RTX 3080 power/shunt mod step by step guide

[@charizard6969]

My favourite tech youtuber by far, very informative and helpful👍🏼 great content as always

[@michalvanco3148]

Man, i laughed a lot watching this video :D I am now really looking forward to your 3090 power madness :D

[@ReichEnemy]

I love how passionate you are about what you do. Can tell from the way you talk. Great work.

[@OCXChile]

Instead of shunt modding an air cooler card i would recommend doing an Undervolt with overclock. Something like 1950 MHz @ 0.9v or less

[@hamslice839]

Thank you for going to this extent to save the rest of us a lot of time and effort. Love your channel it's in my daily rotation now with Der8aur, Games Nexus and Actually Hardcore Overclocking. A+ channel and content!

[@evanharris1629]

As for my 3080ti oem water blocked can be limited by 1.1v cap but do believe occasionally have other Caps

[@ronjatter]

Hello good sir. 520w wow! I enjoy your video many times ! Good work.

[@mikewilliams5803]

Did you keep the 3 small shunts modded on the back on when you decided to shunt the pcie slot? I've stacked a 5 ohm on ea. 5 shunts on front and pcie on back. I have 3090 xc3 hc 3x 360 rads push pull, evga pcie booster 1000w evga psu taichi x570 5800x3d and still pulling stock at the wall. Made sure ea. pcie rail continuity check on added shunts and pcie slot to shunt..

[@TheAstralen]

Thanks! Great video. Question, if it takes so much power to increase core clock, what's your take on the recent Gigabyte video upload where they showcase their 3080 Aorus Master (or is it Extreme?) running an RDR2 bench at around 2025MHz / 65C. Also, the Strix claims their card to run at 1935MHz in OC mode which is like 120MHz more than the Gaming X Trio, how that possible?

[@FrameChasers]

Just increased power limits combatted with huge ass coolers, those cards have 5 pound metal bricks attached to them. The cooler a card can run the higher it can auto boost, the more power limit you can give it while keeping it cool will boost it even more

[@fuadkashgari9871]

Thank you for all your efforts man

[@evanharris1629]

Lol I was thinking you could do a JV xoc sub ambient had an window ac funneling over a 9900k and 1070 ..

[@jake20479]

my 3080ti on a 1080mm rad is doing 2,160-2190mhz at 1.1v until it hits power limit. shunt mod incoming. after 1hr of stress testing my core doesnt go above 51c, hotspot at 62c, max mem temp at 50C

[@Rhole]

I have a Ventus 3X 3080. Its currently undervolted to make the clock more stable as its got a hard power limit of 320W without being able to flash a BIOS since it seems to be hardware limited. I've identified the 9 resistors to shunt on the PCB. I wondered if this is safe to do lets say for only a minor limit. So for example. If i wanted to limit the voltage and core to make it stable at 1950 or up to 2000MHz. But NOT go further ever. Obviously this card has only 2 x PCIe 8 pins and is a cheap 3080. But id be interested in just removing the 320W limit to gain 2GHz without it bashing the power limit constantly giving bad 1% lows etc.

[@FrameChasers]

You can just flash the gigabyte 380w bios

[@Rhole]

@@FrameChasers Thanks for the reply. I've tried all the 2 pin Gigabyte BIOS on techpowerup and also the ASUS TUF BIOS. None of them allow the card to do anything over 320W. Some unlock the power slider but the power is still locked at 320W regardless. Is there anything else to try and flash? I have ordered the resistors for a shunt thought. They should be here Monday.

[@Rhole]

@@FrameChasers Just wanted to say thanks for your Video. I did end up shunting my MSI Ventus 3x 3080, thats hardware limited to 320W. I used hot glue, but will be soldering it to make it permanent, I shunted the 2 PCIe 8 Pins and also the PCIe slot. Now my Port Royal scores have jumped from my previous average when undervolted which was around ~11,200 to now my last run which was 11757! Very pleased with the result. It averages in between 1950 and 2010 in the core under full load now. Before I couldn't keep 1895 from bouncing off the power limit. www.3dmark.com/3dm/59317684 Amazing! Thanks for your videos!

[@JW-rm3ci]

lol when will seasonic keep up with the big boys: ax1600i, leadex 1600, 1600 t2, etc. Can’t wait until they do as it will be a beautiful 1600w ti psu. So to clarify, you 5x double shunted (=10 resistors) the front and 1x doubled shunted (=2 resistors) the back, and so added 12 to the existing 6? Also, does watts and tolerance % matter with the 8mohm resistors or simply 8mohm resistance and whatever?

