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If you set a custom fan curve do you lose the 0% fan mode when idle?
Not if the card supports it.
You can set what you like in MS Afterburner.
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If you set a custom fan curve do you lose the 0% fan mode when idle?
Unfortunately these cards don't scale well with power as even when shunt modded to 500w your looking at a 6-7% over stock.I've cancelled my Zotac pre-order. I wanted to do some heavy OC on this generation and the Zotac cooling looked pretty good. I mistakenly assumed that the benchmark would be FE and that PCB and cooling improvements would be on AIB cards. Obviously I wasn't able to check reviews and that before ordering.
Having seen the reviews and also knowing that EVGA, Gigabyte and Asus are doing a 3x8 pin model, I've gone for the Asus Strix 3080, non OC variant. It's the cheapest card with 3 pins that is currently available for pre order. The EVGA FTW3 is £10 cheaper, but cannot be pre ordered. If I'm able to get an EVGA before hand, I'll cancel my Asus.
If you set a custom fan curve do you lose the 0% fan mode when idle?
I've got the Zotac 3080 and compared my Horizon Zero Dawn FPS (around 70 most of the time) to hardware unboxed reviews of the FE and its pretty spot on (around 70 fps) its hard to gauge exactly as there is no prebuilt benchmark but I'll have a look at Haven or TimeSpy and post some benchmark results
Interesting benchmark results @ 4k ultra:
- Stock 75fps
- Power limits and temps maxed with 100% fan 75fps
- +700 memory with power,temp & 100% fan 72fps
I re-tested this a number of times with the same results, also worth mentioning that frequency was left stock as any increase causes crashed in HZD, watching the benchmarks run its boosting frequency around high 1800's to low 1900's, a very occasional peak into the 2000's
You do know the memory has error correcting so as you overclock the memory then once it reaches its maximum performance, after that it will start and get slower and slower as you raise the overclock?
Wasn't aware of that, I was testing in 100mhz increments and never noticed any meaningful gains from 0 - 700 but it did start to drop FPS the higher the memory frequency went so that would make sense, looking like little to no OC headroom on this card then.........
Afterburner was reporting "power" as the perfcap I believe.
Temps we're around 60 - 70 degrees with fans set to 100% but my card is vertically mounted so it could go cooler tbh
Overlocking these cards are weird. What might be happening is that cause you are at max overall card power, as you increase the memory frequency the memory uses more power so the boost drops to keep your card below the max envelope. Overall you then gain nothing in fps.
Yeah that was my assumption also, the increase power demands of the OC'd memory must be lowering average GPU frequency, I might export a few runs to CSV and average the data to find out.
its disappointing as I wanted to water cool this card in the future but not much point of that....even with an updated bios, should we get one, I heard zotac stripped quite a lot from the PCB so its not sounding like a good candidate.
Yeah lots of gaps on the zotac boards. They really cut them down for the budget