@r72019

I read a post of yours about using MSI Afterburner to create a fan configuration. Can you offer some advice on my situation? I have an Aurora R8 with a Corsair liquid cooling unit I installed after reading a post where you suggested that to someone else. The system temperatures don’t seem to rise to high. The graphics card which is the Nvidia RTX 2070 Super and it has a single fan.  The problem I seem to have is when the temperature on the graphics gifs card gets to about 97% utilization with a temperature of around 79-80 then the graphics card fan revs high for up to approximately a minute. 
I can install Afterburner, but should I uninstall AWCC? Once I install afterburner then what configuration would you suggest to use for the Corsair pump, fans, and graphics card? Or do I leave AWCC on and only use Afterburner to manage the fans? 

Any help you can offer us greatly appreciated. 

This is for afterburner fan configuration: https://www.yourtechbro.com/msi-afterburner-the-complete-guide/

Your afterburner might look different (different skin), but the settings and menus will be the same.

Afterburner will control the video card fans only.

AWCC will control the case fans.

Since you installed an aftermarket AIO liquid cooling option from Corsair, it would depend on what model you installed. Some have a program similar to Afterburner to control fan and pump speed, some have internal controls, some have no controls at all.

It will also depend on how you hooked all this up, and if you are using the MB headers for the AIO or used a separate controller etc...

"I can install Afterburner, but should I uninstall AWCC?"

You can install both programs and use both programs at the same time, there's no conflict.

When the OEM GPU temperature gets to 82 or 83, the fan kicks into high gear, it's basically an emergency override programming to cool the GPU.  Once it goes below the threshold the default profile will kick in.  You can remedy this by setting a more aggressive fan curve using MSI afterburner to prevent the GPU temperature getting that high.  

Sorry I forgot to add that this method eliminates throttling of you gpu fan... try it out and play with the settings in the thermal offset and msi

Create a thermal profile in AWCC 

use to offset slider for the top fan and adjust to like 45-50% 

front fan set to about 10% less then top so around 35-40% 

then save that profile to whatever game your playing. And in your default setting at the bottom right in AWCC set everything to Balanced mode. 
So every time you start your gaming session your case fans will kick in to those settings you saved and when your finish playing and exit game your balanced setting will kick in/ case fans power down.

offset settings are way better than fan curve IMO 

Also Msi Afterburner I do not use fan curves and I find it better to set the gpu fans to about 50-70% manual so set to say 55% and just click apply. It’s like turning on a ceiling fan. 

@mako64 

Your reply to the other person having this issue is helpful.
I am having the same problem with my GPU fan spiking. I have tried to fix this by setting the Alienware Command Center fan offset for the top and front to be at 80% right now, and that might be higher than they need. I haven’t run a test program yet. 

I installed Afterburner and I’m not sure what to do really. Right now I set the fan speed only and I put it at 80%. Is this ok to do? I know it might be louder to have it like this but I rather avoid tweaking it and keep the temps safe. It’s my sons Aurora R8 and I’ve put in a Corsair H60 with Corsair ML120 pro fans so there’s one on the top of the radiator and one below it and then I replaced the front fan with one of the Corsairs as well. The graphics card is the NVIDIA RTX2070 Super.

With Afterburner like I have it in this pic, is this safe? I have the profile saved and Afterburner is set to start with Windows. What I found is that the profile doesn’t kick on. So I have to go click the number the profile is saved under which is 2 right now. Should it go to the 80% automatically? 

Yes its safe, 80 % is alittle high tho. If you set the gpu fans manual just click the apply check with circle around it. If you use the auto fan feature you have to set to 100% click auto and then apply. I have no problems using the 100% auto and let msi/af decide what percent the fans need to be according to the gpu temp. Doesn't kick on? do you mean the case fans or gpu fans. The case fans have to be controlled in AWCC ... just set to Thermal Performance Mode and see if the fans kick when he starts the game. 

@furiousdogs 

I have the same GPU and R8 as your sons. While playing high graphic games my GPU fan suddenly spiked to 100% every 10-20 seconds. Using Afterburner, I realised that the GPU fan speed defaulted at 18% until it hit 80 degrees and that's when the fan kicks in to jump to 100%. When it cooled down below 80 the GPU fan went back down to 18% again. 

On Afterburner I found the function that automatically matches the GPU fan speed with the temperature level. Just click on the little cog looking icon on the left sidebar. Then click on the "fans" tab at the top and select "Enable user defined software automatic fan control". Then click "Apply" at the bottom and "Ok". This worked perfectly for me when playing more graphically demanding games. It now progressively gets a bit louder when high graphics are needed but the fans now don't suddenly kick into overdrive like a jet taking off. I then reset the fans settings to "default" in Afterburner when I finish playing games and the R8 is much quieter for general PC tasks and surfing the web etc. 

Hope that helps! 

Hi folks. Hope this thread is still being monitored. I’ve got the common problem of one fan on my 2080 Super going bananas every few seconds and spinning up to 5000-5500 RPM. Been battling this for weeks with no resolution. 

I have Afterburner and am able to throttle back the % fan speed to whatever I set it to, but it still won’t stop the intermittent revving up. The Afterburner graphs show the % limited to whatever I set it to but like I said, it still revs up and sounds like a jet engine. 

Another thread suggested lowering the thermal temp limit in AWCC but the software won’t allow me to do that, when I apply that change it tests it, says it fails and reverts back to the original temp. 

So desperate at this point. Thinking of dropping $$$ and replacing the card.