[SOLVED] EVGA 1080 ti SC2 - Running over 80C with no OC

[Kirby Wurm]

Definitely an issue with the card. My Palit Gamerock 1080 Ti doesn't have the best cooler but keeps temps around 74°c with 56% fan speed (clearly audible but not terrible volume).

 

[HRL]

What’s the card below the GPU? Soundcard?

Able to move it to another PCI-E slot?

 

[agnes]

What’s the card below the GPU? Soundcard?

Able to move it to another PCI-E slot?

Micro ATX (AsRock Z370M Pro 4), GPU 1-2, 1xPCI wifi card (literally about 1" long, barely covers half the first fan) and then Xonar STX ii in the bottom PCI slot. Asus Z390-E Gaming should be here on Tuesday, at which point the wifi card goes in the bin (thank god) and the sound card moved to the furthest slot down.

 

[Sasahara]

Yes the Asus Xonar STX ii will have some effect as it is restricting airflow.

But I'd expect some the difference to be 1-5c worse. When I have had SLI/crossfire set ups and have had the 2nd card idle the temps are up roughly 5c compared to not having the 2nd card in at all.

Even with that potential effect, the temp do look a little high. Have you used compressed air to clean it out?

 

[mmj_uk]

Try removing your soundcard and see if that helps, this is why OEM's still use blowers multi-fan coolers need a lot of airflow to work well. It looks like your GPU is situated bang on the dead zone (middle) of the lower intake fan.

 

[mikeo]

Tend to agree with others, temps seem way to high.

Don't have the same card, but I do have an MSI 1080 Ti gaming. And on a custom fan curve, 60% at 60C and 70% at 70C (still pretty quiet)... in demanding games it hits low 60's at worst (though never very warm in this part of Scotland).

Good luck.

 

[agnes]

The USPS system boggles the mind, everything (including the new case) was meant to be here late this week (Thursday'ish, 22nd). But now more stuff is arriving today on a Sunday. I miss Royal Mail... So, that means the CPU AIO, new mobo and the delidding kit. Fans and GPU thermal stuff should be here tomorrow.

So I did some further testing in the mean time, I tried these variations. Case fans to max, Sound card removed, sound card removed with all PCI brackets removed, and obviously as per normal. I also tried with no case side and no sound card... STILL hot.

All wielded essentially the same results, **** is running hot. So I'll keep it at default profile (loud) as not to run into too much thermal throttling and I'll update once I've replaced the GPU thermals. I'm hoping it fixes it as I really don't fancy an RMA jobbie.

Tend to agree with others, temps seem way to high.

Don't have the same card, but I do have an MSI 1080 Ti gaming. And on a custom fan curve, 60% at 60C and 70% at 70C (still pretty quiet)... in demanding games it hits low 60's at worst (though never very warm in this part of Scotland).

Good luck.

I'm on an island called Alameda in CA, it's around 12-15C here right now. Has been most of the time recently. Our inside temp is around 20C so still pretty brisk.

 

[LuckyBenski]

I don't know why no one has suggested it might be that the existing TIM has had its connection compromised by vibration during carriage. Used to happen a lot when card manufacturers were using very hard, dry paste (not sure if they still do). You drop your card on the desk or knock it around in a box, the contact between the die and hardened paste is compromised and temperatures climb. A simple repaste would sort it out if this is the case, with any old paste really. It used to be the standard first move before use, with certain manufacturers' cards.

 

[agnes]

Well, I'm done gaming for the night, installed new AIO and new mobo which was fun to tinker with. But the GPU got on my nerves. So I've ripped it out, paste doesn't arrive until tomorrow but I am too impatient... Heres what I found. Personally, it looks fine? Maybe a bit shy on the paste side. But... The screws were VERY light, barely any force needed, less than a single fingers strength to undo them. And it looks too neat for a factory job. What do you guys think?

