So, I have the MSI's Aero ITX model of RTX 2060 Super. Its alright for what it is, but the fan noise is something else. Emboldened by the apparently successful stories of others before me, I went ahead and got myself an A9x14 Noctua fan + destroyed the frame to get to the fan, took apart the video card, disassembled the shroud and removed the original fan and swapped in the Noctua.
Well, its definitely quieter... But now it thermally throttles, even with an undervolt of .950v@1920MHz. I had to tune the clock down to the low 1800s to and the voltage to less than .900v just to get a workable temp, and I'm not enjoying the performance loss. Seems like the fan just isnt meaty enough to cool the card down. Which is perplexing to me since other people have reportedly succesfully done the same mod to an RTX 3060 Ti which should be even harder to cool.
That poor little Noctua, mutilated for naught.
What comes next?
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Well, its definitely quieter... But now it thermally throttles, even with an undervolt of .950v@1920MHz. I had to tune the clock down to the low 1800s to and the voltage to less than .900v just to get a workable temp, and I'm not enjoying the performance loss. Seems like the fan just isnt meaty enough to cool the card down. Which is perplexing to me since other people have reportedly succesfully done the same mod to an RTX 3060 Ti which should be even harder to cool.
That poor little Noctua, mutilated for naught.
What comes next?