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In this case, it will improve performance significantly... turns out I'd somehow missed the fact that my AIO tubes had dropped onto the card and the fan towards the front wasn't spinning at all! Unsurprisingly now I've corrected that, things are much better. Caught out a bit by this special FE design, traditionally there's no fan facing the top of the case so it's fine for the tubes to rest on the back of the card.
Cheers for all the advice, thankfully nothing wrong with the card, just it's operator
65c at 99% load is not hot. My previous EVGA 2080Ti card would reach 80c and run at 100% fan speed using the same custom fan curve (above)
I see this was some time ago now but (better than me creating a new thread) what idle and load temps are you getting?
3080 FE here and idles at ~37c. Load temps im seeing 72c with Auto fan after 25 mins of Kombuster running 3440 x 1440.
Default auto fan, 72c max
Custom fan curve, 65c max
Fan profile im using this
I saw that - AIO tube resting on the fanThe biggest issue here was my own incompetence
Having sorted cooling out and applied a modest undervolt, I rarely see the card in the 70° range now, although it's quite a cold room, sure that will change a bit come the summer
My friend had an Nvidia 1080 Ti founders edition. That got toasty. Certainly hotter than my 3080 FE
65c max is nothing. When summer comes I expect the 3080 will hit highs of 75c at the most
Of course 65c is absolutely nothing but when I see reviewers on open benches getting 75-80c not sure how anyone with a case could get 10c lower than that. Not possible to be honest.
Here, 30 mins of testing in a closed case using Kombuster. Max temp 66c, max fan speed 60%
I believe you just not sure what to say. 65c stress testing for a 320w tdp card is really low. The last card that I owned that could do that had around 200w tdp.
Case and fans are new -
Mine runs hot and loud too, reaching 80C with fans at 2000rpm. I'm currently using my case without the side panel on so the card has access to plenty of ambient air but the top suck-through fan is heavily restricted by the pump hovering 1cm above the exhaust.
Have began to look into undervolting and have seen significant reductions in power draw and therefore noise and temps have dropped too.
Interesting maybe the P500A is as good as they say for airflow.
