This card is LOOOUD!

m25 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-26-2008, 02:41 AM

Just got my 4670, it's a gigabyte and since I saw the fan was bigger than that of the saphire version I thought it would be quiet,...sort of... I thought I had a pretty loud system but when I snapped this thing in, I realized things could go much worse; It's the distinclty loudest fan in my case and the funny part comes when I see I can't throttle the fan down even with catalyst 8.10, it keeps spinning @ full revs. Tried to crank it in the bios but when I load it in RBE the fan button is grayed out,..... anyone has suggestions?!!! HEEELP MEEE!!!

**Mandrake** · #2 (**permalink**) 10-26-2008, 04:06 AM

Have you tried setting the fan speed with RivaTuner?

m25 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-26-2008, 04:34 AM

will try but I'm not hoping much; looks like this card totally lacks any fan control feature...

anticupidon · #4 (**permalink**) 10-26-2008, 05:28 AM

1 Try to change it with another card/manufacturer if possible
2 If you are extreme change the fan or mod the actual fan by adding a small resistor in order to lower the input voltage thus lower rpm
3 get an aftermarket cooler...
4 enjoy the new card ...the noise ..forget it ..put your headphones on and you are good to go!

TSIMonster · #5 (**permalink**) 10-26-2008, 05:47 AM

Did you try changing it in the profile? The way we 4870 users had to do it..

**tool_462** · #6 (**permalink**) 10-26-2008, 06:34 AM

Which card exactly? If we have a pic we can probably explain easily how to lower the fan speed by simply lowering the voltage going to the fan.

Afrodisiac · #7 (**permalink**) 10-26-2008, 06:42 AM

What about that BIOS editor thingamajiggy?

m25 · #8 (**permalink**) 10-26-2008, 05:40 PM

Thanks for the replays guys,... looking at the 4670 reviews on newegg, looks like it's a general plague affecting all the 46x0 series

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Originally Posted by Mandrake

Have you tried setting the fan speed with RivaTuner?

Rivatuner did NOTHING, like everything else.

@Afrodisiac
Contrarily to what happens with other ATi cards I've tried, the bios thing does not even activate the fan control when I load the bios, looks like there's nothing written about it there

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@anticupidon
1 No one else had the card of my dreams (the 4670) except this retailer
2 I'm not bad at soldering and a simple ohm's equation will give me the value of the resistor to put there,....ugly for a brand new card but looks the most probable solution at the end.
3 should be getting an accelero S2 very soon but that would make this card a lot bigger.
4 I don't enjoy much music and excessive noise makes me quite nervous.

@TSIMonster
looks complicated and pretty much useless since nothing else has worked, but maybe I will get so desperate to try that too.

@tool_462
This is the card:
Newegg.com - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more!
I'd be very grateful if you helped me out; sometimes I play and then it's OK but most of the time I have to work on my PC and that noise simply kills me!!!