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RTX 2080 fan issues

Vinno

Vinno

Vinno

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Hello my good sirs,

In the past couple of days I have noticed something very odd happening with my GPU and I can't figure it out at all.

Now, firstly, I play with closed back headphones so this may have been going on for quite a while and I just didn't know about it.

So, the other night I was playing Snowrunner and had to take my headphones off briefly - I noticed a fan in the PC case ramp up to what I can only assume was 100% and then down to normal levels again. So I kept my headphones off for a bit, and it happened again... and again... etc.

I did some rummaging around in the case when it happened and narrowed it down to the GPU. I then was able to narrow it down to just 1 of the 2 fans (the one closest to the rear of the case).

So basically when I am playing, one of my GPU fans is continuously cycling between normal speeds and 100% with a few seconds gap in between. This doesn't show up on MSI afterburner (fan is solidly at 75% or so) and the temp of the card seems fine.

It doesn't seem to be affecting the performance of the system at all and frame rates are solid. I really have no idea what it could be.

Anyone ever heard of this happening before?

Cheers.
 
if the card is new out of the box then something is a miss, if its still in warranty i'd be contacting who you bought it from and ask for a refund or replacement due to fan revving issues.

funny you say the fan closest to the i/o shield is the one playing up as that fan should be controlled by the core temp so if the fan is ramping up some thing is wrong with the core or the software from the manufacturing stage has got mixed up, in any case if the card is still under warranty try to return it.
 
I just want to update this thread in the event that someone ends up here with the same problem.

I THINK that I have fixed this.

Playing Resident Evil 3 was impossible with the fans constantly revving up so last night I decided to replace the thermal paste.

When I got the card apart it kind of looks like a whole portion of the chip wasn't covered with any paste at all.

https://imgur.com/mUwlkNI
https://imgur.com/bSgplwE

Quite worrying.

Anyway, I re-applied some paste and when testing the temperature never went above 75 (previously 83) and the fan thing didn't happen again.

I'll have to test it some more but it seems to have done the trick.
 
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