Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super fans revving up and down

[ftahir192]

I recently purchased a Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Windforce OC 3x graphics card and have been trying to deal with an issue whereby the fans keep revving up and down when the GPU is 55c~.

 

The GPU has a fan stop feature where the fan stops spinning when the temperature is under 55c, but this seems to get polled very often and what's happening is idle temps sit around 53-56c, so fans spin up for a second, temps drop and fans spin down. This is an almost endless loop.

 

This seems to be a well documented issue but the posts date back to 2018 mostly. Has anybody else encountered this and have they found a solution? I've also tried to set my own fan curves but MSI Afterburner doesn't like anything under 40%. Are there any rtx 2070 super cards that don't do this?

[SavageNeo]

put your gpu's fans at 25%. that gigabyte model has decently silent fans, so you wont really hear them from rest of your system.

[ftahir192]

6 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

put your gpu's fans at 25%. that gigabyte model has decently silent fans, so you wont really hear them from rest of your system.

Is this through afterburner? Do you have any decent fan curve examples?

[SavageNeo]

no need for fan curves. Just set your fans at 25%, when it gets hotter put it to 50-75%

[ftahir192]

Just now, SavageNeo said:

no need for fan curves. Just set your fans at 25%, when it gets hotter put it to 50-75%

When you say "just set your fans at 25%" isn't this done via a fan curve through afterburner though for example?

[SavageNeo]

1 minute ago, ftahir192 said:

When you say "just set your fans at 25%" isn't this done via a fan curve through afterburner though for example?

no   Just adjust that fan speed slider. 

[StareX]

Setting a Fan Curve is way better than what the factory offers you.

 

I recommend, due to this being a Gigabyte card (they got them loud fans lol) this fan curve:

 

At 30C Use: 40% Fan Speed

At 36C Use: 55% Fan Speed

At 50C Use: 70% Fan Speed

At 60C Use: 90% Fan Speed

At 70C Use: 100% Fan Speed

 

I got a 2080 Super ASUS Advanced, my Fan Curve is set to:

 

My GPU on load is around 50C by doing that.

And Idle temps are 27-30C.

[ftahir192]

1 minute ago, StareX said:

Setting a Fan Curve is way better than what the factory offers you.

 

I recommend, due to this being a Gigabyte card (they got them loud fans lol) this fan curve:

 

At 30C Use: 40% Fan Speed

At 36C Use: 55% Fan Speed

At 50C Use: 70% Fan Speed

At 60C Use: 90% Fan Speed

At 70C Use: 100% Fan Speed

 

I got a 2080 Super ASUS Advanced, my Fan Curve is set to:

 

My GPU on load is around 50C by doing that.

And Idle temps are 27-30C.

I've tried a curve similar to this but it still keeps ramping up and down

[PyroTheWise]

3 hours ago, ftahir192 said:

I've tried a curve similar to this but it still keeps ramping up and down

How are you setting the fan curve?  I have the same 2070 card you have and I want to setup a fan curve as well.  I was hoping there was a way to directly change the default fan curve instead of requiring MSI afterburner to load on startup to force the change.

[ftahir192]

1 hour ago, PyroTheWise said:

How are you setting the fan curve?  I have the same 2070 card you have and I want to setup a fan curve as well.  I was hoping there was a way to directly change the default fan curve instead of requiring MSI afterburner to load on startup to force the change.

I'm using MSI Afterburner to set the curve, so it's software level only. I don't think you can change the default fan curve unless you have a custom bios.

 

Are you having the same issue?

[PyroTheWise]

1 hour ago, ftahir192 said:

I'm using MSI Afterburner to set the curve, so it's software level only. I don't think you can change the default fan curve unless you have a custom bios.

 

Are you having the same issue?

I haven't tried yet.  I was researching options.   My case fans can all easily be set in the Motherboard BIOS.  No software required. 

 

Have you tried the Aorus Engine Software that you can get from Gigabyte?   I am at work right now and I can't do any testing on the gaming pc.

[ftahir192]

2 hours ago, PyroTheWise said:

I haven't tried yet.  I was researching options.   My case fans can all easily be set in the Motherboard BIOS.  No software required. 

 

Have you tried the Aorus Engine Software that you can get from Gigabyte?   I am at work right now and I can't do any testing on the gaming pc.

Yeah I've tried the Aorus Engine software. It's terrible.

[PyroTheWise]

37 minutes ago, ftahir192 said:

Yeah I've tried the Aorus Engine software. It's terrible.

I have submitted a request to Gigabyte Support for help with fan control but it can 3-7 days before I get a reply.  If I do hear anything useful, I will let you know

 

[ftahir192]

1 hour ago, PyroTheWise said:

I have submitted a request to Gigabyte Support for help with fan control but it can 3-7 days before I get a reply.  If I do hear anything useful, I will let you know

 

I've also sent an email and will likewise let you know

[PyroTheWise]

On 4/8/2020 at 5:45 PM, ftahir192 said:

I've also sent an email and will likewise let you know

So far the response back from Gigabyte support has been useless, just use the Aorus Engine but it doesn't work for me.  I can set custom fans all I want, but they don't seem to take effect.  If they are then nothing is reporting the Fan speed correctly.   Not MSI Afterburner, Not Aorus Software, not GPU-Z, nothing....

 

 

[ftahir192]

On 4/13/2020 at 2:27 AM, PyroTheWise said:

So far the response back from Gigabyte support has been useless, just use the Aorus Engine but it doesn't work for me.  I can set custom fans all I want, but they don't seem to take effect.  If they are then nothing is reporting the Fan speed correctly.   Not MSI Afterburner, Not Aorus Software, not GPU-Z, nothing....

 

 

Yep pretty much the reply "Set fans to above 40%"... annoying.

