Visible lagging when moving/resizing windows, especially bad when video streams are going (such as a conference calls with 4-5 people with video on), or when large Excel spreadsheets are open. The CPU is an i7-8665U, so the iGPU is indeed weaker than the W600 anyway, and that's kinda off-topic to the question of silencing a video card, but because of how DisplayLink works (and how much CPU utilization is higher when it is used rather than the native iGPU output), the on-screen performance is horrible with a DisplayLink dock with multiple displays.
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It was gathering dust for a while, but recently I used it to fashion myself a TB3 graphics dock for my work Lenovo X390, since I had a spare TB3 to PCIe board and the work issued USB-C dock can't walk and chew gum at the same time (DisplayLink absolutely sucks when there's a lot of video going on on multiple screens). I have a W600 card that I picked up cheap a long time ago since it was lacking the rear bracket and its a great card for driving a lot of monitors. How can I make this thing shut the hell up? Ideally, I'd love to give it a passive cooler: It sits naked, so it has plenty of cool air around around it, and it isn't exactly a powerhouse of a card (it is in the ballpark of a HD7750 or GTX650), nor does it spend much time under load, but I can't find anything at all. I tried looking around, since many (many, many, many) years ago things like the Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 existed to silence video cards, but it looks like all of these products are now extinct.
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I tried software fan control via Afterburner, but the minimum setting of 25% is still loud, and the card tops out at 51C with the fan on minimum even when under 100% load, so this is still overkill. I repasted the card just in case, but that doesn't help with the fan noise since the fan isn't really well controlled on this card, so it keeps whining away even if the card is idling at 32C.
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It would be loud if it were in a case, but since it sitting naked on my desk, it is driving me crazy.
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It works absolutely great, but there's one problem: The damn fan on the W600 is annoyingly loud.