Aurora R10, RTX 2080 Super GPU temps

Is your custom fan curve for the gpu or for the case fans? Just checking because awcc doesn't let you change gpu fan speed so you'd need to use something like afterburner and upping the gpu fan curve makes a big difference on temps.

Also, fyi, you have an MSI Aero rebrand for Dell, not a PNY.  The 6 sided lopsided hexagon clear plastic piece, next to the grooved circle with 5 lines (usually grey/black coloring inside the lines) heading away from the blower fan, is a uniquely Aero design.  The otherwise all black, or all back with green, is the coloring Dell OEM gpus by MSI get. Most of them also lose the blackplate. The clear plastic is useful to see if you have dust bunnies on the end of the heatsink. 

@r72019 It's afterburner. Without using that the temperatures get quite higher (80+ easy). Oh, I thought it was PNY, the visual description you're suggesting doesn't really look like my GPU, unless my memory is wrong after looking at it a couple weeks back, it didn't look clear anywhere. I will open it up tomorrow and have a look at it.

@r72019  Apologies, what you are describing is correct. Had a quick peek and see what you're describing.

@Anonymous I will be adding that soon. That would be awesome if that was the case, even more of a reason to add that H60 now. Thanks. So not much point in replacing the stock thermal paste?

You can replace the stock preapplied thermal paste on the Corsair H60.  I used Arctic mx4.

https://www.amazon.com/ARCTIC-MX-2-2019-Performance-Durability/dp/B07LDRVFBH/

Remember to clean off the cpu's old paste and waterblock (if replacing) with 99% ipa to avoid damaging anything.

I use the MSI afterburner to control my GPU fan on my 2080 Super only when gaming. I don't do the fan curve thing, I just set the GPU fans to 50-55 and then hit apply, you'll hear your fan kick in then start your game. Puts me around 70-75c while gaming. I disable it/ when Im done gaming. I don't care about the noise of the fans either it just means the machine is breathing/cooling/ kinda like when your car is getting hot/over heating in traffic and the fans kicks in and its like music to your ear. I wear headphones while gaming so I don't hear it. 

Hope this helps cause I got alot of help in here so I try to pay back when I can. 

@PirateCurt :

Playing the Witcher 3 with most settings at ultra, 60 fps locked, I'm getting around 70-75c, and the GPU usage rarely goes above 80%. I have a custom fan curve to up the fan speed to keep it cooler, but it gets very loud.

Owner of 2 2080 Supers here, started out with 1 inside an R8 chassis so I have some knowledge on this. Not sure if you're locked to the 250W max power for the 2080 Super or you've unleashed the TU-104 TDP up to 292W. Anyways, assuming you're operating within 250W, 80% would mean you're drawing 200W while gaming. That is an awful lot of heat generated.

As you ramp up your blower fan with the custom fan curve, a tiny fan like that needs to spin that much faster to produce the airflow over the heatsink fins and push the heated air out the rear of the PC.

Here are several alternatives in case the re-paste didn't yield the results you want:

1. Continue with 70-80C operating temperature because NVIDIA said it's fine.

2. Put on an AIO cooler using a Kraken G12 bracket.

3. Undervolt the card in MSI Afterburner. Google undervolt GPU and you'll get some good videos on how to do that.

BTW, @Anonymous showed the insides of his 2080 Ti which is more powerful than our peasant-ly supers  . Here is the 2080 Super.

Just halfway through. EK thermal pads just as "fun" to cut and put on.

@GTS81 Thanks for the input! I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about in regards to 250w / 292w / 200w to be honest lol. An AIO cooler is a liquid cooler?? Undervolting sounds interesting, i'll for sure look into that, gotta be downsides to it I assume? I thought changing out the thermal paste was just that, was unaware about thermal pads, also.

@r72019 Thanks for that. Was trying to figure out what would be the best paste to use, I am a complete noob to all this so I appreciate the advice!

@Anonymous Woah, that is certainly more than I anticipated. I have watched a few youtube videos and not a single one of them mentioned about changing thermal pads in addition to the paste. Is there a resource I can use to do some additional research that you would recommend? To save me asking a billion questions here lol.

The thermal pads would be for the GPU, on the VRMs. You would use paste on the GPU chip.

As far as a CPU, a small minority of enthusiasts use special thermal pads in lieu of paste on the CPU.  But keep n mind it would be one or the other, not both. 

AIO = all in one = liquid cooler