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3080TI Founders Edition unexpected shutdown issue

    • ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆2 out of 5 stars.

      · 3 months ago
      Sadly not good enough
      I am writing this review after having the PSU for a couple of months and taking a couple of months to work out why my system kept cutting out. It didn't happen all the time but after a few times, I started noticing a pattern and have finally isolated the issue to the PSU and have tested to confirm.

      The PSU and cables are all nice but it cannot cope with high load and cuts out. I have an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X CPU and AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT and under high load, the PSU cuts out.
      • Value
      • Value, 2 out of 5
      • Quality
      • Quality, 3 out of 5
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    • ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆2 out of 5 stars.

      · 5 months ago
      Can't cope with a 3090 and a power hungry CPU
      I brought this a few weeks ago as a small upgrade from an EVGA 750w G2 that's been doing me proud for a number of years. I gave the G2 to a friend for a new build and sod's law, immediately afterwards this thing starts randomly restarting when i'm gaming. A quick google shows this is a common problem and these PSU's can't handle pairing a 3090 with a high spec CPU. The power spikes that combination can entail in demanding games results in its protection circuits kicking in.

      It's a shame, as other than that, it's a nice piece of kit. Very quiet, compact for the wattage, included cables are good.
      • ✘ No,
      • I do not recommend this product.
      • Value
      • Value, 3 out of 5
      • Quality


just had a look at the Amazon reviews and it's the same thing, few 3090/6900xt owners complaining that their system shuts down - and the 3080ti's power requirements is not much different from the 3090
 
It's sounding like a PSU issue then mate, if it was doing it with the 3080 and now the 3080ti. Maybe the over current protection on the PSU is doing it as these gpus power spike a lot.

I would agree. It's probably some sort of power spike. 850W PSU is a little dodgy for the 3080ti. In theory it should be fine but in practice I have heard of this sort of thing happening before with 850W PSU's. I may be time to consider a different PSU.
 
check the gpu temps when under load, the 3080 ti uses the 3080 cooler and does run warm when under load (in the high 70's into the low 80's) so its very important to have excellent airflow through your case, avoid overclocking on that cooler as at stock the 350w board power is pushing the max the air cooler can manage.

i run a rtx 3090 on a 750w sf corsair unit and have no issue thats with a 5950x stock with pbo enabled, BUT my card is watercooled which is very much needed to keep it cool
 
The info posted by random_matt really does point to the PSU.

One final thing to check is that you are using two separate 8-pin cables from the PSU, rather than a single cable with dual connectors.
 
Have you run memtest with xmp on to make sure you are not getting errors while the ram is overclocked ? Is the ram on the motherboards QVL to rule out not 100% compatible ram ?
I have ran XMP once on memtest during one of the overnight testing of each stick, no errors. Just checked the motherboard's QVL the only one listed with the same serial is the 16GB (2x8) 3600MHz version but I noticed that the dual rank version of my kit (32GB 2x16 3600MHz) is on the list and the one im currently using is the single rank version. I've looked at trying to get the dual rank but reading reddit and other forums on getting dual rank kits from crucial is like trying to get a 3080 for MSRP :3

Try and test the PC with your old graphics card if you have one, and see if the problem persists.
Tested a full 10 minute cycle with maxed heaven and multicore test on cinebench with my other 3080, no shut downs or errors. All system settings are at default.
 
I'd also go with the PSU being the problem. I used to get random stops with my 1300W G2 PSU when paired with OC 5960X and 295x2 quadfire. Fixed immediately I upgraded to 1600W G2.
 
check the gpu temps when under load, the 3080 ti uses the 3080 cooler and does run warm when under load (in the high 70's into the low 80's) so its very important to have excellent airflow through your case, avoid overclocking on that cooler as at stock the 350w board power is pushing the max the air cooler can manage.
The temps ive seen for 3080 vision under load are just under 70c, 73c at most. The 3080ti fe hits in the high 70s usually stays around 77c mark but sometimes going into low 80s. I don't plan on overclocking the 3080TI.

One final thing to check is that you are using two separate 8-pin cables from the PSU, rather than a single cable with dual connectors.
I have confirmed I am using two separate 8-pin cables from the psu. As my PSU has 4x 8-pin inputs, would you say to try seat them with a space inbetween as they are both next to each other (e.g. 2 & 4 or 1 & 3 on the inputs) or would that not make any difference?
 
