Video Card Dead Fan Repair Guide
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- Fixing a broken video card fan - the super Canadian way!!
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For those late to the party, 4 years after this video was made, Noctua partnered with a graphics cards manufacturer to make a Noctua-flavoured graphics card. As you probably guessed, from Linus' results, it apparently works great!
Now if only I could use Noctua fans to replace these noisy Gigabyte fans, without having to rip off and replace the heat sink... Pasting my CPU? I can do that. Fiddling with my GPU? Ehhhh...maybe better left to professionals.
@@snaffu1 It'd be cool if a manufacturer made a GPU with mounts for standard 120mm or 140mm fans so you could put whatever fans your want on it
@@fizz1ewinks at somepoint in time, someones gonna 3d print a gpu case that can fit 120 or 140mm fans
So in essence Noctua should make custom heatsinks or even video cards
YAS!
It's just a matter of fan size really. If Asus and the rest were willing to make cards take up 3-4 slots by sticking 25mm thick fans on their heatsinks that would do it.
It didn't even look that janky. I might do it to my 980ti after the fan dies.
not worth the extra cfm with noisy af fans. there's redux line aswell.
Or simply, let's just leave that job to cryorig.
Me: *breathing heavily, staring at my toaster of a 1060 and two spare noctua fans*
@Jim Mahmud I actually didn't. I'm still really debating it though. I have one of the fan bearings starting to go anyhow. So in the event that it actually fails, I'll probably cut the housings down on a similar sized fans and actually find a way to mount them in the actual case of the card. That said, I wild definitely do something like this in a pinch.
since when is a 1060 a "toaster"
@@makitard my particular EVGA 1060 ssc is a toaster. I think most of the acx 3.0 cards are toasty. I don't think it's a great dual fan solution IMO. I love the card though.
@@thisislargemouth5566 ACX have thermal pad issue, make sure you have one installed on the vrms, you can also change them. 2.5mm thick. BUT, it's a great cooler when those issue are fixed. Better fan would also help a lot.
do it
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Skipper analaysis!
I suffer when i see magnets next to PC parts
you Rilke LOL
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new editor ? so much noises ! x')
ayoubleg45 yeah original editor was let go
yeap, hated it.
what really? taran is no more? :(
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Who was?
Thanks Linus! my fan on my 7870 died a couple days ago, so I strapped a couple small cpu fans to it and its 14 c cooler than with the stock fan!
"Fixing a broken video card fan - the super Canadian way!!" thought he was just going to politely ask it to work
The problem with why the blower-style wasn't working, was probably because you didn't seal off the old intake on the graphics-card. This way, most of the air escaped in to the case (due to less resistance), rather than through the fins, and out of the case.
You probably mean the "exhaust" on the right of the blower fan. Since the blower fan is inside the card and it's output is instantly divided by the card (one side being the fins, the other side being the exhaust back in the case), it will approximately put the same amount of air through both paths. The axial fan however was mounted above the blower fan, so the whole amount of airflow (to some extent) can go through one path if the other one is sealed off (thats what wasn't achieved and also that what you said what should've been achieved).
Since the path back into the case provides way less resistance than the path through the fins and through the slot bracket, most of the air indeed doesn't go through the fins.
To solve that issue, one could:
1. tape the right side off of the gpu
2. buy a blower fan (not searching for "gpu fan" is pretty important in that case) and directly replace the broken one
3. create a duct under the axial fan where the old fan was to guide some air back into the case (if there are components there)
4. break off the casing of an axial fan and place the axial fan there where the old fan was, it will now work kinda like the blower fan it replaces
This is in no way meant as critique, I just had the urge to add more context and suggestions :P
It didn't work because the fan in the blower style is designed as a whole system. The shroud, heatsink, exhaust. It's designed to suck air from the front of the shroud, thru the heatsink and exhaust it out the back of the shroud/PC. It might have worked better if he mounted the fan somehow to the back or front and taped off the stock fan so air couldn't escape forcing air thru the heatsink.
Everyone is going to put noctua fans on their gpus now 😂😂😂
I did that with my HD7950 because the Gigabyte fans stopped spinning below 1000RPM and that is really loud.
I also did this mod to my (back then) brand new XFX GTR RX480. The temps and noise are amazing. The only downside is I have to use SpeedFan to control the fan RPM based on GPU temperatures.
