The fan on this gets super loud when playing BF3. Is the dual fan card going to keep things quiet, or do I have to sound proof the case somehow. UPDATE - looks like CPU fan issue. Plays BF3 around 90FPS - so go for it.
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Well, using the AMD Catalyst center, what is the speed you have? Mine runs 50-60% and is not that loud. It also depends on the case you have, remember that loudness depends on how intensive the game is, and in BF3 it is considered normal. The dual fan card will be quiet, because it has double dissipation.
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Hi, With the stock 2 fans that the case comes with it's very quiet, You have to also count on how much noise your video addin card makes as well. If your only going to use the cpu built in video then there's really very little noticeable sound at all. My own setup is the ( 1 ) 140 front fan I have ( 2 ) instead of the stock ( 1 ) 120 mm fan on the one side and I also installed ( 2 ) 80 mm fans in the rear right blowing right across the motherboard cpu. I also am running a Duel fan Radeon 7870 video card. With my setup I hear a low humm with the case only about 1 foot away from my right ear.
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You can definitely run BF3 on ultra, I have the same card and I get 60 fps, never a drop, smooth as butter...buy it.
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bro, it has to do with the fan. the fan is a standard 140mm fan. it is as loud as the 140mm fan installed. The stock fan is loud yes. But you can turn it down. The nzxt green led fan I have installed as well is not loud at all tho
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At the moment,I'm running 2 Radeon HD 7950s and with all fans running around 30% and can't hear them at all{including the GPU fans} I've never had to run them at 100% for any reason but I'm sure there wouldn't be that much noise from the case. I'm really please with it. Hope this helps.
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Yeah. I use it exclusively for gaming. Works pretty good. What do I play? BF3, 4, Hawken, CoDs, Crysis 2, 3 and some UT3. For something that's 20 bucks, it aint bad. If it breaks, I'll just go buy another one. I use a Logitech EX110 for work purposes. What's my game stuff? Intel i7 3770 cpu, Asus P8z77-V LK motherboard, WD 2.5 Velociraptor HDD, XFX HD7950 gpu, G.Skill 16gb 19200 ram, Corsair RM750 psu, Corsair H100i liquid cooler.
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The one I got booted up fine and was nice and quiet during idle on the desktop. But load up an intensive game, and the fan was very noticeable. I could hear it from outside the room, down the hall, and downstairs. I returned this M12II and got a Seasonic X-850 GOLD Seasonic X-850(SS-850KM3 Active PFC F3) 850W 80 Plus Gold ATX12V/EPS12V Power Supply instead, and have been happy with it for the last 2 years and counting.
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I don't personally own the quiet edition, but at idle, they performance edition (I'm using 2x in push-pull) is inaudible. At max RPM, they are still much quieter than 2 Radeon 7970s in crossfire.
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Luis is right. Highly recommend this card, best bang for your buck. I use it with an fx 6300 nd can play bf4 on ultra at around 60 fps.
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It isn't significant running in typical environments. System intense rendering can get that fan humming but it still isn't annoying. I control the fan while running Bootcamp and crank it to max when gaming and only then is it very loud. However I am okay with that cause you need to keep a card cool for gaming.
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Honestly if you have a fan controller it doesn't really matter sound wise, more or less the same but with different fans. I changed my fans out on my h100i to SP fans(loud) and I have them running slow and quiet. Temps... Meh not an issue at 4.5Ghz X99 Haswell-e ...
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The fans are quiet but not silent. Normally the sound is not very noticeable but when the CPU is under load the fans will spin faster and be louder.
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No but if you play games with high settings the fan sound because needed to cool down the graphic card. If you only you to play movies or use office the fan doesn't make any noise
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No, I don't have that problem. I never noticed a fan running until I read this email. Now, I can hear a slight hum occasionally. But nothing you should ever notice. Yours is not right.
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Hi, Michael. I can't tell, because my other 5 case fans hide it. I can tell you this: the overall noise of the whole system is pretty low. To illustrate this, I had to turn off the air conditioner to notice it. So, the card's fan contribution to noise must be next to nothing. I hope it's useful.
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I use the Asus R290X DirectCU II card. Yes it was $600 but with Mantel enabled it runs BF4 on Ultra at 1440p with no problems at all online with 64 player servers. Not to mention the same brand card that Asus makes for the GTX 780Ti is about $100 or so more. I'm very happy with the graphics card though, it runs very cool with the Asus DirectCU and has no throttling at all. Its quiet as heck in the Uber mode compared to the stock 290/290X cooled cards. Those cards even throttle in Uber mode and are so loud.
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I will say no. I'm currently using the biggest Bequiet heatsink with two (1 120mm and 1 140mm) and it still idles at 45 and goes up to 60 - 65 degrees when playing BF3