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I set fan speed like I always did. I went into MSI Afterburner set it to custom speed of 88% and hit apply. I also saved profile profile that does that automatically at startup and it worked for half of a year with zero issues. Weird thing is that 2 fans acting like that,but third fan is running fine at speed I set. Is there a way for me to test fan functionality? I'm worried because I'm having constant PC crashes because of my GPU so I'm not sure if fans themself are the only issue. I would order 2 new fans from EVGA,but I want to be 100% sure that they are the only problem,otherwise it would be unnecessary cost to buy fans if something else is wrong with GPU and I still have warranty. Only reason why I didn't sent it to repair is because they don't have them in stock,or should I say in somewhat enough quantity so I'd have to wait for new one for couple of months and I'd probably get newer version that has LHR (blockage for mining) so it would be much less profitable with it and even now it's not some fantastic profit with single 3080,I use it more like small time miner,since I didn't plan to mine with it when I bought it. I was told from a friend that he used his for mining and he's returned money for GPU with mining,so I did the same. I lowered OC and nothing changed. I could try to run in on stock,but it would run hotter and use more power while mining since OC for mining is more of a balance between settings unlike OC that was used for gaming,but I'll give it a shot to see if that's the case.

Hello everybody, I'm having issues with my GPU for more than a month. I tried many things to solve those issues withing that time,but with no luck. I'm using my GPU for mining since 22 February and occasionally gaming. I'm taking good care of GPU and clean it as well as whole PC often. Same goes for software and whole OS. I also always kept my GPU temperature below 55c and memory junction below 92c. Average temperature for GPU is around 51c and mem. junc. is 87c A bit more than a month ago I started experiencing PC crashes that became often and happened every 2-3 days. I also started finding 2 of my GPU fans that decreased their RPM speed by around 20-25% randomly while third was working properly. I always set them all to 88% and only one keeps that speed constantly while other two decrease speed by them self randomly. It happens every 2-3 days. I noticed that memory junction temperature always jump to 106c after that happens but never above that despite big changes in ambient temperature or Overclock settings. I tried changing MSI Afterburner for Precision X1,but it didn't help. I tried 4 different drivers,setting Power mode to max performance and reinstalling whole system and nothing worked. Yesterday I took multimeter and tested my PSU and it was fine,around 12.07V under full load during OCCT stress test. I have my GPU overclocked and I found balance between performance for mining and temperature. I tried to lower OC as well,but it didn't help neither. It always worked on that OC and it was always stable,but now it crashes even on lower OC. Reliability Monitor shows Live Kernel Events under codes : 117,116 and 141 while 117 being most often. If it would help to solve this problem I'll gladly upload minidump that shows more details about erros/crashes Here are my OC settings: Core -150 Memory +1000 Power Limit 68% Fan Speed 88% Here is my full rig: Desktop: OS:Windows 10 x64 Monitor:LG 27UD58-B CPU:Intel i7 10700KF CPU Cooler:Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 MBO:MSI MAG Z490 Tomahawk GPU:EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 ULTRA GAMING HDD:1 TB WD Blue SSD:256 GB ADATA SX8200 ASX8200PNP-256GT-C, PCIe NVMe, M.2 RAM:2X8 RAM Corsair Vengeance 3200mhz PSU:Seasonic FOCUS 750 Gold Case:SilentiumPC Signum SG7V EVO TG ARGB I kindly ask you for your help and I hope you'll mange to resolve this issue.

Hello everybody, I have EVGA RTX 3080 XC3 and I wanted to buy new thermal pads for better cooling. I contacted EVGA and they told me exact dimensions for pads. Here is what they told me: For the GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 cards, please use the following thermal pad dimensions: Memory Pads: 1pc - 15mm x 12mm x 2.25mm 2pcs - 53mm x 14mm x 2.25mm 1pc - 37.5mm x 14mm x 2.25mm MOS Pads: 1pc - 83mm x 6.5mm x 2.75mm (Left side of GPU) 1pc - 83mm x 5.5mm x 2.5mm (Right side of GPU) I tried to buy Gelid GP Extreme on Aliexpress,but I couldn't find 2.25mm and 2.75mm thickness,only 2mm and 3mm so I'm not sure which one should I buy and how to know which one will fit since?

Just a little update. I found a solution for stuttering and now game run perfectly smooth. It seems like I needed to set Vertical Sync in Nvidia Control Panel to ''On''. I also enabled CPU Boost in BIOS and viola stuttering was completely gone.

When you say to ''dig deep'' as there are some well hidden options what do you mean by that? How can I see them if they are hidden?

I didn't see any SB in my BIOS. I really don't know what to do,there has to be a way to disable it,I mean it's been an option on older MOBOs and I don't get why wouldn't they give that option on newer ones?

Hello everybody, I would like to disable HPET in my BIOS,but I can't find it anywhere. I read it's the ''hidden'' option and I spent hours looking for solution to find it without luck. I know it can be disabled in Windows,but I read that it sometimes won't work if it's not disabled in BIOS. Could you please tell me how to disable it in BIOS,I'm starting to become desperate from looking for answer.

1.Would memtest64 or memtes86 show if I have faulty RAM, and would it help if I swap RAM sticks in different sockets? 2.I'm not sure what you mean by swap file and how to solve it? 3.I didn't undervolted my GPU yet 4.My temperatures seems fine from what I saw.I wouldn't say I'm having thermal throttling.

How did you manage to reach such a high VRAM temperatures as of 110c? Did you used it for mining or for gaming?

OK,I'll give it a shot,I was planning to buy thermal pads too,since EVGA allows mods like that without void of warranty. Would you recommend Arctic MX-5 paste for my GPU? Also,is original thermal paste that comes with GPUs high quality or is it one of the ''cheaper'' ones that is used for mass production?

Yeah,I agree completely,I only thought of that solution because that guy had same issue with stuttering like I do and despite having ''good'' temperatures with his GPU he manage to solve his problem.

This may seem like a dumb question,but would changing thermal paste help with this problem? I read that guy had 60c on his RX 480 that's been previously used for mining and he didn't noticed any thermal throttling and he mange to get PC stable with undervolting,but once he change settings to stock,he had stuttering again,so he changed thermal paste and his stuttering stopped. I know I have card that is only 6 months old and was used for mining since Feb 22. but is there a chance that paste degraded in such a short time?

I had this settings on MSI Afterburner while mining: -130 Core Clock +1000 Memory Clock 69% Power Limit 88% Fan Speed As for temperature of GPU while mining with these settings,I'm not sure I know it was in safe limits for mining as far as other people with RTX 3080 reported,so I always focused on memory temperature. Memory temperature is around 85c average,depending on ambient temperature,but it never went above 94c and was almost always at 92c max. I run the card for around 1 month constantly as the guys told me that it won't hurt GPU because it runs at constant frequency so it's less stressful for PC than gaming for around 6 hours per day and then turning PC off as long as I keep temperature low. I started to mine on Feb. 22 until today and I turned off PC few times in that period.

I haven't tried undervolting since I don't have knowledge to do it,but did you had microstuttering or just occasional frame drops because of demanding games? I should easily run this games with +85 FPS on 4k,so I don't think these are ''standard'' frame drops that happens when some game is very demanding and FPS hoovers around 60-ish and then drops in graphically demanding scenes. To me it happens ever few seconds no matter how scene or game is demanding.

I have EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 ULTRA GAMING and I usually have overclock on it for mining,but I turn it off every time I'm not mining.