Ah, I think I am getting what the issue is. You want lower fan speeds for noise, but that increases the GPU temperature and it reaches the limit.
One thing you can do is lower the power limit of the card by using the power limit slider (%) in MSI afterburner. It's right above the temp limit slider.
Lowering that will limit the power consumption of the card, which will lower the heat output.
The CPU is liquid cooled. I didn't touch the temp limit set in afterburner and it is set at 83C. I noticed the card was throttling because I'm using the afterburner overlay and when the card reaches 75C, it says temp limit and the core clock speed goes from 1950mhz to 900. It takes a few minutes for it to ramp back up.
I though maybe changing the power settings of both my system and GPU back to balanced might help tone back down the GPU temp but it didn't. Going back to the default GPU fan curve fixes the temp issues but I'm left again with obnoxiously loud fans so I'm back to square one. I thought maybe underclocking the card might do something but I don't know enough about that to comfortably do it.
I got mine at 90%. You will have to find a good balance between noise and thermals. Another good tip is to split up the 2 fans and put them on different fan curves.
I found the one fan makes less noise than the other when sped up.
I tried tweaking around with the power limit like you said and so far it looks like it does the trick. I gradually went down to 80% power and I'm still able to get 1800mhz clock speed with reasonable fan noise.
Hi, did you try to undervolt the GPU. If your target is 1800MHz, I have tried and the system is stable with 0.8V voltage with the temps at least cooler by 5 - 7'C
It will definitely helps with the temps and fan noise.
By the way, what fan speed % when your GPU is under load?
To me it seems the maximum fan speed is around 70%, with my GPU core temps at 75-78'C, this is without the undervolting. To me 70% speed is the loudest that I can handle.
With the default settings the fans were definitely going above 80-90% and the temps were around 67-70C. Reducing the power % seems to have done the trick for now but I wish I didn't have to do this.
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Ah, I think I am getting what the issue is. You want lower fan speeds for noise, but that increases the GPU temperature and it reaches the limit.
One thing you can do is lower the power limit of the card by using the power limit slider (%) in MSI afterburner. It's right above the temp limit slider.
Lowering that will limit the power consumption of the card, which will lower the heat output.
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September 25th, 2021 20:00
Forgot to say this is on an Aurora r10 r5 5800x, rtx 3080, 16bg 3200 ram.
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September 26th, 2021 03:00
Thermal throttle limits are set by the bios, you can not change it. 75c means your junction temp is probably closer to 90c+ hence the throttling
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September 26th, 2021 06:00
Try using msi/af’s custom fan curve not users fan curve it works very good. My R11-3090 never gets above 75c.
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September 26th, 2021 09:00
Is this an air cooled system, or a liquid cooled system?
I have an RTX 3080 and it never goes above 60 Celsius. What does the temp limit list in Afterburner?
I should not throttle until it reaches that limit.
How did you determine it was throttling?
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September 26th, 2021 12:00
The CPU is liquid cooled. I didn't touch the temp limit set in afterburner and it is set at 83C. I noticed the card was throttling because I'm using the afterburner overlay and when the card reaches 75C, it says temp limit and the core clock speed goes from 1950mhz to 900. It takes a few minutes for it to ramp back up.
I though maybe changing the power settings of both my system and GPU back to balanced might help tone back down the GPU temp but it didn't. Going back to the default GPU fan curve fixes the temp issues but I'm left again with obnoxiously loud fans so I'm back to square one. I thought maybe underclocking the card might do something but I don't know enough about that to comfortably do it.
Vanadiel
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September 26th, 2021 13:00
I got mine at 90%. You will have to find a good balance between noise and thermals. Another good tip is to split up the 2 fans and put them on different fan curves.
I found the one fan makes less noise than the other when sped up.
Crenchie
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September 26th, 2021 13:00
I tried tweaking around with the power limit like you said and so far it looks like it does the trick. I gradually went down to 80% power and I'm still able to get 1800mhz clock speed with reasonable fan noise.
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September 26th, 2021 18:00
Hi, did you try to undervolt the GPU. If your target is 1800MHz, I have tried and the system is stable with 0.8V voltage with the temps at least cooler by 5 - 7'C
It will definitely helps with the temps and fan noise.
By the way, what fan speed % when your GPU is under load?
To me it seems the maximum fan speed is around 70%, with my GPU core temps at 75-78'C, this is without the undervolting. To me 70% speed is the loudest that I can handle.
I'm using a R12 i7 with RTX 3080.
Crenchie
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September 26th, 2021 19:00
With the default settings the fans were definitely going above 80-90% and the temps were around 67-70C. Reducing the power % seems to have done the trick for now but I wish I didn't have to do this.