I have an Nvidia. I need to make the sound stop! Help me make it stop! Is there any way for me to control the fan speed directly, like AMD's CCC allows me to do? Thank you!

A toothpick will work wonders on the fan, but you might need it to keep spinning...

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

There you go.

It's a very bad idea to mess with your fan speeds without checking your temps

Does that work with non-MSI branded cards?
I've always used the EVGA Precision that comes bundled with the card when I buy it, but if you want updated versions they make you register and stuff...not a big deal or anything but it's one reason why I don't upgrade Precision until I buy a new card. (tho mostly I'm lazy + don't need to, really anyway)

Edit: and yeah, if the fan's really loud, the GPU temps could be spiking a lot, meaning you might not want to lower the fan speed ... at least until you get more of hot air out of the case etc.

Or it's possible the card is set to max out the fan regardless of the temps.

That's an EVGA branded Afterburner. Yes, it'll work on most any Nvidia or AMD/ATI card. Very good monitoring, OCing and fan speed control program.

Yep. Some cards just sound like banshees. One thing you can do is get an aftermarket cooler for the card, that uses a larger fan or a few smaller ones. Here is an example of one I had put on an Nvidia that just drove me nuts. After I installed this, then the CPU cooling fan was the loudest part of my PC (and that was almost silent)

http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b390/CCNA/?action=view¤t=HR-03GTCoolerCloseUp2.jpg

Why is there a giant mechanical spider living in your computer?

Multi Heat Pipe Cooler. That card ran 150 degrees stock, 180 with gaming and screamed the whole time. I had the card for one hour before I bought that cooler and had it overnighted to me. With that cooler, my temps dropped to less than 100 idle and never went over 120 degrees at the same inaudible fan speed.

I've got Nvidia's Injector (Injektor?), so I'll be able to monitor the temps. There's this constant high-pitched buzz that I just cannot listen to anymore. Dowdloading Afterburner now. Hope it works.

Edit: no, it's not working. My fan's already at its lowest, 41%. Adding more fans won't do anything to alleviate the problem. Is there any way to lower the fan speed more than the minimum?

I guess I've been doing it (PC gaming) wrong.

I really recommend you see your temps first when the fan gets loud. Not doing so can overheat your card

Some fans are loud, some are not. Multiple fans running at lower speeds move more air (quieter) than one spinning faster (and making more noise). You are not going to get rid of the noise, and more than likely burn up your card just slowing the stock fan down some. You need to go to an aftermarket cooler, use a waterblock style cooler, or get a case that is quieter.

Bottom line, you are going to spend $50 to $100 bucks on a new cooler, thermal paste and some time to get this thing quieter.

Okay ... Thanks, CCNA and everyone else.

The noise might not be the fan. I've seen plenty of reports on electronic whine from the components on some cards. I've never had it myself.

I've always preferred the interface on Precision to what Afterburner offers. I fold on my GPUs (heavily overclocked), so all fans are set at a constant 100%, and I get nothing but the soothing whoosh of air.

maybe your fans need oiled.

Or buy headphones and let them fans go 100% speed.

This whine can usually only be heard on an otherwise quiet system. It is not loud, but the whine is absolutely annoying. Good thing is that it usually occurs just before a catastrophic failure of the part that is making the noise, so it goes away.

What makes some coolers loud is they put these stupid small fans that have to spin at 4000 to 5000 RPM just so they can have a flat plate to put a screen print picture. So, your ears suffer so there can be a pretty graphic on the video card.

Here is an example of 3 versions of a heatsink on the same card. In order of loudness.

Audible, annoying or not is up to you. This fan seems large enough to only have to spin fast, not insane

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130810&name=Desktop-Graphics-Cards

Would hear air moving more so than fans but this would not intrude on any game, even in quiet areas.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130837&name=Desktop-Graphics-Cards

If they picked the right fans, you might never hear this one, even with the case sides off

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127696&name=Desktop-Graphics-Cards



Can't really oil a fan, grumbling is a sure sign of bad bearings or a high pitched whine. The OP could look at the stock fan or research just what it is and it's specs. Then try to find a fan that is quieter that moves as much air.

But, your right, headphones is the way to solve this one.

I've seen plenty of reports on the folding forum about very loud, high pitched whines coming from the power regulating components on GPUs. With the fans pinned at 100%, they could change the pitch of the whine by adjusting the clock settings or load on the card.

Those would be the people that would hear it. I wonder if those are the guys who set their rigs up for max operations, as folding uses the GPU. The technology was developed back during the Bitcoin Bubble to gang together video cards into a sort of super co-processor for the BitCoin flips and later on the Folders took to it score the most operations. They do it for bragging rights, but it's for a good cause. However, they run the video cards at pretty much a 100% duty cycle for hours on end. Those cards tend to be tweaked to within an inch of their lives too. It does not surprise me that circuit noise would happen under those conditions. I was referring to normal gaming hardware.

I t was only a few models by a few manufacturers causing problems. I've been running 10 heavily overclocked GPUs at 100% load 24/7 for a couple years. Luckily I haven't encountered a whine.

You will hate it if ever happens. Well, it might just irritate you, but it is the Nails on a Chalk board for me. Times a 100. Kind of like a mosquito born in a meth lab buzzing in my inner ear canol is how I would describe it.