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Salim Fadhley
Asked: 2012-04-12 15:27:59 +0800 CST

Can I automatically make my Nvidia card's fan quieter?

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I have a machine with an Nvidia graphics card. Unfortunately the GPU fan is very loud. It's very annoying at times.

We never use this machine for intense 3d work - that GPU is probably not working very hard at all. I'm pretty sure I can run it at a much lower fan-speed without causing any problems.

The nvclock utility can be used to manually adjust the fan-speed of my Nvidia graphics card. I'd like to call this utility automatically when the machine boots up.

Is there some kind of system service which I can use to automatically apply this kind of system-wide configuration? Even better, is there a system monitoring service which can poll the GPU temperature and adjust the various system fan-speeds accordingly?

Thanks!

nvidia

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  1. Best Answer

    Sure, use /etc/rc.local to place commands intended to run at boot.

    You can also use an xorg.conf trick to permanently lock the GPU and graphical memory clocks to their lowest values.

    gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

    add the following to the Device Section:

    Option  "RegistryDwords" "PerfLevelSrc=0x2222; PowerMizerDefault=0x3; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x3"

    If the file is empty or there is no device section, here is an example of mine:

    Section "Device"
Identifier  "Default Device"
Option  "NoLogo"    "True"
Option  "RegistryDwords" "PerfLevelSrc=0x2222; PowerMizerDefault=0x3; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x3"
EndSection

    For more info on various Nvidia related options, check out http://tutanhamon.com.ua/technovodstvo/NVIDIA-UNIX-driver/

    The original page has not been available for some years, so I'll link to it in the archive.org

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