[bondoao1]

I love my Gigabyte RTX2060, but the Aorus software is garbage.
I control my fan speed with Afterburner and I haven't had any issues since I have Afterburner start when windows starts. 

[bondoao1]

On 4/8/2020 at 4:56 AM, ftahir192 said:

I've tried a curve similar to this but it still keeps ramping up and down

I found this issue with Aorus software, it takes over on startup, so I uninstalled it and just use Afterburner.

[PyroTheWise]

5 hours ago, ftahir192 said:

Yep pretty much the reply "Set fans to above 40%"... annoying.

 

4 hours ago, bondoao1 said:

I found this issue with Aorus software, it takes over on startup, so I uninstalled it and just use Afterburner.

 

I just got another reply back from Gigabyte support to try the Xtreme version - that was even worse.   No matter what software I try no fan curve can be set.  I can only assume at this point that there is a bug on the Gigabyte Windforce 2070 Super Model #GV-N207SWF3OC-8GD that does not allow custom fan curves.  I can manually set a number but I can't set a fan curve.

 

So what I have tried with all 3 software (Aorus, Xtreme, MSI Afterburner) are 2 fan curves. 

 

First -> 0 - 40 deg C set to 40% fan curve then steadily rise from there.

Second -> 0 - 40 deg C set to 30% fan curve then steadily rise from there.

 

For all 3 software I applied and closed the software.  I then re-opened the software to make sure the settings were there.   I allowed each one to start on boot - I rebooted.

 

I then checked using all 3 software and GPU-Z.  The fan was still set at 33% and never changes.  If I hear more back from Gigabyte I will update the thread again.   Right now I am stuck with the default fan curve whether I like it or not.

 

EDIT:  I did not use all 3 software at the same time.  I used one at a time with 2 tests each and each time the custom fan curve did not get used by the GPU.

 

 

 

 

[ftahir192]

17 hours ago, PyroTheWise said:

 

 

I just got another reply back from Gigabyte support to try the Xtreme version - that was even worse.   No matter what software I try no fan curve can be set.  I can only assume at this point that there is a bug on the Gigabyte Windforce 2070 Super Model #GV-N207SWF3OC-8GD that does not allow custom fan curves.  I can manually set a number but I can't set a fan curve.

 

So what I have tried with all 3 software (Aorus, Xtreme, MSI Afterburner) are 2 fan curves. 

 

First -> 0 - 40 deg C set to 40% fan curve then steadily rise from there.

Second -> 0 - 40 deg C set to 30% fan curve then steadily rise from there.

 

For all 3 software I applied and closed the software.  I then re-opened the software to make sure the settings were there.   I allowed each one to start on boot - I rebooted.

 

I then checked using all 3 software and GPU-Z.  The fan was still set at 33% and never changes.  If I hear more back from Gigabyte I will update the thread again.   Right now I am stuck with the default fan curve whether I like it or not.

 

EDIT:  I did not use all 3 software at the same time.  I used one at a time with 2 tests each and each time the custom fan curve did not get used by the GPU.

 

 

 

 

This is strange. I've managed to set a fan curve via MSI Afterburner that I'm running at startup:

 

 

 

 

So mines starts at 37% and goes up after 60c. Try these settings, and if they don't work, try something higher than 40% - say 45%. Failing that, I'd possibly RMA as it should be able to run fine at 40%.

 

Let me know if you need any further information.

 

 

[PyroTheWise]

4 hours ago, ftahir192 said:

This is strange. I've managed to set a fan curve via MSI Afterburner that I'm running at startup:

 

 

 

 

So mines starts at 37% and goes up after 60c. Try these settings, and if they don't work, try something higher than 40% - say 45%. Failing that, I'd possibly RMA as it should be able to run fine at 40%.

 

Let me know if you need any further information.

 

 

I did try a fan curve very similiar to what you have but starting at 40%.  I saved the profile and applied it but the fans on the GPU never changed and stayed stuck at 33%.   I will try again just in case i did something wrong.

 

Update:  Why is sometimes the hardest thing to see is the most simple fix....  I did not set a node at 0.   The first node was at 40.  Once I added a node so that it started on 0 the fan control kicked in and I now have a working fan curve.    I make things that should be simple so complicated at times.  Thanks for the help.

[bondoao1]

Glad to hear you got it figured out. 

[ftahir192]

On 4/15/2020 at 6:55 PM, PyroTheWise said:

I did try a fan curve very similiar to what you have but starting at 40%.  I saved the profile and applied it but the fans on the GPU never changed and stayed stuck at 33%.   I will try again just in case i did something wrong.

 

Update:  Why is sometimes the hardest thing to see is the most simple fix....  I did not set a node at 0.   The first node was at 40.  Once I added a node so that it started on 0 the fan control kicked in and I now have a working fan curve.    I make things that should be simple so complicated at times.  Thanks for the help.

Glad to hear it's working now. Albeit not an amazing workaround because it's still somewhat audible at 40% but I'd take this over the fans revving constantly any day.

[PyroTheWise]

2 minutes ago, ftahir192 said:

Glad to hear it's working now. Albeit not an amazing workaround because it's still somewhat audible at 40% but I'd take this over the fans revving constantly any day.

I really don't hear my fans  at 35% but what I do is easier to tone out over speed changes they did do. 

[ftahir192]

2 minutes ago, PyroTheWise said:

I really don't hear my fans  at 35% but what I do is easier to tone out over speed changes they did do. 

My room is eerily silent at times and my pc is really close to me so I hear it somewhat. Hopefully when I get my new desk and move the pc away 30-40cm it should be somewhat less noticeable. I hate fan noise

 

Edit: In fairness though, the cpu cooler noise is probably what I'm hearing the most.. Should really upgrade my amd wraith prism