These new Asus Strix cards have really usefull 4pin headers meant for case fans. I would recommend using those.
Get ready for the noctua shortage for miners
it's soooo tempting
Everyone should, honestly. My rx vega doesn't get above 52C with two of them strapped onto a morpheus II
Good thing I only buy ROG Strix OC cards these days!
The blower style card mod didn't work out as good as the other one because it uses a radial fan that sucks air along its axis and exhaust at a 90° angle and you replaced it with an axial fan that sucks air from a side and blow it to the other
exactly... I was face palming watching that... thought linus knew that reference card fan is exhaust, not pushing in
Oooh radial
Also his tape seal was worthless
Your Statement is true, but i think the original reference cards shroud should force the blown in air trough the fin stack anyway, in case the axial fan has enough static preasure and the "cutout" for the fan lines up good enough
But as the Nvidia reference cards do exhaust a small amount of the air back into the case through the smaller heatsink on the "right" (when looked at from above) side, and this has way less resistance then the big other fin-stack i guess, the air will just go this side i think
But can it spin crysis?
Michele Caci maybe at 144p low settings if u overclock the fans...
Michele Caci can I replace the stupid noob sapphire rx 480 fans ?? Plz those fans are not cheap and not available so I want to replace them by case fans
9:27 60 bucks USD that is
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@@yesboss2800 same here brotha
The reason that the Titan fan mod didnt work is actually quite simple. The OEM fan is designed to suck air into the card and launch it paralell to the internal fin array, but your mod blows aitr into the shroud rather than propelling the air directly onto the fins, reducing static pressure "& efficiency dramatically.
i thought it was because of the air leaving over the ram without touching the fans
I removed shroud from my 760 that had blower and put fan just on heatsink and it was quieter and cooler.
I have a naked gtx 1080 mini taken from the aorus gaming box egpu and Im trying to put it into my gaming rig.. The issue is the single fan is so huge it's hitting the voltage regulators and other bits on the motherboard... is it safe to trim the fan's diameter so it can spin without hitting stuff?
@Axel Shark The card's cooling is designed with the radial fan in mind, so yeah, those crappy results were as expected ;D Meanwhile both type of fans are easy to find in ebay and aliexpress and they are affordable. (Sadly) not really surprised to see this type of shotty work from Linus. He seems more focused on quickly making the videos, golden eggs sponsors in mind, while tossing the content's quality in the background. You can even see it in his workers' eyes. "Fuck quality work, just make it work" Same mentality as with my boss :/ Excuses to not get the job done properly from here to the moon...
OH MY GOD, ANOTHER USEFUL TECH TIPS VIDEO!!!
What have we done to earn such an honor, lord linus?
You should trying putting a full CPU heat sync on a GPU
Would be cool to watch
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Heat sync? :D
Lucas Sanctus funny meme
MoneyWasted *sink
Love how you attached the fans with "TWEEZERS"
3:10 Article 5.
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TheHypedDude what in the world! TH-cam notified me 2 years later! That’s a first. Keep it up TH-cam. It’s the UN I think. It’s been more than 2 years lol. I probably had been reading it for school or something. Edit: Nvm it was the screen. The writing that showed up for a split second.
Your Titan X mod didn't work because the original fan is a centrifugal fan. The one you used was axial which does not push the air in the same way.
TheWioreks yeah, this is not a 1:1 replacement. I don't know why he was surprised it didn't work well.
he probably forgot to tape the side where the air can escape
Linus’ smile looks so innocent on this thumbnail.
Lockheed
Innocent. Like a child.
should have put the blowiematron on the blower style card
As an ex-smoker, pretty much ALL my GPU fans failed before I was done using the card. Having had no outside input, I came up with this solution on my own about 15-20 years ago. General rules: strip the card down to the bare heatsink and zip tie a case fan directory onto the heatsink. Never try to power the fan through the card. Don't zip it so tight that it warps the fan's casing and ensure the blades are not rubbing on anything and that's about it! Not even sure how I came across this video today but it's refreshing to see that this solution is touted by the the man himself! Great tip Linus, thumbs up from me!! Bonus info - I'm Canadian!!
Why would you not power the fans through the card? Assuming the power ratings of the fans are close or equal to the stock ones there should be no problem, or am i overlooking something?
