[SOLVED] GeForce RTX 2080 Ti starting to run too hot

[byss66]

I built this machine (https://pcpartpicker.com/user/byss66/saved/Kpchyc) a couple years ago and all has been fine up until about a month ago. My GPU, a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB AORUS, has been hitting 85-86 degrees Celsius when playing games. It doesn't seem to matter which games I play, or on what graphics level settings. Also, the fans speed up to max RPMs to try and cool it off, and it gets super loud. I can hear them even when I'm wearing my headphones.

Things I've done so far:

• Cleaned the dust out of the machine (there was very little to begin with)
• Updated the drivers to the latest from GeForce
• checked that all fans are working
• tried various games (even something like the title screen of Borderlands 3 sends the temps soaring)
• reduced the graphics settings in some games to test it out

I've opened the side panel to see if more airflow would help, and this does reduce it to ~75-76 degrees Celsius while gaming. This isn't feasible as a permanent solution as I have cats that would try to get in there, but I can shut my door while playing games for now to keep them out while I play so it's a stop-gap solution anyways.

It got hot enough one time that I started getting partially black screens while playing Red Dead Online and I shut down my PC to let it cool off when that happened. I'mm now scared of playing games on it without the side panel taken off.

I don't get why suddenly it seems as if it's an airflow solution, as it worked fine for almost two years. And my case looks (to my inexpert eyes, anyways) as if it has plenty of room for airflow to go through. It has a total of 7 fans inside between the 2 case fans, the 2 that came with the liquid cooling kit and the 3 on the GPU.

I've been measuring my fans speed and heat with the Performance Overlay that you can use with GeForce Experience once enabled in the settings, as well as another app called Open Hardware Monitor.

Is there anything else I should be looking into? With GPU prices being crazy right (and stock being limited) now I really don't want to replace this if I don't have to.

 

[Dj0gany]

No need to replace it.
Buy thermal paste (if you dont already have it),and buy some thermal pads.
Here is a video guide on what you need to replace.
Skip to 1:10 to see where you need to replace the thermal pads,the gpu die is as easy to repaste as a normal cpu.
A small rice grain drop will be enough.
The video is not in English but should be fairly understandable.

 

[Deleted member 1560910]

Check for dust and reapply thermal paste

 

[iTRiP]

I did teach my cat not to touch my pc, (might want to play games without headphones on so you can hear when they come into the room) running @ max with the pc case side panel off and getting 75C is not bad at all, quite normal as a matter of a fact, but if you are up to the task of reapplying thermal paste and dealing with those those disassembling and reassembling the GPU, do it. Could be quite fun.