James Haskew
I recently got rid of my Asus Poseidon which had an overheating problem so I'm really paranoid about the new EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3 working as it should, especially for the price. It seems fine but I'm just checking for my peace of mind.
 
At idle I'm getting temps around 45°C and at 100% load it's hitting around 62°C with the fans only spinning up at 60°C. Do these temps all seem fine? My Poseidon was at 53°C at idle and 84-90°C on load caused by a fault whereby sagging caused the heatsink to separate from the hot stuff. This card is too expensive for it to run in any way other than as intended because I don't want to be left with another lump of hot garbage like with the Poseidon .
 
Thanks for looking!

xblackvalorx
Idle I get about 28-30c full load 55-60c when overclocked Max power Target and voltage, fan curve set to 80% at 60c

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bloodmoney207

xblackvalorx
Idle I get about 28-30c full load 55-60c when overclocked Max power Target and voltage, fan curve set to 80% at 60c

im at stock clock ill be playing games like the witcher 3 or shadow of the tomb raider i the gpu would be like 1800mhz-1900mhz and 7000mhz
im guessing its just those games because on gta i would get the same clocks with 55-60c with a set fan curve of 66%

That's at 2185/8200 for me, and I've yet to notice it fluctuate between games

bloodmoney207

James Haskew
I recently got rid of my Asus Poseidon which had an overheating problem so I'm really paranoid about the new EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3 working as it should, especially for the price. It seems fine but I'm just checking for my peace of mind.
 
At idle I'm getting temps around 45°C and at 100% load it's hitting around 62°C with the fans only spinning up at 60°C. Do these temps all seem fine? My Poseidon was at 53°C at idle and 84-90°C on load caused by a fault whereby sagging caused the heatsink to separate from the hot stuff. This card is too expensive for it to run in any way other than as intended because I don't want to be left with another lump of hot garbage like with the Poseidon .
 
Thanks for looking!

i know this is an old post but how are you getting those temps? mine is running at 70c with fan speed of 70-75%

bloodmoney207

James Haskew

bloodmoney207

James Haskew
I recently got rid of my Asus Poseidon which had an overheating problem so I'm really paranoid about the new EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3 working as it should, especially for the price. It seems fine but I'm just checking for my peace of mind.
 
At idle I'm getting temps around 45°C and at 100% load it's hitting around 62°C with the fans only spinning up at 60°C. Do these temps all seem fine? My Poseidon was at 53°C at idle and 84-90°C on load caused by a fault whereby sagging caused the heatsink to separate from the hot stuff. This card is too expensive for it to run in any way other than as intended because I don't want to be left with another lump of hot garbage like with the Poseidon .
 
Thanks for looking!

i know this is an old post but how are you getting those temps? mine is running at 70c with fan speed of 70-75%

Hi, at idle I get 32-34°C with my fans at 27-30%, and maybe around 39-40°C if I leave the card to auto regulate the fans, but the sound is pretty negligible either way. At load it depends on the games – with Wolfenstein II: New Colossus I get around 65-68°C at around 45-50% fan speed with everything at maximum at 3440x1440; whereas with Witcher 3 with everything maxed out graphics-wise I get 76-78°C at about 70-75% fan speed. While the card isn't whisper quiet at these speeds (as advertised by EVGA) it was the PSU fan kicking in after being inert for normal browsing that was causing the PC to sound like a harrier jet taking off, and I've changed from two different EVGA Gold rated G3s to my current Asus ROG Thor 850W that is Platinum certified, and it seems to be quieter at full load than either of the EVGA PSUs; however, it's still not silent as some tech YouTubers would have you believe. The ultimate question is, was it worth £1400? No, no it wasn't. Nvidia is a filthy company whose R&D for the ray tracing and tensor cores in no way justifies that price tag or the fact that, in the same way Nintendo used their customer base to test their Switch concept with the WiiU, Nvidia have done it with all the suckers (me included) willing to pay exorbitant prices so they can then release a more efficient ray tracing card with DLSS that actually works in the not too distant future: bastards.
 
My Alienware 17 R4 was, if not quieter at load, it definitely did have a much less intrusive noise profile while playing games, and when it did sit at idle for a bit the fans went quiet enough to where I didn't notice them. I really wish I'd just stayed with it but the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence with human beings, it's one of our greatest failings because we always think there's something better over the way without noticing the beauty already in front of us. And anyone that tries to tell you that gaming laptops are markedly inferior away in terms of power, noise, efficiency, cost, is talking utter rot in this era. Yes, you're going to pay a premium for the screen and portability (which is a boon in my opinion anyway), but I spent roughly £4K on my PC in the end, which was another £1300 on top of the Alienware, and that was without the ultrawide monitor cost factored in that set me back another grand. You can build a gaming PC for a lot less than that obviously, but for one time in my life I wanted to buy the absolute 'best' and I won't be doing it again, because the amount of faffing around I had to do to get this PC running how I want it to has taken over a year, whereas the Alienware plugged in and I was browsing and playing immediately, and it took up no room, looked good doing it, and I could just plug it into any external monitor and my OLED TV downstairs through a mini-Displayport. When it's time for this rig to go to PC heaven I'll be getting – what I would presume at that point to be – a thin and light gaming laptop that looks nice and performs almost as well as any hulking great lump of steel and glass cluttering up ,y office space. This is all just my opinion 
 
