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Airflow question

Kronos

Kronos

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I have currently a Evga RTX 2080TI Black FE and will be upgrading to a RTX 3080 but I was wondering if I went for the triple fan variant rather than the FE would I have any issues with airflow?
In the image below you can see the PCIE x16 slot where the current card is and the PCIE x1 where I have a soundcard.
Will the soundcards position have a detrimental effect on air supply to the fans(s) of the 3080?

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I would imagine your sound card is actually in the PCIEX4 slot, as surely the 2080TI is a 2 slot width card.

Replacing it with a triple fan RTX3080 shouldn't be a problem
 
It's always better to have no obstruction anywhere of course, but it should be fine. You could have course also run some benchmarks with and without sound card and see what that does to the temperatures, but I'd be surprised if you could measure a difference that's not in the margin of error anyway.
 
Armageus said:
I would imagine your sound card is actually in the PCIEX4 slot, as surely the 2080TI is a 2 slot width card.

Replacing it with a triple fan RTX3080 shouldn't be a problem
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Should have checked the position of the sound card before starting this thread and you are quite correct.
So a triple fan GPU will not have issues?

Shiari said:
It's always better to have no obstruction anywhere of course, but it should be fine. You could have course also run some benchmarks with and without sound card and see what that does to the temperatures, but I'd be surprised if you could measure a difference that's not in the margin of error anyway.
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Great, thanks for that.
 
I have a soundcard in my previous PC, even though it has onboard sound, as the retro games I use it for support Creative EAX. Modern games do all effects on the CPU now so no sound card required unless you think sound quality is better.
 
I find it simpler to switch from headphones to speakers with the soundcard and although not a audio nerd I do feel sound is better with the card so would prefer to keep it provided it does not obstruct airflow to GPU.
 
Fair enough. It probably would have better quality sound, as obviously they have to be better than onboard or nobody would buy them. I think there is plenty of headroom in the cooler designs to cope with airflow restriction. From what I have seen none of them run particularly hot, as the coolers are huge. You will probably get higher temps with the sound card in place though.
 
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