Question GPU fans spin to over 4000 rpm ?

[paulfoel]

This is an RTX 2080.

Goes nuts when you place any decent load on it - fans running at 4000 RPM.

Surely this is not right? Is it overheating?

 

[Lutfij]

This is an RTX 2080.
Was this bought used or has this been in your possession since buying it brand new? Make and model of your PSU and it's age? make and model of your case and the layout of fans and their orientation? Ambient room air temps? Did you disassemble the GPU at any point to clear off of dirt or debris, that might impede airflow in the GPU?

Did this crop up after a GPU driver update? If so, how did you perform the update?

 

[paulfoel]

It was bought new - Its actually an ASUS Dual GeForce® RTX 2080 OC edition 8GB GDDR6

Hmm- I'd say 3 years old. Does same in 2 different cases now,. Have never disassembled it - is this an idea?

"Did this crop up after a GPU driver update?"
No, just noticed one day it was doing this.

 

[Nathkrul]

My RTX2080ti did this, nice n quiet for a year then fans slowly ramping up, then full blast with a small load on it.

Had to put fresh thermal paste on the GPU, like new again, after that.

The paste was rock hard btw, SO no surprise that it couldn't get cool.

 

[paulfoel]

How hard to do the thermal paste? I've done CPUs on mobos in the past....

 

[Nathkrul]

How hard to do the thermal paste? I've done CPUs on mobos in the past....

It's fairly easy tbh.
Just take notice of the fan connector, don't break it and take your time, if you can warm up the card heatsink before prying the heatsink apart as you don't want to rip the thermal pads that's on the ram chips etc.