GoodBoy
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Yep.All your charts look completely normal to me. Few things I'm noting. First off, it's a Zotac 3090. AFAIK Zotac is one of the cheaper AIB solutions where you pay less and you get less cooling performance.
gg Samsung 8nmKeep in mind that even the better-tested and more expensive AIB cards can get pretty hot and pretty loud, especially with the 3090 is concerned.
For 3xxx cards, the Fe's anyway used a cheaper thermal pad for the vRam, that iirc has a 5 to 8 W/mK transfer rate. The replacement pads were 12.8 W/mK transfer rate, and it was a HUGE difference. Videos on youtube of others doing it, they demonstrate the same improvements I saw. For a Zotac, I don't know the specs on those thermal pads, but his temps look like mine did before replacing them.Second, is that you will most likely not see a measurable difference from swapping out thermal paste. It's never a bad idea to refresh thermal paste but nine times out of ten, there's simply not going to be a difference. When I worked in the IT shop and people paid me just to swap out their GPU's thermal paste, I've began to consider it to be a "meme" fix.
This is what I ordered:
and I know that since then, even better thermal pads are out there. Kritical sells 20 W/mK ones in various thicknesses.
Pretty much. But it can be improved by a significant amount. Heat is what ages silicon chips. I read somewhere a long time ago that every 10C cuts the life in half. Or every 10C lowered doubles the life (up to some point or threshold, which I do not know). For a GPU, it can extend the overclocking headroom, and same is true for the vRam.it's more or less where it should be.
And you are right that the OP doesn't really need to be concerned, as those are expected temps for those GPU's. But for the 3xxx generation of Nvidia GPUs, the thermal re-work will make a noticeable difference.
Click hereI'm borrowing a friends 3090Ti because he got it for super cheap and it won't fit in his case (lol.) So I'm "testing" it for him while he waits to get a new case and power supply.
It's a Zotac model, which is unnecessarily long.
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I reduced the power limit to 80% of its max because it saved me 100w of power and heat, and about 30mhz on the max boost clock. Maybe you should try the same? It's silent as can be in my case. I know I could fine tune the voltage curve a lot better, but I only have it for a week or so and I didn't want to bother.
It's being used mostly for AI image generation.
Edit: oh yeah, my ambient temp is likely WAY hotter than yours as due to a quirk of wiring of our old house - I can't have AC in the office where my computer lives.
and you can toggle the field thru Min, Max, Avg, Current (unmarked). Then take your reading again after putting a load on it, set the fields to Max for temps and wattages. For Voltages it's a good idea to set it to Minimum, to make sure your PSU doesn't drop voltage too much when under load. Good troubleshooting method for odd GPU issues, to rule out the PSU's voltage regulation. Mine never drops more than .1 V under load. If you ever see 11.5V, even though that is within the ATX specifications, it would be best to replace the PSU. Lower input voltage means the regulators on the GPU will have to work harder/pass more current.