Either I checked, or I assumed, that the power draw was different.
That was a good video, no clickbait, no bullshit, just a useful video with interesting data. I like it! :)
If someone need a good fan, you can try delta brand fans, they make very powerful fans.
Delta is indeed a very good brand, it is used in many electrical control cabinets, but you have to be careful choosing the right ones, some are waaaay to powerful for a PC even if they are standard 80/92/120mm. Noctua is a good no brainer in this case (and in many Pc related cases.)
I know it's good, thats why I recommended. Maybe one just started failing in my 2 year old laptop, but that another thing (crappy unrepairable screwless asus design, and it wasn't even the cheapest).
I've seen some of them in youtube, I couldn't belive that they're that powerful. And they wasn't the "best" models. But as you see, the blower style cards need pressure, and you always can decrase the power of them (just a beefy enough controller neccesary, they can use some watts :D ) Soo probably a "not that high performance" fan would cool the graphics card better than that little fan that linus used.
Maybe I'll just buy some OP fan, just to try it. If I can slow it down enough then I'll make a laptop and/or pc cooler from a few of it. Probably need more power than the computer. Checks ebay..
120mm Delta fan 4.8A. THAT IS POWER!
Linus there is a video ide: Get the most powerful fan, and make a PC or laptop cooler :D
I bought one of those at my local electronics shop, the owner sold it to me for 2$ brandnew LOL when I installed it as my exhaust it spun @ 4000rpm haha
nah its fine , just splice them into a spare EPS power, plenty of amps to drive them mental deltas that can shred fingers :P.
You can drive some pretty powerfull fans from a fan header tho , anyone remember the dragon orb coolers from back in the day ? I Still have scar on my finger from one of them.
These fans are not particularly expensive, given that the marketing B2C value is close to 0 contrary to Noctua or Thermaltake, Noiseblockers (sigh ...) so the ratio cost/effectiveness is great, but then they are not designed or targeted at silent cooling. But you can always fiddle with them.
I remember my amd athlon slot A cooling with two 4mm massive AlphaPal, that were thicker than noctuas ... Back then cooling wasn't such an extensive market and many manufacturers and resellers used these kind on industrial / semi industrial fans.
Not an era I regret ... I'm an happy owner of Noctua fans and silent Fractal case :p
whats with the crap audio quality? too much background noise! did Linus edit this one?
I can't believe this worked....My room used to sound like an airstrip on LAX on a max traffic day. And now its as silent as the mountain breeze and even works better than before.
Thank you, Linus! I love you!
holy cow i've just realized something. so rgb is red green and blue, right? i know it's just a coincidence but
red amd
green nvidia
blue intel
the three musketeers of your power bill.
If 3dfx was still around, they could take blue. Sadly, the closest thing that can easily be assigned that color is Intel. :\
Intel optane ssd nvidia gtx 1080ti and ryzen 7 2700
So next time the rgb light turns on in your pc cabinet, keyboard or mouse, remember, you're watching a threesome
Yo WTF?
Bet you don't have this blue?
Bet you don't have this green!
*Linus Tech tips changed name to Linus Sketchy Fix Tips*
implying sketchy fix tips is not the back bone of LMG
Kappa
At least this video was actually useful, instead of being another useless shilling video as are most of this channel's videos in recent years. I.e. "the paint your computer to be super ugly and thereby break it video", which is actually referenced in this video.
Linus's Afro-Engineering Tips
We all do it tho. Its part of being an enthusiast.
SnapTech it's not really new thing.
Red Green, thumbs up.
How about a CPU cooler on GPU round up?
The only thing you'd have to worry about would be the vram. You'd either need good airflow or an extra fan to cool it
And VRM(s) too
But yeah, the extra fan(s) are a must. Airflow alone wont hold up well during heavy gaming on a hot card. I found that out the hard way.
Appleton Mccool or a gpu cooler on a cpu?!
Be sure to use a Noctua NH-D14 heatsink with 3 140mm fans.
RpiesSPIES nice :)
Hello, i did the noctua thing, replaced my old gtx 980 ti fans with two noctuas and left it at 900 RPM (1500 maximum), the temps down from 75C to 58C. Thanks very much sir.
3 years ago it was a dream, but soon the Noctua cooled GPUs will be upon us. BLESS UP FAM
If the card is out of warranty, you can often have the manufacturer send you replacement parts for free. Always try to call the manufacturer first!
