jet engine from the GPU fan then?

 

[droid-I]

Did you already explore this :
ASUS FanConnect II and Fan Xpert 4

Apparently the card also has something called 0dB technology.

"Quiet (Q) bios mode by using the onboard switch, which is enabled by a switch on the card."

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[elghinnarisa]

Just because it's MSI branded doesnt matter. The software works on all cards regardless.

With that being said, however, I have tried Asus' GPU Tweak utility and tried setting custom fan curves to no avail as well.

So I am just doomed to listen to the jet engine from the GPU fan then?

Incorrect, the developer of MSI afterburner, Unwinder, has himself specified that MSI afterburner will not support proprietary fan solutions. So no it doesn't "work" on all cards in that sense, it simply follows the Nvidia API for it. If some manufacturer decides to do something on their own, its not supported. And there are a few cards out there with more than the standard two fan controllers in which case they are not supported by all software.
If you are unable to control the third fan in either of those two programs then that is however rather strange seeing as your card only has two headers so as previously mentioned one of those headers should control two fans. You could always take a poke at the card itself and see which fan it is and which header its connected too.

It seems your card should have a BIOS switch for a quiet BIOS, have you tried that? At least they write about it in the review here on TPU. With which it was one of the quietest cards in the chart. Pretty far down there without the quiet BIOS either way.