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Quietest GTX 670 or comparable
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Soldato
GB 670 Windforce is quiet untill about 60% fan speed, imo.
Caporegime
End users are generally bigging up the WF X3 as being quiet.
Soldato
If your looking for near silence that I would go for the Asus GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II, it's not the fasted and it's a bit pricey but I went for it because I am fussy about noise, idle the card is inaudible, right now MSI after burner is telling me it's running at 10rpm lol, on load I've never heard it over my case fans which are all 120mm's set on low rpm, like I said, it's not the fasted card by any means but it's well built and practically silent.
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Soldato
Honestly, I heard that most of them are good, even ref cards. Well, 680 based cards.
The 670 SC has been known to sound like a screaming banshee above 70%.
The 670 SC has been known to sound like a screaming banshee above 70%.
The windforce cooler is fine at idle. 45% and it's the loudest thing in my pc but you can live with it, 60% and it's obnoxious. If you plan on overclocking, have high ambient temps, poor airflow in your case, the fans will spin up.
The KFA2 cooler is extremely quiet even under load, but it gets hot. The reference style coolers from EVGA are just noisemakers, have a look on the EVGA forums and reviews. I've not had any experience with the DC2 but I heard good things.
They are all pretty quiet till they aren't. Don't take people's opinions as truth, do the research and if worst comes to worst DSR it and eat the £9.75 postage costs.
The KFA2 cooler is extremely quiet even under load, but it gets hot. The reference style coolers from EVGA are just noisemakers, have a look on the EVGA forums and reviews. I've not had any experience with the DC2 but I heard good things.
They are all pretty quiet till they aren't. Don't take people's opinions as truth, do the research and if worst comes to worst DSR it and eat the £9.75 postage costs.
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Gigabyte GTX 670 windforce 
Caporegime
The windforce is pretty quiet below 60% fan speed, though tbh on mine with a pretty hefty oc and auto fan, it never gets hot enough to generate higher fan speeds. This is in a case with pretty bad airflow/cooling, (bitfenix shinobi xl).
From what I've read, the 670 FTW, uses a 680 PCB + 680 cooler. And from the reviews it's very quiet.
Caporegime
I tried the fan on my wf at 100% manual, yep it's noisy enough, but nowhere near as bad as my old gtx 470's at 65%. Those things sounded like hoovers.