AMD Radeon 7870 2GB Graphics Card Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
Noise is generally the bain of most consumers lives and in the hope of finding the quietest operation, we feel it’s necessary to show you the audio level of components. We use the same components throughout this test and use a sound level meter to record the audio level of the system with a passive graphics card installed. Once we have the level recorded with the passive card, we continue to change the graphics card for the one that we are testing. Due to us having the audio level recorded before installation, it gives us a guide to work with and shows that anything over our initial level is an audio gain.
Whilst at idle speeds, the card wasn’t anything out of the ordinary for a reference design, however we did find that it was much quieter at full load than what we are used to from a reference desing. Hopefully this will pass onto the partners well and we look forward to a whole host of quiet cooler designs.
