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for this video I will be testing the temperatures and acoustics of the gtx 550 TI I'll be testing the cyclone to edition of the card against the reference and video designed edition of the card so the first one I have here on the bench is the reference card so our maximum temperature ignore this is actually 75 degrees and it looks like it takes us about 1950 rpm or about forty-nine percent fan speed in order to achieve that temperature so I'm going to get close and i'll let you guys have a listen and then i'm going to switch to the cyclone two and see how much msi's cooler improves the thermals and noise characteristics of this video card well it looks like this is where we settle for the cyclone to cooler the max temperature is around 63 degrees so that makes it a good 10 plus degrees cooler than the reference design however it is louder at these settings than the reference cooler was so we're actually at a fan speed of about seventy one percent about seventy percent exactly 71 percent and that is a fan rpm little ground 3000 RPM so to give us that GPU temperature we are paying a bit of a price in terms of noise so what a messiah is done is they have actually set a more aggressive fan profile than nvidia had set on their reference card through the bios now one of the other things to note about these two cards is that besides the GPU temperatures you can see right here the MOSFETs do not have any additional cooling on them right in there whereas on the MSI card there's actually a metal heatsink covering the VRMs now that is very hot to the touch and I gotta say I would be more comfortable with a card that has act or has even passive cooling on the V RMS and then incidental air flow as well versus one that is only counting on incidental airflow from the fan to cool the V RMS now one thing I'm gonna do before we finish this up and this is kind of a new thing is I'm going to tweak the fan on the cyclone to to be around the same rpm as the stock fan and see what kind of temperatures we get with a similar speed similar fan speed and similar noise profile so I actually got a far more desirable result than I had expected if we relax our GPU fan just by manually setting the speed so I've set it to forty-five percent and that is around 1500 rpm we get 75 degree low temperatures in furmark and I mean so I'm turning off the cpu can hear that gives us an almost silent experience compared to the reference cooler at the same temperature so the cyclone to definitely does a better job than the reference cooler weather we're looking at silent performance or whether we're looking at sheer performance when you go to the max to see what it can do so why don't we just see how loud it is at maximum volume just for fun and thank you for checking out Linus tech tips don't forget to subscribe you