Cooling and Noise

Most of you should know about our testing process for cooling and noise. For those that don’t know how it works. We use Furmark to put every card under more load than any game could. While doing that, we keep the fan settings set to automatic. This way we can see how hot the card will get under this extreme load without having to tweak the fan speed. Along with that we judge the noise performance while doing this. Of course if we cranked the fan speed up to 100% we would hear more noise, but we want to know what you should expect under normal use.

This time around we did testing with the card set to its factory overclocked speed as well as running it again later with the settings turn down to a factory speed. With this being basically a reference design we can also get a good idea of how a reference GTX 660 would perform in this test. As you can see, both of our results are a little on the high side, but about where we expected when compared to the GTX 680 and GTX 670. The stock speeds put the card just below the GTX 660 Ti but the Superclocked speeds did get us a little hot at a whopping 78 degrees Celsius.

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As for noise levels, the stock version was slightly quieter under load as the fan did spool up a little on both. When not under load both variations were dead silent as well. Overall the sealed design is great for preventing air from getting pushed into your case, but the card does suffer a little bit because of it.

 

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #27952 13 Sep 2012 17:03
The EVGA GTX 660 Superclocked 2Gb

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