In other words, the measured noise levels in dB will not reflect the actual human perception of the loudness of the noise. Noise with significant measured levels (in dB) at high or low frequencies will not be as annoying as it would be when its energy is concentrated in the middle frequencies. This means that the perception of noise is not at all equal at every frequency. The human hearing system has different sensitivities at different frequencies. You could only achieve objective measurement in a sound test chamber. Why is this subjective you ask? Well, there is always noise in the background, from the streets, from the HD, PSU fan etc etc, so this is by a mile or two not a precise measurement. We bought a certified dBA meter and will start measuring how many dBA originate from the PC. I'm doing a little try out today with noise monitoring, so basically the test we do is extremely subjective.
#GEFORCE GT 220 DRIVER PC#
Often you'll see massive active fan solutions that can indeed get rid of the heat, yet all the fans these days make the PC a noisy son of a gun. When graphics cards produce a lot of heat, usually that heat needs to be transported away from the hot core as fast as possible. When we completely stress out the GPU 100% for a while, temperatures rise towards roughly 70 degrees C (158 F), that's fine.īut is the cooler very loud then? Noise Levels coming from the graphics card Here's what we get returned: Card settingĪs you can see we get very respectable temperatures returned. Now we report at two stages the GPU in IDLE and under stress. We measured at a room temperature of 21 degrees Celsius. We now fire off a hefty shader application at the GPU and start monitoring temperature behavior as it would be when you are gaming intensely and continuously, we literally stress the GPU 100% here.
Let's have a look at the temperatures this huge cooler offers.
So here's my power supply recommendation: The monitoring device is reporting a maximum system wattage peak at roughly 265, this is simply low and certainly remains within acceptable levels.
#GEFORCE GT 220 DRIVER FULL#
I'd say on average we are using roughly 50 to 100 Watts more than a standard PC due to these settings and then add the CPU overclock, water-cooling, additional cold cathode lights etc. Our ASUS motherboard also allows adding power phases for stability, which we enabled as well. Next to that we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark results). Our test system is a power hungry Core i7 965 / X58 based and overclocked to 3.75 GHz. Bear in mind that you are not looking at the power consumption of the graphics card, but the consumption of the entire PC. After we have run all our tests and benchmarks we look at the recorded maximum peak and that's the bulls-eye you need to observe as the power peak is extremely important. The methodology is simple: We have a device constantly monitoring the power draw from the PC. Looking at it from a performance versus wattage point of view, the power consumption is downright low for a product of this caliber. We'll now show you some tests we have done on overall power consumption of the PC. No further configuration is required or needed.
#GEFORCE GT 220 DRIVER INSTALL#
You can now turn on your PC, boot into Windows, install the latest GeForce driver and after a reboot all should be working. Seated the card into the PC (no need to connect a 6-pin power connectors). Installation of the product really is easy.