When rendering, my new Dell PC (Alienware) makes loud noise (fan?)
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I received my new Alienware desktop gaming computer yesterday morning, and it has a GTX 1080 video card and Intel i7 graphics card. When I tried to render an image (despite being efficient), my computer fan makes loud noise, only for the noise to stop when the render is complete.
Is there any way for me to make the fan quieter?
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Not without surgery (to use water cooling or fit a larger fan on the GPU).
I have the same issue. If it renders on the cpu it will make the fan sound.
If your render on you gpu there is no sound on mine.
Studio version 4.11 is less memory intensive. And will drop to cpu far less than 4.15 which gobbles gpu
what is the exact model of Dell computer?
Pushing your GPU to 100% usage, especially on 10xx Founders Edition cards (with the blower-type cooler) is going to make them loud; it's just the way it is. The alternative is that the GPU will go into thermal throttling, killing your performance. If your case allows, you can mitigate this somewhat by adding more/better case fans.
Before you add more fans, make sure the ones you have are doing the job they are supposed to.
It is not unusual to find them poorly set up.
That's not uncommon. My previous render box had three 1080 ti's and a render would spin those fans to full tilt. And the heat was amazing. Iray renders work your grahics card pretty hard.
Loud fan noise > hardware melting and failing lol. If you do end up replaing fans, I highy reccommend getting the ugly brown noctua fans. A little pricey, ugly color, but they are quiet as heck and should last foreva.
Now, I'd like to ask, how do I switch my computer from running on CPU to running on GPU?
Or, how do I set my 3Delight renders to GPU mode?
I unchecked the CPU settings for iRay, and it renders with a lesser fan noise now.
If only I can find a way to render in 3Delight using just GPU mode.
I could be wrong, but I don't think 3delight in DS can use the GPU
But I'd like to ask, is the Intel i7 better than Intel i5? I would expect it is, because I do have i7.
If they are around the same generation yeah. If the i5 is a lot newer, it might not be. If you google the exact models, like i5 blahblab vs i7 blahblah, there are a lot of benchmark sites that will show the stats side by side to make a more informed decision about that.
Your computer fan? Which fan? PSU fan, case fan, GPU fan, CPU fan, etc...
Fan noise is rated in dBs, and can always be replaced with a fan with a lower dB rating (PSU,GPU fans not so much).
I fixed the problem in the last 24 hours as I post this. I changed the power settings in Power Management mode in the NVIDIA Control Panel last night, and this morning I changed the Windows power settings to Power Saver mode. Fan is much quieter now.
OK, the fan is quieter, but how are your temps? You an use a tool such as Afterburner, GPU-Z, HWMON, HWiNFO64, etc. to see your temps. Your components *should* thermal throttle, if needed, but it's best to avoid that - expecially with the insane GPU market should you end up needing a replacement.
Stable systems are usually noisy and they double as space heaters.
Processing = power = heat
Yeah, I recommend keeping hwmon running at all times, and pop it open once in a while, and look at all the max temps. I do that, especially in the summer. No A/C here, can get pretty toasty during the day. When my temps start hitting the 80's, I know it's time to hit my front vent filters with the vaccume cleaner lol.