[@CellarDoorCS]

Can totally shunt 2 8pin cards and get what a FTW3 scores with a high power bios. My gigabyte gaming OC has a beefy enough cooler to get to 19200 gfx timespy. Considering its low 17k stock... it ain't much but works fine.

[@olyanalhamri4148]

👌🏻good job you are the best

[@c.s127]

I wrote someone Used liquid Metal in the shunts isbthat a possibility too ?

[@eddyrocksu]

So what specific temps were you hitting @ 1.075V at full load with fans at 100%?

[@martin28bln]

I didn´t cleary copy which shunts finally have to be shunted. PCIe 1x, 2x direct power (2 lines) or also in additon the two down these? So in total 3 or 5? Good video....have a 3080 ref under water:-)

[@michaelthompson7006]

Just to confirm do you need to shunt all the ones you spoke about or just the 4 on the back ? Cheers Bro

[@FrameChasers]

you only need to shunt the big ones, not the small ones. 2 big ones per rail.

[@michaelthompson7006]

@@FrameChasers 2 big ones per rail and the pci express one ?

[@vork847]

If the card only has two 8 pin slots and each 8 pin is rated for 150w, what is the safest max watts or amps you can pull on an 8 pin before it becomes dangerous? Is there a risk of melting the wires?

[@psychedelica]

no higher than 600w

[@ramranchcowboy8857]

Can I shunt my gtx 550 ti? i cant afford to loose my rtx card so i first try it on my gtx 550

[@JulianUccetta]

So, generally speaking it's relatively safe to shunt the PCIe resistor, however, depending on the resistor you go for, I HIGHLY recommend having a motherboard that has an aux power input for the PCIe ports as drawing excessive amounts of power through PCIe can *possibly* overheat your 24-pin cable. If you have a board that has an extra power input (molex/sata/PCIe) for the PCIe slots then you should be just fine as the power would be coming from there. And yeah they do get extremely hot! Waiting on my 3090 FE waterblock. After shunting the card it IMMEDIATELY maxes out on temperature when running a heavy 3D load :P

[@omgpwnz1]

3090 eats all the watt, too big pain in the butt was gonna do a shunt but seeing this ill just hope for a water cooling bios. working with 370W limit right now, there is a gigabyte bios I could use that gives me 390limit but at the cost of a display port that I like to use at any rate with the water cooling should hopefully be able to undervolt and lock to find a sweet solid non bouncy 2ghz at least, be watercooling everything after I get my new ryzen to save mucking about

[@TalonsTech]

Is that your PCB or a pcitrure from somewhere else? Your PCB is different from my XC3.

[@bigmack70]

I'm hoping to snag an evga ftw3 hybrid 3090 and run it on a 450-500w vbios... Hopefully it will scale a bit better past stock

[@FrameChasers]

Hopefully they even give us those bios’

[@TwistedMetalJerkzy]

FC ! There any way to power shun a aorus gigabyte 3070?!

[@Abegnale]

"Gotta shunt 'em all" XD

[@michahalczuk9071]

500W on single GPU card without sub ambient cooling? That's got to be a record high power draw. Even 290X wouldn't go that far on ridiculous clocks and voltages, and that one actually overclocked well.

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

The Hynix on the later iteration and double memory was a underutilized monster thanks to single threaded DX11 drivers.

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

CF, I had 3 120mm fans point blank and maxed out fans. New thermal paste. The 3090 was supposed to be my real replacement. Been on these bitch cards for some time GTX 1050 Ti to GTX 1660 Ti. Maxwel, pascal (Was ok but no true asynchronous compute), turing, any radeon due to software issues if you aim super high end, I have avoided going big for too long.

[@StarLightPL]

2080Tis increased in value recently :-) The time for grabbing one cheap is gone for now, but there will be another dip when AMD releases their graphics cards and hopefully disrupts prices across the entire range of GPUs.

[@maxmusterman6030]

No it's not :)

[@SlimJ87D]

Edit: NVM, saw you did do a voltage curve Did you try OC at least with a voltage vs. frequency curve? Right now I know you're letting it move up to whatever is standard on the voltage curve. What happens if you benchmark with +50-100 on the core? Or a custom Voltage curve?

