How to reduce the fan speed of my NVIDIA graphics card?

cybernetico · 06-04-2014, 08:19 AM

Good staff ...
I wonder how can I reduce the fan speed of my graphics card NVIDIA GTX650 1GB Gigabyte have a DDR5.
Can someone help me?
I thank you your answers.
Be well.

John VV · 06-04-2014, 01:53 PM

take the card out of the computer ( be careful)
unscrew the fan cover
use a can of air or a vacuum to REMOVE the dust ( be careful)

reassemble

cybernetico · 06-04-2014, 02:54 PM

Thanks for the reply.
I've done it and continues with some noise, there is some other solution?
Cumps.

John VV · 06-04-2014, 03:08 PM

Are you "over clocking" ?
there is an option on the nvidia.run driver to set the fan speed

but you can over heat the card VERY VERY FAST and melt the card

" Option "Coolbits" "5""
in the xorg.conf

but you ONLY want to set that to SPEED UP the fan

fogpipe · 06-04-2014, 03:09 PM

see this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...speed_at_login
Many nvidia cards support the above option, after which you will see a fan control in nvidia-settings.
Make sure and watch the temperature of your gpu if you are going to do this.

fogpipe · 06-04-2014, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

Are you "over clocking" ?
there is an option on the nvidia.run driver to set the fan speed

but you can over heat the card VERY VERY FAST and melt the card

" Option "Coolbits" "5""
in the xorg.conf

but you ONLY want to set that to SPEED UP the fan

I have the fan control enabled and its default is 65% You actually can use the above tweak to reduce the fan speed, tho it seems to me you would be crazy doing so, unless maybe you were shopping for a new video card.

Emerson · 06-04-2014, 06:05 PM

Is this a dual monitor setup?

cascade9 · 06-04-2014, 09:37 PM

Soem video card fans are noisy no matter what you do.

GTX 650 (non-'ti') is a 64 watt TDP card, thats getting up into the same TDP as a lot of CPUs, and the heatsink + fan is smaller than most CPU setups. Its also a 'budget' gamers card, so more likely to use a cheap fan than some other cards.

Is it any suprise its noisy?

You might get the noise down if its dirty by cleaning it (yes, you've tried that)....you might decrease noise by changing the thermal paste, the stock paste tends to be rather thick and often cheap, but that can be difficult. Changing the heatsink/fan setup would drop noise _if_ you picked the right replacement parts, but thats is at least as hard as changing the thermal paste.

JohnVVs other suggestion, playing with coolbits can work, but it can lead to overheating as well. If you 'let the magic smoke out' due to overheating, the card will be totally silent, and totally useless. Unless you want to staple it to your wall for a decoration.