Inno3D iChiLL GTX 670 HerculeZ 3000 Edition 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.

Now for the interesting part, as we put this gargantuan cooler to the test and straight away see some strong results in the noise department. At idle, things were a significant amount louder than the other cards we tested against, though at load, we saw hardly any increase in noise, purely because the card was kept dramatically cool, and therefore the fans didn’t need to increase in speed, thus, hardly any noise was outputted.