Stable +3000 memory overclock, still too dangerous?

rzjarman · January 28, 2022, 10:45pm

I’m currently running 4x STRIX 3090s and one of them in particular has great efficiency, but I’ve struggled to bump hashrate on.

Currently that card is stable at ~122MH/s drawing 302W, but my concern is that the memory overclock is +3000, these cards are known to have VRAM overheating issues, and there’s no way to check VRAM temp in Hiveos. So far I have not had any thermal throttling issues, but have only been running it that high for a few hours.

My question is whether there’s a point of overclocking that is dangerous for the long term health of the card even if it’s stable and not throttling. For example, throttling doesn’t kick in until the VRAM passes 110C, but I’m nervous if it’s sitting at 109C.

I also think I might be able to push the mem clock even further, so want to understand if that’s worth exploring or if I should avoid.

Below is a pic for reference

keaton_hiveon · January 29, 2022, 1:21pm

Your 3000mhz is being wasted due to throttling on at least 3 of the 4, they’d get the same hashrate with less memeory. Turn your fan to 100% or turn your memory down as it’s not helping you in your current config.

You can run Nvidia-smi -q And see why they’re throttling.

rzjarman · January 30, 2022, 6:37pm

Running Nvidia-smi -q I don’t see any of the 4 throttling? Am I looking at the right place? All 4 just show this.

Note that I’ve locked the core clock on all 4 which is why they’re pulling different amounts of power and all below PL

keaton_hiveon · January 30, 2022, 10:21pm

can you paste the entire output of the command?

rzjarman · January 31, 2022, 5:57pm

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rzjarman · January 31, 2022, 5:59pm

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