How noisy is this card?
204043
This is one of the quitest cards I have used. It makes virtually no noise at all.
204044
I hear minimal sound from my desktop computer, and I don't believe any of it is from the card or its fan.
204045
There is a small cooling fan that cannot be heard over the power supply fan/cpu fan!
389600
No, its not noisy. but you can hear it, its a soft sound maybe like a small fan, its not an annoying sound.
1848233
I am afraid I can't answer that. All I can say is that it is a strong mid range low profile card. Under heaviest loads, in small form factor boxes, it will heat up. For my purposes - to deal with this I added extra fans and moved the power supply outside the box. Obviously I am a fanatic - and work to keep my system components running under listed normal ranges.
1550396
Dont buy this card mate. i removed it out of my pc the day i bought it, rather get something better
708268
I use that card for wow and never had much trouble from it at all. It's a very good card if you can catch it on sale or refurbished as I did some time ago. I also play many other games on it like Warframe, Heroes of the Storm, Smite, many others.
1143132
The noise level is moderate and what would be expected for what the machine does. The noise has not been an issue for me.
1435935
Its pretty quite if you adjust the fan curve currently, If you keep the default fan curve its fairly loud, but it depends on how demanding the game is.
2237168
If you want a quiet or cool card stay far away from the AMD R9 series. The reference R9 290x sounds like a leaf blower sometimes when I would game with eyefinity. I ended up selling it for a GTX 970.
10741
I find the temperatures to be satisfactory, and honestly this is a very quiet graphics card. But honestly if you're looking for complete silence, I would watercool anyways. But, so far , I have no problems with my graphics card.
434840
I've been using mine since the 680 first came out and I haven't had a single issue. It helps if you create a custom fan profile within EVGA Precision X in order to ramp the fans up higher and keep the card cooler. I've had it overclocked since I bought it and haven't had any artifacts or crashes, well no crashes because of the overclock. My advice to you would be to wait for the new 700 Nvidia cards to come out in the next couple months and buy one of those instead depending on the price.
1145418
I don't think it's noisy at all. The only noticeable sound I can recall of comes from the fan, still quite discrete.
473000
It is not particularly noisy. It cycles automatically over a preset timed cycle that the operator sets. We have been very happy with this product..
546769
It can make a very noticeable whine at full speed, which is 7000+ RPM. The can be set to only run on full at a temperature you set in BIOS though and can even limit the top speed as a percentage.
898862
It was audible in my system.... enough so that I stopped using it. You can lower the fan speed all the way, but it was still audible, and of course it won't cool as well. When the fan is at max speed it cooled my nvidia card around 8 to 10 degrees C. Giving your video card a good cleaning will help a lot too.
288830
Mine was pretty quiet most of the time. On startup the cpu fan would be a bit loud but it would quiet down again after a few seconds. I had it for two years, never annoyed me. I had the core i5 3330, gtx 660.
2237167
This card is extremely loud! If you want quiet, go for a card with an aftermarket cooler. BTW you don't need a high powered GPU for Music work. You could probably get away with an integrated graphics solution offered by Intel and AMD.
1632995
I can't really tell you as I purchased this card to get my system up and running again. It was at the time recommended by my son who does play a lot of online games, but as far as those you mentioned, I don't know. I do know it is fast and worked great in my system. I suspect that you might want something more than this though for high powered games. This done does have a fan, but not much cooling.