Feronix
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Heya guys!
I'm back with yet another impossible question
I've recently purchased a what I thought was a reference EVGA GTX 760 2GB. While this card has enough horsepower for the little gaming that I do, it is incredibly loud. Not only during games, but also at idle because Nvidia has locked the fan so that the lowest it will go is 40%, even though my card idles at 28 C.
Obviously this is a bit high, and it should be able to do 20% easily in idle. The only way that this seems possible though, is by either flashing a custom (unsupported) vBios on it, which I'd really rather not cause I risk bricking the card and I have no experience with it.
The second way is watercooling it. This is where I found out that when you buy an EVGA card with stock cooler, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's a reference card and after a quick investigation there appear to be no full-cover water blocks available for my specific model.
There are however, the universal blocks that I am considering. They go over the GPU core only and thus leave the vRAM uncooled, so I need a solution for that.
I was thinking of modding my GPU shroud so that I can fit the block under it and still keep the original shroud + fan on. But, that would still mean that the fan will be loud so I have to fix that somehow and I still don't want to flash the vBios.
I think there are two main options right now for me:
- Solder in (or use a 5/7v adaptor) a resistor to make the PWM fan spin and 5/7volt instead of 12. Then set a fan profile so that it does 60% (60 : 12 x 5)= 25% in idle and ramps up to 100% (100 : 12 x 5)= 41% under load.
- Get a regular style PWM fan (quieter) and attach that to the shroud and plug it into the fan. It won't be blower-style but there's only one way out of the shroud anyway so air should travel over the vRAM heatsinks.
Can you also buy the blower style fans seperate somewhere? Maybe I could get a slightly different (slower spinning, quieter) one.
I'm also running OS X on the same computer and there is no Afterburner software or similar available for that, so that would mean in OS X it won't spin up much at all (default fan profile). I won't be gaming in this OS but video editing might happen. Would the card run too hot editing on CUDA?
What do you lot think? Yay or nay? Any other things I could try?
Would love to hear from you.
Thanks in advance!
I'm back with yet another impossible question

I've recently purchased a what I thought was a reference EVGA GTX 760 2GB. While this card has enough horsepower for the little gaming that I do, it is incredibly loud. Not only during games, but also at idle because Nvidia has locked the fan so that the lowest it will go is 40%, even though my card idles at 28 C.

Obviously this is a bit high, and it should be able to do 20% easily in idle. The only way that this seems possible though, is by either flashing a custom (unsupported) vBios on it, which I'd really rather not cause I risk bricking the card and I have no experience with it.
The second way is watercooling it. This is where I found out that when you buy an EVGA card with stock cooler, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's a reference card and after a quick investigation there appear to be no full-cover water blocks available for my specific model.
There are however, the universal blocks that I am considering. They go over the GPU core only and thus leave the vRAM uncooled, so I need a solution for that.


I was thinking of modding my GPU shroud so that I can fit the block under it and still keep the original shroud + fan on. But, that would still mean that the fan will be loud so I have to fix that somehow and I still don't want to flash the vBios.
I think there are two main options right now for me:
- Solder in (or use a 5/7v adaptor) a resistor to make the PWM fan spin and 5/7volt instead of 12. Then set a fan profile so that it does 60% (60 : 12 x 5)= 25% in idle and ramps up to 100% (100 : 12 x 5)= 41% under load.
- Get a regular style PWM fan (quieter) and attach that to the shroud and plug it into the fan. It won't be blower-style but there's only one way out of the shroud anyway so air should travel over the vRAM heatsinks.
Can you also buy the blower style fans seperate somewhere? Maybe I could get a slightly different (slower spinning, quieter) one.
I'm also running OS X on the same computer and there is no Afterburner software or similar available for that, so that would mean in OS X it won't spin up much at all (default fan profile). I won't be gaming in this OS but video editing might happen. Would the card run too hot editing on CUDA?
What do you lot think? Yay or nay? Any other things I could try?
Would love to hear from you.
Thanks in advance!

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