 

[Bluntwrapped]

I have a 1080 FTW which was the same to begin with - 80c+ no matter what I tried. Stripped it down, repasted with Thermal Grizzly and boom 60c max.

 

[agnes]

I have a 1080 FTW which was the same to begin with - 80c+ no matter what I tried. Stripped it down, repasted with Thermal Grizzly and boom 60c max.

Interesting, the thermal guff arrives today. I'll only replace the thermal pads visible in the pictures, no point taking off the backplate and heat sink bracket. If I still have issues, I'll then bother.

Fingers crossed this sorts it.

 

[zipp0r]

the paste in the center looks like a thick dry patch. a good paste and making sure cooler is clamped tight should make temps better.

 

[agnes]

Interestingggg, new thermal pads and paste applied, ran furmark for 15 mins with all case fans at silent (30%), there is a 280 radiator infront of the GPU now. And even then, it didn't break 75C at 60% fan speed.

It seems sorted! I'll now run Hitman 2 as I did previously and upload the results.

 

[agnes]

Ignore the random blips with fans going up and down, I was trying with pretty much no case fans (25%) to 60% case fans. Temp barely changes. Seems to be solved! 75C was the max I hit, 65% fan speed is also the max I saw.

I've got some better fans to replace the cack Nzxt Kraken X64 rev 2 fans being delivered tomorrow, and add additional case fans as aside from the AIO, I only have one rear Noctua 120mm exhaust fan.

 

[Kirby Wurm]

Glad you got it sorted! Tempted to change the paste on my 1080 Ti, it doesn't Bhavesh a warranty anyway and a few degrees off would help reduce noise a tad (not that it's intrusive).

 

[V F]

Ignore the random blips with fans going up and down, I was trying with pretty much no case fans (25%) to 60% case fans. Temp barely changes. Seems to be solved! 75C was the max I hit, 65% fan speed is also the max I saw.

Sounds about right for 75c. My 1080Ti FTW3 will only hit 75c with extremely demanding games otherwise mostly 60 - 65c. Though, the fans on it hits at most 1500rpm at 75c and mostly 900 - 1100 with most games with one rear case fan running at 5xxrpm and the rest off.

How loud is 23xxrpm for it?

 

[agnes]

Sounds about right for 75c. My 1080Ti FTW3 will only hit 75c with extremely demanding games otherwise mostly 60 - 65c. Though, the fans on it hits at most 1500rpm at 75c and mostly 900 - 1100 with most games with one rear case fan running at 5xxrpm and the rest off.

How loud is 23xxrpm for it?

It's barely audible during OW. Been playing for the past 30 or so minutes and it's at 50% fan speed and 61C. Hitman 2 didn't stress it enough to cap at 75C.

What do you mean 23xxrpm? 100%? It sounds like a bloody whiny tornado! lol

 

[agnes]

Quick question, which doesn't warrant a new thread. Can you tell precision X or other software to run the card underclocked whilst not active? Mine sits at 1556 on the core when not used. Not essential. Just curious.

 

[agnes]

It's barely audible during OW. Been playing for the past 30 or so minutes and it's at 50% fan speed and 61C. Hitman 2 didn't stress it enough to cap at 75C.

What do you mean 23xxrpm? 100%? It sounds like a bloody whiny tornado! lol

Answered my own Q, optimal power instead of prefer maximum in nvidia control panel

 

[Jfan]

yeh I was getting wierd crashes on my gtx1080ti, and it was getting temps like yours used too. so I decided to slap an unused corsair aio water cooler on it, when I took off the stock cooler I found there was hardly any paste on it, almost transparent coating, it was an evga card also
since I did the cooler swap, my temps have been cut in half, and it has not crashed once, also so much quieter

I think on the picture you posted there might of been too much paste actually, and it looked like there was a dry spot in the middle, maybe it was because the cooler was not tightened down enough?

anyway glad you got it sorted

good thing with the evga cards, taking off the cooler does not void your warranty