ROG Strix 2080 Ti OC broken fan behavior

[Buschti]

EDIT: got the card RMA'd and got a replacement


Hey there,

I have had my 2080 Ti since the mid of october 2018. It has been working fine, other than propably beeing the worst overclocking card in the history of 2080 Ti's (highest sustainable clock ist about 1935 Mhz).
Since a couple weeks ago, I noticed that the fans of the card sometimes ramped up to what sounded like 100% fan speed and then came back down. I searched this and other forums for the same problem, but couldn't find any pertaining to the 2080 series of cards. So I started monitoring temperatures and they were never out of spec, like 80°C maximum or so.
So today I tried to narrow down the problem: I had the card set to the standard bios and everything in MSI Afterburner to stock. No fan revving appeared and temperatures were around 72°C.
When I started overclocking the card and temperature climbed towards the 77°C to 78°C range the fan revving appeared again.
After that I tried the silent bios, to see if it behaved any differently. So every setting back to stock and low and behold after the temperatures reached 77°C+ the fans reved to 100% again.
Mind you everytime this happened I had a close look at Afterburner so see what the fan speed looked like in the software. It never changed when the revving happened and I even closed Afterburner just to check that it is really not the software doing something funky to the cards fans.
So with the silent bios selected, I didn't even have to apply any overclock for the revving to happen. And when I maxed out the power limit the temperature would rise a bit mor obviously and then the revving went on for even minutes at a time
One time the revving even started around 73°C while playing a game and woulnd't stop. But I could not replicate the revving in my testing with such a low temperature again.

So in conclusion: The fan revving seems to be connected to the temperature of the card. Doesn't matter if an overclocking software is running or not and all the settings within the software don't seem to matter as well only if the side effect of the settings raises the temperature above a certain point.
With the silent bios selected and just upping the power limit to 125% I can reproduce this erroneous behavior every time.

I don't have any other ideas for what I could do to fix the fan rev, so my hope is someone here can help my or/and if not I can RMA the card and get one without this problem.

Best regards

[Buschti]

A little update from my side:

I RMA'd my card five weeks ago and have gotten a new one yesterday. So it worked out ok on my end. Hope yours will be fixed as well.

[Liksi]

Buschti wrote:
A little update from my side:

I RMA'd my card five weeks ago and have gotten a new one yesterday. So it worked out ok on my end. Hope yours will be fixed as well.

How's the new card? I have mine being tested by the shop I bought it from. I have in store replacement so it's just a matter of them replicating the problem but they can only hit 64c with their computer  my issue starts at around 69c mostly 70c

[Liksi]

Buschti wrote:
A little update from my side:

I RMA'd my card five weeks ago and have gotten a new one yesterday. So it worked out ok on my end. Hope yours will be fixed as well.

How's the new card? Hopefully no more issues?

[Buschti]

The new card is very good, compared to my old one.
Hope they can replicate the Problem for you.

[jacole]

I was having the same thing happen with my ASUS 2080ti Stix. Every time the time got to around 77F the fans would go full speed then slow down again. Very annoying! I picked the card up November 2018 from Micro Center and I paid for the 2 year extended warranty. Good thing I did! They allowed me to return the card and get a replacement one which is working perfectly!

[zehawk]

jacole@outlook.com wrote:
I was having the same thing happen with my ASUS 2080ti Stix. Every time the time got to around 77F the fans would go full speed then slow down again. Very annoying! I picked the card up November 2018 from Micro Center and I paid for the 2 year extended warranty. Good thing I did! They allowed me to return the card and get a replacement one which is working perfectly!

I started to have the exact same issue and, coincidence or not, right after I updated to latest NVidia Driver available. When the card reaches 80~81ºC the GPU Fan1 ramps up to 3500RPM until it cools down to 79ºC. It just repeats the process indefinitely..
I'm trying to figure how can I change the fan profile to speed up the fans to, let's say 2000RPM at 75ºC so it can prevent the card to reach 80ºC at all, but i'm not sure how I can do this.

Maybe someone can give a few tips?

Thank you,
BR

[DrSahl]

zehawk wrote:
I started to have the exact same issue and, coincidence or not, right after I updated to latest NVidia Driver available. When the card reaches 80~81ºC the GPU Fan1 ramps up to 3500RPM until it cools down to 79ºC. It just repeats the process indefinitely..
I'm trying to figure how can I change the fan profile to speed up the fans to, let's say 2000RPM at 75ºC so it can prevent the card to reach 80ºC at all, but i'm not sure how I can do this.

Maybe someone can give a few tips?

Thank you,
BR

I have a similar issue with my 2080 ROG strix oc. Whenever it reaches 68ºC, the middle fan goes to 100% speed and it goes up and down for eternity. This only happens when I play demanding games, usually with casual PC use or light gaming, I never reach above 62ºC. I have like you tried using various programs, like ie the Asus Tweak, but also Afterburner (not at once ofc) the custom curve can easily be made and works until it reach 68ºC, when that happens it still showcase 50% fanspeed, but over 3000RPM on the middle fan....

I was told to RMA the card and I have seen many people having issues with first generation RTX cards, so I reckon it is a common issue. Most people get a replacement card. Maybe it has to do with the sensors on the card? Anyway.. I would RMA the card if I was you. Alternatively you could

1. Try to see if you have sag (I had not, but it could be an issue)
2. Try alot PCI slot (if you have one)
3. Be sure you have enough power (PSU)
4. Lower the power gain (not recommended, but that will solve the issue most likely, but ofc.. well obviously take away power for you)


Again best bet is to RMA and get a new card. I heard the new Super cards, have less issues, so if you are lucky, they might replace it with such a card.

[DrSahl]

Just to update you.

I got my card replaced, so it is worth a shot to RMA it. They said it is not supposed to sound like that (it was the seller and not Asus, albeit I am sure Asus would replace it as well if contacted directly)