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welcome to a completely new format here on - tech tips it's our video version of a guide we found somewhere on the Internet oh wait so hold on a second so you're saying that's not different from what we normally do oh come on I mean there is at least a unique spin on it this time and on the subject of spin if you haven't checked out empty warehouse chair racing and subscribe to our other channel channel super-fun maybe now is the time the Coolermaster Nova touch tkl is powered by Topor hybrid capacitive switches for the ultimate typing experience and is now available for a reduced price click my face to learn more all right so what's different about this online guide conversion is that we are basing the video on content that was posted on our own website by the user lays where he or at least I assume he based on the pitch of his voice but you never can know demonstrates that you don't have to buy an asus strix or EVGA card with a fanless mode to get your gtx 960 a staff excuse I'll entitle or even in lightweight games so let's start by addressing the big question that a lot of people have first why on earth would you want your fans to turn off they're not that loud in the first place and they're just gonna turn back on again when you fire up any kind of demanding game or other application anyway get a good pair of noise-isolating headphones and call it a day well that's where you're partially wrong for one thing perceived loudness is dependent on the environment in which the PC is being used and personal tolerances to you the ambient noise in the room or the other fans in your system might overpower the quiet idle noise of the Nvidia reference or MS ID Twin Frozr or whatever other cooler you have on your graphics card but for people up late writing for example in a quiet room a nice quiet PC can be pretty important in us they start replacing fans in their system they quickly get to the point where the graphics card fan one that they have is pretty tough to replace is the loudest part and to address the whole get headphones suggestion I mean not everyone who likes headphones and why should I have to put something on my face or just deal with it when there is literally no reason my computer should be making any noise when I'm playing music for example something that's been possible to do on fanless low-power portable devices for decades at this which leads us to the guide now normally unless your GPU supports fanless operation out of the box your MSI Afterburner custom fan profile which you can access like this will have these dotted lines on it to denote the maximum and minimum values that your fan will operate at you can drag the button down to zero rpm but it won't do anything without the modification posted by Lai's which will summarize but I'm sure you'd also appreciate if you check out the link in the video description and post some positive comments in the forum thread if you liked his guide all right so first you need to gather the tools you'll need maxwell bios Tweaker gpu-z and envy flash save your bios using gpu-z - a folder of your choice in the root of your drive we're gonna call it envy flash by pressing this button copy all the zipped files from Maxwell BIOS Tweaker and then B flash and level all that stuff into the same folder as your backed up BIOS open the BIOS Tweaker app open BIOS by clicking here and navigating to it it should be pretty close by then there's a bunch of stuff that you can tweak in here but most of it goes beyond the scope of this guide we're just gonna change rpm 11 / 0 1 and rpm 0 1 to 0 to change the minimum value in rpm and percentage of our fan to 0 when that's done save your BIOS as some other file name so you retain a copy of your original BIOS that you can flash the card back to so that it's in its stock configuration in the event that you ever need to send it in for warranty service then go into device manager and disable your graphics card don't worry if the screen goes black or doesn't anything funny this is only temporary next press windows and type command then right-click and open as administrator type in CD space C colon backslash n D flash and press ENTER then type env splash space - 6 space and the name of your BIOS dot r om then press Enter press Y wait for the flash process to complete I'd actually highly recommend being connected to a battery backup during this time restart re-enable your graphics card and device manager reboot again for good measure then fire up MSI Afterburner and it's off to the races now you can configure your custom fan profile however you want so depending on if you just want silence at idle and otherwise a pretty normal fan curve or if you want to be able to you know limit your GPUs load through the use of vsync g-sync or some other framerate limiter in game for example to try and get silent gaming going you'll want to tune this differently but this follow-up post in the forum from lace has a solid looking suggested curve that ramps up the fin to keep your GPU safe as it heats up while keeping it quiet when nothing is shaken once you've got it dialed in and you like the GPUs overall behavior and noise level under various loads simply put a value between 10 and 15 degrees into the hysteresis box this keeps the fan from constantly ramping up and down when the temperature is right on the threshold of a major rpm shift which can be annoying and then you're done so the last things to address in this video are these - I did this and my GPU is running at like 60 to 65 degrees at idle at the desktop is that ok the answer is pretty much yeah while lower temperatures are better for electronics 60 degrees is nowhere near the fast and painful death danger zone and if Nvidia thought that this was bad for it none of these cards would feature a fanless mode what about this one then linus how does this affect the warranty of my card well if your GPU manufacturer does not allow BIOS flashing under the warranty terms my recommendation would be - like I said before flash that backup that you saved back onto the card before attempting to get any kind of warranty service they can't tell you did it but with that said if you were to brick your card as part of this process the honest thing to do would be to suck it up since it's not covered and take better precautions like using a battery backup next time speaking of taking better precautions crunchyroll is a way to take precautions against missing your favorite anime shows it's the anime site created by anime fans for anime fans they offer the most current episodes of new shows straight from Japan like parasite the maxim and Kuroko's basketball 3 with a large collection of the most popular anime series like Naruto and one-piece and all of the content on their site is professionally subtitled so all you got to do is head over to crunchyroll.com slash Linus you can sign up for a 30 day free trial of crunchyroll premium which gives me a whole month a free anime completely ad free then if you enjoy the many benefits of premium you know membership like 1080p streaming getting new episodes of shows within an hour of their premiere and being able to stream anywhere from a variety of devices like a phone tablet game console you know your extra sketch actually that doesn't work because the net your sketch doesn't have a network connection unless you have like a really great edgy sketch like I really wonder if that would be a successful product like smart edges sketch anyway the point is that crunchyroll is only 695 a month if you enjoy it so head over to crunchyroll.com slash linus to check them out so thank you guys for watching this video like it if you liked it dislike it if you disliked if you have any comments you want to discuss the contents of the video or just really anything with our community we have a link to our forum in the video description below we also have links for our merch like cool t-shirts like this one where you can give us a contribution if you love what we're doing and you think that we should keep doing it forever or if you want to just change your Amazon bookmarks one with our affiliate code that kind of thing helps us out a lot we'll get a small kickback whenever you buy you know your graphics card to do this you know tweak on or whatever else the case may be so I think that's pretty much it guys don't forget to check out our other channels tech quickie and channel super fun and subscribe to this one slash follow do all those good things I think we're done here thanks again for watching