Hand-me-down 2080ti Thermal Throttling

[Jrad1299]

Hello,

 

I am using a hand-me-down GPU that I got from my brother, a 2080ti. He had originally water-cooled it, but had reverted it to its original air cooler before selling it to me. I had some issues with it where it would thermal throttle, and I had chocked it up to the thermal pads being the wrong size causing problems with the die making contact with the cooler. After a lot of trial and error, I decided to replace the thermal pads with K5-Pro. The first screenshot I have was with K5-Pro on the VRMs and Ram and Noctua NT-H1 paste for the die, and then I tried PTM7950 for the die, which saw better results but sill thermal throttling. Was running Dark and Darker on max settings as my benchmark as it seems to stress my GPU out the best.

 

Is there any other way to rectify this aside from editing the fan curve in MSI afterburner or watercooling? I am fine with changing the fan curve if I need to, I just wanted to try to get things working with just stock settings.

 

Thanks for any advice in advance.

[jaslion]

What 2080ti is it?

 

This to me looks like poor contact. Did your brother give you the wrong screws?

 

Maybe the springs on the gpu core screws are missing?

 

Be VERY CAREFULL with k5 pro. It has gone bad often enough with people using it as thermal pad replacement where it created air gaps due to heating and cooling cycles. In turn killing their vrms. I HIGHLY recommend you switch back to thermal pads. It is a mess to clean up but it will be better in the end

[Jrad1299]

I am using an ASUS dual fan 2080ti

 

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, Jrad1299 said:

I am using an ASUS dual fan 2080ti

What about the other questions that were asked?

[Jrad1299]

1 hour ago, Godlygamer23 said:

What about the other questions that were asked?

My bad, screws are all there and the 4 around the die have their springs.

 

I have taken it apart many times and done a lot of trial and error with different sized pads. 1mm, 1.5mm, .5mm, all with pretty similar results. Even tried doing like 1.5mm on the vrms and 1mm on the ram. Thats why I wanted to try K5-Pro, since it would squish out any extra rather than interfering with the cooler making contact with the die

[Godlygamer23]

2 hours ago, Jrad1299 said:

My bad, screws are all there and the 4 around the die have their springs.

 

I have taken it apart many times and done a lot of trial and error with different sized pads. 1mm, 1.5mm, .5mm, all with pretty similar results. Even tried doing like 1.5mm on the vrms and 1mm on the ram. Thats why I wanted to try K5-Pro, since it would squish out any extra rather than interfering with the cooler making contact with the die

How tight are the screws around the GPU? I'm assuming all hardware used is what the card originally came with? 

[xg32]

2 hours ago, Jrad1299 said:

My bad, screws are all there and the 4 around the die have their springs.

 

I have taken it apart many times and done a lot of trial and error with different sized pads. 1mm, 1.5mm, .5mm, all with pretty similar results. Even tried doing like 1.5mm on the vrms and 1mm on the ram. Thats why I wanted to try K5-Pro, since it would squish out any extra rather than interfering with the cooler making contact with the die

the fans are only 1300rpm, should be double that, turn them up.

[Jrad1299]

On 3/21/2024 at 11:17 PM, xg32 said:

the fans are only 1300rpm, should be double that, turn them up.

I had a feeling the fan speed was a problem. Any ideas why it doesn’t just ramp up on its own? Created a custom fan curve using MSI afterburner and it seems to be cooling perfectly without having to go to 100%. Only issue I have now is getting MSI afterburner to open on boot. 

[xg32]

4 hours ago, Jrad1299 said:

I had a feeling the fan speed was a problem. Any ideas why it doesn’t just ramp up on its own? Created a custom fan curve using MSI afterburner and it seems to be cooling perfectly without having to go to 100%. Only issue I have now is getting MSI afterburner to open on boot. 

i think that's the default afterburner settings, the card even on stock/auto should ramp up higher.

[Jrad1299]

On 3/25/2024 at 4:14 PM, xg32 said:

i think that's the default afterburner settings, the card even on stock/auto should ramp up higher.

I doubt that’s the case. I was having these cooling problems before I even installed MSI afterburner and when it wasn’t even running.