[@FrameChasers]

Yeah it seems like locking it at 1v 2ghz with no power limit is the best, 19500 in timespy doing it that way and the temps are manageable. Still too hot for an air cooler though, 950mv might be better

[@juhoeske]

@@FrameChasers 19500 graphics score? Is there a secret sauce to get so much better scores in there with (seemingly) lower clocks? I had mine set to ~2145 but due to throttling average frequency 2072 and graphics score 19300. Is it due to the throttling? I did the shunt mod as in the video minus the three small resistors. I have water block and if I recall correctly the voltage used was 1.075 or 1.05. The card will do 2100 @ 1.0V but even this gets a tiny amount of power limit throttling that I can seefrom GPU-Z with 0.1s sampling rate (from plot & log file). And the score in that case is worse (~18400 ish). card is kfa2 3080 sg.

[@vrplaythrough626]

Thank you thank you exactly what I needed. Edit. So after watching this is it not worth doing to my 3090 with 2 pin power. I wanted to run a higher power bios but if its not worth doing.... lol your words haha I've never done a shunt mod before but figured it would be important to max out this card

[@FrameChasers]

its definitely worth doing, I think I meant in the video that you want 3 8 pins for a 3090 but theres no reason NOT to do it with 2 pins

[@vrplaythrough626]

@@FrameChasers ok good then I will be getting this done soon. Im gunna run it stock for a bit I think till I finish the case Im designing then the water block can go on. Might get ancy and just do it though. Hard to look at a pretty water block thats not on a card

[@rccosplay3249]

I'm getting great performance with my Asus Tuf 3090 OC as is. This seems like a big risk that will probably screw the card up and void the warranty. good luck folks.

[@The-Rev-91]

Random question, are you prior military?

[@mamutakada]

no way he was in military. discipline - 0%, will to do his own thing - 100%, disregards rules - 120%. no chance :D

[@FrameChasers]

Naw no military here

[@The-Rev-91]

@@FrameChasers gotcha, you remind me of a friend who did force recon in the corp. Acts the same way lol. Resemble him a little bit lol. Sorry for the weird question.

[@samihamouri]

your videos are epic

[@pb5109]

holy shit man! 500W??? did you buy a gpu or a space heater? :D

[@pablomuzzobar8940]

5% is worth it. Whats wrong with you man! Pull yourself together we must overclock the world.

[@cmckinley024]

Not clear at all after watching this which shunts need to be shunted. Please do a guide.. this makes it very unclear. Also, Der8auer was able to shunt just the two closest to the PCI 8-pins and see an improvement. Sounds like you really only need to do those two. I believe he used the 5mohm shunts though part ERJ-M1WSF5M0U

[@techluvin7691]

I think you should pop some more speed 🤣🤪. Squirrel 👀

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

1KW GPU? You trying to burn down your house? Also can you help us noobs get reshades DX8 to DX9 wrapper working so we can raytrace the oldies? I have a secret I can share about ryzen and getting more performance. It has nothing to do with hardware.

[@nicks.6341]

I must be one of the only peeps who was not THAT impressed with the 3080. ..Coming from a nicely OC'd 1080ti on water and gaming at 2K to 3K resolutions, the AUS TUF Gaming 3080 had trouble staying stable at even the lowest core increases. I'm going to wait and see what the 3080ti brings to the table...

[@skunkvakt1007]

Has anyone shunt moded a 3080FE card ?

[@FrameChasers]

Procedure should be the same but I would assume the FE would run way too hot for it to serve any purpose

[@skunkvakt1007]

@@FrameChasers I have a WB incoming, i just havent seen anyone do it on a FE card so far.

[@SIG_333]

omg i can finally comment here!!

[@Samuel-pf1kw]

4k bro. yas

[@ripsimps]

Ayyyyy !

[@doublepoil]

Man Jufes, those videos should launch your channel, not the warzone clickbaits loll

[@Tijgert]

Step by step guide this is not...

[@FrameChasers]

I show you exactly which resistors you need to shunt, what more do you need my friend

[@Tijgert]

Showing which shunt resistors to mod is not a ‘step by step guide’. You show and tell, sure, but also confuse by telling how two other parties did it differently and with less resistors being shunted, basically admitting you did it ‘suboptimally’. All this and the video is way too ranty and talky. 18 minutes... could’ve been so much shorter and interesting. Sorry for being honest, but De8auer or GN it is not.

[@FrameChasers]

@@Tijgert no one is forcing you to watch my videos friend

[@GSSvariety]

3090 will disappoint you...

[@TheBoltcranck]

1K Subs for 1K Watt 3090,

[@markthompson8397]

Get a 3080 Strix ya rookie. 450w stock. Watercool it. Mine runs 2280MHz without this mod. 27c average while benching. I hold the 3080 Fire Strike world record, just over 41k

[@FrameChasers]

Cool story

[@Lone-Starr-Schwartz]

I'm hard right now. Do you even lift bro?

[@Setlean]

Stoner-tech channel lmao.