Fan control and curves
Cooling works only with a proper airflow and that’s exactly why I have now once looked at the fan curves. For this purpose, I compared the (lower and usual) edge temperature and the fan speeds of the MSI RX 6800XT Gaming X Trio 16 GB. In most normal games you won’t even get that high, so it will almost always end up being around 1500rpm, which you’ll hardly notice as really annoying. And the 330 watts? Fiddlesticks, they don’t even itch the fat cooler. With the normal OC we end up with about 1600 rpm and if you use the 380 watts to the full, then it becomes about 1800 rpm.
Noise emission “Volume
If you measure the whole thing in normal operation and without stress, the 34.5 dB(A) of the MSI RX 6800XT Gaming X Trio 16 GB are quite quiet and are only just above the range of the Sapphire Nitro+. But the disadvantage is that now you can easily hear the buzzing of the coils. Well, you can’t have everything and the good Mr. Lorentz and his power named after him are unfortunately acoustically a bit in the way. But it’s nothing to kill yourself over.
At the mentioned 1800 rpm at 380 watts++ power consumption, the almost 40 dB(A) are then already considerably louder, but still justifiable considering the waste heat. But then it is no longer quiet.
As an interim conclusion, we can state that MSI has created a cooler here that cools very well as a cost-optimized compromise and also remains acoustically up to date. You can leave it like that.
- 1 - Introduction, Unboxing and Technical Data
- 2 - Teardown: PCB, Power Supply and Cooler
- 3 - Gaming Performance
- 4 - Gaming Power Draw and Efficiency
- 5 - Power Consumption, Voltages and Standards
- 6 - Transients and PSU Recommendation
- 7 - Clock Rate, OC and Temperatures
- 8 - Fan Speed and Noise
- 9 - Conclusion and Final Words
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