The sound of an AMD R9 290X reference GPU cooler at 100% fan speed...

[Alex780]

if set to uber mode and full fan speed, the card can take off and fly you overseas

[qmully]

MY EARS ARE BLEEDING!!! 

 

No but seriously this is unacceptable I would be willing to pay an extra 25-35 dollars for a cooler as good and sexy as the stock titan, 780, and 770 coolers. Step your game up AMD this is not "high end" quality.

[SkilledRebuilds]

The aftermarket cooler claims of 20+% cooling will most likely be proven or disproven with this 290x, plus that new OC panel.

I'm hopeful for aftermarket coolers to be adequate for higher clocks on average,.... less dethrottle.

Compare older similar TDP level reference and aftermarket cooling differences,.. Hopefully much of the same happens.

[YouRezz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspdnAYiiug

 

Its this bad..

[lachyman]

I doubt it would really go to 100% during a normal gaming load. Besides no one really buys stock amd cards unless they are going to water cool them or buy them at launch.

Problem is...there aren't any non-reference cards and probably won't be in the near future.

[Spannerhands]

I am so glad I have a water block on order lol...

[Mattyc]

you are both wrong (and a little bit right), the base of the log for perceived volume is about 10.

you have to differ between sound pressure (base 3), sound intensity (base 6) and loudness level (base 10)

 

I never said perceived. The video has an A-weighted measurement. That is what i'm going off of lol.

[mgsstar]

But it pushes quite alot of air as it was blowing the paper quite a bit. Hope that this heatsink will be good enough to not have the fan speed turned up high.