Re: [opensuse] nVidia 8800GT loud fan - tips, tricks?

On Tuesday 23 September 2008 20:31, David C. Rankin wrote:

I have an EVGA 8800GT board that is just plain Loud! No
overclocking, just the default 600,900 gpu and memory speeds. I
have searched and the closest thing to rivatuner for linux is
nvclock. I have installed and worked with nvclock setting the PWM
Duty Cycle between 20-90% (nvclock -f -F 20, etc. returning to
'auto'). The change in sound from the fan is almost imperceptible.

Hi David,

I've got a 9500 GS board in a new HP desktop that was also
very noisy with the stock 11.0 install. It was quiet with
Vista, before I blew it away. It quieted down when I installed
the Nvidia proprietary driver. It's now noisy when the box
is first turned on, but quiets down when the Nvidia module
is loaded during boot-up. Sure, my kernel is now "tainted",
but it seems to be worth it...

Regards,
Lew

Thanks Lew, all:

I have the latest nvidia binaries installed with the accompanying
taint, a small trade-off for glxgears at 11,000 FPS and my son's full
screen video games that just fly to the screen. (savage 2, spring,
etc.). The blanket idea is a good one, but I think I will have to
resort to the zalman solution. Thanks all for confirming that the fan
noise is just expected on the 'hot' video cards. Too bad the card
manufacturers don't put more emphasis on the annoying fan noise, but
again, I guess the card would cost $3.00 more with a good fan.

I just looked at the Zalman site. If you really want quiet, they have
passive coolers for the graphic cards too..

What I find amazing though is as the processors have gotten faster and
hotter, the fans have gotten bigger and quieter. The CPU cooler I've
got on my amd X2 is really big. Heat pipes, and fins, and a 92mm fan
that runs between 300 and 2500rpm. And the CPU has not gone about 40c
even with high demand. It's the same for graphic cards too. One of my
older AGP cards didn't even have a fan. Now the pci-e card in the X2
computer has a big heat sink and an 80mm fan. Heat pipes running around
the card, and all sorts of things.. But it is quiet.

Mike

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