Palit RTX 5080 fan issue / maybe overheating?

[bobert50]

My step son purchased a Palit RTX 5080 Gaming Pro 16gb around 7 months ago from OCUK. Performance wise it seems great.

However, it seems to have developed a fan issue where the fans are spinning really, really fast and loud in-game (3919 RPM just now).

This is in a really high end gaming case with plenty of cooling. It seems to be ramping up to crazy volumes once the GPU temperature reaches 70c.

Would anyone know if this is going to end up being an RMA job or a known issue?

 

[Drumroll]

RMA I guess. Possibly a repaste could help, but I wouldn’t do it if still under warranty.

 

[Purgatory]

My step son purchased a Palit RTX 5080 Gaming Pro 16gb around 7 months ago from OCUK. Performance wise it seems great.

However, it seems to have developed a fan issue where the fans are spinning really, really fast and loud in-game (3919 RPM just now).

This is in a really high end gaming case with plenty of cooling. It seems to be ramping up to crazy volumes once the GPU temperature reaches 70c.

Would anyone know if this is going to end up being an RMA job or a known issue?

It has a dual BIOS,

BIOS 1: Performance Mode, BIOS 2:Silent Mode


Maybe get him to turn off the pc fully flip the BIOS switch to 2 Silent mode and see how it goes. The card should get a bit warmer but quieter.

Worth a test, maybe he also needs better airflow in the case.

 

[tamzzy]

if this has only recently been an issue then my guess would be that the thermal paste on the gpu core has pumped out
nvidia no longer displays their hotspot temps
but with a 70c core temp and if there is thermal paste pump out, the hotspot temps can be in excess of 30c delta...
,,,putting the hotspot temps at >100c = crazy fans

you can diy repaste the gpu core, but that would invalidate your warranty
personally, if this was my card and within warranty period, i would give ocuk a call and see if they can sort out an rma

 

[bobert50]

It has a dual BIOS,

BIOS 1: Performance Mode, BIOS 2:Silent Mode


Maybe get him to turn off the pc fully flip the BIOS switch to 2 Silent mode and see how it goes. The card should get a bit warmer but quieter.

Worth a test, maybe he also needs better airflow in the case.

Thank you for the suggestion. Tried this and it didn’t help, sadly.

 

[bobert50]

Thank you for all the replies. I’m going to start the RMA process tomorrow. It’s under warranty so makes no sense to start repeating the fan in the hope of improvement imo.

 

[bobert50]

Now started the RMA process. Fingers crossed get it sorted soonish! I've absolutely no idea how it even works now or the protocol with modern GPU returns. I'm very out of touch with it all...

 

[Kirby Wurm]

Good luck with the RMA. My brother had a Sapphire 9070 XT that was extremely loud from day one when under load. He requested a replacement but was told that as the performance was as expected it was "within spec", despite the fact that it's volume was far louder than shown in any review, or experienced by other users (including my other brother).

In his case he was able to return it regardless as it was within 14 days. Here's hoping that they will agree it falls within warranty terms in your case!

 

[bobert50]

Good luck with the RMA. My brother had a Sapphire 9070 XT that was extremely loud from day one when under load. He requested a replacement but was told that as the performance was as expected it was "within spec", despite the fact that it's volume was far louder than shown in any review, or experienced by other users (including my other brother).

In his case he was able to return it regardless as it was within 14 days. Here's hoping that they will agree it falls within warranty terms in your case!

ooph, thank you for the comment... I really hope it doesn't end up going that way

 

[sandys]

Make sure you don't have any utilities adjusting the fan curve, I had that card and it was only ever noisy when I put fans upto 70% for OCing (I don't know RPM as I did not pay attention to it, just %), using HWinfo you can watch the temps of the memory and chip, with fast fans mine would not hit 70C but it was loud, what is your fan speed when you think it is loud. In norma use though it was never that bad.

That said I did undervolt it but it lives at 3Ghz+ with a 3Ghz OC on RAM so it still hits TDP limits.

It is quite easy to strip down and repaste if needed, I put mine on water cooling in the end.

 

[bobert50]

Make sure you don't have any utilities adjusting the fan curve, I had that card and it was only ever noisy when I put fans upto 70% for OCing (I don't know RPM as I did not pay attention to it, just %), using HWinfo you can watch the temps of the memory and chip, with fast fans mine would not hit 70C but it was loud, what is your fan speed when you think it is loud. In norma use though it was never that bad.

That said I did undervolt it but it lives at 3Ghz+ with a 3Ghz OC on RAM so it still hits TDP limits.

It is quite easy to strip down and repaste if needed, I put mine on water cooling in the end.

Thank you for this feedback much appreciated.

I just think repasting will probably be last resort because of the warranty and it still being pretty new.

 

[Colapops]

Just install some software to control the fan curve? 70C isn't too hot for this GPU surely?

 

[sandys]

Nope I think 80 odd is fine but the memory will crap out if overclocking and it gets warm. Here is a table of a few cards, if you are hitting 3k rpm it sounds too high

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5080 Gaming OC Review

The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5080 Gaming OC comes with an improved triple-fan cooler and features a dual BIOS, so you can enable "quiet" mode. Gigabyte was also generous with the power limit, you can run at up to 450 W, which is the highest of all the cards tested today.

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