I just saw this video from LinusTechTips about the 3080 and 3090 backplate cooling problem,
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToTWaZtGOj8
And after installing HWiNFO, yeah it checks out for my card.
I have the Alienware Aurora R11 PC with I7 10700KF and RTX 3080, I bought it because of the GPU shortage and prebuilts pretty much being the only way to get the 3000 series.
I use my computer for gaming with 1 2560x1440 165hz monitor as well as VR, and when I don't have my GPU in use for gaming, I usually spin it up to mine Ethereum, including overnight and when I'm away from my computer for days on end. I've been using it like this for around a month and a half. I did notice some funny things happening on my PC such as games crashing randomly recently which I attributed to software shenanigans, and to my credit reinstalling windows did seem to fix a lot of those issues. Now, I saw this video from linus, and I'm wondering whether those issues could be from letting my GPU run so hot and whether I should invest in the liquid cooling.
So my question is do you think I should invest in the cooling backplate? If so, how would I even install it, I've never installed liquid cooling before (I built my own PC before, and switched out the CPU etc so I'm not a complete noob when it comes to hardware swaps) If I don't get it, what should I expect going forward? Will my GPU just die on me at random, or slowly degrade over time? I'm pretty concerned, so I'd love it if someone could enlighten me on what all this actually means.
And after installing HWiNFO, yeah it checks out for my card.
I have the Alienware Aurora R11 PC with I7 10700KF and RTX 3080, I bought it because of the GPU shortage and prebuilts pretty much being the only way to get the 3000 series.
I use my computer for gaming with 1 2560x1440 165hz monitor as well as VR, and when I don't have my GPU in use for gaming, I usually spin it up to mine Ethereum, including overnight and when I'm away from my computer for days on end. I've been using it like this for around a month and a half. I did notice some funny things happening on my PC such as games crashing randomly recently which I attributed to software shenanigans, and to my credit reinstalling windows did seem to fix a lot of those issues. Now, I saw this video from linus, and I'm wondering whether those issues could be from letting my GPU run so hot and whether I should invest in the liquid cooling.
So my question is do you think I should invest in the cooling backplate? If so, how would I even install it, I've never installed liquid cooling before (I built my own PC before, and switched out the CPU etc so I'm not a complete noob when it comes to hardware swaps) If I don't get it, what should I expect going forward? Will my GPU just die on me at random, or slowly degrade over time? I'm pretty concerned, so I'd love it if someone could enlighten me on what all this actually means.