Can someone help me with a fan curve?

[Steven Clowry]

I have a 780ti windforce edition, not overclocked yet. I'm wanting a fun curve for the best of silence and cooling, can someone help me out and show me there's or something?

 

[volcanoscout]

There are too many factors that have to be counted in for anyone to give you a pat answer. What's your avg ambient temp? How good is the cooling in your case? How hard do you rock your card in games? Benchmarking? What temps are you comfortable with? What is your noise tolerance level? Etc, etc.

Your best bet is to go with the default settings and run a graphics benchmark like FireStrike or Unigine Heaven. See what noise levels are associated with what fan duty level at various temp marks (i.e. noise level at 30C with fans at 17%, noise level at 40C with fans at 35%, etc). Take notes at each arbitrary checkpoint along with your impression of the acceptability of the noise level. You can then set a custom curve to fit your preferences.

Some people accept higher temps for lower noise (say, gaming at 80C with fans at 50%), and some accept higher noise for lower temps (fans at 90-100% but temp at 70C). If you reach your noise tolerance threshold, but the GPU temp is higher than you find acceptable, you can try adjusting your case fan settings. The fans on the GPU are small and noisy at high speed; presumably your case fans are larger and quieter - cranking up your case fans will blow more cool air across your GPU and help cool it. So you may end up with a ceiling of 50% on your GPU fans, your case fans at 80% and your GPU temp at 70C.