I had an Asus GT430 and it was very noisy in my opinion. The minimum fan speed is 60%. If you want a GT430 look for a passively cooled version.
splendid Wrote:Hi guys,
Made a boob ordering a GT430 graphics card yesterday (never actually clicked YES to confirm order!). Think I'm gonna pop out and buy one from a local shop.
Only one I can find is this - http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/pny-nvidia-...7-pdt.html
All I want to know is if it is quiet for htpc use? Would I be better ordering a EVGA GT430? http://www.evga.com/articles/00584/
I'm not sure about PNY, but I own the EVGA GT430. It is very quiet!
Carb0 Wrote:I had an Asus GT430 and it was very noisy in my opinion. The minimum fan speed is 60%. If you want a GT430 look for a passively cooled version.
There is no true fanless GT430 with LP version on the market. If you want fanless LP GPU, you might be better to go with
HD6570 (which I like better than GT430).
On the GT 430 I have I used NiBiTor to edit the GPU and change the minimum fanspeed from 70 to 30 - it's basically silent now and the fan never goes above 50 (on 2D stuff anyways).
mr.sparkle Wrote:Respectfully disagree:
http://www.sparkle.com.tw/product_detail...sub_id=404
If my memory serve me correctly, I encountered the discussions on this particular GPU in this forum somewhere last year. If I remember correctly, the heat pipes and heat sink may not fit in some Mini-ITX case.
Just popped open my case to review motherboard. No way this micro atx motherboard is going to take the passive sparkle card
Never heard of NiBiTor but sounds very interesting. I currently have a noisey asus g210 which i have soldered a zalman fan speed controller in line. Works pretty well but obviously can't react to increase fan temps when needed.
Wonder if NiBiTor works with this card. Off to do some research...
Update:
Well I finally ordered the EVGA GT430 (low profile)
http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.ph...=GX-164-EA
Found it far too noisey but thanks to the great tip for live4ever I was able to use NiBiTor to reduce the minimum fan speed from 65% to 40% and now basically have a near silent card. Wohoo! I had to create a FreeDOS boot image, backup my ROM file with nvflash, edit the minimum fan speed with NiBiTor and then back into FreeDOS to reflash new bios file created. Bit of a pain but totally worth it!
I loosly followed this post for anyone wanting to recreate what I've done
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=158620
I found that setting the minimum speed to 30 caused the fan to stall which was also found by someone else in the above post.
Thought it might also be worth mentioning that I don't own any windows machines but NiBiTor ran with no problems for me under WINE on Ubuntu 10.10.
Got the ENGT430 myself, and I've had it for about a year now. Not satisfied with the noise, even though I modded the fanspeed down to 52% by flashing the ROM. Gonna try to get my hands on the sparkle gt430 sooner or later, if not something better comes up for Linux + xbmc
Yes I know that smaller the fans the more noise they make if you can not control them....
I had an nvidia 210 and a gt430 and LOUD as they can be.... could not control there speed because there is no way how with software....
I also had trouble with the gt430 (i bought 2 of them different brands) waking up from sleep.....
I don't know if you are going windows or linux?
The XFX fanless card in my lian li case works wonders!!!!
yeah man, XFX is prime time!!