Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 3X OC 2GB 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.

This card incorporates the WindForce 3X cooler and as such it would be wrong not to look at the cooler in more detail in terms of acoustics. At idle we see a low result of 46.1 dBA and at load, we see a an extremely low 55.5 dBA showing that the WindForce cooler really does make a difference in terms of audio output.