[SOLVED] RTX 3050 - which cooling design do I need?

[Vox]

Hi there,

I can't decide between 1-fan / 2-fans cooling design. I have a good cooling CM case. I'd need a silent card, especially at nights where my wife tries to sleep. I think the performance of RTX 3050 is already an overkill for my needs since I usually play only at daytime and only with older, not-so-GPU-intensive games in 1080p. Sometimes I also do some Photoshopping and video editing in Vegas. At nights I'm doing my work in Excel and Word while browsing the web with Firefox.

So, because of nights I'm also considering if I'd need a card with a fan that doesn't automatically spin up until the GPU reaches certain degrees. However I don't know how these cards are called universally so I can't search for them specifically in store websites.

So do I need 1-fan or 2-fans card? What's your opinion?
I'm also looking for a way on how to identify video cards with fans that can stay still in "standby" mode until certain degrees.

 

[GhostWPT]

Hello, usually Msi, Asus and Gigabyte have this feature, of fans not spinning until a certain temperature threshold and I believe there are many more.

Msi and Gigabyte are pretty silent from my knowledge and Asus as well, but again the noise depends on the rpms of the Fans.

I have a Asus gpu and is very silent when it is in load, usually my fans are spinning from 800 to 1000 rpms and at those figures, my card is quite silent. The only fan that is louder in my system is the one from my cpu, because I have a stock amd cooler.

A two fan model would be more adequate, for example, if you have only one gpu fan, that fan will work harder in order to cool your card, but when you have two fans, this is split between the two fans and of course, they would not spin as fast the one single fan which ultimately would make more noise.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I'd need a silent card, especially at nights where my wife tries to sleep.

Do you have to game in the same room, where somebody else is sleeping?
That is so inconsiderate and disrespectful. Noise during sleep impacts sleep quality terribly.

Can't you move your pc to some other room?

 

[Vox]

Do you have to game in the same room, where somebody else is sleeping?
That is so inconsiderate and disrespectful. Noise during sleep impacts sleep quality terribly.

Can't you move your pc to some other room?

No, I don't play at nights. Only doing my work on Excel/Word, as I described.
I can't move to another room because there's no another room in the flat sadly :/
Anyway it's not a problem bceause the room is quite large and we're in the opposite corners. That's why I would need a card that's not flying up loudly on low/medium load.
Still looking for some opinions for my questions.

 

[Vox]

Hello, usually Msi, Asus and Gigabyte have this feature, of fans not spinning until a certain temperature threshold and I believe there are many more.

Thank you. But is there any way to distinguish those cards in a webshops that have this feature from those that lacking? Like a 1-word feature name or something?

A two fan model would be more adequate, for example, if you have only one gpu fan, that fan will work harder in order to cool your card, but when you have two fans, this is split between the two fans and of course, they would not spin as fast the one single fan which ultimately would make more noise.

The question is does 1 fan at 1000 rpm make more noise than 2 fans on 500-500 rpm? I thought the latter would be louder?

 

[GhostWPT]

Thank you. But is there any way to distinguish those cards in a webshops that have this feature from those that lacking? Like a 1-word feature name or something?


The question is does 1 fan at 1000 rpm make more noise than 2 fans on 500-500 rpm? I thought the latter would be louder?

The shops usually don't have such feature , nowadays every gpu from these manufacturers have this feature, remember, this was a feature that even the gtx 900 series had, maybe not all of them, but I know for a fact that msi had this and Asus as well, and I have a gpu from 900 series, an Asus Strix, fans don't spin until 65 degrees. Today it's hard to find a gpu without this feature, if you have doubts, try searching on YouTube, a review of the gpu you want, but I'm certainly sure, every gpu has this feature, but again, I would choose something from msi, gigabyte or Asus.

And regarding fan noise, I believe one fan would always be louder, because it will struggle to keep temperatures under the threshold and usually, from what I have heard and what I have seen, msi seems to have the best of both worlds, good cooling and quiet fans. Remember, it's an rtx 3050, it won't dissipate too much heat, so the two fans would not be that audible and you will likely hear the single fan.

