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You didn't read the thread.
Ah I misunderstood.
And magically all fans from all vendors can't go below 30% The hell they can't. Would be such an extreme coincidence if all of the various fans on the market were manufactured to the same physical limit of 30% Not to mention there is plenty of examples of fans that can go lower - like for example basically all the CPU fans. And even my specific experience of old GTX 580 when I replaced the stock cooler with Arctic accelero aftermarket tripple fan cooler, there the fans originally couldn't go below 30% But after I flashed the modifies BIOS to the card (which was still possible in the old days) they suddenly could go much lower. Like 600rpm or so if I remember correctly. And "incredibly" the card didn't break and actually worked flawlessly and quietly for a long time. This 30% is total BS which has 0 basis even if you are trying to take into consideration criteria like card longevity, physical limits of the fans or optimal noise vs. cooling performance.
Except there are Nvidia Founders Edition cards that suffer with the same problem i.e. of loud 1200 minimum rpm and have people complaining about it.
Well "Isn't this just normal fan limitations." in the context of this thread heavily implied to me, that you meant the 30% limit is justified by physical limits of the fans. Which it isn't and I considered it important to point out. Then along the way I got carried away to include other hypothetical reasons why one could assume 30% limit to be justified and provided counter arguments to them as well. They were clearly not addressed to you but to Nvidia.
Since I am running open case I only have CPU cooler (two NF-A12 fans) at 22% or about 500rpm and then PSU which is 0 rpm at idle. So at idle my system is practically inaudible. And when I was still running the modded RTX 3080 (also with two NF-A12 fans), the system was usually almost quiet even during typical gaming scenarios (much quieter than the minimum rpm at this Inno3D 5080)
Next time you watch videos/browse internet and the fans randomly turns on, could you check how much power its using and temp?
Isn't open case counter productive if you value low noise?
hwinfo is saying 1295 on fan one, 1340ish fan two, 1350ish fan3.
In my experience it isn't exactly 50C no. It seems to go up to around 56-57C according to afterburner and hwinfo, fan turns on, the fan drops the temps to low 40s, then turns off again. Rinse and repeat when the GPU slowly makes it back to late 50s again.
That really sux for such an expensive card. If you want to get rid of the fans ramping up during "idle" I recommend to try what I did. Just place one 120mm fan (or basically any fan) above the venting area at the backplate and this should should get rid of the problem completely and will also help to reduce rpm /temps during heavy load. Luckily it seems nowadays all 50 series cards have this venting area so it's a cheap workaround as long as you don't mind how it looks.
I'm not sure I could even really fit one as my cpu cooler is quite large (noctua d15). I guess I might, but it'd sure be tight.
It depends. If I were sitting right next to the side which is opened than possibly yes. But since HDDs (the most invasive disruptor of quietness in a PC) can nowadays be avoided, open case is not an issue during idle. And during load the ambient temps in an open case should be always better than temps in a closed case even in a one with good airflow, so the fans need to work little less. With my 3080 which was modded to be quiet, noise was never an issue. That is party because I sit opposite to the opened side of the PC and also some distance from it, so it works for my specific case.
