The Turing RTX 2080 Ti Owners Thread

[chaparral]

How many of you guys have had your 2080ti fail ?

As I picked up a 2080ti in my local store today about 10 times and just kept putting it back down on the shelf due to worrying from hearing about these cards failing...

 

[Strife212]

None of them fail except an extremely small first wave batch of the Founders Editions

 

[Mayh3M]

How many of you guys have had your 2080ti fail ?

As I picked up a 2080ti in my local store today about 10 times and just kept putting it back down on the shelf due to worrying from hearing about these cards failing...

None of them fail except an extremely small first wave batch of the Founders Editions

They do fail. My Strix 2080 Ti has caused my computer to hard lock / produce weird alien-like artefacting / screen flashes. Currently in the process of being RMAd. I want a replacement as the card is the best designed GPU I've ever used.

 

[Gerard]

None of them fail except an extremely small first wave batch of the Founders Editions

And you honestly believe that because that's the propaganda nvidia are peddling? They're not going to come out and say its a large scale issue even if it is, they'll stick to saying "a small batch of cards" and that's it. Even cards with the different ram have croaked, Kyle from hardocp's being one of them, and that's one of the newer cards in the different coloured box dying exactly the same way as these "small batch of first wave cards".

 

[ozzaman]

Is anyone experiencing coil whine on their cards?

My MSI Duke is suffering from pretty bad whine. I can hear it over all the fans, AIO/pump and even speakers. I do have an open air case (the Thermaltake P3) but Im positive I would hear it in a closed case too.

Its so bad the card will have to go back. Ive gamed for several hours but the noise won't subside. Will give it a go in a different system/PSU, but not holding out much hope.

 

[Distracted]

Is anyone experiencing coil whine on their cards?

My MSI Duke is suffering from pretty bad whine. I can hear it over all the fans, AIO/pump and even speakers. I do have an open air case (the Thermaltake P3) but Im positive I would hear it in a closed case too.

Its so bad the card will have to go back. Ive gamed for several hours but the noise won't subside. Will give it a go in a different system/PSU, but not holding out much hope.

You could also try really stressing it for a few hours. People have reported that coil whine went away afterwards.

Obviously this doesn't work for everyone but it works for some.

 

[tyler_jrb]

Is anyone experiencing coil whine on their cards?

My MSI Duke is suffering from pretty bad whine. I can hear it over all the fans, AIO/pump and even speakers. I do have an open air case (the Thermaltake P3) but Im positive I would hear it in a closed case too.

Its so bad the card will have to go back. Ive gamed for several hours but the noise won't subside. Will give it a go in a different system/PSU, but not holding out much hope.

Pretty normal with these high powered cards unfortunately. Had the same since the 1080's and 1080Ti's. Why i have had my case on the floor for some time now. As well as the rear of the case sealed and rear of the card foam stripped to minimise any whine so i cant hear it anymore.

It can as above get better with time. But yeah is annoying when its the loudest thing in the system.

 

[ozzaman]

You could also try really stressing it for a few hours. People have reported that coil whine went away afterwards.

Obviously this doesn't work for everyone but it works for some.

Pretty normal with these high powered cards unfortunately. Had the same since the 1080's and 1080Ti's. Why i have had my case on the floor for some time now. As well as the rear of the case sealed and rear of the card foam stripped to minimise any whine so i cant hear it anymore.

It can as above get better with time. But yeah is annoying when its the loudest thing in the system.

Thanks both. I genuinely thought that the higher end cards would eliminate this problem, but my former 1080ti had similarly loud whine and that was an ASUS. I kept that for months but eventually became sick of the noise and RMA'd it.

Between the 1080ti and the Duke i've been using a vanilla 1070 and that has next to no whine even under load, so I don't think my system is the root cause.

Thanks
O.

 

[Distracted]

Thanks both. I genuinely thought that the higher end cards would eliminate this problem, but my former 1080ti had similarly loud whine and that was an ASUS. I kept that for months but eventually became sick of the noise and RMA'd it.

Between the 1080ti and the Duke i've been using a vanilla 1070 and that has next to no whine even under load, so I don't think my system is the root cause.

Thanks
O.

I had a 1070 armor which had whine, but i got a bgrade 1080ti from ocul, presumably used, and it has none thankfully.

Tried both with the same components so it wasn't down to my pc. I sold the 1070 but it was the first time i had ever heard it.

 

[Raiden85]

My two 1080 Ti FE card's had a tiny bit of coil whine but have gone through 4x 2080 Ti FE cards and all 4 have had coil whine much worse than the 1080 Ti FE cards ever did. Once the fans spin up it tends to drown it out, plus I use headphones so I can't hear it while gaming so doesn't bother me that much.

Most of my cards whether AIB cards or FE cards have has some coil whine but it's never bothered me personally.

 

[Kaapstad]

How many of you guys have had your 2080ti fail ?

As I picked up a 2080ti in my local store today about 10 times and just kept putting it back down on the shelf due to worrying from hearing about these cards failing...

2080 Ti cards are just as reliable as other NVidia cards with a low failure return %.

Most of the failures did seem to come from the initial FE cards and cards using the reference PCB.