I might just do that... But ASUS didn't seem very receptive to even providing replacement fans when my shroud was still in one piece. lol
whats up with the completely unrelated background music
Hilarious and original.
the ceiling
I see very little positivity in the comments but a lot of likes so I'd like to discuss how much I enjoy the more "Janky ass repair that shouldn't work but totally does" type of videos. It's reassuring that if all legitimate repairs fail, a somewhat weird solution that's easily attainable, has got my back.
OMG that 1070 fan fix is exactly what i need, THNX MAN!
Did you tried and that worked?
@@Arkaindra11 yes it worked
Good video, but the dramatic music changes and excessive sound effects was kind of obnoxious and distracting. It didn't match the content at all, and it was harder to focus on what linus was saying.
Wait, there were sound effects? I don't remember there being any noticable ones.
Go watch Gamers Nexus then, the soylent of techtubing.
TheGrootest was about to comment the same thing! It was very distracting.
Wow, you must have the attention span of a puppy to be distracting by sound effects....
TheGrootest it's no bother, they don't like to listen to fan feedback as we've learned from techquickie
The amount of sound effects in this video are completely unnecessary and quite frankly, kind of annoying.
TheFrozenTurtle i like them
TheFrozenTurtle agreed
I actually like them better than those overdone emojis in the past.
Song for xx edgy? i didn't hear jokes about someone knife raping his wife. that shit is edgy.
Wouldn't be a LTT video without SOME sort of stupid thing.
Video card survival guide: Don't be anywhere near Linus.
Please please please keep making videos like this that will help tons of us learn about what to do when something goes wrong
Or... grab a watercooling kit... I mean for the titan lol, why not?
Because you can only sell one kidney
If you mean an AIO like the Corsair H100i, it's because it'll only cool the GPU, not the VRAM etc.
well the guide is meant for old gpus that only have broken fans
and gpu waterblocks easily cost 120$+... I dont think many people would spend 120$ to fix an old gpu
meowow well if I had a GTX 690 with just a broken fan... ABSOLUTELY
Cause noctua fans are $20 and a water cooling kit is a minimum of $100
How to be Canadian featuring Linus Sebastian.
Step 1: Reference Red Green and just assume everybody knows who that is and will get the reference.
Unspecified Error god the Red Green show was my childhood
I just did this to my zotac 1070. Working like a charm so far. I put 2 corsair sp 120s on it. After 30 minutes of stress, max temp was 62c
Linus in the workshop? My favorite kind of off the cuff Linus
Still waiting on the sandal guide...?
IReasonless customized sandals and all that, I need that guide asap.
God knows, that might happen!
You're kidding me right?
An actually useful ltt video that doesn't have a title that's either clickbait, uses tons of caps, or has a question mark?
Tyler Weigand they used annoying sound effects now, so its still fuckdd
Benjamin Fraeyman true true, but you have to admit it's at least an improvement of sorts
Thank you for your useful tech tip and tricks, I used this mod on old rx560 that kept overheating minutes after starting a game on low settings. This is definitely not the prettiest but the most functional mod I always wondered about.
Linus is the hero we deserve.
What happened to your mic
Hi, music fx quite annoying
I did something similar with powersupply years ago. Circa 2004, when I didn't have the money to replace my PSU, I just strapped some fans on the intake and exaust. Worked well for a good 6 months.
"Use duct tape. Remember we're in this together." - Red Green
You have to connect a leaf blower to the titan x that will probably work
Or that potato shredding high RPM fan.
MarginalSC I think we need both
Ah. A push pull config? Wise man.
MarginalSC finally someone who understands me
No a nitro engine air leaf blower ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Why such terrible music. makes these videos feel like it was edited by someone who just found incompetech or the youtube audio library. its just so... royalty free if you get what I mean.
What's wrong with the music? O.o
this video is 4 years old guys, back then it was actually hard to get fan parts, but still it goes to show if you have some spare case fans about you could just do this, which is what i will do when my fans on my mining cards go eventually
Some graphics cards fans are just about available. I replaced the low profile 75mm diameter fan on a MSI R6670-MD2GD3 with one from eBay for less than £3. Required just two small adjustments: the three screw holes needed slotting out slightly, and the connector polarity had to be swapped.
