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MSI Afterburner Fan Curve Issue / Help

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Hello,

For some reason my Asus Rog Strix 2080 Ti fan curve with MSI Afterburner is messed up.

Below is a picture of my fan curve.

https://ibb.co/2q4DmLM

The fan speed stays within the limits (max 70% / lowest 22%), but the fan speed changes with each temperate change and not only when it should do based on the curve.

It was working fine yesterday and today after pressing the Performance button on the GPU it messed up, but I don’t think this is the issue that caused it.

Any ideas?
 
So apparently I didn't click on Performance mode button, that was the RGB lights toggle on/off on the GPU. Which means, why is my fan curve messed up?
 
I have tried everything... it just doesn't work.


I realised that the fan speed % stays within the minimum and maximum levels... hysteresis works... but for some reason it decides on it's on curve on when to go up and down... I've even switched between Performance/Quiet Modes, no change there... when I un-click the Auto button on the fan section the fan speed % doesn't move at all, only when it's on Auto but not on the curve %....I can manually set a fan speed to a static %... the same issue overall persists with GPU Tweak...I just don't know what to do, it baffles me.


All this happened after I pressed the RGB on/off button on the GPU.
 
I'll fish up something I wrote a little while ago to see if it's of any help to you. It deals with how the curve changes based on temperature among other things. It's very finicky right now.

As for fan control you have to actually get it looking like so in order to have your own fan profile active:

rUlrVrf.png


Which is counter-intuitive because Auto seems to be highlighted. But anyway that's how it works.
 
And this is about the curve and temperature among other things (pick and choose as you like):

Picked up a trick with power limited or temperature (cooling) limited Pascal cards (my power limited EVGA GTX 1070 SC and more recently a temperature limited little Zotac GTX 1060 I've been undervolting and overclocking for someone) which might work for Turing as well if anyone wants to try. Did it through OC Scanner on Afterburner 4.6.0.14315 BETA 12 (29-01-2019).

As Agnes already said, don't touch the voltage. But for this method - lower the Power Limit to 90% and set fan RPM manually to the maximum you're going to want them for 24/7. Then start OC Scanner.

OC Scanner will then recommend an undervolt/overclock better suited for the card, possibly with surprising results. When the scan is complete, do not apply it. Start up Heaven (for example) in windowed mode so you can have Afterburner and the OC Scanner curve window on top of it. Let the card get as hot as it's going to get*. Two runs of Heaven should do it. Then do the following:

* This is so that when you do actually apply later on, the recommended curve won't change as much as if you apply it with drastically different temps.

In OC Scanner curve window, select a voltage/frequency point in the curve of slightly lesser voltage than stock max voltage. For GTX 1060/1070, max stock voltage was 1.05v I think, so I chose 0.983v and 1.0v respectively. Once you've highlighted a point by clicking it, hit L on keyboard to lock it to that. Now go to Afterburner and increase Power Limit to 105% (or more if you want, doesn't matter). Only then hit apply in Afterburner to apply the recommended curve. You can then also change the fan profile to 1:1 or thereabouts.

Now watch the benchmark for a while. Is it sticking to the voltage and frequency you chose? Does Power usage stay below the limit you set (105% or more) even when it spikes? If it's not doing it, you need to choose a point with slightly less voltage. If it's fine, continue:

Lower all the points to the right of it, doesn't matter how much lower, just lower than your chosen point. Then hit L on keyboard again, to unlock. And apply in Afterburner again, and you'll see all the points to the right smoothed out. Now you've set a max voltage that is also unlocked to allow the card to use lower frequencies and less voltages when there's no need for much power.

What happens this way is that not only can OC Scanner recommend a higher frequency at less voltage, but the card will be stable once in games because you've increased the Power Limit for some headroom, afterwards. YMMV with each card. The better the card's power design and implementation, and the better its cooling, the less this will probably apply to it.

Note: in Afterburner 4.6.0 Beta, the Profile "lock" icon must be unlocked, if you wish Afterburner to apply your profile every startup.
 
I'll fish up something I wrote a little while ago to see if it's of any help to you. It deals with how the curve changes based on temperature among other things. It's very finicky right now.

As for fan control you have to actually get it looking like so in order to have your own fan profile active:

rUlrVrf.png


Which is counter-intuitive because Auto seems to be highlighted. But anyway that's how it works.


Thank you. I will try this and see what happens. It's just weird why this has happened... it makes no sense... it's like there is another curve somewhere which is overriding everything.
 
Note I have unlinked the Power Limit and Temperature Limit bars, and pushed up Temp Limit to max (92). That may be of help too if you haven't done that.
 
Note I have unlinked the Power Limit and Temperature Limit bars, and pushed up Temp Limit to max (92). That may be of help too if you haven't done that.
I've tried this, unfortunately it didn't work. My Afterburner look like yours as well... I just don't get, it doesn't follow the fan curve, it starts off correct then afterwards it increments per +1 temperature increase and not the curve's increase.
 
I've tried this, unfortunately it didn't work. My Afterburner look like yours as well... I just don't get, it doesn't follow the fan curve, it starts off correct then afterwards it increments per +1 temperature increase and not the curve's increase.

Try this: go to your custom fan profile window, and double click on an empty space on the graph. It should change to a stepped curve. Think that might do what you're aiming for.
 
Try this: go to your custom fan profile window, and double click on an empty space on the graph. It should change to a stepped curve. Think that might do what you're aiming for.

You my sir, are a genius, it worked!! I can't believe it was so simple, looking at it... it makes complete sense!! Thank you a million times, I hope someone buys you at least a pint this weekend!! Thank you!!
 
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