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Hi, I have a Gigabyte Windforce GTX 1080. I wanted to check the behaviour of the card when it's under heavy load with extremely (~90C) high temps since it's known for the less-than-ideal cooling design (I know it would be nowhere close to this, but I wanted to make sure that IF something was to happen, it would shutdown immediately). To achieve that I have set the fan to 0RPM and forcefully blocked thermal throttling in the driver (i.e. made it read a const value, not from the actual sensor), while constantly monitoring the temperature of course. After ~80s into the stress test, at temperature of ~80-85C, I started hearing some quite loud coil whine, so I killed the test and rebooted with normal driver. Since then, under some paricular workloads, I can always hear this annoying sound. I assume that because I had no cooling and no temp sensor on the VRMs (which I didn't take into consideration), they may have got thermally damaged somehow, because they can also become quite hot under load. Is this correct? Would it be possible for melted VRMs (or not melted but with some other changes in their physical characteristics due to overheat, like shrinking and expanding) to be the cause of the resonance? Or am I just paranoid and I could hear it only because fan was not spinning?

Ok, so currently not viable. Thank you. To be closed.

Hi, fast question: Is it woth upgrading GTX1080 to an RTX as of April 2020? I'm asking to hear opinions about the heading of price change for future cards and for 2.-handed ones. Should I wait for 3000 series release or not because of the currently unstable situation? Anyway, here's what I would be choosing from: MSI GeFoce RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio (590USD pre-outbrake); Gigabyte Aorus RTX2070 Super (565 USD pre-outbrake); MSI GeFoce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio (720~740USD pre-outbrake). Are these good deals for 2.-hand? If not, what price would you buy these cards at? Which one should I choose? Also, I'm planning to sell the 1080 for 260-280USD pre-outbrake. Is this a good idea or should I change the price? BTW, is this true that Aorus are troublesome cards? I've read that people had some problems with fan control, noise and software. Note: I am writing the "pre-outbrake" value, because the currency of the country I live in (PLN, Poland) skyrocketed incredibly (~7.6%) and posting current value with current exchange rate may have lead to confusion and misunderstanding of the price, so please judge the viability of these deals taking into account the situation before outbreak happened.