Max performance for best gaming experience - while gaming
 
Noise is to be balanced with temps.
 
So, slow fan of 20% till maybe 45 C
 
If the sound is good go to 60% fan up to 60 C
 
Around 60 - 65 C if card starts to throttle, then increase fan 5% at a time till temps come down
 
At 75 - 80 C -- I'd go for 80 - 100% fan
 
 

Hey Guys, I have the 1070 TI SC edition. I max my fan at 50% because it's around 2000-2200 RPMS and loud and before at default it was going to 2700 RPMS which sounded like I was talking off in a jet...
 
Is it normal to sound that loud? I have my computer on my desk as well but wow it seems louder than any card I've had.
 
I ended up capping at around 1800 RPMS (45%ish fan speed) and limiting my FPS on games like Overwatch and such from Unlimited frames to display base and am steady at around 76C on EPIC settings. I should be good on this right? I'd prefer 1500-1600 RPMS but I don't want to be too hot.
 
Any recommendations? Do you think over 80C is okay?

Well that's a loaded question cause we dont know what card you have? Ftw3? With 3 fans only controllable with precision x oc? If so you'll need to either set up 3 independent fan curves or sync all 3 fans to the GPU temp. A non icx card would be ok with afterburner so one curve.

I'm overclocking so I'm aggressive with my fans but even not if you want the card to have the best chance at holding its clocks and not dropping do to heat, you'll want the fans to be able to keep the temp down.

Idle I like the fans quiet but moving to keep it cool.. no point trying to fight harder keeping it cool once you start benching/gaming if the temps are starting out higher like 50/60c.

So 30% till 40c.
40-45c - 70%
46c-50c - 75% or 80%
55+ = 100%

With all that said usually I'd be seeing 52-53c while gaming. Benching the same to a little higher.

That's for a 1080ti ftw3 on air highly overclocked.

Though really I would'nt doubt if i had it at 100% fans after 45c hehe.. been awhile as i water cool.

Basicly in a nutshell, max to near max fans (what you can bear) after 40-42c to keep the temps down as that's the temp of the GPU once load starts.

Keep the card at max clocks as it starts to drop after 54c.