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No I mean gas as in air. Solid, liquid, gas... science... I guess no one really gets that stuff. 

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Hi, so after doing some research on the 980Ti and Titan X I saw and heard the sound testing for the graphic cards and they were actually quite loud under full load, I've done a post like this before, but for making them silent are there any tips besides just liquid cooling? Would it be possible to get full load performance with silence using air/gas cooling? 

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A HUUUUGE heatsink combined with some large fans would make it silent :P And ofc they'd be loud under full load, though said full load shouldn't be encountered with day to day use.

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A HUUUUGE heatsink combined with some large fans would make it silent :P And ofc they'd be loud under full load, though said full load shouldn't be encountered with day to day use.

So no hopes of silence with air/gas cooling?

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So no hopes of silence with air/gas cooling?

Yes

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So no hopes of silence with air/gas cooling?

If by gas you mean to include the option of some very cold gas getting chilled by an air conditioner or the like, then yes.  That is, assuming the AC unit is somewhere you won't hear it

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If by gas you mean to include the option of some very cold gas getting chilled by an air conditioner or the like, then yes.  That is, assuming the AC unit is somewhere you won't hear it

No I mean gas as in air. Solid, liquid, gas... science... I guess no one really gets that stuff. 

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I guess no one really gets that stuff. 

 

lmao read my profile and rethink that last comment

 

But anyways, yeah I don't know of any passive cooler that will do the job.  If you want it air cooled, or even cooled with some other gas, it's not going to happen silently without some system that lets you put the unfortunately required noisy bits somewhere else

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No I mean gas as in air. Solid, liquid, gas... science... I guess no one really gets that stuff. 

That Accelero xtreme cooler thing with some noctuas. Done.

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That Accelero xtreme cooler thing with some noctuas. Done.

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I'm pretty sure most of the noise comes from turbulence, not the fan motors. that being said I think anything that spins at up to over 4000 RPM is going to make a noise.

 

water-cooling would be the only way to completely silence it (actually, thinking about it, the EK Predator would be perfect for something like this, just swap the CPU block for a full cover GPU block and you have basically silent cooling)

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I'm pretty sure most of the noise comes from turbulence, not the fan motors. that being said I think anything that spins at up to over 4000 RPM is going to make a noise.

 

water-cooling would be the only way to completely silence it (actually, thinking about it, the EK Predator would be perfect for something like this, just swap the CPU block for a full cover GPU block and you have basically silent cooling)

Okay thank you, for liquid cooling a Titan X or a 980Ti with silent performance should I make a new thread over in liquid cooling or just keep it here or?...

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Okay thank you, for liquid cooling a Titan X or a 980Ti with silent performance should I make a new thread over in liquid cooling or just keep it here or?...

that's up to you, it's technically another matter, so there's no harm making another thread

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Since it's an on going thing, I'll just leave some brownie points for everyone and I'll just pick this up on a new thread later, thanks guys

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