Kanlegi

So this is a very uneducated post, but I'm trying to understand how my 9600k works with its 16 pcie lanes. I have a 2080 Ti, a TP link wifi adapter running at x1, and a samsung 970 evo which is x4. I want to add another samsung evo, but if my cpu only has 16 lanes, how will there be enough bandwidth? If I add that second drive, how will it effect everything else? I don't exactly want to lose performance from my 2080 Ti just by adding some storage. So to clarify, this is currently in my system: RTX 2080 Ti (x16) TP Link WDN4800 (x1) Samsung 970 Evo 1Tb (x4) Forgive the ignorance if i'm way off base about how all this works, this isn't a field i've done any actual research in.

I'll try it in the morning, I'll put an update as to if it worked out or not. Thanks for the suggestion

I would have considered it extremely high since it's got 2 x 360mm radiators?

If you could tell me how to flash the BIOS, I'm up for it. But yes, the highest I think I've seen it hit is 75c. By the time it reaches 70c or so, the card throttles back like crazy and settles at 73-74 and running like a potato. The waterblock came preinstalled, I bought it from overclockers.co.uk where they send you the complete unit with the block and everything. I can check the card to see if its actually making contact for sure though. The thing is, I don't understand why the card begins to throttle so early? my temp limit is 88, and yet it starts slowing down so far before that. I watched gpu-z as i launched a game, the card reaches 2ghz almost instantly but not for long

Okay so here we go: This is an auros RTX 2080 super from Gigabyte I got sent after I RMA'd my first one due to it being stuck at 80c. Now that card took forever to get back to them due to mishaps in shipping etc, so I really don't want to go down that route. Instead, I signed up here to see if I can actually fix this myself. Since I'm so lucky, my replacement card is having a very similar issue! It was working fine for a few weeks when I got it, until suddenly a few days ago. I bought this card from overclockers with a preinstalled water block on it (phanteks one) and its hooked up to a pair of 360mm radiators and a D5 pump. As soon as I launch a game, I can watch MSI afterburner or GPU-z and witness the same thing. The card will hit roughly 2Ghz, the temperature will climb, and it will rapidly fall in clock speed as it does. After several seconds, the card will be stuck at 1Ghz from throttling so bad, the power consumption will be low and the temperature levels off at about 74c. As you can imagine, games are a sluggish mess and I can't play anything right now. My CPU is also linked in the loop (9600k) and temps are great even overclocked. I've tried changing the power cables on the card, reinstalled drivers, used DDU, reinstalled my copy of windows, and now I'm running out of ideas. I can't figure out what the problem is and I would really prefer this card to not have to get sent in shipping just for DPD to potentially lose it again. (Took a month until they sent me a new one) I've added a screenshot of GPU-z when putting it under stress, what you see are the results within several seconds of loading anything. It's pretty constant after it gets to this point, though the temperature will slowly climb more after a while and I've seen the card get as low as 700mhz. I also tried changing the temp and power limit sliders on MSI afterburner, they didn't impact the results one bit. And no, there is no overclock on the card at all. Last note: ignore the fan speed in the screenshot, idk where its getting that but all the fans are on pretty high blast. And as i said, its watercooled. no fans on the card.