[Tutorial] How to make your 900 Series Video Card have a 0% fan mode!

[JaZoN_XD]

Yes because when afterburner isn't open, it will use the cards BIOS to define fan speed.

 

In theory you could go and edit every single value in the BIOS fan curve and do it yourself and not require afterburner to be open, but it'd take a lot longer & some trial and error.

Sorry to come back to this after such a long time, but I was thinking, if this is the case with the fan speeds, if you close Afterburner does your OC also go away and it resorts back to the factory settings?

[Dschijn]

Does the GPU have be in a specific slot in the PC? I am using the GPU externaly in Thunderbolt -> PCIe case.

[crayonmuncher]

Thanks, found this on linustechtips and came here for the guide, ive also got a g1 gaming with windforce 3, fans were so annoying at idle I unplugged one, but now its bliss, no noise at all, so i plugged the other fan in.

 

Always found this cooler to be way to loud at idle, especially when you consider how good maxwell is with temps.

 

Also i have left fan speeds at auto, currently benching to test but they spin up around 50ish and max temp is 56 degress with fans at 49%.

 

The only issue I found, which is not related to the mod, but if you uncheck auto in afterburner, but do not have a custom fan curve setup, afterburner will then bottom out at 25%, which fan curve/auto it will drop to zero.

 

Thanks again

[hal9001]

Thank you very much Lays!

[Br3tt96]

I'm kinda confused? My 980 has ran out of the box at 0% fan speed, until I turn the fans higher or adjust the fan curve. I've forgotten to turn on the fans once in game and the GPU temp ramped up to 88c before I turned the fans on.

[moogles]

Is there any way to have the fan managed by the GPU bios rather than Afterburner? Like setting the minimum temperature before it spins up?

[PrimeraRata]

First post links are dead. Any have other links?

[HassanHD]

Thanks, I managed to get mind to work! However it averages at about 47 degrees celcius and then has these random moments where the fan speeds boosts as they go much much fast and then quickly back down again, a little frustrating.

[mrswagbhinav]

friend tried this and has a $500 coaster

[simson0606]

has anyone tried this yet on the reference 980ti?

[Raudi_]

has anyone tried this yet on the reference 980ti?

I don't advise doing it.

[Lays]

has anyone tried this yet on the reference 980ti?

 

 

I don't recommend doing this on non aftermarket cards, VRM's will get really hot.

[arnavvr]

I don't recommend doing this on non aftermarket cards, VRM's will get really hot.

 

It's just for Idle though

[Nightmare]

my card ran a little to hot on 0 rpm for my liking so I made a couple of little changes in my stock bios to run my fans slow so it runs cool and quiet

i don't even need msi afterburner or similar programs

[Nightmare]

My settings on my 970 G1 Gaming

[Lays]

It's just for Idle though

 

Yeah I know, but the cooler is so closed and sealed off that air won't circulate around the heatsink like an open-air design.

The reason why this works so well with those aftermarket cards is because air can freely circulate around the heatsink and still provide cooling. 

 

Doing this on a completely sealed up design cooler won't end well, everything will heat up a lot more and the fan will have to turn on every few mins.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Just buy a msi gaming card if that's your goal. Lol haha

[biustech]

tried on my MSI 970 GD5T OC (white version http://www.msi.com/product/vga/GTX-970-4GD5T.html#hero-overview)and the only thing i manage to do was reduce around 50 RPM in the minimun (from ~900 to ~850) but not 0
the curve is ok, the flashing went ok, but the card don't accept the afterburner settings

 

any other tweak i could change in the maxwell bios editor?

[dlisboa]

Din't work for me. I have a EVGA GTX 760 SC w/ ACX Cooler, flashed it as described, now Afterburner allows me to set fan speed to zero, "Fan speed, %" shows 0 on graph, but "Fan tachometer, RPM" oscillates between 1140 and 1170.

In fact, setting fan speed to anything between 0 and 40% makes no difference what so ever: fan stays @ 1140 ~ 1170 rpm.

Is it possible that i have to set "PER11:" to 0 as well?

 

Here is what i got:

 

 

    

 

Cheers,

[Lays]

Din't work for me. I have a EVGA GTX 760 SC w/ ACX Cooler, flashed it as described, now Afterburner allows me to set fan speed to zero, "Fan speed, %" shows 0 on graph, but "Fan tachometer, RPM" oscillates between 1140 and 1170.

In fact, setting fan speed to anything between 0 and 40% makes no difference what so ever: fan stays @ 1140 ~ 1170 rpm.

Is it possible that i have to set "PER11:" to 0 as well?

 

Here is what i got:

 

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Cheers,

 

 

Yeah I'd say try changing per11 to 0 and see if it helps.

[biustech]

in my case didn't help. i got in contact with MSi forum support and they said that my heatsink it's not good enough to keep temperature cool without the fans. so my card no matter what will always be spinng at ~32% of the max RPM. then i gave up and exchange mine for a GTX 970 gaming where buy default the fans don't need to spin when in idle

[Hunched]

I should have done this long ago, but was afraid of bricking my card, luckily my power didn't go out in the 5 second process. 

 

I had to have audio playing at all times from a Twitch stream or something when using my PC or I was annoyed by the slight sound.

This gave me some stress relief, I'm not listening to anything right now and my PC isn't bothering me lol

 

Now if I could just find a way to make my Noctua NF-A14's not make the case hum at specifically 800rpm and 1075rpm everything would be perfect, but I can't, other than never letting them go above 800rpm...

I have my front two NF-A14's suspended in the air with wire that goes through holes on the metal part of my Arc Midi R2. They're supposed to be mounted to the plastic front panel, but the plastic amplified noise so much. The exhaust NF-A14 mounted to the metal is a million times quieter than the front fans were when attached to the garbage plastic...

 

I never hear my PSU fan, my CPU fan also makes a very slight hum at 800rpm and 1075rpm (same fan as the NF-A14), and I have my HDD suspended with elastic because it caused the case to vibrate violently.

I think my long term quest for absolute perfection of my PC might finally be complete, I can't think of anything I could fix that pisses me off anymore.

I even found out how to control my case fans based off of GPU temperature which was harder to figure out than expected, I just thought it was impossible until I discovered it was possible with SpeedFan.

Just some little problems left, like GPU Boost which sucks, but I can just click K-Boost before playing a game, not a perfect solution because I have to do that every time but it works.

 

I'm that person that makes people say PC's are too complicated, because everything can be improved and nothing is perfect or even necessarily good at first. With a console or a Mac you just have to live with what bothers you, with a PC if you're like me, you get to spend longer than you should screwing with everything trying to make it better because you can....

 

 

Thanks for the guide! Screw you Gigabyte for not allowing the fans to go lower than 50% without a BIOS flash, come on...

 

[kxrider85]

How come it won't work when I do the exact same thing with Kepler Bios Tweaker on my GTX 760??

[iJarda]

I have tried everything what is written there and couldn't get it working on my Asus GTX 960 DC2OC Black

 

I've solved signing certificate error, as well as EEPROM write protect, but this not.

 

If anybody know what to do with it, I will appreciate it.

 

Thx

[Lays]

I have tried everything what is written there and couldn't get it working on my Asus GTX 960 DC2OC Black

 

I've solved signing certificate error, as well as EEPROM write protect, but this not.

 

If anybody know what to do with it, I will appreciate it.

 

Thx

 

 

It's probably hardware locked to prevent the fans from turning off.