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 Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:52 pm Post subject: How safe is manual fan controlling? |
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| Well, in the CCC, in the overclock part of it, you can also control the fans power. My stuff was all lagging weirder than usual in street fighter 4, so I figured upping the fan speed may help it stay cooler (obviously). But how save is it? Will it use much more power?
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Safe.
i don't think 5w matters that much.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| Hero2 wrote: | Safe.
i don't think 5w matters that much. |
Well in the passed my options for it were to just to make it turn off turn on always or crank at a certain temp. This actually gives me th ability to crank its speed. I also tried ati auto tune. Utter crap it is. Heated my shit up to 50c and set it to 690mhz. Not worth it.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:51 am Post subject: |
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the only thing you risk is the obvious, wearing out the fan faster
50c is nothing
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| slovach wrote: | the only thing you risk is the obvious, wearing out the fan faster
50c is nothing |
It never even gets to 50c. Playing street fighter 4 it gets maybe 48 tops at load. But the fps started acting up. I guess it's just online lag. The benchmark seems to be working fine with AA/AF 8x
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:29 am Post subject: |
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| Hero wrote: | | slovach wrote: | the only thing you risk is the obvious, wearing out the fan faster
50c is nothing |
It never even gets to 50c. Playing street fighter 4 it gets maybe 48 tops at load. But the fps started acting up. I guess it's just online lag. The benchmark seems to be working fine with AA/AF 8x |
So why set the fan higher?
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| Karakawe wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | slovach wrote: | the only thing you risk is the obvious, wearing out the fan faster
50c is nothing |
It never even gets to 50c. Playing street fighter 4 it gets maybe 48 tops at load. But the fps started acting up. I guess it's just online lag. The benchmark seems to be working fine with AA/AF 8x |
So why set the fan higher? |
Because I can. Its actually not setting it up, its manual. It usually changes its power by sensor detection of heat i guess. Setting it up on manual would just make it constantly run at that speed.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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I turn mine on 100% when I game, usually. Never had any problems.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Nick :3 wrote: | | I turn mine on 100% when I game, usually. Never had any problems. |
Are you like using headphones or have your stereo turn all the way to max?
No way 100% is bearable.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Hero2 wrote: | | Nick :3 wrote: | | I turn mine on 100% when I game, usually. Never had any problems. |
Are you like using headphones or have your stereo turn all the way to max?
No way 100% is bearable. |
This-- I actually regret choosing a larger video card in my desktop for the noise (small room). I don't play games really (little Cube 2), so I use my netbook and one of the old (circa Windows 2000) Optiplex computers I leave running as a server.
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| Both nick and I have sapphire radeon 4850, and at 100% I couldnt hear a thing while nothing was running. I figured id hear it rattle or just make noise period. Its very silent.
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| Hero wrote: | | Both nick and I have sapphire radeon 4850, and at 100% I couldnt hear a thing while nothing was running. I figured id hear it rattle or just make noise period. Its very silent. |
XFX 4890 rev 2 (non reference design) @ 100% is liek... Chinese market.
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| Hero wrote: | | Both nick and I have sapphire radeon 4850, and at 100% I couldnt hear a thing while nothing was running. I figured id hear it rattle or just make noise period. Its very silent. |
My MSI is so much louder for no reason (better heatsink) 
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| fuck that shit 100% is pretty much equivalent to a hair dryer on low for my gtx 260. it's kind of ridiculous how fast the fan noise ramps up past 70.
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