Over and out . . . 

ah i see i was playing at 4k when i was getting temps of 70-74c on the witcher 3 pretty much got the same temps when i tested 1080p at first i thought my card was having cooling issues but than i tested gta5 and re 2 than i got temps of 55 to mid 60c i guess all seems to be running just fine the witcher 3 runs hot for sure though aswell as shadow of the tomb raider i got a thing for monitoring my temps while gaming but precision x1 has an issue with the osd in some games if not most

rant on PC gaming

The above point is the root of all my grievances with PC gaming that seems to be overlooked by enthusiasts and tech channels that claim it's so much better than console gaming and easy as piss to get into. It's the constant faffing around with settings, some of which are so esoteric it has taken me years to familiarise myself with the intricacies of things like monitor refresh vs FPS; 1% lows versus average frames; TJ Max and "optimal" operating CPU temperatures, which range from 70°C-95°C with some stating that running at anything higher than 70°C for prolonged periods is risking degradation and permanent damage to the CPU; overclocking (12 different reports on how to do a basic overclock on the same Rampage VI Extreme – then it's OC for CPU, RAM, & GPU, not to mention XMP rarely works despite Intel's advice to the contrary; thermal paste application; optimal GPU idle and load temps; are Tower coolers or CLC AIOs better for overclocking; VRM phases and temps; PSU energy rating standards – is Gold that much different than Titanium or Platinum; do I buy a gaming or standard motherboard, and what is the true real world difference for 99% of the gaming community who don't use LN2 to go trainspotting; membrane vs mechanical keyboards (an utter bull**** argument perpetuated by people attempting to justify their niche); which monitor does one get? At one point 60 Hz was the pinnacle, then it was 100, then two weeks later 120, 144 . . . now any less than 200 FPS you may as well kick your monitor out of a hotel window – and "1440p you laughably pathetic turd! I can't even see images unless they're in 8K and moving at 200 frames per second, you neophytic philistine!" I can understand progress but there's empirical evidence that the human eye isn't physically able to see beyond certain limits. Do I get an Ultrawide or a multi-monitor setup, and from what some forum posters and tech YouTubers would have you believe, gaming laptops are the fiery jizzum of Lucifer Morningstar himself, which simply isn't true in my humble opinion, as I've now tried Asus and Alienware gaming laptops and was swayed into building a PC for myself again because I'm an idiot . . . Mark my words, PC gaming is a nightmarish landscape devoid of joy and full to the brim of disappointment.
 
And the most ridiculous thing about all of it is, I bought a PS4 Pro about six months after building a computer that would've made Charles Babbage fill his breeches with ordure had I taken it back to his study in the 1800s a la Marty McFly, and unless you are literally side by side with both systems playing the same game ported to both devices, your eyes simply adjust to the point where you notice no discrepancy in graphical fidelity, or for that matter frame rate or stuttering after you've become accustomed to the quirks; and in fact first party titles like God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, The Last of Us Remastered, Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, The Last Guardian, and Spiderman et al. look so good precisely because they've been developed with that kit solely in mind – and so the developers have squeezed  every drop of processing power out of it without having to worry about porting to several systems and PCs which vary massively in terms of individual configuration of not only components but also in settings. It's all smoke and mirrors and the psychology of behavioural suggestion. Somewhere along the line I convinced myself that smoother edges around artifacts and longer draw distances were more important than the gameplay, when I should've been constantly reminding myself of the first game I ever played, which was called Hover Bovver. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a game where you mow lawns while trying to avoid a dog and it had a palette of about 10 colours to work with and one song that looped endlessly, and you had to load the game off a cassette that took 30 minutes and very often reported something called a "Syntax Error" which was a bad line of code that forced you to rewind the tape and start that flashing-lined process all over again in the hope that you would get to cut some sweet borders before bedtime . . . 
 

 
I'm not saying that if this is your passion that it's a waste of time because technically everything is a waste of time, and if you derive pleasure from scouring noticeboards for tedious minutiae; and watching Buildzoid breakdown another identical table of heat output from the VRMs of yet another Asus board while moaning that there's no PLX chip onboard a $600 piece of equipment; or writing patronising responses to posts from frustrated beginners driven mad by hunting for a solution to an 'AF: Detect Memory' Q-Code, or a 10°C drop when fingering (ahem) a badly designed GPU – extolling your bottomless technological erudition in a condescending manner while offering absolutely nothing of any substance to the problems, then that's your right. For me when this PC dates in about three weeks I'll get a midrange thin and light gaming laptop for writing, watching videos of people on Wet walking naked through the streets of Detroit with their intestines hanging out, and instead of trying to get the best anti-aliasing and ray tracing I can out of it, I'll use whatever streaming console that will be on sale when this PC is finally ready to be taken out back and shot. 

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