How do you run your GPU fans?

[OnionRings]

I've been watching a lot of GPU videos lately, mainly because I am upgrading soon, and I saw the new ICX cards by EVGA control the fans apart from one another for each area of the PCB, and I was thinking to myself, does anybody actually run the card this way? I know some people are killer over audio and need super silence, but me, I usually just set my card on a custom fan curve so the hotter it gets the louder the fans go, because my experience with the whole " waiting " for your card to get hot, before the fans come on, went bad. When I bought my RX 480 by Sapphire and first ran it, I didn't have a fan curve but I was monitoring temps, and suddenly out of nowhere the fans sounded like a fucking vacuum behind me, I then remember my card had that feature, but I turned it off, because I think it's silly to have your fans only kick on when the card gets hot (at least in my case) because then the card easily heats up to 70c in just a few seconds, and that causes the fans to need to work harder, to cool it back down, resulting in more noise than if I were to just have them running all the time.

 

So what about you?

[ARikozuM]

Concentrically.

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I usually ramp the fans as high as they'll go and then lower them until they're barely audible and stop the curve there with a step above just in case things go south. Or would it be north as on a thermometer?

 

[RadiatingLight]

just the default curve is good.

 

0RPM until 50c, then it slowly ramps up. highest I've seen it at was 60%, 79c.

 

unlike you, I can't hear the point where my fans go from 0% to 25% (once it passes the 50c threshold)

[Jurrunio]

My current card doesn't have this, so the fans run 28%/1200RPM even when it's at 31C. However, my old card does. I basically let it stay with 0% fan up to 60C (its idle temp with fans off), then draw a straight line from 0% 60C to 100% 90C. In this case the card stayed at 73C 55% fan speed max

[DXMember]

I don't even know if my cards have a fan... until I start benchmarking that is... then I just set it to 100% and realize - yup they definitely have fans

[it_dont_work]

Just on the standard fan curve, dam thing's fans dont even turn on during most gaming, Benchmarking on the other hand turn em to 100 and listen to the jet engine.

[MattW]

I bought a Sapphire RX 480 reference card and couldn't stand the jet engine. I replace the stock cooler with a ARCTIC Accelero Twin Turbo III with the back plate. I run my fans all the time. My curve is set to under 30c 20% speed, 70c 55% speed, 90c 100% speed. Most of the time it runs at about 50c-60c when gaming. Even on a hot day I've never got it above 65. As for fan noise it is almost unnoticeable.

[w1nger1]

1 hour ago, ARikozuM said:

Concentrically.

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I usually ramp the fans as high as they'll go and then lower them until they're barely audible and stop the curve there with a step above just in case things go south. Or would it be north as on a thermometer?

 

I usually just use a exponential fan curve, but I like your practical approach. I shall try that.