I finally got round to replacing my aged i5 2500k, which has served me well since 2014... but was well overdue a replacement. I went for: Ryzen 2700x (using stock wraith prism cooler). MSI Tomahawk B450 max. 16 gig of Corsair vengance 3200 RAM. Corsair RMX650 PSU. 250 gig Samsung Evo 970 M.2 drive. In a Corsair R275 case. All in for £570. I have re-used only my SATA SSDs, SATA hard drives and GPU, a Zotac1070 mini. I am loving the performance, everything is very snappy now and it's nice to join 2019 hardware wise but I have a niggling annoyance: fan noise. I'm getting a tripple whammy of a more open case (which can only use 120mm fans far as I can see), the 1070 mini being a bit of a noisy bugger (it's a dual fan mini) and the stock ryzan cooler. Im sure there must be some tweaks I can make to fan profiles on both CPU and GPU, and I'm sure I'd get an improvement if I replaced the stock TIM on the wraith with some MX4 thermal compound but ultimately I think a new GPU is probably the way forward. I want a 1440p screen next year, so for now its going to be using my current 1920 *1200 monitor, however the GPU landscape has changed with the introduction of the super varients if the RTX cards and I have no idea about the AMD offerings. Any advice on the best option for a quirter graphics card to take me into 2020? Thanks.
I have the same Stupid Glowy HSF, and I found that things got a *lot* better noise-wise by switching the little toggle to Low from the default High and adding a manual fan curve that doesn't really do much until... 55 degrees, maybe? I forget. Whatever I set it to, the thing's idling right now at around 27 degrees, spikes to 36 as something fires off in the background and makes it switch to 4.3GHz for a second or so, then falls again. Under sustained load it's still quiet, and only under sustained synthetic load does it start to get loud. That's in a case with two 120mms at the front, a 120mm at the back (I think) and a 120mm in the roof, plus a Founder's RTX 2080 with one of the fans half-blocked by a PCIe capture card.
So I can maybe live with the load noise (your right, I think th CPU load noise seems more stable) as I wear a headset anyway and don't hear really hear it but I don't like lots of noise at idle. The 1070 mini's fans don't even spin at desktop, only when gaming and I think it gets loud due to the boost speed it tries to hit and maybe only having 2 smaller fans. But the Ryan is currently noisy at idle! I just added 2 more fans, I'll see how it goes under load now but my idle temp is a good bit higher than yours, seems to average about 34-36c, hitting 42 at those weird spikes. Maybe I stuffed up the CPU cooler install and mashed the thermal pad? I did install the drivers on the AMD site, the patch notes made specific mention of addressing desk top idling issues and while it did improve it a fair bit, it's still not to my preference! On the attached picture, if I click the 'all set default' button, it changes the fan curve, dropping the first 2 points down to 20 and immediately halves the RPM of the CPU fan. If I click 'all set cancel' it sets it back to the linear curve in the picture and gets noisy again.
I did clean off the supplied TIM and put some Noctua stuff on before I installed mine, and the fan curve is set so that it's as fast as it can be without being audible over the case fans up to 55-60 degrees or so, then ramps up quickly to full speed at 80. I very rarely hear it, even gaming, *but* I'm using a Fractal Mini case with sound-damping foam installed, which I'm sure helps.
I created a similar fan curve as you listed, worked a treat (thanks), idle fan speeds/noise is now great, I also adjusted the response off-set from 0.1 to 0.3, seems to have reduced the idle fan speed fluctuations when the CPU suddenly boosts and then drops. Will re-apply some thermal paste next, as mine still runs hotter under-load than yours, even with the small temp reduction since I added the extra fans. So GPU then... I used zotacs 'firestorm' utility to down set the target temp much lower, which reduced the 'power' from used/supplied from 100% to 83%. This has drastically reduced the fan noise and temps under load, (approx 80-82c down to 74c) but this is not an ideal solution so, new GPU recommendations are welcome. 1080p now, 1440p next year. Want it to be quiet under load, with a good warranty. Just not sure where the good bang for buck is right now.
