• brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    I’m babying my 3090 like its the last GPU on earth. Undervolted, TDP way down, clockspeed capped, fans RUNNING.

    • kuerbiskernoel@feddit.orgEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Does that actually shorten its lifespan? Aren’t GPUs made to run at full power without wear? (As long as they don’t overheat, but they thermal throttle before that)

      • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        27 days ago

        Aren’t GPUs made to run at full power without wear?

        That’s just textbook propaganda from hardware manufacturers.

        They can say it because technically the change from cold to hot damages components… Not the actual heat… Afaik.

        Also, thermal throttling tanks performance, especially in CPU’s. It causes massive hitching or even crashes.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        27 days ago

        I can! It’s an EVGA FTW3.

        Even if I couldn’t, it’s ducted to the side of an SFF case, so I could just disconnect them, wire the PWM lead from the GPU and use 120mm case fans.

        The card rarely goes above 300W now and ingests ambient air, so the fans hardly spin up anyway.

          • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            27 days ago

            I wish they still made GPUs :(. Even an Intel Arc.

            Hell, if they could somehow source 3090 dies, they’d make a killing selling them in this market, heh.