Hello, I have the card in the picture below. I believe the brand is leadtek. The card works fine and I have no problems with it. Recently I finally upgraded from a 1080p to a 4k display and when I run many games at this resolution, the cooler fan is extremely loud. What are my options for cooling this thing a bit more quietly? I am not after extreme silence, some moderate fan noise is okay by me, I just don’t enjoy games while the vacuum cleaner is running, essentially.
I’d reccomend finding a fan/fin/shroud assembly on eBay from a 3070 that someone has pulled off of their GPU to replace with liquid cooking. They’re very common for 3080 and 3090 cards but haven’t searched any for 3070s. They may be harder to find but if you can score one, should work much better than what you currently have as long as it’s a 3070 with the same VRAM config.
If that doesn’t work, this might be an even better option from NZXT.
https://nzxt.com/product/kraken-g12
With this.
https://nzxt.com/product/kraken-240
That nzxt product is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking on. It looks like plenty have modded it slightly to work with 3000 series nvidia cards, and it is relatively inexpensive.
I actually managed to quiet down my card by essentially replacing the thermal paste. I did cut away some metal on the case that acts as a divider between the two card slots, increasing air flow. I am not sure which of these contributed more to the overall success, and while I can still technically hear the fan when pushing the card, it is hardly noticeable, even with no audio playing. I think I am happy with it.
That said, I am glad I created this thread. There are lots of good product recommendations, and I may move on to water cooling at some point.