How loud is the card, in comparison to a stock 5770 or 5870? For comparison, in a Mac Pro, a 7950 is noticeably louder than a 5870.
1544724
we have not noticed the difference, we have a pretty loud fiber raid attached as well and that would drown out the GFX card. sorry that didn't help much
1544725
It can be noticeable when cranking out vfx in Maya or rendering a content heavy scene in After Effects. At the same time, it's not something that will draw your ear instantly when you walk into the room.
1544726
I didn't notice a sound difference. There are other part of my computer that are louder like my external hard drives.
1544727
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.
559444
There are two modes low and high selected by a switch on the card. If your hard core gaming, using CAD, bitcoin mining your going to need to select High mode which can be rather loud. If you just surf the internet and chat then Low mode will work which is very quiet. High Mode runs while card is "Hot" In General high performance causes these cards to run very hot so good air ventilation is a must.
1799007
Mine runs a Radeon 7970 6gb and this card on a 650w gold certified psu without issue. Can't speak to running it solo, though.
462070
It is somewhat louder than the single fan in my new Mac Pro, which is almost inaudible. It's really pretty quiet, although I have no way to measure the actual decibel output. I do hear the hard drives within when they spin up, and also when they are accessing data. I am not bothered by the "noise" at all.
59578
Save your money from buying a EVGA and buy the PNY GTX 780. Performance wise, the 7990 is better with a dual gpu in one card but the card runs hot and has a shuttering issue. The GTX will run cooler and more handle today's games.
1083026
I believe the difference are the fans. This card works well in my setup. I would recommend buying it.
1781224
I believe, do a double check on 7000 series crossfire, they can be...bu know that doing so would only limit the 7970 while putting the 7770 to the extreme. Better to be of equal cards unless you happened to find a spare card as a replacement for one being worked on or ordered in.
236373
There are other cards for about the same price that are higher performance. I got this card because i needed a low power quiet card since I have a smaller case and I wanted to get more performance per watt. I haven't bench marked the card next to its counterparts.
560492
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.
1945109
Nothing really. It's rated at like 5.6 teraflops which is great for things like mining Bitcoin and to has a lot of direct compute power. If you are in the graphics industry you really should be looking at a Quadro or a FireMV card. I Titan is also a good choice because if it dual point floating precision. Also on a side not this card is so loud you would need to shout over it.
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.
204043
This is one of the quitest cards I have used. It makes virtually no noise at all.
197495
The only card I recommend more highly than this is the 780 lightning if you can get a hold of one for less than 600. This card performs wonderfully under water. Maybe someone else can speak more of it on air. It ran a bit hot for me but my airflow was poor.
1422830
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.
1272608
Hi Lawrence, fitted this card 4 days ago and no its not true, in my rig its not at all loud.
1020316
This is actually a 7970 ghz edition card rebranded as a 280x. So it is much better than a 270x. You can crossfire a 280x with a 7970 ghz or even a 270x or below down to a 7850 card. That makes this card very versatile. I have two 280x's in crossfire powering three 27 inch 2560x1440 monitors in eyefinity. 45fps in crysis 3 on ultra. Very smooth. I love this card especially the price.
621974
Yeap. But if you really wanna go eyefinity on it. I suggest the 7950 or 7970.