1080Ti

[Rydychyn]

I know my PC can run it, but can anyone else who has this GPU tell me what temperatures they expect when this releases please.

My 1080Ti hits 70+, sometimes even 80+ on games that will be nowhere near as graphically intensive as Starfield.

I like to keep it under 80 if possible, but I don't really want a jet engine in the room every time I play the game.

[HeyYou]

Headphones are the answer. :D

[theaaronone]

My old PC that I'm currently building the replacement for has 2x 1080 Strix in SLI, not exactly 1:1, but they average around 50 at idle, and push into the 70's and 80's under load...though I admittedly haven't done full proper testing recently, just what I see on the temp monitor whenever I'm playing anything. The case they're in is a Deepcool quadstellar, which opens and pulls in a lot of fresh air when temperatures get to a certain point. The case and fan setup you have can make a big difference in how hot the card will run overall.

You should be fine to play, probably not on max settings, but absolutely playable.. though I would expect those fans to be going from idle to max spin quite a bit, if not staying at full RPM most of the time... like HeyYou said, headphones will solve that for you.

Might be worth looking into an upgrade for yourself soon... you don't need to throw thousands at a 4090 unless you just want to. Depending on the brand, you could get a 3060 ti for a few hundred bucks off Amazon, and you'll be good to go on this and any modern "AAA" title for awhile.

[fwarlinger]

No one has any clue. If it reaches a certain temp it will go into limp mode or crash. Unless it is EVGA then it might blow resistor.

[Paraskeet]

do you have a repair shop next to you? I suggest you contact them and ask if they can replace your gpu cooler with something better.

in many cases they charge you only for the gpu cooler

[Rydychyn]

Originally posted by theaaronone:

My old PC that I'm currently building the replacement for has 2x 1080 Strix in SLI, not exactly 1:1, but they average around 50 at idle, and push into the 70's and 80's under load...though I admittedly haven't done full proper testing recently, just what I see on the temp monitor whenever I'm playing anything. The case they're in is a Deepcool quadstellar, which opens and pulls in a lot of fresh air when temperatures get to a certain point. The case and fan setup you have can make a big difference in how hot the card will run overall.

You should be fine to play, probably not on max settings, but absolutely playable.. though I would expect those fans to be going from idle to max spin quite a bit, if not staying at full RPM most of the time... like HeyYou said, headphones will solve that for you.

Might be worth looking into an upgrade for yourself soon... you don't need to throw thousands at a 4090 unless you just want to. Depending on the brand, you could get a 3060 ti for a few hundred bucks off Amazon, and you'll be good to go on this and any modern "AAA" title for awhile.

Thanks for the detailed response!

I never expected to play on high settings. My case is a really old budget one so likely has terrible base airflow, too.
Plenty of varying fans, though, including a side intake that blows straight onto the GPU, maybe I should make that one spin faster first.

[theaaronone]

Originally posted by Rydychyn:

Originally posted by theaaronone:

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Thanks for the detailed response!

I never expected to play on high settings. My case is a really old budget one so likely has terrible base airflow, too.
Plenty of varying fans, though, including a side intake that blows straight onto the GPU, maybe I should make that one spin faster first.

You bet!

Another thing you can do, especially if you've got a fan blowing straight on it - and only if you're comfortable with this sort of thing - do a quick tear down of the GPU, and give it a little TLC... clean the chip off (old thermal paste) with alcohol, clear the dust from the fins, give the card itself a dusting with a clean detail brush (or an unused makeup brush in a pinch) and refresh the thermal paste - and screw it all back together.

It might help your temps a bit, it's not going to give you a massive change, but it will at least be running at whatever it's peak efficiency is, given the age of the card.

There are tear down videos for video cards all over youtube, watch a few to see if it's something you think would be worth your time.

[Captain Camper]

Like some people have suggested, looking at the physical card itself and either replacing the cooler or cleaning the card may help with lowering temperatures for it. If you are ever using any video card and your concern is to keep temperatures lower, the solution is to look at the hardware rather than try and tweak a video game to put less strain on your card. Bad optimization in many games will often go full throttle on your video card no matter what settings you select.

[JefferyNothing]

Originally posted by Captain Camper:

Like some people have suggested, looking at the physical card itself and either replacing the cooler or cleaning the card may help with lowering temperatures for it. If you are ever using any video card and your concern is to keep temperatures lower, the solution is to look at the hardware rather than try and tweak a video game to put less strain on your card. Bad optimization in many games will often go full throttle on your video card no matter what settings you select.

Adding to that replacing the thermal paste with a good one (Thermal grizzly kryonaut/Noctua-NT-H2) can help with lowing temps. Being a 1080 TI its probably due a re-pasting by now

[Grubbs008]

The thermal paste on the card is probably warping. You should just replace it. Get the paste, have alchohol and q-tips, latex gloves, watch a YouTube video on how to do it, there's 1080 videos, which is basically the same thing. It's pretty easy.

[Paraskeet]

Originally posted by Grubbs008:

The thermal paste on the card is probably warping. You should just replace it. Get the paste, have alchohol and q-tips, latex gloves, watch a YouTube video on how to do it, there's 1080 videos, which is basically the same thing. It's pretty easy.

I don't suggest that since many beginners destroy the card in the process. I have a friend that runs a repair shop and he receives a lot of cards that have chipped pcb because someone wanted to prepare it for watercooling.

[BimboGooch]

you should be fine unless your heating sync in it is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. your 1080ti can reach upwards of 100c before it gets bad.
80c is pretty high though, even with my 1070 I never got past 70, or rather rarely did. But Id worry if its getting to the 90s.

[Engels78]

Originally posted by Rydychyn:

I know my PC can run it, but can anyone else who has this GPU tell me what temperatures they expect when this releases please.

My 1080Ti hits 70+, sometimes even 80+ on games that will be nowhere near as graphically intensive as Starfield.

I like to keep it under 80 if possible, but I don't really want a jet engine in the room every time I play the game.

It is from the beginning you have your GPU? If yes, it's rather normal, but if not, it is maybe time to change thermal paste??? But as above, as long as it keeps under 90C you are safe...

[Paraskeet]

Originally posted by BimboGooch:

you should be fine unless your heating sync in it is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. your 1080ti can reach upwards of 100c before it gets bad.
80c is pretty high though, even with my 1070 I never got past 70, or rather rarely did. But Id worry if its getting to the 90s.

I wouldn't suggest to run your card at 80 degrees celsius or higher. the thermal cycling is going to be a bigger problem

[Rydychyn]

Thanks everyone!

I'm going to look into giving it a proper clean and repasting. The card is fairly old now.

[Engels78]

Originally posted by Paraskeet:

Originally posted by BimboGooch:

you should be fine unless your heating sync in it is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. your 1080ti can reach upwards of 100c before it gets bad.
80c is pretty high though, even with my 1070 I never got past 70, or rather rarely did. But Id worry if its getting to the 90s.

I wouldn't suggest to run your card at 80 degrees celsius or higher. the thermal cycling is going to be a bigger problem

GPU has built in thermal protection... It will not run over safety temperature.