Swapping one bios "model" for another

[callumggibson]

So to keep things short, I decided to swap out my reference cooler for a DIY one, for lower noise. I have two 92mm fans on my GPU. I've used a VGA to 4 pin adaptor to power the fans straight from the GPU, however it seems the stock bios is still trying to control the reference fan. For example, at 24% (the lowest it'll go in both Afterburner and in the Nvidia control panel), the fans are running quite fast, and that's at the minimum level.

 

Can I use a BIOS for let's say a ASUS GTX 1060 DUAL (my existing GPU is the ASUS 1060 TURBO) which supports 0db and I assume doesn't have any wierd limits for fan control.

 

Interest to see what can happen, I've DIY'd up to this point.

 

[Fasauceome]

That's a pretty common practice, actually. Worth trying for sure.

[Zmax]

3 minutes ago, callumggibson said:

So to keep things short, I decided to swap out my reference cooler for a DIY one, for lower noise. I have two 92mm fans on my GPU. I've used a VGA to 4 pin adaptor to power the fans straight from the GPU, however it seems the stock bios is still trying to control the reference fan. For example, at 24% (the lowest it'll go in both Afterburner and in the Nvidia control panel), the fans are running quite fast, and that's at the minimum level.

 

Can I use a BIOS for let's say a ASUS GTX 1060 DUAL (my existing GPU is the ASUS 1060 TURBO) which supports 0db and I assume doesn't have any wierd limits for fan control.

 

Interest to see what can happen, I've DIY'd up to this point.

 

Good question, never tough you could do that