This past weekend I purchased a new MSI 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio. I am upgrading from a MSI 1080 Ti Sea Hawk X. Prior to the MSI 2080 Ti I wanted to say with a hybrid card and went with a EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra Hybrid. Since May of this year I have went through 2 EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra Hybrid because of the noise emitting from the pump on the GPU. Both EVGA's were purchased new from Amazon and returned. My MSI 1080Ti hybrid is quiet.
Onto the MSI 2080Ti. The installation was a breeze. Using MSI Afterburner I was idling in the mid 50's Celsius and the fans on the MSI 2080 Ti were not moving. No problem I thought I would set a fan curve in Afterburner. When I first made a fan curve it would activate and quickly go back to 0 % speed. I cannot even set a constant fan speed (ie set 90% fan speed and when I hit apply it moves back to 0). Presently the only thing that works is adjusting the fan speed update time from 5000 ms to 100 ms. Even with this work around the speed of the fan keeps fluctuating from the fan curve speed to 0 and you can hear the fan speeds increase and decrease..
My MSI 1080 Ti Sea Hawk X and both EVGA 2080Ti's did not have this issue and I had complete control over setting the fan curve and fan speed.
Things I have done:
- Used DDU to remove and install new GPU driver.
- Removed and installed current MSI Afterburner from MSI.
- Spoke with MSI support and they want me to send the GPU back to them or return to the seller (Microcenter). Support also said the fans do not come on till they hit 70 degrees Celius.
There are other owners on the MSI forum experiencing the same issue. That is were I found the partial workaround to adjust the fan speed update time to 100 ms and that does not work 100%.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Update (9/2/19): Returned the MSI GPU and purchased a EVGA 2080Ti FTW3 Ultra. I have complete control of setting a fan curve and set fan speed. Problem fixed.
Onto the MSI 2080Ti. The installation was a breeze. Using MSI Afterburner I was idling in the mid 50's Celsius and the fans on the MSI 2080 Ti were not moving. No problem I thought I would set a fan curve in Afterburner. When I first made a fan curve it would activate and quickly go back to 0 % speed. I cannot even set a constant fan speed (ie set 90% fan speed and when I hit apply it moves back to 0). Presently the only thing that works is adjusting the fan speed update time from 5000 ms to 100 ms. Even with this work around the speed of the fan keeps fluctuating from the fan curve speed to 0 and you can hear the fan speeds increase and decrease..
My MSI 1080 Ti Sea Hawk X and both EVGA 2080Ti's did not have this issue and I had complete control over setting the fan curve and fan speed.
Things I have done:
- Used DDU to remove and install new GPU driver.
- Removed and installed current MSI Afterburner from MSI.
- Spoke with MSI support and they want me to send the GPU back to them or return to the seller (Microcenter). Support also said the fans do not come on till they hit 70 degrees Celius.
There are other owners on the MSI forum experiencing the same issue. That is were I found the partial workaround to adjust the fan speed update time to 100 ms and that does not work 100%.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Update (9/2/19): Returned the MSI GPU and purchased a EVGA 2080Ti FTW3 Ultra. I have complete control of setting a fan curve and set fan speed. Problem fixed.
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