Hey everyone,
I watched the market for quite some time and found a good deal for a Asus 3080 (non Ti) Strix GPU and bought it. I have and old (4 or 5 years) Corsair 750x PSU, but I only run an i5-8600k and I intended to undervolt the GPU anyway.
Yes I know, undervolting and OC card. But the price was good, I had some good experience with ASUS cards in the past and I always had the feeling that OC cards like that have better cooling with results in a quieter card.
Anyway I installed the card, connected three seperate PCIe cables to it, run a benchmark with the stock (OC) settings. Everything was good.
Started my undervolt and found the sweet spot with 825mV @ 1800 Mhz (if I need more power in the future I still can increase the clock). Everything was stable, everything could be great.
BUT while monitoring the GPU I noticed the power draw while idling: 50 watt. That's way to high. I checked reviews beforehand and users mentioned like ~20 watts or lower while idling.
So I started to check things:
Nothing fixed the problem for me. Also check my running processes, but the card also downclocks probably to 210 Mhz Core and 405 Memory.
Are the sensors just broken, or does this card randomly suck 30-40 more watts while idling and no review ever mentioned that?
GPU-Z Screenshot while Idle: https://gpuz.techpowerup.com/22/09/06/vts.png
Afterburner Screenshot while Idle: View: https://i.imgur.com/71yT1Bg.png
Afterburner Sensors while Idle: View: https://i.imgur.com/QDChx5K.png
Afterburner Curve (but I also have the problem with Stock settings): View: https://i.imgur.com/KOHoBs2.png
Any help would be great. Thank you!
I watched the market for quite some time and found a good deal for a Asus 3080 (non Ti) Strix GPU and bought it. I have and old (4 or 5 years) Corsair 750x PSU, but I only run an i5-8600k and I intended to undervolt the GPU anyway.
Yes I know, undervolting and OC card. But the price was good, I had some good experience with ASUS cards in the past and I always had the feeling that OC cards like that have better cooling with results in a quieter card.
Anyway I installed the card, connected three seperate PCIe cables to it, run a benchmark with the stock (OC) settings. Everything was good.
Started my undervolt and found the sweet spot with 825mV @ 1800 Mhz (if I need more power in the future I still can increase the clock). Everything was stable, everything could be great.
BUT while monitoring the GPU I noticed the power draw while idling: 50 watt. That's way to high. I checked reviews beforehand and users mentioned like ~20 watts or lower while idling.
So I started to check things:
- I only have one 1440p @ 120Hz monitor connected. Changing it to 1080p @ 60Hz saves like ~8 watts which still results in 42 watts (also I wouldn't run my monitor at this setting...)
- In the global nvidia settings the power usage is set to Normal not maximum performance.
- Windows Power Plan is set to Balanced.
- I tried the two different BIOS (Q Mode and P Mode) without any difference (besides probably a different fan curve).
- I uninstalled the driver with DDU, and reinstalled everything (restore default options checked) without any difference.
- I tried to update the GPU BIOS, but the installer only mentions that my card is already updated.
- Tried different software to read the sensors but all list more or less the same power draw.
Nothing fixed the problem for me. Also check my running processes, but the card also downclocks probably to 210 Mhz Core and 405 Memory.
Are the sensors just broken, or does this card randomly suck 30-40 more watts while idling and no review ever mentioned that?
GPU-Z Screenshot while Idle: https://gpuz.techpowerup.com/22/09/06/vts.png
Afterburner Screenshot while Idle: View: https://i.imgur.com/71yT1Bg.png
Afterburner Sensors while Idle: View: https://i.imgur.com/QDChx5K.png
Afterburner Curve (but I also have the problem with Stock settings): View: https://i.imgur.com/KOHoBs2.png
Any help would be great. Thank you!