I was reading this can lower temps dramatically but my question is: does it matter for me?
Had my 3080FE just shy of a year and the temps seem ok and are well "within spec" but if it could be significantly quieter that would be awesome. It sounds like most people doing this mod are mining though and getting thermal throttled by like 110c vram. Since I only game and temps aren't super high I wasn't sure it would be worth it.
After running Deathloop maxed out fps unlocked for 40 minutes my temps read from HWinfo where max:
GPU core - 72.5c
Memory Junction - 92c
Hotspot Temp - 82.7c
Fans at 71%
Deathloop allocates like 96% of my vram and maxes out my gpu so I thought it was a good choice. Those temps will all raise 4c on the nose with fans at 50%.
Anyway it would be awesome to get those same temps or so with fans at say 50% max for a quieter experience.
Does that seem possible with thermal pad replacement or do the returns diminish the lower your temps are to begin with?
Had my 3080FE just shy of a year and the temps seem ok and are well "within spec" but if it could be significantly quieter that would be awesome. It sounds like most people doing this mod are mining though and getting thermal throttled by like 110c vram. Since I only game and temps aren't super high I wasn't sure it would be worth it.
After running Deathloop maxed out fps unlocked for 40 minutes my temps read from HWinfo where max:
GPU core - 72.5c
Memory Junction - 92c
Hotspot Temp - 82.7c
Fans at 71%
Deathloop allocates like 96% of my vram and maxes out my gpu so I thought it was a good choice. Those temps will all raise 4c on the nose with fans at 50%.
Anyway it would be awesome to get those same temps or so with fans at say 50% max for a quieter experience.
Does that seem possible with thermal pad replacement or do the returns diminish the lower your temps are to begin with?