And another question, are you using any case fans?

 

[ko888]

You want the quietest RTX 3050 card when running at maximum load. That quietest card is the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB.

Look at the Temperature and Noise comparison chart here: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/msi-geforce-rtx-3050-gaming-x/34.html

 

[Vox]

And another question, are you using any case fans?

It's a Cooler Master Masterbox MB511, it has a stock fan at the back and I put a fan into front, so 2x12cm fans working in the case right now. there's also 3 more slots for extra fans if I need more. 1 at the top and 2 more at front. But I think GPU fans are far more superior and case fans are a lot louder after a while.

 

[Vox]

You want the quietest RTX 3050 card when running at maximum load. That quietest card is the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB.

Look at the Temperature and Noise comparison chart here: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/msi-geforce-rtx-3050-gaming-x/34.html

Those reviews of various 3050 cards are very good, however I'd like to see a temp/noise comparison to other 3050 cards not just 5 of them (that TPU has reviewed). Still curious if Gainward / Zotac / KFA / etc and manufacturers' sub-models (ASUS Dual / TUF; MSI Ventus 2X / Gaming X, etc) could stand against the ROG Strix card in a noise level comparison...

Do you have a link for that maybe?

 

[GhostWPT]

Those reviews of various 3050 cards are very good, however I'd like to see a temp/noise comparison to other 3050 cards not just 5 of them (that TPU has reviewed). Still curious if Gainward / Zotac / KFA / etc and manufacturers' sub-models (ASUS Dual / TUF; MSI Ventus 2X / Gaming X, etc) could stand against the ROG Strix card in a noise level comparison...

Do you have a link for that maybe?

Here you have a video about some GPUs :

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cfkj6rOvm0

 

[GhostWPT]

It's a Cooler Master Masterbox MB511, it has a stock fan at the back and I put a fan into front, so 2x12cm fans working in the case right now. there's also 3 more slots for extra fans if I need more. 1 at the top and 2 more at front. But I think GPU fans are far more superior and case fans are a lot louder after a while.

I have 6 case fans, three for intake and three for exhaust and to be quite honest, I never heard my GPU's fans. Your fan noise from your GPU should most probably be covered by the noise of your case fans.

 

[Vox]

You want the quietest RTX 3050 card when running at maximum load. That quietest card is the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB.

Look at the Temperature and Noise comparison chart here: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/msi-geforce-rtx-3050-gaming-x/34.html

Would love to buy a Strix but it's more expensive than the basic RTX 2060 cards. It's almost as expensive as the cheapest 3060 at the moment. I'd rather by a 2060 for that kind of money.

 

[Vox]

I have 6 case fans, three for intake and three for exhaust and to be quite honest, I never heard my GPU's fans. Your fan noise from your GPU should most probably be covered by the noise of your case fans.

Could be. So to summarize, it's not that important for me that the card is super silent or not as long as not excessively loud under load like the dual-fan Gigabyte model which is the loudest card of the 3050 line. Also, better to avoid single fan cards because most of them make more noise under load than most of dual fan models.

Am I right?

 

[GhostWPT]

Could be. So to summarize, it's not that important for me that the card is super silent or not as long as not excessively loud under load like the dual-fan Gigabyte model which is the loudest card of the 3050 line. Also, better to avoid single fan cards because most of them make more noise under load than most of dual fan models.

Am I right?

Yes, this is right, that video showed also a quick noise comparstion between those models so you can judge for yourself which gpu is more quiet. Single fan on a gpu will work harder than two, of course, but from what the video showed, a dual fan gpu can be pretty quiet. If you don't sit next to your system you are most likely to hear absolutely nothing.

 

[Vox]

Yes, this is right, that video showed also a quick noise comparstion between those models so you can judge for yourself which gpu is more quiet. Single fan on a gpu will work harder than two, of course, but from what the video showed, a dual fan gpu can be pretty quiet. If you don't sit next to your system you are most likely to hear absolutely nothing.

Thank you for the help!

 

[GhostWPT]

Thank you for the help!

You are welcome, enjoy your future gpu.