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Final update! YES REALLY! Thank you for all your help and advising me what to do. I drained the system and decided to take apart the gpu. I was a bit worried at first, thats one of the reasons i brought it already assembled by OverclockersUK as i didnt feel comfortable doing it myself. Anyway i took it apart and found the thermal paste didnt even cover the whole die. I am quite disappointed that a company like Overclockersuk did a poor job of applying thermal paste, however my GPU is in the upright orientation so perhaps this effects the thermal paste due to gravity? just a random thought.I have since cleaned off the old thermal paste and reapplied my own. And now my GPU is working perfectly again!!! i now get 200FPS instead of the 80FPS i was getting.i also noticed they didnt include the washers behind the screws for some reason. I did also put these on.Temps also dont go much higher than 50 while underload!Once again thank you! Im glad this has been resolved https://imgur.com/gallery/WJIy70R picture of thermal paste

I don't see any way of viewing the temps of the VRAM and VRM, HWInfo64 doesn't display these

Small update. I found an old benchmark i did when i first built the computer. The temp reached 60 degrees. never went any higher. max FPS in the test reached 95fps so i redid the benchmark just now and it hits 77 degrees with a max FPS of 62fps Something seems to be making the card run hot. The card did work when i first got it. What could be causing the high temps being as it has worked perfectly before.

Air comes in the front and out the top + rear exhaust fan. so 3 fans intake, 4 fans exhaust. The pump is also ran at full speed i presume as i only have the molex connected, EK states the pump will run at 100% if no PWM is connected.

They "tested" the card before it was shipped to me, so i guess it was fine when they tested it, thats of course on the type of testing they did. Can thermal pads fail after 4 months use?

I have 2 radiators, both 360mm. So one in the top and one at the front of the case. The way i have the loop configured is the front rad goes into the pump/res combo and then into the graphics card then into the 2nd rad that feeds into the cpu and then back to the first rad. can supply a picture if needed.

It stays saying "Thrm" even when it clocks down to 500MHz, so ultimately the card cannot even maintain the base clock speed? the other point is how is it hitting the thermal limits of the card when i have it set to 88? but only hits 77? am i misunderstanding how it works?

So ive been playing the new call of duty and i had noticed my GPU clock speed kept lowering itself even though i have set the GPU to run at maximum clock speed from the nvidia control panel.The GPU in question is a watercooled Aorus RTX 2080 super. It hits 77 degrees Celsius and does not budge no matter how fast my radiator fans are spinning.I noticed in GPU-Z that the "Perfcap reason" said "Thrm" so im guessing this means my GPU is thermal throttling?I also have the GPU at a target temp of 88 and a power target of 140% but this doesn't seem to have any effect as it doesn't even hit anywhere near the 88 degree target. (so why is it thermal throttling?)The card stays at 77 while gaming. As soon as i start a game it jumps from 50 to 77 degrees. I had got the GPU from OverclockersUK around 4 months ago, they assembled the waterblock to the card themselves. I never noticed any issue when i got it, from what i can remember the card ran fine but i didn't monitor how it performed back then. This is my first watercooled PC so am i right to say that for a watercooled pc my GPU shouldn't be hitting 77 degrees Celsius?Im really lost as to what to do, is the card faulty? do i send it back? Why is it so hot? what could be causing the issue? CPU idle temps = 25-30CPU under load temps = 42 at around 55% loadGPU idle temps = 40-50GPU under load temps = 77When the card is idle the clock speed runs at the maximum which is 1650 MHz Edit: Small update. I found an old benchmark i did when i first built the computer. The temp reached 60 degrees. never went any higher. max FPS in the test reached 95fps so i redid the benchmark just now and it hits 77 degrees with a max FPS of 62fps Something seems to be making the card run hot. The card did work when i first got it. What could be causing the high temps being as it has worked perfectly before. EDIT: Final update! YES REALLY! Thank you for all your help and advising me what to do. I drained the system and decided to take apart the gpu. I was a bit worried at first, thats one of the reasons i brought it already assembled by OverclockersUK as i didnt feel comfortable doing it myself. Anyway i took it apart and found the thermal paste didnt even cover the whole die. I am quite disappointed that a company like Overclockersuk did a poor job of applying thermal paste, however my GPU is in the upright orientation so perhaps this effects the thermal paste due to gravity? just a random thought.I have since cleaned off the old thermal paste and reapplied my own. And now my GPU is working perfectly again!!! i now get 200FPS instead of the 80FPS i was getting.i also noticed they didnt include the washers behind the screws for some reason. I did also put these on.Temps also dont go much higher than 50 while underload!Once again thank you! Im glad this has been resolved https://imgur.com/gallery/WJIy70R picture of thermal paste