As you have discovered, the cable header heats up from hot exhaust and being in contact with hot metal frame of GPU/case.
There shouldn't be any heat just from monitor signal
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30xx Series Founders Edition
- Thread starter Dirk Diggler
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There shouldn't be any heat just from monitor signal
Okay, I have not looked out for this yet.
If it doesn't affect performance, I would just ignore it, because the heat can't melt the plastic housing of the cable so then, it is not going to melt the metal connector.
Associate
Mine gets quite toasty, even with the thermal pads mod.Not heard of any FE cards been killed by the new world game.
Temps. are peak so the card is not always running at peak temps (30 hours+ of game time so far).
- GPU: 82 - 84.
- VRAM: 86 - 88.
- Hotspot: 92 - 94.
If you can hold it in your hand then it’s not going to be that hot.
To put it into context, you can get burns from touching things that around 50c in around 2 mins. Holding something like that will be very hot. The hotter it is, the shorter the time and kids will burn far quicker.
To put it into context, you can get burns from touching things that around 50c in around 2 mins. Holding something like that will be very hot. The hotter it is, the shorter the time and kids will burn far quicker.
Not heard of any FE cards been killed by the new world game.
FE's have the best build quality by far IMO. The only weakness are the VRAM thermal pads, which is easily resolved by replacing the stock thermal pads.
I've played around with a MSI 3090 gaming X, Supreme and Asus Strix - these just feel plasticy and have vibration issues with the plastic shroud when the fans spin up. Also the MSI has an annoying 'hum', not caused by fan speed but by the direction, interaction of airflow between the two fans.
Not to mention FE cards have the best binned GPU's used
Associate
Nice… 3080 Ti FE cards are into the £1,200’s on Scalpbay.
You could perhaps say that's msrp, considering the seller has to pay auction fees and postage. What do you reckon?
Associate
I hope they’re wasting their time and earning peanuts in profit… or even better, make a small loss lol.
download evga precision X1 you can measure vram temp on that I think
Soldato
Can use MSI Afterburner (RTSS), HWiNFO64 or GPU-Z also
I have them all, yet I never bothered to find a hotspot Or ram temps Indicator
Soldato
Well GPU-Z is probably easiest, just fire it up and look in the sensors tab 
Caporegime
You won't find them, there's no sensor on the 3070FE for RAM temps.
Yeah I have Hot Spot but no VRAM temps on my 3070FE in any application I've used yet.
On another note while not always the case - some of what I thought was the GPU fans spinning up during gaming with my 3070FE wasn't in fact the GPU... I had an old laptop down behind where the PC was which was in a low power state used awhile back for as a remote endpoint for a project and mostly forgotten about... seems a recent Windows 10 update (coincidentally about the same time as I swapped out the 1070 for the 3070) was causing it periodically to spin up aggressively for a few moments
it happened the other day after I'd turned my PC off which was a WTF moment LOL. Stupid Microsoft dunno why they can't seem to get anything right - was working fine on an older version of 10 and 7 before that.
On another note while not always the case - some of what I thought was the GPU fans spinning up during gaming with my 3070FE wasn't in fact the GPU... I had an old laptop down behind where the PC was which was in a low power state used awhile back for as a remote endpoint for a project and mostly forgotten about... seems a recent Windows 10 update (coincidentally about the same time as I swapped out the 1070 for the 3070) was causing it periodically to spin up aggressively for a few moments
it happened the other day after I'd turned my PC off which was a WTF moment LOL. Stupid Microsoft dunno why they can't seem to get anything right - was working fine on an older version of 10 and 7 before that.Yeah I have Hot Spot but no VRAM temps on my 3070FE in any application I've used yet.
On another note while not always the case - some of what I thought was the GPU fans spinning up during gaming with my 3070FE wasn't in fact the GPU... I had an old laptop down behind where the PC was which was in a low power state used awhile back for as a remote endpoint for a project and mostly forgotten about... seems a recent Windows 10 update (coincidentally about the same time as I swapped out the 1070 for the 3070) was causing it periodically to spin up aggressively for a few moments
Would you say the GPU Hotspot + 20c to 30c is the VRAM temp?
No way to know - the Hot Spot is simply the warmest reported part of the ASIC.
Okay, but I reckon that's a fair estimate , so on full load, if your hotspot is 75c that's like 95c-105c VRAM temps.