how to increase the speed of my GPU fan or replace it ?

**Vandole** · 2011-11-09 00:10

current temps, idling. was at 54c earlier but i turned off the pc and blew earlier and now its at 47 idling. how can i increase the speed of my GPU fan? its at 40%

**Pandum** · 2011-11-09 00:12

those temps are fine tbh but use MSI afterburner to set your own GPU speed cycles (there are others but MSI is the most used)

**Vandole** · 2011-11-09 00:15

other people idle at 32 Celsius with the same card though from what i've seen

**Pandum** · 2011-11-09 00:16

will vary from system to system obviously but the "danger' threshold would be around 70-80 for nvidia cards

**Vandole** · 2011-11-09 00:17

i just turned it to max and its at 42 now. loud as FUCK too

**Pandum** · 2011-11-09 00:20

stock fanspeeds usually suck dick, just use msi to set what you'd like and autorun in background

**Pandum** · 2011-11-09 00:27

also, http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...3336555746.png

**hey** · 2011-11-09 00:49

47c is not something you need to do anything about. You can obviously get it lower, but it won't do any good.

**Omniyoji** · 2011-11-09 00:52

Originally Posted by Pandum

also, http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...3336555746.png

I bet you the n00b has it setup as an intake with a dinky 120 exhaust lol

**Vandole** · 2011-11-09 01:55

is it possible to replace the fan to a better one? i'd love to do that. my bedroom is so small my pc makes my room a sauna

**Niya** · 2011-11-09 02:13

You can, but

You'll lose guaranty if you do
Fiddling with the cooling system can make it even worse than now
another fan won't change anything concerning the PC heating up your room

If those 42-47° really bug you that much add a few case fans to your PC, but leave the GPU cooling as it is...

**Vandole** · 2011-11-09 04:35

http://www.legitreviews.com/images/r...oy_air_043.jpg

my case. but my room is small so i may just have to deal with this til i move out in january.

**Zerocool** · 2011-11-09 09:23

One of the other things you can do is take the whole heatsink off and put a fresh coat of thermal compound on the gpu chip. Might drop it a little bit.

**Niya** · 2011-11-09 10:09

If the card would be 1+ years old i'd probably agree, but since it's a 560Ti i'd say it can only be a few months. Thermal compound shouldn't be a matter after such a short time unless PNY really screwed up... Plus, see #1 of my last post.

**Zerocool** · 2011-11-09 11:03

Well the only thing is sometimes manufacturers don't always use great compound from the start. But I do agree that it shouldn't be necessary, was just giving some more options. But idle in the 40s isn't anything to be worried about, and is actually pretty good compared to most nvidia gpus. If others are getting idle in the 30s, other factors can go into that like ambient room temperature, case/fan set up, etc. Also they could be using something like MSI afterburner to manually adjust the temp/fan speed ratio, which everyone should do anyways IMO.

**Niya** · 2011-11-09 12:10

True, using software-side fan speed manipulation is definitely the better choice than screwing with the hardware ^^ I still remember altering the idle fan speed of my old GTX260 because the fan was at 40% all the time and way too loud. Used RivaTuner to lower the idle speed to ~30%, that lowered the noise level but didn't influence idle temperature.
Now that you mention it... Van, you can try Afterburner and set up a custom fan speed curve, that should allow you to raise the idle speed (as long as the GPU board allows it).

**Gredival** · 2011-11-09 23:53

Originally Posted by Vandole

is it possible to replace the fan to a better one? i'd love to do that. my bedroom is so small my pc makes my room a sauna

The only thing I can think of to make your room more bearable would be to go to watercooling. There are third party GPU fans; when the fan on my old ATI x1300 crapped out I used a third party Zalman cooler, which actually worked better. But fans just transfer heat from the component elsewhere, so a good fan would just make your room worse. Ever so slightly, but worse.

**Vandole** · 2011-11-10 04:30

good thing i'm getting my own place in january and my PC will be in a nice big room with moving air

**hey** · 2011-11-10 15:34

Originally Posted by Gredival

But fans just transfer heat from the component elsewhere

Liquid cooling does the exact same thing...?

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