I don’t know a lot about this stuff. I have been experiencing choppy gameplay suddenly and my FPS is all over the place. I ran the CPUID HWMonitor thing and it shows my nvidia 1080ti GPU in the low 90C’s and hot spots that are up to 106C.
Yes, that’s hot. Check your GPU’s fans and make sure to disable any overclocking of the GPU. Also, check all the other fans in your case as well and make sure you have the correct airflow setup going where you have intank and exhaust fans, or at the very least, exhaust fans pointing out. Almost all case fans will have an arrow pointing toward the direction of airflow (sometimes they can be hard to see, so you might have to remove them to see the arrow). Also make sure none of the case is clogged with dust/hair/etc.
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I have liquid cooling on everything. I don’t overclock either. It’s the default out of the box settings.
Well most liquid coolers run to a radiator brick, that has fans. Check them. Check the fluid levels as well. Also, check your thermal pastes on the heat transfer blocks. If you have some bad paste on your GPU blocks, it wont transfer the heat as easily to the fluid and will overheat.
Check to make sure your liquid cooling fans aren’t in something like “passive” or “silent” mode. You might want to crank them up.
The liquid cooling is the built in that comes with the EVGA hybrid. There is no way that I know of to check the levels or the thermal paste without disassembling the graphics card. The rest of the case is running the Corsair liquid cooling stuff but all my other chips are not running hot.
Doubtful.
You likely only have liquid cooling on your CPU, and your GPU is air-cooled.
Check ALL your fans, on the video card(s) and everywhere in the case. Make sure they are clean and spinning normally. Sometimes you can see a fan spinning slower than others, this might cause a temperature problem. A dead fan is a very good indication of a problem.
No it’s liquid cooling on the GPU as well. Google the EVGA 1080ti hybrid. It comes with the water block and hoses already attached. All the fans are spinning fine. I blow the case out once a month religiously.
If that’s the case (I had a similar setup on my previous computer’s CPU), the radiator could be shot. I recently had to buy a new block for that old computer to get the CPU working again.
I’m not sure if you can replace the block on that card. If it’s going bad, you may need to replace it entirely.
The 3000 series work really well if you can get your hands on one. I had trouble getting a build together about 6 months ago and couldn’t find a video card anywhere.
If you decide to replace it, I wish you better luck than I had.
Definitely see about your case fans and other cooling issues first though. You might be able to get away with just replacing some fans which would be much cheaper. Without seeing your rig in person, it’s hard to tell you EXACTLY what could be going wrong.
If the temps are that high on your GPU I would contact EVGA they would be the ones to help troubleshoot those temps.
I’ve had this card since early 2017. I doubt it’s under warranty anymore.
But they can still help you decide if the issue is with the card itself. Sounds like the GPU is overheating but best to contact the manufacturer to be sure maybe they have more insight into the problems these cards face.
I am seeing “pump failures” in relation to the hybrid in the EVGA forums so maybe they can assist you.
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This sounds very probable. This is what happened with my CPU cooler.
I just got off live chat with Nvidia and they have confirmed it is my GPU overheating. They recommended I contact EVGA which I have done. I forgot I registered on their site and it looks like I actually purchased this card at the beginning of 2016. I know they used to have limited lifetime warranties before 2018 so I’m hoping it’s covered 
Maybe that means I should stay away from the hybrid and just go with model with the fans then.
I’ve never had a card with water cooling, but a card with fans can fail just as easily as a water pump.
I would look at the 3000 series as a replacement. I have a 3060 TI and I love it.
You are right so I just bought an ASUS 3080ti hybrid online to pickup at my local Microcenter.
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you could download MSI Afterburner and see if you can increase the fan speed on the Graphics card. ( around 20% but a increased fan noise. I did it on a GTX750 and the card sat around 67c).
Water cooling systems can clog preventing any water flow. When the card is running touch the pipes and then the radiator - if the GPU is very hot but like both pipes (one should be hot) or the radiator are cold then the fluid isn’t flowing. To fix this you would have to remove the card from the system, pour out the fluid and replace it with new one - likely filling and pouring out 1-2 times to try to clean all junk that built up in the system. In extreme cases the radiator could be so corroded that fix won’t be possible and only radiator or other part replacement would fix it.
If you can’t or don’t want to do it on your own you can look for local service shop that does such things. If you want your GPU to be famous there are US based tech-tubers that fix such things “on stream” 
It’s a factory closed cooling system. You can’t open it without damaging it. Doesn’t matter at this point. I just built a whole new computer with an RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra.
Usually they aren’t that locked and it’s a shame dumping a fully working GPU