NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

ronne said:

Any of you homies got any gigabrain solutions to fans making weird harmonic droning sounds? Like 90% of the time it's pretty silent, but there's a certain speed they run at sometimes that does something fuckin weird and it drones/whines like crazy and I can't figure out what is vibrating or whatever and causing it. It goes away immediately if you ramp the RPMs up higher, so I've taken to just leaving everything run at ~50% 24/7 to avoid it, but I'd prefer to go back to variable speeds once I figure out wtf is doing this.

Is this just a replace all the fans problem or am I missing something obvious here?

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It isn't the fan but coil whine.

Xexx said:

This sounds so high to me

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Oh, believe me, I was freaking out about it as well at first. Thought about redoing fans, adding a super high-end AIO and thermal paste, etc. After doing more research and such, it really isn't any sort of thing that is going to be that measurable over the lifetime of the processor. Maybe it shaves off a year or so of lifetime, at absolute worst? By all accounts, you're going to replace it for simply being outdated tech LONG before temperature has any sort of meaningful impact.

I had my 3570k in a mid-tower from 2001 that probably weighed 900 lbs. and had almost zero ventilation, aside from 1 125mm exhaust fan. It lasted nearly a decade and still ran fan when I finally replaced it with the 5900x. I only replaced it due to its age, not because of any sort of breakdown of the CPU.

Melicant said:

Out of curiosity, what is your memory junction at while mining eth?

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WAT?

Melicant said:

I get your post was a joke... I was still curious about your memory junction temp (unless you don't even really have a 3080 or mine it).

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I have a 3080 and I mine it. WTF is "memory junction temp"?

jayrebb said:

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later fuckers

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Sincerely hope it works out, man. It's tough to live up to FOH and sometimes our own bar at times.

Melicant said:

Get HWINFO and look at "Memory Junction Temperature" for your GPU. Are you really running that stock with no tuning for mining? Just based on that screenshot you are almost certainly thermal throttling your card, and hitting temps way too high on your memory junction. You should try to keep it under 96c. To put it in perspective, I hit 94c on the junction while my GPU temp is at around 40. I get well over 90 MH/s with 420+ efficiency with a custom curve and much lower temps.

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I bet you get 420 efficiency all right.

Utnayan said:

I bet you get 420 efficiency all right.

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Sorry I saw that and had to take the pot shot. (No Pun Intended) it was early and couldn't fall back asleep.