When it comes to new hardware and software, we all expect a few problems. With the announcement of the GTX 1080 comes the first reports of such problems with owners reporting that they are experiencing “fan revving” on their new graphics cards.
One user, CyraX_85, reported on the GeForce forums that every time they place a game like Overwatch the fan “rapidly rises to 2800 rpm and then rapidly falls back down to normal rpm”. With his original card being a 1080 FE from Zotac, and a replacement 1080 coming from Gigabyte only to suffer the same problem. Fellow forum goer, coldfinger, experienced the same problem, getting the issue with Vally Benchmark, The Division, Doom, GTA V and Elite dangerous, posting the below image on the forum.
Another user decided to test the fan issue in WOW, noting that his fan speed went from 2000 to 3000 with the fan speed slowly increasing over time still boosting to 3000 RPM on a regular basis.
With the problem reported on various types of the 1080 card, many users are hopeful that a BIOS update within the next month will resolve the apparently random fan revving issue that the foundation models seem to be having.
Do you have a GTX 1080? Did you notice your fan revving up or are you only noticing it now?
That’s what they get for buying the Fuckers Edition.
Lol
You’ll burn out the fan motors a lot faster like that
I would say you should invest in a water block/water cooling in that case.
On a 960 really.
I wonder if this is only from other card makers Gigabyte and Zotac or the one that comes directly from GeForce. The article is not clear on that. I only say this because it doesn’t say the one from GeForce is having this issue, only Gigabyte and Zotac. It does however say reported on several cards. It just doesn’t specifically say the original GeForce Founders Edition card.
I also haven’t been able to test this because the card is sold out everywhere including GeForce. I heard it got sold out in two minutes right from GeForce. #geforcegtx1080cantmeetdemand
Yep, NVidia had a total of 36 cards ready for the NA launch. And people complain that AMD’s Fury launch was bad…
Im guessing you are going deaf from how loud you set your sounds.
I have the same issue but not when I first got the card. It seems to have come with the driver update, I would say in the 6 months. I have an Asus gtx 1080 8GB.