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The Outer Worlds is heating my apartment
- Thread starter Wag
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God I'm glad it's finally getting colder at night. Trying to game with my Vega 56 during the summer was hell in my poor apartment.
My 2080Ti is so loud I have to play with Bose noise-cancelling headphones. I have literally turned down graphics settings just to make it quieter.
Glad I'm not the only one who runs their PC on particularly cold nights instead of the heater LOL
i like to go to youtube and keep a fullscreen vid of a fireplace on my second screen just to really seal the deal
The 3080 will be 7nm so it will consume a lot less energy and make a lot less heat. Sorry pal.
Hell in the summer though =P
This is why I stick to mid-range cards like the xx70 (typically better thermals unless you want to spend a fortune on a really well cooled high end card), and have an obsession with air flow and fan quality (Noctua). Even under high load my PC is quieter than most gaming PCs when they're idling.
This is why I stick to mid-range cards like the xx70 (typically better thermals unless you want to spend a fortune on a really well cooled high end card), and have an obsession with air flow and fan quality (Noctua). Even under high load my PC is quieter than most gaming PCs when they're idling.
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I save demanding titles for the winter and pretty much spend the whole summer playing smaller indie/2d games that aren't going to cause my graphics card to work hard enough that the fan comes on. I don't bother on the ps4/ps4 pro because those sound like jet engines regardless of what I do.
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My rig consists of [email protected], 16GB, and a 2080Ti (game at 4k). It's all on air- I didn't want to bother with water cooling for this setup, but next one I will.
I guess I'm lucky, my EVGA XC Ultra stays pretty quiet with just two fans.
a friend of mine doesnt have a heater in his room so he just lets VR run for a little bit and his small room gets nice and toasty
You should have got the MSI Trio. Just a blissful, reassuring, whisper quiet "whoosh".
Almost same here with my 1080ti. A good pair of closed-back headphones (Beyerdynamics DT770 Pro in my case) is enough, but it's still a bummer how fucking loud the thing gets, especially since lowering settings doesn't help much if I want to play games at 60+ fps. And why wouldn't I, I have a 144hz G-sync monitor.
Next GPU I buy I'm definitely gonna pay extra for actual silence.
That means it's more effective at dumping heat from the GPU into your room due to improved thermal transfer.
Adding thermal paste doesn't reduce power consumption of the card.
Then something's not right because the card is ridiculously quiet! Are you using a small case or have only stock CPU cooling which could be adding to the heat around the GPU? Or do you live in a very hot country?
Lowering the game resolution from 4K to 1080p usually helps in keeping temperature cool, I also suggest using an actual wattmeter to measure how much wattage the PC/Display/Speakers are using and stop relying on TDPs quoted by CPU and GPU manufacturers.
So just to be clear, under normal loads - older games, less demanding games etc, I literally can't hear the card at all. But games like Gears 5, Metro Exodus, that's where we're into jet engine territory.
I have a Fractal case with all Noctua fans, although a fairly relaxed profile on them (tied to CPU temp) because I was trying to reduce noise. So I generally can't hear the case or CPU fans either.
A GPU with better cooling or even a full water loop will definitely help with noise levels and it will be able to transfer heat more efficient from your parts (lower GPU temp).
But no matter how much you invest into pc cooling, the hardware parts you are using will always generate the same amount of thermal energy that needs to be transferred into your room.
A better cooling solution will heat up your room just the same.
2080ti is a massive chip, with shocking 4352 shaders (12nm), 11gb of very fast video memory and relative high clockspeeds.
15.5 tflops of performance at 1800 MHz, which all cards seem to be reaching. No wonder it is producing a lot of heat.
But no matter how much you invest into pc cooling, the hardware parts you are using will always generate the same amount of thermal energy that needs to be transferred into your room.
A better cooling solution will heat up your room just the same.
2080ti is a massive chip, with shocking 4352 shaders (12nm), 11gb of very fast video memory and relative high clockspeeds.
15.5 tflops of performance at 1800 MHz, which all cards seem to be reaching. No wonder it is producing a lot of heat.
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For clarity, the factory thermal paste job was extremely bad. As in, around an eighth of the surface area of the die straight-up wasn't covered by paste. Because of that, I had to underclock and undervolt the card in order to avoid a thermal throttle, and eventually popped it open and repasted the die.
I'm not sure if there's something I'm missing, but the card is generating less heat now. It's not just thermal transfer.
You can always reduce voltage. In my experience, GPUs always take a little more power than they actually need under max load, so play around with it like you would an overclock and you'll find the sweet spot. I play around with curves in MSI Afterburner.
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It's dissipating the same heat though. Same power consumption. The newer paste is more transmissive and needs a lower temperature to dissipate the ~250W.
The card is either going to be generating the exact same amount of heat, or more if it can now run at higher clockspeeds.
Let's compare a GPU running at 250W with three cooling solutions:
- Low-end/reference GPU cooler, with the card running at the 83C limit (but not downclocking).
- High-end air cooler, with the card running at 60C.
- Overkill water-cooling loop with the card running at 30C.
If the GPU is running at the same clocks/power consumption with all three cooling setups, it's still dumping 250W of heat into the room.
The difference is that each cooling system is progressively better at transferring that heat away from the GPU core, and probably sounds quieter too.
The GPU itself runs cooler, but the room is going to be just as warm with either cooling solution because all three cards are producing 250W of heat.
What's more likely though, is that the GPUs which have a better cooling system are going to be pushed to running at higher clockspeeds/power consumption - so they will actually heat up the room more, even though the GPU die is running cooler.
Correct.
Get the larger WUs on F@H flowing as well during the night for extra comfort.
That's assuming that I focus entirely on overclocking instead of undervolting, though. A few additional frames matters less to me than the heat of my die, since the two fans on my card get pretty loud when the die gets hot. I prefer less noise to better performance, anyway, since with a 1080 Ti, there's not a whole lot of games I struggle to run, and I'm not a stickler for locked framerates on my VRR monitor.
If your model is based on the reference-PCB then either slap the Arctic Xtreme III or IV on it and enjoy silence: https://www.arctic.ac/de_en/accelero-xtreme-iii.html
I did the same with my GTX 1070 and never hear it even once since, the fans stays at like 35% even under full load with temps barely hitting 62°C.
For some reason one of my case fans has started rattling or something whenever it's on low RPMs, so I've now just got it going full blast all the time, which I think has actually improved airflow around my desk.
I need to just bite the bullet and get a new case to be honest - this one's so old that one of the USB ports on the front has pretty much disintegrated - but money, and time, and money...
I need to just bite the bullet and get a new case to be honest - this one's so old that one of the USB ports on the front has pretty much disintegrated - but money, and time, and money...
You clearly haven't been PC gaming for long.
Because Fermi, my god the heat that thing produced.
Or if you wanted a more modern space heater, the 290x.
The 2080 is positively cold in relation to some of the less efficient GPUs of the past.
Okay, but the point is that a card consuming 250W is still going to be producing the same amount of heat no matter what cooling solution you have on there.
If power consumption remains constant, the cooling solution only affects the card's operating temperature, not the amount of heat being produced.
