GPU Cooling Video Suggestion.

[masamoto]

Hello LTT Community,

So for 15 years all I used were beefy Air coolers and a good ventilated case. Be it for GPU and CPU For the CPU side I think Air VS Water is debatable.

And there are enough test also from you guys going around. Since I am my group off friends pc builder I got some request lately when the prices are sane again to build something.

At the moment I own a 3090FTW Yes with the 500Watt Limit bios. But even limiting to 350Watt pull I don't think normal air cooling can keep the noise tolerable anymore.

Every time I see the argument Water VS Air it's on the CPU. Or if there are GPU videos they are old from the time these cards didn't pump out 350+Watt.

I feel like this could be a good scientific video on GPU coolers and the capability of keeping it cool enough with tolerable noise. Or If GPU air cooling is not enough anymore for these 350watt cards.

3070Ti upwards running loads on stock cooler. Since the 3070Ti could pull 350watt as well easy.

I mean most are still stable with good boost under air I would presume. But damn the noise. I feel like I can't in good concious recommend high powered cards without getting a noise complain later.

[Tan3l6]

4 minutes ago, masamoto said:

Since the 3070Ti could pull 350watt as well easy.

Always possible to lower "power limit" to lower the consumed power.

For example to 75% = 260W

 

Usually the lowering of power limit does not lower performance as much.

I have 3070 at 80% and the performance is around 2-3% lower than at 100% and consumes about 200W.

[masamoto]

2 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

Always possible to lower "power limit" to lower the consumed power.

For example to 75% = 260W

Well clearly that is not the point here. Limit the power to make noise more tolerable is not the solution.

Yes I could turn my 3090 down as well to draw 260W to make less noise. And loose a huge chunk of performance I bought it for.

[ki8aras]

nvidia really destroyed all of us this generation, in an effort to avoid the 1080 ti fiasco (where many gamers didnt upgrade to the new 20 series gpus because the new gpus werent much of an upgrade) they cranked up the clockspeeds and power draw (thus forcing most aib's to make those huge cards)

[Tan3l6]

3 minutes ago, masamoto said:

Well clearly that is not the point here. Limit the power to make noise more tolerable is not the solution.

Yes I could turn my 3090 down to draw 260W to make less noise. And loose a huge chunk of performance I bought it for.

Yeah I edited my post:

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Usually the lowering of power limit does not lower performance as much.

I have 3070 at 80% and the performance is around 2-3% lower than at 100% and consumes about 200W.

 

 

The performance cut is not equal to the power limit percentage, far from it. Although yea I raised GPU and VRAM frequencies also quite a lot.

Point being - lowering the power limit lowers the power limit but not the performance as noticeably. 

 

[masamoto]

2 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

Yeah I edited my post:

 

The performance cut is not equal to the power limit percentage, far from it.

 

Yeah I know that. And I have no problem doing that. But you can't expect people who just use PC's to do that. If at a certain point the settings don't apply on startup. Be it for whatever reason. Than this is not a long-term solution.

 

[thrasher_565]

13 hours ago, masamoto said:

Hello LTT Community,

So for 15 years all I used were beefy Air coolers and a good ventilated case. Be it for GPU and CPU For the CPU side I think Air VS Water is debatable.

And there are enough test also from you guys going around. Since I am my group off friends pc builder I got some request lately when the prices are sane again to build something.

At the moment I own a 3090FTW Yes with the 500Watt Limit bios. But even limiting to 350Watt pull I don't think normal air cooling can keep the noise tolerable anymore.

Every time I see the argument Water VS Air it's on the CPU. Or if there are GPU videos they are old from the time these cards didn't pump out 350+Watt.

I feel like this could be a good scientific video on GPU coolers and the capability of keeping it cool enough with tolerable noise. Or If GPU air cooling is not enough anymore for these 350watt cards.

3070Ti upwards running loads on stock cooler. Since the 3070Ti could pull 350watt as well easy.

I mean most are still stable with good boost under air I would presume. But damn the noise. I feel like I can't in good concious recommend high powered cards without getting a noise complain later.

you can replace the gpu fans and get better performance or same performance with lower nose but that vodes the warranty and some coolers are not easy to take apart. i think there are higher wat gpus like 450 600 wat gpus if i remeber

 

also depends on case and what gpu air flow it has.