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.
idk, I mean yeah its a repurposed workstation and there are limitations in terms of non-standard parts and the fact that it’s old. but on the other hand those are solid rigs with good build quality. It looks like it’s probably a HP Z640 or something. Plenty of decent xeon cpu’s for that 2011 socket on the used market for dirt cheap. Like just slap an E5 1650 v2 or v3 in there, 6c 12t and boosts to 3.8 ghz, not gonna top the charts but it’d be aight. Oh and those PSU’s are pretty good, depending on the model it could have a 700w 90% efficiency unit. Sometimes you gotta make the best out of what you have to work with.
But I’m not totally disagreeing with you either, it’s diminishing returns upgrading an old machine like OP’s vs a budget build with current or last gen hardware. like maybe a ryzen 5000 series to start with.