Can you control video card fan speed???

[vegasgmc]

I have a new Radeon 8500 I installed in a computer Im building to sell. It works great but the fan is ungodly loud. Its louder than the case fan. I tried the fan from another 8500 and its the same. I was wondering if there was a program to adjust the fan speed. There are no mounting hole in this card so I cant replace the fan.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Zalman sell a separate fan-speed adjuster for about $ 7-10.-
http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/view.asp?idx=14&code=017

Great if you can interrupt the fan-leads

 

[Nodsu]

Or you could go to your local electronics shop, buy a trimmer costing less than ¢50 and use that (some basic electronics skill required).

 

[agissi]

Ya or you could go buy a resistor for 50cents and hook that up

 

[vegasgmc]

Thanks. I was hoping to do something in software. My mobo has a program called Silent Tek that lets me control all the fans in the system through Windows but not video card.

 

[Nodsu]

You could try hooking the vid card fan to one of the mobo's fan connectors.

 

[SpikeyBoiCahir]

tere is a software for nvidia cards which is called RivaTune wich allows you to monitor your gpu temperatures and also change the gpu fan speed. But i havnt seen anything for Rdeon sorry.

 

[FoReWoRd]

RivaTune

It is called RivaTuner here is the link

http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.24-download-163.html

or you could try Atitools for ati cards, here is the link

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/436/ATITool_0.26.html

 

[red1776]

hey guys, this thread is 5 years old

 

[FoReWoRd]

i wouldnt have noticed lol thanks man......