![]() You want to OC to 1000MHz from 950MHz, while your GPU could more than likely do it, (I got my 560 Ti TFII from an already OC'd to 880MHz factory OC to a beastly 985MHz and that was the best I could do without hitting 1.1v) is it worth it? In my opinion, it is not. Well, you can look at it like percentages. Onto the larger part of this quote: the OC. My core clock speed is 950Mhz, I am thinking about overclocking it to 1000Mhz just to get through that "magical barrier" how much of a performance/heat increase would that mean? (And i still don't really get if it's good or bad to run the fans at 100%, im confused xD)100% fan speed kills fans quicker, simple as that. When i run BF3 on auto-fan settings the highest i have seen so far is 68 degrees Celsius. Idk why Djinni said to run them at 100%, doesn't seem like him. With an aftermarket cooling solution like the MSI TF II/III (Hawk is a designation for the OC on the card), Asus DCII, or Gigabyte's triple fan, you should never need to have the fans at 100%, it is a waste of the extra energy being used to power them, killing the fans sooner than prolonging their lives, and causing far more noise than most people would prefer to hear - and ultimately the reward of a few degrees lower from an already safe-zone anyways is just not worth it. If the monitors are off, like when I'm sleeping/away from my computer, the GPU drops all the way down to about 20-23 Celsius. Right now I'm not gaming but due to dual-monitors forcing my GPU to have the core speed at the high setting (880MHz in my case, I saw no reason for the OC anymore since SW:TOR is a cake walk for the 560 Ti at 1080p) the fan is at 40% and my GPU is at a cool 37 Celsius. ![]() So if the GPU is at 60 Celsius, the fans go at 60% and keep it perfectly stable. I have my MSI Afterburner set to make the fans be at 40% (they won't go lower) till it hits 41 Celsius, which is where it starts going up 1% speed per degree Celsius. ![]() They WILL get loud at 100% speed and just because you're gaming doesn't mean you need to have the fans running at 100%, as games like WoW, SW:TOR, and many others don't even work the GPU that hard and thus won't even put it anywhere near dangerous temperatures. Running a 560 Ti MSI TFII/III fan at 50% all of the time or just letting it do its own thing, is personally, the optimal choice. ![]()
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