Fan curve and operating noise (“volume”)
Now we come to what is automatically generated when the waste heat is dissipated: various fan noises. As always, the measurements in the measuring chamber with the second system are a bit tricky, because you can’t measure anything through the closed cover. That’s why I later set the fans manually to the values that I measured during gaming and torture in the closed housing and leave the setup open. The approx. 1250 rpm are barely audible. That’s very positive at first. With OC, it’s just under 1310 rpm, which is also barely audible.
But what does the measurement show for the MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Ventus 3X? I have only analyzed the 285-watt card here today. However, the frequency analysis shows very nicely how the sound carpet is divided up. At just under 31 dB(A) in the gaming loop, everything is really quiet, even if we can see the fundamental tone below 250 Hz and, from approx. 4 KHz, the harmonics of the coil and capacitor buzzing again. You can see very clearly that the whole thing is only noticeable because the rest is quiet and not masked.
Coil noise: “Coil whining”
There is one point we still need to talk about and that is once again the annoying coil whining. I already wrote in the measurement of the load peaks that the cards perform an extremely jittery dance of joy, which you can also hear. Especially as the coils used are perfectly usable, but the rest of the card is “too quiet” to mask this. As always, you can find out more about this topic here:
- 1 - Introduction, technical data and technology
- 2 - Test system and measuring equipment
- 3 - Teardown: PCB, components and cooler
- 4 - Teardown: material analysis
- 5 - Gaming Performance FHD (1920 x 1080)
- 6 - Gaming-Performance WQHD (2560 x 1440)
- 7 - Gaming Performance Ultra-HD (3840 x 2160)
- 8 - Gaming Performance DLSS vs. FSR
- 9 - Gaming performance with Frame Generation
- 10 - Latencies
- 11 - Workstation graphics and rendering
- 12 - Details: Power consumption and load distribution
- 13 - Load peaks, capping and power supply recommendation
- 14 - Temperatures, clock rates and infrared analysis
- 15 - Fan curves and noise level
- 16 - Summary and conclusion
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