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Monday, February 08, 2021 9:12 PM (permalink)
So I got my RMA card and pretty much the first thing I did was undervolt it the same way the original card was. 1905mhz@900mv. Everything seemed okay. Randomly had RDR2 completely freeze. Had to hard restart my PC. Event viewer showed a couple LiveKernelEvent 1a1 and 141 along with the driver stopped responding. Reset to stock and played for a few hours along with some Overwatch and never had any issues. Guess I’m just curious if the Undervolt coulda actually caused a full system freeze as I always just assumed it could cause a game crash. For now I’m just going to go back to stock as the temperatures aren’t even bad with the OC bios (max like 65C) but I am a bit paranoid as my old card puked out so quickly. Don’t judge me too hard I’m a noob to this kind of stuff.
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    Re: Undervolting 3080ftw3 question Monday, February 08, 2021 9:31 PM (permalink)
    Yes, undervolting can cause all of that.
     
    That is the exact crash reason I get when I'm pushing either my clocks too high, or too high of an OC with an undervolt, it will list that (either LiveKernelEvent 141 or 1a1) for Port Royal's reason for crashing, as well as drivers if they crash.
     
    It's silicon lottery on whether or not one card to the next can run the same undervolt.  1905MHz @ 900mV is not too too rough, I think mine did 1890MHz @ 875mV so pretty close.
     
    I would hammer the card at stock if I were you, then pop on a sensible & effect OC/Undervolt, ensure it's good to go at stock first so you don't have to worry about it dying on you later (hopefully).  
     
    You have every right to be paranoid/concerned, but in reality, you don't need to be.  You SHOULD expect your hardware to JUST work, when it doesn't, it can be a pretty traumatic experience especially when something full on dies on you, when you're new to computer stuff.  I remember the first time I had a liquid loop leak :-D Good times.
     
    But yeah, test the card at stock, put it through the ringer, then fiddle with an undervolt for more efficient/effective daily use...
     
    Or you can go crazy & test something like your card's equivalent to this:
     


     
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    Re: Undervolting 3080ftw3 question Monday, February 08, 2021 9:39 PM (permalink)
    Lol yea. I figured as much. Google wasn’t the greatest help since people mostly just say “it crashed”. But yea I’ll probably just stick it on stock for now. I have heard of RDR2 being pretty finnicky with oc/uc so there’s that. I hadn’t a single issue until RDR2 with the undervolt. I can’t really say if the old card was 100% stable with that undervolt either, as it only lasted about a week. I’ll do what you say, though. I’ll run it stock for a bit then maybe revisit undervolting a little bit down the road.
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    Re: Undervolting 3080ftw3 question Monday, February 08, 2021 10:03 PM (permalink)
    RDR2 is picky period from what I've heard.  I don't own it (yet) so can't comment.

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    Re: Undervolting 3080ftw3 question Monday, February 08, 2021 10:15 PM (permalink)
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    So I got my RMA card and pretty much the first thing I did was undervolt it the same way the original card was. 1905mhz@900mv. Everything seemed okay. Randomly had RDR2 completely freeze. Had to hard restart my PC. Event viewer showed a couple LiveKernelEvent 1a1 and 141 along with the driver stopped responding. Reset to stock and played for a few hours along with some Overwatch and never had any issues. Guess I’m just curious if the Undervolt coulda actually caused a full system freeze as I always just assumed it could cause a game crash. For now I’m just going to go back to stock as the temperatures aren’t even bad with the OC bios (max like 65C) but I am a bit paranoid as my old card puked out so quickly. Don’t judge me too hard I’m a noob to this kind of stuff.

    Ya , I am with Dadbadger on that, 1905 at 900 might be a little tight, I had a freeze in testing 1950@925mv. 975mv it was fine, my current smooth gaming profile is 1835@850, +200mem, for a solid -100w with nearly default performance.
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    Re: Undervolting 3080ftw3 question Monday, February 08, 2021 11:02 PM (permalink)
    1905Mhz at 850mv+500 mem running absolutely smooth max temp never exceeds 65c usually floats between 55 and 60. No crashes. (OC bios switch/ 3080ftw3). I could run this with silent bios for more silence but PX1 was acting all sorts of crazy so I just set to OC bios ignored PX1 and just load the MSI AB profile every time and GG.

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    Re: Undervolting 3080ftw3 question Monday, February 08, 2021 11:33 PM (permalink)
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    1905Mhz at 850mv+500 mem running absolutely smooth max temp never exceeds 65c usually floats between 55 and 60. No crashes. (OC bios switch/ 3080ftw3). I could run this with silent bios for more silence but PX1 was acting all sorts of crazy so I just set to OC bios ignored PX1 and just load the MSI AB profile every time and GG.


    curious , what is your TPD? , on my 850mv run I think I started at 1975 oc and it wasn't stable (meaning it was kicked out of Kombustor at some point in a 30 minute test, so I reduced it to the 1800s and it ran fine and still achieve boost clocks around 2010-1975.
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    Re: Undervolting 3080ftw3 question Tuesday, February 09, 2021 10:28 PM (permalink)
    RDR2 does the exact opposite of literally every other game I have lol. I am using a 3060 ti, but it's still safe to say whatever your stable clock is in most games, go down 2 steps for RDR2 and a couple hundred for memory. I would be playing for 6 hours and then bam, freeze. Now, that could just be Vulkan and my system, but it never did it on stock clocks and since I have scaled back a bit for a minimal couple fps loss, I have noticed much smoother gameplay and frametimes. Division 2 I can push 2040 +1000 on my XC3 FTW3 Ultra, but my card is definitely NOT an overclocker. RDR2, anything over 2010 has proven to crash. Scaled back I go for 1980 (I think) and a couple steps under 1v. My card is definitley not as capable as my old 1070 was, but it is what it is and given the market, I'll accept that... for now.
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