Asus Radeon HD 7790 Graphics Card Review

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.

As can be seen, Asus’ DirectCU coolers are some of the quietest that we have ever seen with the top four places held by this design. Whilst the cooler on the 7790 OC is not the quietest that we have seen, it is still fairly quiet with better than average noise levels.