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Annoying fan curve issue with Gigabyte 3080 Eagle

Jax765

Jax765

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The card uses the feature where its fans stop below a certain temperature. In my case, it seems as though they kick in at around 54 degrees. Which means that when I'm using my PC, but not in a GPU-heavy capacity, the GPU temp will rise to 54 degrees, the fans will start up and get the temps down to around 47-48 degrees, then stop. Then the temps rise after a few seconds back to 54 degrees, and so on. This means that the fan is frequently stopping and starting, which is incredibly annoying from a sound perspective, and I imagine it's not great for the fan bearings in the long run.

I'm on the latest Nvidia drivers. And the issue worsens if I try using a custom fan curve with MSI Afterburner, since regardless of what I set for it, the fans will just repeatedly stop and start until I disable the curve. None of this was a problem with my old 1080 G1, and I've heard reports of similar issues from other people who claim that the drivers are the main cause.
 
I have the latest BIOS available for my card. Don't have a way of checking my ambient room temperature, but the GPU generally stays below 70 degrees at its peak while gaming or 3D rendering. CPU temps also generally hover around the mids-20s to mid-30s at lower loads, though they tend to spike quite a bit, which I think is a common occurrence with skylake CPUs.

Installed the 456.71 driver, and that fixed the issue with the Afterburner fan curve. Now I've got the fans running at 750rpm at low load, which keeps temps in the low-mid 30s.
 
That does sound very high for idle. I mean I don't have any information for the idle temps but I don't think it should be getting that high. I would look at your case ventilation and fan speeds.
 
pp111 said:
That does sound very high for idle. I mean I don't have any information for the idle temps but I don't think it should be getting that high. I would look at your case ventilation and fan speeds.
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The temps mentioned are not at idle. I said they were when the PC was in use, but not in a GPU-heavy capacity. With the GPU fan actually running consistently at 750rpm, my idle GPU temps go as low as 25 degrees.
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I guess it must come down to what you are doing with your PC then. My PC the GPU temp is constant until I run a game. The fan doesn't turn on at all until I play. Whatever you are doing must be a lot more graphics intensive than what I am doing. :D

By the way, I don't know if Gigabyte still do it, but they used to rev the card when the fan first switched on, which was super annoying. Do they still do that?
 
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Hey, so i just got my Gigabyte 3080, just built my PC and have a similar issue, when idle it sits at around 50-57 degrees even when im just web browsing and such tried a fan curve with MSI to no avail. The fans ramp up then slow down then ramp up and it does this from the minute i switch my pc on. Funny cause when i first did my post and installed windows the fans didnt even kick in because i imagine it was not reaching temp for the stock curve.

Ive not updated and BIOS etc this build is still quite new, just wanna try get it fixed cause the noise of the fans is doing my head in and it seems rather high just to be sat idle.

I have the Gigabyte Aouros 3080

Could you help with a resolve if you managed to fix the situation yourself?
 
PhonicHD said:
Hey, so i just got my Gigabyte 3080, just built my PC and have a similar issue, when idle it sits at around 50-57 degrees even when im just web browsing and such tried a fan curve with MSI to no avail. The fans ramp up then slow down then ramp up and it does this from the minute i switch my pc on. Funny cause when i first did my post and installed windows the fans didnt even kick in because i imagine it was not reaching temp for the stock curve.

Ive not updated and BIOS etc this build is still quite new, just wanna try get it fixed cause the noise of the fans is doing my head in and it seems rather high just to be sat idle.

I have the Gigabyte Aouros 3080

Could you help with a resolve if you managed to fix the situation yourself?
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Set the fan to 30% using a curve. You cant hear it and increase the curve over 50 degrees.
 
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