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GPU Wattage Concern

RCorral
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I think its going to sound its not much of a concerning, but had to ask anyways. I finally replace my old placeholder card with a 3070 Ti (EVGA FTW3 Ultra) on build I have made and when I looked at the spec of its rated for wattage wise is 290 and decided to try to overclock it right away and when I got to a point where I believed was its stable clock limit (stays around 2040-2055 MHz on longer periods) I noticed that the wattage according to Nvidia's Performance Overlay is around 300-310 watts at GPU Utilization on 95-100% and wondered if it is going to be problem for me in the long term.

 

If the some of the specs matter:

5800X w/ Corsair H100i Elite Capellix (240mm AiO)

ASUS X570 TUF (WiFi) Plus

16GB X2 3200MHz CL16

Seasonic PSU Gold Focus 750W

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34 minutes ago, RCorral said:

I think its going to sound its not much of a concerning, but had to ask anyways. I finally replace my old placeholder card with a 3070 Ti (EVGA FTW3 Ultra) on build I have made and when I looked at the spec of its rated for wattage wise is 290 and decided to try to overclock it right away and when I got to a point where I believed was its stable clock limit (stays around 2040-2055 MHz on longer periods) I noticed that the wattage according to Nvidia's Performance Overlay is around 300-310 watts at GPU Utilization on 95-100% and wondered if it is going to be problem for me in the long term.

 

If the some of the specs matter:

5800X w/ Corsair H100i Elite Capellix (240mm AiO)

ASUS X570 TUF (WiFi) Plus

16GB X2 3200MHz CL16

Seasonic PSU Gold Focus 750W

If its stable and not excessively hot, itll be fine. It won't fry itself.

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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19 hours ago, RCorral said:

Heat wise it goes around 74-82 C on most games I have played. If that is fine then I was overthinking it good to know

Thats fine. Nothing to worry about in the low 80's

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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19 hours ago, RCorral said:

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if it's any comfort, next gen cards are rumored to be 450-500w

5950x 1.33v 5.05 4.5 88C 195w ll R20 12k ll drp4 ll x570 dark hero ll gskill 4x8gb 3666 14-14-14-32-320-24-2T (zen trfc)  1.45v 45C 1.15v soc ll 6950xt gaming x trio 325w 60C ll samsung 970 500gb nvme os ll sandisk 4tb ssd ll 6x nf12/14 ippc fans ll tt gt10 case ll evga g2 1300w ll w10 pro ll 34GN850B ll AW3423DW

 

9900k 1.36v 5.1avx 4.9ring 85C 195w (daily) 1.02v 4.3ghz 80w 50C R20 temps score=5500 ll D15 ll Z390 taichi ult 1.60 bios ll gskill 4x8gb 14-14-14-30-280-20 ddr3666bdie 1.45v 45C 1.22sa/1.18 io  ll EVGA 30 non90 tie ftw3 1920//10000 0.85v 300w 71C ll  6x nf14 ippc 2000rpm ll 500gb nvme 970 evo ll l sandisk 4tb sata ssd +4tb exssd backup ll 2x 500gb samsung 970 evo raid 0 llCorsair graphite 780T ll EVGA P2 1200w ll w10p ll NEC PA241w ll pa32ucg-k

 

prebuilt 5800 stock ll 2x8gb ddr4 cl17 3466 ll oem 3080 0.85v 1890//10000 290w 74C ll 27gl850b ll pa272w ll w11

 

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