New MSI 3080 delivered today, However...

[avi8tor]

Received my new Gaming X Trio 3080 today and quickly popped out the 2080TI which has worked flawlessly for the last 2 years.
However whilst the new card works great and giving expected improved results in games like Division 2, RDR2 FS2020, I'm finding the GPU fans are operating at maximum capacity and are frankly unbearable!
All the reviews a saying this is a quiet card!
Can figure out if I have a dud card or is there some old settings left over from the 2080TI card?!

Anyone else finding this?
The one thing I've not done yet is upgrade my PSU - I'm using a Super Flower 650W 80Gold - could this be the reason for the excessive GPU fan?

[Terbinator]

Received my new Gaming X Trio 3080 today and quickly popped out the 2080TI which has worked flawlessly for the last 2 years.
However whilst the new card works great and giving expected improved results in games like Division 2, RDR2 FS2020, I'm finding the GPU fans are operating at maximum capacity and are frankly unbearable!
All the reviews a saying this is a quiet card!
Can figure out if I have a dud card or is there some old settings left over from the 2080TI card?!

Anyone else finding this?
The one thing I've not done yet is upgrade my PSU - I'm using a Super Flower 650W 80Gold - could this be the reason for the excessive GPU fan?

Do you have an old MSI Afterburner fan profile left over, perhaps? What temps are you getting whilst gaming?

First thing for me would be to use DDU to do a proper, clean install of drivers and see how it is after. Use MSI Afterburner and see if it is an auto fan-curve or not, and see if you can manually adjust it - not a "fix" - but if you can correct it, it would suggest it is a S/W issue somewhere.

Your PSU shouldn't cause GPU to spin up higher, although it could be the PSU fan going in to override as I believe 750W is suggested for the 3080?

[avi8tor]

Hi, Thanks for the suggestion but I tried what you mentioned and still having the same results. GPU temps are registering at 76 - 79% which apparently is normal gaming temps for the MSI Trio X.
The noise coming from the fans is really off the scale and totally unacceptable for a card at stock speed.
I've got a new PSU coming today (850W) Cant see it making a difference but needed to upgrade anyway.
Appreciate any help?

[Hoonigan]

One thing I'm seeing being mentioned is to make sure you spread the load on your PSU's supply rails. Some people have been using a single cable for both of their 8-pin PCI-E power connections, where that cable is only typically rated for 150W, not the 250W-300W that these cards can ask for.

[svenz]

What case do you have? I doubt a PSU change would help your temps (why would it - that makes no sense). More likely your case airflow isn't very good. 3080s generate A LOT of heat.

[moshpit]

Yeah, none of the 3000 series cards should be annoyingly loud. My RTX 3090 from PNY is extremely quiet, and not even as well cooled as the MSI, smaller heatsink area overall. The MSI 3080 should be whisper quiet practically.

If it's running full tilt all the time, I would test on a fresh OS load and see if problem persists. Nuke and pave comes easy to me though, not so much for others. I don't waste time fighting with it if a nuke and pave will fix it, and if it doesn't, then it's warranty time. Usually can tell pretty fast with that order.

[cptwhite_uk]

"nuke and pave" ??? that's a new one on me - do you mean a full format or?

[moshpit]

Yes, full format, and install fresh OS. However, I say that fully realizing most people don't consider that a small process, I guess I'm spoiled loading my OS on an M.2 drive that takes all of 10 minutes to get from setup beginning to the desktop to begin Windows Updating. Literally, the entire process from format/reinstall to completion only takes me an hour with all updates, drivers, and apps lined up to install on my backup drives.

The only reason I didn't fully automate the process with disk imaging is simply because a full install, updating, and app install process just goes so fast I don't feel the need to automate it. Plus not automating means I can direct address hardware changes of this sort with a simple Nuke and Pave.

Nuke and Pave is an OLD school tech industry term used in support shops and such. Picked that phrase up back in the 90's working at Stream International (outsourced support company) supporting HP Pavilions. We never said that customers, it's just what we (the techs) would say to each other when discussing a machine that no further tech support will help without a full format and reinstall.

[ShreddedWheat]

Have you done a full driver clean with DDU?

[n14hta]

Received my new Gaming X Trio 3080 today and quickly popped out the 2080TI which has worked flawlessly for the last 2 years.
However whilst the new card works great and giving expected improved results in games like Division 2, RDR2 FS2020, I'm finding the GPU fans are operating at maximum capacity and are frankly unbearable!
All the reviews a saying this is a quiet card!
Can figure out if I have a dud card or is there some old settings left over from the 2080TI card?!

Anyone else finding this?
The one thing I've not done yet is upgrade my PSU - I'm using a Super Flower 650W 80Gold - could this be the reason for the excessive GPU fan?

I have the 3090 Gaming X Trio and I am also disappointed with the temps on air, I have messed around with the fan placement in my case, changed the fan curve in MSI afterburner and even flashed a low temp bios from MSI's website and I still get around 80-83c whilst gaming, this is with fans on the card at 85-90%! I will eventually be putting a water-block on the card but if I was only using it in an air cooled setup I would have probably returned the card.

[Themafia97]

I have the 3080 gaming X trio and haven't had this issue. Did you check what firmware bios it's running? MSI have a quiet/thermal bios