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alienwar9

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  1. An update on testing. Managed to pull the card out and test it on my older PC with its original air cooler. Worked perfectly. Then tested it with the air cooler on my current PC. Worked perfectly. Tested it with the PCI-e riser cable. Worked perfectly. Then plopped a different waterblock I had for it; did a quick loop. Worked perfectly. So I'm not entirely sure what was even wrong with it. Could have been the waterblock got unseated somehow, but that's unlikely given the number of screws tightly clamping it together, and the fact that it didn't go past 57C. Could have been the riser cable somehow unseated partially, though that doesn't explain the momentary 100% power usage (same as putting to question the possibility of the custom power cables being at fault). I honestly have no idea what went wrong. But I'm glad it is somehow fixed.
  2. I'm waiting for a friend to test out in his rig, as my alt PC is so thoroughly stripped that I might have to melt some case parts to get it back together. Tried to pull the PSU from my old PC, but it has 2x6 pin connectors instead of 8, and I only have 1 adapter cable. I'll have to wait. That's my first test. If that doesn't work, I'll have to drain the loop and swap the air cooler back on. This PC is a nightmare to drain, though, and that's with a drain port at the lowest point. I have to cartwheel the PC to get it all out.
  3. When I run MSI Afterburner, turning power limit all the way up to 123, and temp limit to 88C, I end up getting a lower score (4300) than when running default (4900). TDP is still at 60%, 150W power. ... Also, it seems 57C is 10-20C hotter than it should be running without OC and without CPU OC, with a CPU concurrently at 25C on the same exact water loop running right before the GPU (and that idles at 28C, so a 4C delta). I have a triple rad setup, 6 120mm fans on 2 rads plus a 240x60mm beefy rad (HWLabs), all fans on full blast, ambient temps in the room around 20C (Corsair LLs and HDs). So it seems like the issue is not just power, but also temp. The only other discussion I found with similar results was here: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/weird-throttling-issue-rtx-2080-ti.252138/ But the OP ended up just getting a new card. I guess I am still within the 3 year warranty period...I really don't want to go through that. ... I guess I can do a full takedown and try the stock cooler with stock cables. See if that changes anything. Maybe plop the card in my other PC.
  4. Uninstalled all OC software, ran DDU, still the same results. I can't seem to find those sensors in HWiNFO. Is there some setting to change? (Also, I think HWiNFO is conflicting with iCUE, as when it runs all my fans spin up full blast. Honestly, iCUE has been a neverending shitfest.)
  5. So the Bus interface seems to be fine (@ x16 3.0). The sensor results, not so much. Looks like a power limit, running at 60% TDP, and only 158W.
  6. I was just seeing what it might run at. I had a few settings turned down when normally playing, including AA. It was just easier to compare with others on max/ultra, since I didn't have to checklist each and every setting. When putting the power slider to max, I got 4400 on Superposition. But Sp has varied quite a bit, going from 4300 on the low end to 4900 on the high end. Doing OC scanner or manual OC seems to actually get lower results, but I'm also not being terribly stringent on background tasks (iCue might have been running during a test, for example). If I have more time I'll try to do more controlled testing, try and isolate some variables. What gets me is that it has been running fine for a year, so something like VRMs randomly failing to be cooled feels out of nowhere. But I'm not 100% confident on my waterblock installation skills, so sure....maybe a thermal pad slowly squeezed its way out? ?
  7. CPU is Ryzen 2700 (I know. I had it half a year or more before I got the 2080 Ti that I wasn't planning on getting in the first place. Planning on upgrading when I redo my setup). Quick OC it to 4.1Ghz, but otherwise run it around 3.4-3.8.
  8. So my GPU was running fine for about a year, or at least it seems. I am unsure exactly when performance dropped significantly. I benched and OC'ed it when I got it and it ran as expected, but I have been running it and my CPU without OC for most of the time (too many other problems going on). I was playing Division 2 at 1440p max settings in HDR, and only getting around 60fps (have a 144hz monitor). That seemed out of place, so I ran Superposition with 1080p extreme and only got a 4600 score. I believe my original scores were 8000+, and others with the same card have gotten 120fps averages in Division 2 with the same settings. Superposition shows 1600-1700mhz clocks while running. Got a 2080 Ti Fe with a waterblock and custom loop triple rad, also cooling a mobo monoblock, running on a DDC pump. The GPU is vertical mounted with a riser cable, and custom wired with cables I made myself. I've fresh re-installed drivers, nothing physically has changed inside the PC prior to the dropped performance. The temps immediately rise up to and max out at 57C, idle at 28C. I've set MSI Afterburner to reset to default. I've called my PC Sisyphus cause of all the problems I've run into with it, pushing areas I don't have much experience on. I'm at a loss as to what has caused this issue, or where to take the diagnosis process next. I'm planning on taking the whole thing apart, but that's a pain and I hope it's something more easy to fix. Could the riser cable go bad? Could the wiring not be supplying enough power? Could the thermal pads somehow have shifted on the GPU waterblock, or a VRM/something have fried? I don't even know how to check any of these things apart from taking everything apart.
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