I had a pny 660ti with the reference cooler. It was basically just an aluminum finned block shoved under a shroud. For some reason, this was the loudest card I have ever seen. I wonfer if it was the neede max fan speed causing some resonance inside the cooler mixed with very turbulent airflow from all the shapes of the housing, but this thing sounded like someone stuffed a vacuum in my case. It was loud from across the room. Closed headset required. I was able to find a reference evga cooler on ocn, slapped that on and the volume was more than cut un half.
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