30xx Series Founders Edition

Rimsy · 4 Dec 2020 at 19:43

meh sod this lark.... going to wait til easter and see how things are then. have wasted quite a few hours over an upgrade I dont really need! Enjoy cyberpunk in all its glory you lucky few

gpuerrilla · 4 Dec 2020 at 20:01

gilljoy said:
Yeah my current PSU just isn't up to do the job unfortunately it trips when trying to play battlefield 5. All being well it'll be here on Tues and I'll report back

What you on about man, have you tried undervolting it to see if you can play the games without it tripping?

gilljoy · 4 Dec 2020 at 21:31

Th0nt said:
What you on about man, have you tried undervolting it to see if you can play the games without it tripping?

Yeah I've a 650w psu which for what ever reason trips when I'm using the 3080

gpuerrilla · 4 Dec 2020 at 21:50

gilljoy said:
Yeah I've a 650w psu which for what ever reason trips when I'm using the 3080

So install Afterburner and drop the voltage - then it hopefully wont trip it, are you overclocking the CPU or something to push it that high?

gilljoy · 4 Dec 2020 at 23:03

Th0nt said:
So install Afterburner and drop the voltage - then it hopefully wont trip it, are you overclocking the CPU or something to push it that high?

Nothing but apparently the model of PSU I have historically has issues with high voltage GPU.

all being well I should have a new one Tuesday at the latest

gpuerrilla · 5 Dec 2020 at 22:48

@Tiny_D hows your card kenning on ken?

SupraWez · 6 Dec 2020 at 10:31

Arrived this morning, surprised as thought it would be next week sometime

NATO · 7 Dec 2020 at 23:09

Just got the 3090 FE - I knew it would be big based on YouTube videos, but when it's in your hand - jeez it's absolutely enormous!

Really impressed with it, as expected (with all the 300x cards) it's the power limit that's the limiting factor for these cards. I have undervolted mine and it's running better, even getting a little extra performance seemingly because it's not banging off the power limiter.

Dontrocktheboat · 7 Dec 2020 at 23:13

NATO said:
Just got the 3090 FE - I knew it would be big based on YouTube videos, but when it's in your hand - jeez it's absolutely enormous!

Really impressed with it, as expected (with all the 300x cards) it's the power limit that's the limiting factor for these cards. I have undervolted mine and it's running better, even getting a little extra performance seemingly because it's not banging off the power limiter.

what program did you use for undervolting?

afterburner?

Blackjack Davy · 7 Dec 2020 at 23:29

NATO said:
Just got the 3090 FE - I knew it would be big based on YouTube videos, but when it's in your hand - jeez it's absolutely enormous!

Really impressed with it, as expected (with all the 300x cards) it's the power limit that's the limiting factor for these cards. I have undervolted mine and it's running better, even getting a little extra performance seemingly because it's not banging off the power limiter.

What clocks/settings are using with the undervolt? I havn't messed about with mine much but I can get +163/385 stable clocks before touching the power limiter.

NATO · 7 Dec 2020 at 23:36

I've been using Quake II RTX as a way of just hammering the card - at 4K with Dynamic resolution disabled, even with the power limit set to the maximum 114% you can see in MSI Afterburner the card being power limited the entire time and the card downclocks accordingly.

I've spent a while this evening tinkering to get the lowest voltage / frequency settings so that it sits solid at the target clock speed and stays *just* below the power limit (114%), for me that's been1830Mhz@837mV. Getting the same, if not 1-2fps higher in Quake II RTX.

Honestly I'm really glad I stumbled upon undervolting, overclocking is fine but it just seems to result in the card hitting the power limit quicker and downclocking below what the undervolted clock sits at. I think power is definitely the limiting factor with the 30xx cards

Rroff · 8 Dec 2020 at 03:02

NATO said:
I think power is definitely the limiting factor with the 30xx cards

There is probably a reason for that but yeah - my 3070 FE is constantly running into the power limit. Though strangely the behaviour with it is a bit inconsistent - I think due to it changing the voltages a bit behind the scenes of its own accord as well.

Tiny_D · 8 Dec 2020 at 09:51

Th0nt said:
@Tiny_D hows your card kenning on ken?

Elloo, Aye you seen the Ken in my owners picture on the role call?? ;-)

spluff · 8 Dec 2020 at 10:15

NATO said:
I've been using Quake II RTX as a way of just hammering the card - at 4K with Dynamic resolution disabled, even with the power limit set to the maximum 114% you can see in MSI Afterburner the card being power limited the entire time and the card downclocks accordingly.

I've spent a while this evening tinkering to get the lowest voltage / frequency settings so that it sits solid at the target clock speed and stays *just* below the power limit (114%), for me that's been1830Mhz@837mV. Getting the same, if not 1-2fps higher in Quake II RTX.

Honestly I'm really glad I stumbled upon undervolting, overclocking is fine but it just seems to result in the card hitting the power limit quicker and downclocking below what the undervolted clock sits at. I think power is definitely the limiting factor with the 30xx cards

What version of afterburner are you using? Is it stable?

gpuerrilla · 8 Dec 2020 at 10:16

Tiny_D said:
Elloo, Aye you seen the Ken in my owners picture on the role call??

Ken, aye.

NATO · 8 Dec 2020 at 10:22

spluff said:
What version of afterburner are you using? Is it stable?

Just using the version off the website, 4.6.2, has been working fine for me!

NATO · 8 Dec 2020 at 10:24

Rroff said:
There is probably a reason for that but yeah - my 3070 FE is constantly running into the power limit. Though strangely the behaviour with it is a bit inconsistent - I think due to it changing the voltages a bit behind the scenes of its own accord as well.

I've been using GPU-Z to check the GPU Voltage, it seems to show the correct voltage under load when I've had it undervolted, the stock curve has it hit just shy of 0.95V vs 0.85 when undervolted.

N19h7m4r3 · 8 Dec 2020 at 18:05

NATO said:
Just got the 3090 FE - I knew it would be big based on YouTube videos, but when it's in your hand - jeez it's absolutely enormous!

Really impressed with it, as expected (with all the 300x cards) it's the power limit that's the limiting factor for these cards. I have undervolted mine and it's running better, even getting a little extra performance seemingly because it's not banging off the power limiter.

It's so big it makes the old Voodoo5 6000 look small! The Founders 3090 really is an amazing piece of kit though, it's boosting well above the rating, and so cool and quiet.

gpuerrilla · 8 Dec 2020 at 20:08

N19h7m4r3 said:
It's so big it makes the old Voodoo5 6000 look small! The Founders 3090 really is an amazing piece of kit though, it's boosting well above the rating, and so cool and quiet.

Loved my Voodoo card! 3090 is a class build. May have to revisit the case window and tidy it up when I get my PSU cable from Seasonic!

Other news... mate at work had a Smartphone 'delivered' by DPD. They cant find it and not sure what happened to it. He's raging. Reinforces my opinion (again), useless muppets.

N19h7m4r3 · 8 Dec 2020 at 20:10

Th0nt said:
Loved my Voodoo card! 3090 is a class build. May have to revisit the case window and tidy it up when I get my PSU cable from Seasonic!

Other news... mate at work had a Smartphone 'delivered' by DPD. They cant find it and not sure what happened to it. He's raging. Reinforces my opinion (again), useless muppets.

Haha! Typical DPD!

Say, don't still happen to have that Voodoo card? I have a slight interest in them