Hot idle GPU

[Nitefly]

Hi there - just hoping someone could give a steer whether anything in particular is awry with these voltages + temps etc.

My 3090 is noisy so I'd ideally like to set the fans to off when browsing the web etc. Even when at 'nil load' it'll creepy on up to 80+ degrees and then the fans will come on full blast to protect it.... not ideal, because my fans therefore have to be kept on to stop heat escalation.

I'm planning to re-paste / replace fans anyway, but any thoughts? Thanks.

 

[Nitefly]

Thanks @Aretak - yes, I'm using fan control for that purpose, which FYI is better than MSI afterburner because it allows you to set fan curves for case, CPU and GPU fans based on combined CPU and GPU temps (i.e. you can mix fan profiles together). There's a good vid showing how to do this here if you're interested; I've tried to link to the correct time:

 

[Nitefly]

i hate to break it to you but 114w is not an idle gpu, mine uses 8w

Thanks. I'm hooked up to a 4k monitor and the wattage reduces dramatically when changing the resolution to, say, 1080p (down to around 20-30 watts). Edit: ditto, reducing the refresh rate from 160hz to 60hz also gave a massive drop to 20-30 watts.

I did a clean driver install and no improvements.

I also updated the GPU bios... no improvement.

I'm assuming that it's simply working hard to do 160hz at 4k.

 

[Nitefly]

Just to update: I’m reasonably pretty happy with the card pulling 20-30w at idle with 60hz. When I swap out the pads and fans on the GPU I can see whether this helps me keep the card cooler! New fans arrived today.