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this is a quick subjective noise comparison between the gtx 1060 founders edition card and so the previous founders edition cards the 1070 is one of them that we show we also show the RX 480 and then we've got this that I'll throw in there as well that's the msi gtx 960 gaming ex before we get into that this content is brought to you by msi and their new x99 a gaming motherboards including the gaming pro carbon and titanium which are built for Broadwell ii so we did one of these videos with the RX 480 or we're basically showing we've got objective benchmarks we already published the decibel numbers that show how these things perform in comparison to each other when these cards like the Twin Frozr cards spin down to zero rpm because they're under no-load the noise floor kind of shows itself and that is in the form of this power supply fan and this very slow and quiet but still audible CPU cooler fan so those are the two things in the system producing noise we disconnect all of these bench fans during noise testing the noise testing itself does not occur right here where we're standing right now it's slightly different we have a very fixed environment to do the noise testing the DB meter is always positioned 20 inches away from the face of the card and the same will be true for this where we're going to show you what it sounds like with the fan at zero rpm of course it's going to sound like nothing Auto 50% and 100% for the fan speeds and we'll also be recording that noise using our zoom h6 n recorder that we use for all of our audio for video production and then we mount an XY mic to that we position at 20 inches away keep the same spot keep it at it's maxed out input volume and then you'll basically be able to hear a subjective difference between the cards to put the decibels into more perspective now before that for the objective difference we've got a decibel chart that we've put on the screen now this was discussed in the review but the short of it is that the passively cooled cards revealed a noise floor about 30 7.1 DB and again that's the PSU and the CPU fan once the GPU has some load applied for MSI the required amount is about 60 degrees Celsius of load the fans spin up and produce some noise and auto plants the the configuration with the EFI card at 37.5 DB and again this is total system noise not per card noise we've got the whole system here and that's as opposed to the ten eighty and ten seventy s which are at 47 DB 50% fan speed has us at around thirty eight decibels versus 41.9 for the 1080 and ten seventy and 100 percent speed is where the difference really shows with a 1080 Fe nearly 10 DB louder than a ten 60 Fe and we'll put that in perspective just with relation to these charts 10 DB is perceivable to the user as about a 2x increase in volume so you can kind of think of it that way because this is a logarithmic so for example if you're looking at 25 decibels versus 50 that is not 2x it's actually much greater than 2x if you're looking at 40 to 50 decibels then we're talking about a 2x increase in perceived noise levels from the system so that's the the objective analysis let's throw this card in these need to die die die die they spun their last spin I just gonna launch precision if I can find it there's a fan spinning right now have it a spin okay so we're going to jump between a couple of audio files of the different cards playing back you'll see it playback and we're going to be playing them back to back with the again 50% 100% speeds and that will compare between the 10 60 the RX 480 and the 1070 I might throw in one of these 1060 cards as well just to kind of give you an idea of where those if they are more or less the same as the 1060 F II just with a 0 DB output when idle this is where we go like that's right these video card fans even though we show 100% speed keep in mind that they pretty much never actually hit 100% fan speed unless in the instance of something like in SFF case like the origin Chronos we recently reviewed which was pushing 100% fans because it was going so hot in the thermals so the fans tend to stay around 50% speed this one will sit at just about 60% in an open-air bench environment where it's got reasonable cooling and that's because as long as it can hit its thermal threshold that it's happy with which is below 71 Celsius we found in our review then the fan won't speed up because it just it doesn't see it as necessary to produce more noise in favor of thermals if the card only really wants a 71 c or lower temperature so that's that's one note the card here this is the Twin Frozr version of the 1060 video card and these because of the larger fans and the bigger heatsink will stick at around 35% fan rpm in our identical bench so instead of 60% is 35 but the fans are completely different there's two of them they're bigger this is a blower fan these are axial fans and that's where you get the part of the difference so stuff to know for comparing noise of course if you have a more powerful cooler you can run it with lower fan RPMs in general that's where the liquid comes into play will show more of that later but the idea there is that if you wanted to you could lower the radiator fan rpm pretty low and still have a lower temperature than these we showed this in our rx 480 or GTX 1071 of those two benchmarks will be converted to a hybrid we showed it there but yeah that's it for the subject of noise comparison thank you for watching patreon link post related when I was out directly linked in the description below for the GTX 960 review and I'll see you all next time you