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No, but most likely thermal limited on boostMy Blower RTX 2080 consistently stays at 84c during gameplay, is that too high for long term use?
My Blower RTX 2080 consistently stays at 84c during gameplay, is that too high for long term use?
It probably needs a re-paste/seat on the heatsink.
Ja, it's a compromise to keep noise levels down that almost all blower cards hold 84C. This was around 45% fan on the Pascal blower. Increasing the fan to 100% cools the card down a lot, but you also have to live with the noise. It isn't the same annoying pitch the FX 5800 was, but it is at least just as loud.That's the default target temp for all reference nvidia cards. Most blower coolers are incapable of keeping 180W+ TDP cards from hitting this limit, so on cards like the 2080/2080Ti, you'll just see them constantly at that 84c target while the fans ramp up accordingly to try and compensate, along with thermal throttling dropping the boost steps to lower clocks/voltage/etc.
tl;dr
Card's functioning as expected of a 215W card with a blower cooler. It's not idea for performance, but it's nothing to worry about unless you're planning on keeping that card for way longer than its useful life (~5+yrs).
I swore off blower style coolers after my experience with the Gainward GTX 680. It's usually worth paying the premium for better open-air designs.
My Blower RTX 2080 consistently stays at 84c during gameplay, is that too high for long term use?
Not to sound redundant...but what paste did you use? I had purchased a used 1080 over a year ago. When I installed it, it would get to 100c. I then resat the heatsink and now get a constant 64c while in Furmark. I used Thermal Grizzly. It was recommend to me, and I'm recommending now. Just wow! Granted, it could simply just be a limit to it's cooling.
What was your experience, that it was simply too loud?
I went with the blower design when I got a 680. It actually paid off big time because I ended up doing triple-SLI with 3 680 cards. New cards had cryptocurrency-mining inflated prices right at the time I was looking to upgrade and my X99 HEDT board could handle a 3rd card (was already using 2). I still use the three in my backup computer. Running 3 cards side-by-side would never have worked if they all had non-blower coolers. Being able to actually use the PCI-E slot below your videocard is nice, even if you're not trying to do multi-GPU.
Plus you get a free ring every time you clean it.
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Did anyone ask you if you lived near an airport when you had that triple SLI set up?
People just have different standards I guess. I spent years running a dual-Xeon system with 2x 60x38mm Delta EHE fans, so pretty much everything is whisper quiet compared to that.
What was your experience, that it was simply too loud?