Am I watching a car chase sequence? What the hell is this soundtrack?
Hilarious and original.
Fan dead? fuck it..water cool it.
i wholeheartedly believe that, if your fan fails, and you have enough money to watercool it....
upgrade to an eve nbetter graphics card.
Fan works? fuck it .. water cool it anyways
would be hard to find a waterblock 5 or 6 years after the card has been launched...
what card?
here this is 7 almost 8 years old www.ebay.com/i/162677282429?chn=ps&dispItem=1
Just this week I replaced my strix vega56 fans with two noctuas! Working super awesome should have done this a long time ago!!
Love the little nod to the red green show lol, I used to watch it all the time as a kid. Remember, we're all in this together
Read this as "Dead Fan Repair Guide"
Fan as in a person
Dr.Expresso step 1: stop with the clickbait thumbnails step 2: Profit?
Toby Cowles to whom are you referring to
Dr.Expresso linus
next time titan X with blowiematron
I just slapped Raijinteks Morpheus II Core on my GTX1080 FE and its amazing. I dropped temps from 85°C underload to 50°C :D .. Because of low budget I put Arctic F12 PWM fans on it, gonna switch to Noctuas later this month
I love the translation of red-green way to "super Canadian way" way to take a funny joke and turn it American for the rest of the world hahaha
lol pink car still working. :)
THANK YOU FOR AN ACTUAL VIDEO!!!
Conclusion: Noctua solves everything.
Also conclusion:. Don't buy GPUs with blower style cooling.
What you missed there is the blower style Graphic cards uses a Centrifucal fan compressor (aka laptop fans), which provides a lot of head pressure but less flow compreing to a axial fan (regular computer fans) which provides less head pressure but more flow. This is one of the reason water pump are almost always centrifucal while morden jet engines are mostly axial.
When my R9 380 cooler died I took the fan from a spare CPU cooler and tied it to the GPU with string. It looks janky as hell and you cant control the fan speed, but it works better than you might expect.
I can run Elite Dangerous @ 1080p on the highest settings (with a little tweaking) and still maintain a steady 60fps. Doom also runs great, so long as you don't mind turning off AA.
what are your temps under full load?
Turn down the music, it's distracting..
RookiiTV more like a joke like the channel is becoming
+K Dilkington Turn down for HIGHER VIDEO QUALITY... although that doesn't really fit in with the song
What background music, I didn't notice.
"Yea, this will be one of 'those kind of guides!' " hahaha that was funny. Read my mind exactly.
Did this with my rtx 3090 and saw great results. Wired both fans to the motherboard and configured curves based on gpu temp in bios.
Reporded for GTX abuse
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YESSS HE JUST USED A RED GREEN ANALOGY!!
I have done this to my old GTX 1050 ti .
surprisingly it increase 5-10 fps
its work
thx.
I genuinely miss the Red Green show. What a good, wholesome comedy show.
Linus, you have big shoes to fill, and I have full faith in you!
LTT should test some after market GPU heatsinks (like the Raijintek Morpheus II), they often have a much larger surface area than even non-reference GPU coolers and support 120mm fans. Would be interesting to see how they stack up to the high end non-reference cards.
Awesome video as expected....nice!!
Love your videos LINUS best fan
Best youtuber
Pun intended?
and now 5 years later, ASUS is actually going to be releasing a GPU with Noctua fans on it! what a time to be alive
Usually when you remove the stock fans, you'll notice the power draw on the sticker of the fan. Believe it or not, they actually draw a lot more power than typical case fans (at least with my experience) so its totally doable to connect to the stock header on the gpu
True. My 3060 Gpu fan = 0.40A. Arctic P12 = 0.20A.
Next project: Noctua air conditioning!
LINUS DIDN'T WE ALL AGREE ON NOT USING BACKGROUND MUSIC IN YOUR VIDEOS FFS
only if its classic wipeout music with that good british tech house music of the 90s !
ONLY FRONTGROUND MUSIC FROM NOW ON, IT'S THE BEST WAY
What the heck, the music is perfect for videos like this
I didn't agree. The music is fine and adds value to the video.
imo the music is way too erratic, it's all over the place. very distracting.
Thanks for this. Came looking for answers. Got what i needed. I appreciate the content and help
Seeing the comments; I was not bothered by the music. Simply caught up being impressed and suprised by the Notcua fans.