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The temps ive seen for 3080 vision under load are just under 70c, 75c at most. The 3080ti fe hits in the high 70s usually stays around 77c mark but sometimes going into low 80s. I don't plan on overclocking the 3080TI.

have you checked ram temps under load if the core is getting into the low 80's, the ram will be running very close to its max temp, hows airflow in your case?

gpu-z will be your best bet to check, how are cpu temps too, when i overclocked my cpu i could see low 90's to its max of 105 degrees and then my pc would shutdown, so thats something to check too, just saying the extra heat my be pushing the cpu too far hense shutdowns, but as others have pointed out, the psu could be at fault also
 
I have confirmed I am using two separate 8-pin cables from the psu. As my PSU has 4x 8-pin inputs, would you say to try seat them with a space inbetween as they are both next to each other (e.g. 2 & 4 or 1 & 3 on the inputs) or would that not make any difference?
It might be worth a try. It depends how the PSU is distributing the load, but often they just go to a single a rail. However, I guess there could be fault a with one connector.
 
I had the same issue and im using a fractal design 660w plat psu, everytime I tried to run 3dmark timespy the machine would reset so in the end I had to turn my overclock down (3600 @ 4.6 to 4.4) which has now fixed it. Strange thing is my 3090 and 3080 fe both have no issues on the same set up so im not sure whats causing the 3080ti to reset.

I have seperate 8pins connected to the 3080ti and a simple set up, 3600, b550m 32gig ram and 1 nvme and 1 hdd and the card draws around 350w.

The only issue I have now is when you try to overclock the memory you end up with a black screen which is clearly a driver issue.
 
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Transient Spikes, some 850w's will not be enough for 3090's (think 3080 was ok) but the 3080 Ti is allowed the same Power Draw/Limit as the 3090) some here had same issue, went from 850w to 1000w to fix it with one user running 2x 1080Ti's on his 850w for years and BOOM random shutdowns with 1x 3090, he got a 1000w,

I think there is a list somewhere of PSU's+ratings that handle these Transient Spikes better than others, it does no matter if its a good brand or brand new.
 
have you checked ram temps under load if the core is getting into the low 80's, the ram will be running very close to its max temp, hows airflow in your case?

gpu-z will be your best bet to check, how are cpu temps too, when i overclocked my cpu i could see low 90's to its max of 105 degrees and then my pc would shutdown, so thats something to check too, just saying the extra heat my be pushing the cpu too far hense shutdowns, but as others have pointed out, the psu could be at fault also
Just done testing, all system settings are at default. Heaven 3D is set to extreme settings and Cinebench CPU multicore. Testing done for a 15 minute cycle and the results:

3080 VISION
GPU temps: 73c - gpu-z & hwinfo64
Ram temps: 48.5c (both dimms) - hwinfo64
CPU temps: 75c - hwinfo64 & ryzen master

3080TI FE
GPU temps: 79c - gpu-z & hwinfo64
Ram temps: 48c - 50c - hwinfo64
CPU temps: 76c hwinfo64 & 74.5c ryzen master

No shutdowns during the tests.
 
Just done testing, all system settings are at default. Heaven 3D is set to extreme settings and Cinebench CPU multicore. Testing done for a 15 minute cycle and the results:

3080 VISION
GPU temps: 73c - gpu-z & hwinfo64
Ram temps: 48.5c (both dimms) - hwinfo64
CPU temps: 75c - hwinfo64 & ryzen master

3080TI FE
GPU temps: 79c - gpu-z & hwinfo64
Ram temps: 48c - 50c - hwinfo64
CPU temps: 76c hwinfo64 & 74.5c ryzen master

No shutdowns during the tests.

whoops my bad i ment the gpu ram temps gddr6x is very hot running under load, gpu-z will show what the gpu ram temp is.

tbh heaven benchmark wont really stress the whole pc to the point of shutdown, where ever the problem started thats what you need to run to see why the pc shuts off, have montering programs running on a second screen, that way you may be able to see sudden temp, power spikes that lead to a problem.

system ram temps with the 3080 ti installed are getting warm 50+ degrees is quiet warm tbh
 
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Just turning off rather than rebooting points to PSU - happened to me when I tried to run BF3 on 580 SLI wth a 750W which was fixed with a 1050W.

Do you have anything more demanding than heaven ? The RT update to Metro Exodus I find really pushes the power limit at 4K and it has a bench you can loop
 
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