Gamers Nexus did do some work on cards that failed and found there was no single fault linking them, the causes were varied just like you would expect with any other card.

So to answer the question 2080 Ti cards do fail but is about 2% to 3% that are faulty.

Like all PC components you pay your money and take your chance and most of the time things work as they should.

 

[crinkleshoes]

Finally got my 2x RTX2080ti installed... but think I've done something dumb.

I see both cards listed in device manager... the nvlink adapter is connected... but there is no SLI option available in the control panel. And I don't seem to be getting SLI worthy performance.

How the heck do I get this working?

On other motherboards, this could happen by putting the second GPU in the wrong slot... but there is only 1 slot for 2nd GPU on this motherboard.

Z370 limitation? I don't think so... but only thing I can think of.

 

[tyler_jrb]

Finally got my 2x RTX2080ti installed... but think I've done something dumb.

I see both cards listed in device manager... the nvlink adapter is connected... but there is no SLI option available in the control panel. And I don't seem to be getting SLI worthy performance.

How the heck do I get this working?

On other motherboards, this could happen by putting the second GPU in the wrong slot... but there is only 1 slot for 2nd GPU on this motherboard.

Z370 limitation? I don't think so... but only thing I can think of.

Should run fine on z370 I would have thought. What board is it crinkle?

I suspect you have tried the obvious DDU and reinstalling drivers?

 

[crinkleshoes]

Should run fine on z370 I would have thought. What board is it crinkle?

I suspect you have tried the obvious DDU and reinstalling drivers?

Thanks, figured it out... PCIE NVMe SSD was knocking the second GPU down to 4x speed & that was stopping SLI from running.

Migrated to my SATA SSD (been years since I've run main OS off one of those) and it's working fine now!

I wanted the IPC of this CPU... seems i'll have to switch back to different platform to get the use I want

Dang it... oh well.

 

[tyler_jrb]

Thanks, figured it out... PCIE NVMe SSD was knocking the second GPU down to 4x speed & that was stopping SLI from running.

Migrated to my SATA SSD (been years since I've run main OS off one of those) and it's working fine now!

I wanted the IPC of this CPU... seems i'll have to switch back to different platform to get the use I want

Dang it... oh well.

Damn that sucks.

Strange though unless you are running other devices as it does have 16 for the pcie slots via cpu and 8 for the chipset.

I have my 2080Ti running at 16x with an m.2 and soundcard running as well.

Pcie config set to gen 3 in bios? I remember having similar issues before when I had SLI.

 

[crinkleshoes]

Yeah, it's not M.2... it's a 4x card... the latest optane thing... I'm sure that's why... if it was m.2 then I think it would be ok like you suggest.

It's ok... i'll run like this for now & then upgrade to the latest 18 core cpu when it's available.

Just annoying to have such a gaming limitation on the best gaming CPU :/

Even with SLI enabled... it seems to have absolutely no effect on the frame rate of BFV with raytracing enabled... so complete waste anyway

Damn you Nvidia... give me a feature I'm really excited about, charge me a fortune for it... then let it play like a pile of dog poo

 

[tyler_jrb]

Yeah, it's not M.2... it's a 4x card... the latest optane thing... I'm sure that's why... if it was m.2 then I think it would be ok like you suggest.

It's ok... i'll run like this for now & then upgrade to the latest 18 core cpu when it's available.

Just annoying to have such a gaming limitation on the best gaming CPU :/

Even with SLI enabled... it seems to have absolutely no effect on the frame rate of BFV with raytracing enabled... so complete waste anyway

Damn you Nvidia... give me a feature I'm really excited about, charge me a fortune for it... then let it play like a pile of dog poo

Ahh that’s why I was confused . Yeah that will be why.

Wow what . Why I got rid of SLI a few years ago just not worth it anymore.

I hope they fix that as you’d expect both cards to work together with RTX cores just like SLI does normally. If it doesn’t then RTX is even worse than expected.

RTX with super SLI bridge. But RTX itself doesn’t scale in SLI. Nvidia...

 

[Kaapstad]

Ahh that’s why I was confused . Yeah that will be why.

Wow what . Why I got rid of SLI a few years ago just not worth it anymore.

I hope they fix that as you’d expect both cards to work together with RTX cores just like SLI does normally. If it doesn’t then RTX is even worse than expected.

RTX with super SLI bridge. But RTX itself doesn’t scale in SLI. Nvidia...

I have not see anything yet to test RTX in mGPU.

 

[Beeney]

My Zotac 2080TI has started Failing 2 days ago getting the Artifacts etc, Been fine for first 2 10 days but now starting to go, Will speak to OCuk monday and hopefully can get a RMA sorted, Gonna ask to swap out for the EVGA one as its the Same price

 

[subcon959]

Even with SLI enabled... it seems to have absolutely no effect on the frame rate of BFV with raytracing enabled... so complete waste anyway

Damn you Nvidia... give me a feature I'm really excited about, charge me a fortune for it... then let it play like a pile of dog poo

That's because you have to switch BFV to DX11 to do SLI, which of course then turns DXR off totally defeating the purpose.