ASUS STRIX cards have headers for external fans why not to use them!
JÄTTI PASKA he covered it. I don't have a strix GPU, but probably the noctua fans he used might draw more current the fan header can provide safely
He was probably saying to be on the safe side
Well, this guide wouldn't cover as many cards. But it should've been mentioned in the video...
JÄTTI PASKA They answer questions like that in the video why not watch it!
I have this same 1070. Recently upgraded my CPU and I don't have the AMD bracket for my EK Supremacy, so only my GPU is using my watercooling loop. I have my fans and the pump plugged into the external fan headers and its working great!
There are aftermarket GPU coolers that don't cost much more than 2 Noctua fans
+EkmekMcKek yeah but you could use this method with any fans.
I was trying to say that an after market cooler for the Titan wouldn't be much more expensive than buying two Noctua Fans. Maybe my comparison wasn't that
thought out....
EkmekMcKek but, increased performance!
the aftermarket cooler would probably be even better.
I actually did this with my r9 290. I also got much better temps than the original tripple fan setup, and it was much more quiet. The power rating is usually written on the fan, so there shouldnt be any problem figuring out if the fan header on the card is powerful enough.
Did something like this, works fantastic
My toaster is so cool it doesn't need a fan.
finally! both my ASUS 970's are ratteling like crazy!!
*watches video* THIS IS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR
3 years after your video saved my gtx1660; merci beaucoup from france :)
Lmao the red green way Linus? You watch the red green show? You don’t strike me as a person to watch that show 😂
I'm swapping my GPU Fans with huge ass Noctua Fans immediately!
lol have u done it?
@@pyropat9777 Unfortunately I never did it. But my GTX 1080 still rums pretty cool tho. :)
@@salmansengul i didnt expect a reply since you posted that 3 years ago lol. 1 of the fans on my amd rx 590 dont work so my game always crashes what should i do.
@@pyropat9777 I'd like to help you out, but unfortunately I don't know how to. Only thing I can say is to try to replace the faulty fan.
@@salmansengul k
Pls kill The music PLEASE
This might be the perfect solution for my twin brother he has 1 fan that doesn't spin anymore i'll send your video to him and make sure he checks if he card still has warranty on it
just a quick tip for Linus and his ifixit kit (though im sure he figured this out already), the over the protects the screw and screw heads is "checkered" on the inside, i use those squares to kind of draw out where each screw was removed....obviously this wont work if you remove a zillion screws but for basic stuff it works well...
i have found every fan i have ever looked for, eBay the part number on the back of the fan directly, it will be online.
"The Red/Green way to fix it"
I immediately thought of The Red Green Show -- I was like "Duct tape?"
Edit: I KNEW IT!
I came here for duck tape and empty beer cases. Was promised Red Green diy repairs.
Arctic Cooling has some pretty nice after market coolers for GPUs. I installed their smallest one like 4 years ago on a GTX 550 Ti (reference card by EVGA), which brought noise and temperatures down by a lot (67°C before at full fan speed, 45-50°C or something like that after and you couldn't even hear the fan at all even when turning it to 100%)
i'm wondering, why not solder the PWM signal to the gpu fan header and wire the other connectors to molex (or leave it as is, but just take one cable and rewire it to pwm on gpu card) for power. this way, the fans still ramp up ramp down based on actual GPU load, no?
I guess they just kept noctua fans working on 100%. I have one as my case intake, and basically there is no sound difference between 50% and 100% speed. So i just keep it at max. :)
hmmm. well, technically easier too (just ziptie-ing, no additional work required). okay then.
or just cut the wires on the 4 pin plug .. leaving the pwm and rpm wires .. and cutting the power wires to wire them up to a molex or sata power plug then you can just plug the pwm plug into the card still without having to solder or modify it. ... but ... using a MB header is still just as easy and with a program like speedfan you can set it up to make a curve that is controlled by the GPU temp.
Use your 11 thousand fan on your video card, it will become better
I like the pfp
Thank you Linus! My shitty cyberpower pre-built came with a dead GPU fan. I tried for an RMA, but it didn’t work. I am now replacing my GPU fan and will never EVER buy from cyberpower again. In fact, I will build all of my future computers myself.
i loved the background music. the 1070 looks way cooler now with those twin fans