Sunday, May 29th 2016
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Founders Edition Owners Complain of Fan Revving Issues
NVIDIA's decision to sell its reference-design GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card at a $100 premium over the SKU's MSRP of $599, is beginning develop cracks, with early adopters complaining of erratic default fan behavior. The GTX 1080 Founders Edition graphics card features NVIDIA's reference lateral-blower-type cooler, which didn't exactly blow us away, in our review of the card. Customers across the forumscape, including on NVIDIA's own GeForce Forums, are complaining of an issue where the fan of the cooler has a mind of its own, and revs up from 2,000 RPM to 3,000 RPM intermittently, and drops back to its idle speed. This, users complain, is particularly annoying if you're not gaming.
The users observe that these sudden and unpredictable spikes in fan-speed are not in response to rising GPU temperatures or clock speeds. Sudden variations in fan-speed are worse than gradual variations in response to legitimate triggers, as it also means sudden changes in noise, which is distracting. Users also observe that you can't even use third-party software (eg: EVGA Precision) to stabilize or override the fan-behavior, as the speed-spikes don't respect custom settings.
Just how frequently one can expect these speed-spikes is summarized by one owner's comments:
The users observe that these sudden and unpredictable spikes in fan-speed are not in response to rising GPU temperatures or clock speeds. Sudden variations in fan-speed are worse than gradual variations in response to legitimate triggers, as it also means sudden changes in noise, which is distracting. Users also observe that you can't even use third-party software (eg: EVGA Precision) to stabilize or override the fan-behavior, as the speed-spikes don't respect custom settings.
"Yeah i had this happen to me, not sure what it was, thought it was ocean waves at one point.."We at TechPowerUp would love to revisit the GTX 1080 to try to replicate and investigate this issue, but our VGA reviewer is currently AFK for a week and reporting from Taipei on the 2016 Computex Expo. Don't forget to check out our non-stop coverage, which begins on Monday (30/05)!
58 Comments on NVIDIA GTX 1080 Founders Edition Owners Complain of Fan Revving Issues
The fan, throttling and heat issues were glossed over mostly. I will wait & see if custom cards can fix this problem, bcoz am thinking it might have something to do with new hardware feature (power/clocks/heat) nvidia have used in Pascal. I forget what's its called...
That will depend on whether AMD is still around, and if yes, if it has things to offer in that tier.
If neither not, then it will depend on how many dudes are willing to vote with their pocket.
As far as I see, quite a number of people is eager to pay for it, so, why the hell not?Dafuq where you smoking, dude?
But Tbh, its better to have a little sound problems then buy a similiar priced amd card for half the performance and not to mention the amd's super huge power draw which could be very costly in long term and heat issue that can make my gaming room fells like sahara.
yes +1 bro.
Nano was exactly marketing crap to get more money out of people. Same way Founder Edition is. And it wasn't even QC'd properly as it had bad coil whine reported across the board (google nano coil whine - plenty to find). You also say it wasn't a low production marketing gimmick??? You serious? Nano and HBM? Oh yes, of course the market was flooded with Nano (and Fury X). No, wait, it was quite limited.
I think Fury X was a great product but Nano was unnecessary. It was hyped early despite the fact Fury X was already a small product. Funnier was that many SFF cases can take standard size cards now. Nano was a niche product but it was also an unnecessary product (with bad coil whine). Nvidia GTX1080 FE is priced arrogantly but hey - fastest card can be.
It's also pretty arrogant to call someone a dummy for buying a product. Would I advise someone to buy one? No, but I wouldn't denigrate them for it. Your location states 'Police/Nanny State of America' which to me emphasises an anti-socialist free market conservative mindset. So if you hate nanny states, why you hate free market pricing?
www.computerbase.de/2016-05/geforce-gtx-1080-asus-zotac-partnerkarten/Seriously? More than what? :D It cost the same as FuryX, let me remind you.
They probably had chips for Pro Duo, and said, hey, why not have it in a SFF "friendly" way.
Ignoring size, Nano was the fastest card in that power envelope.Nano was always air cooled... ^^ First time I hear it had any problems.
As for coil whine. Coil, not Pump. The exceptionally irritating high pitch whine (your come back post might say, "like your posts!") from the PCB. Many reviews commented on terrible coil whine that made any Fury X pump noise seem trivial.
If you never read about it, you may have selective bias switched up too high.
Cheap design at a premium price.
It's a software glitch, this kind of thing will be fixed quickly. AMD has had the same issue before.
I did not affect us, but it could have.
To completely take yourself out of every discussion just because it does not affect you personally is not a good thing perse.
And hell you might as well complain to the article being posted, those that are on here that have this issue know about it and perhaps are talking about it on the forums.
For the rest....yeah so what? might as well ask the maker to turn the comments off for this then right?
We've already gone from complaints of a paper launch to complaints from owners after all.
Either way this news has already filtered out to AMD's launch in Macau:
I mean in sports maybe but in hardware?
One would think all we want is solid competition to improve performance and bring the price down.
Then we can make an educated choice one what fits us best with proper arguments....
Lets not equate "natural" with "fanboyism"
My post was tongue in cheek from the start exactly because the sheer hilarity that ensues from these ultimately minor issues.
oh wait, no. that is the complete opposite of normal and would sound fucking annoying.
It's never going to be a quiet cooler, but my thought is sharp transitions like this can be easily avoided with driver tweaks.I have done this... although it was for bitcoin mining. But I cannot lie: I have.
1080 owners in the thread: 0
ROFL. I love how people complain about stuff that doesn't affect them in any way. People screaming at a screen is always funny, please keep it up folks! :lovetpu: