Solution for fan control in lieu of msi after burner?

[TStrolia]

Hey everyone,

So I was having problems with error 700 on an RTX 3090 which I found a bit odd and only in one specific scene but I realized my TDR delay was a bit high and had read that MSI after burner can cause issues for some people. I upped my TdrDelay to 60 and uninstalled afterburner and the issue resolved it's self but I have found my card runs hot so I don't love the idea of not being able to control the fan curve. I was running a vectron render, 3.4 / 24gb of ram used, 100% gpu as expected, and I started artifacting just a little on my second monitor. This of course worried me but I just now ran individual stress tests. One on JUST the gpu and then one on the vram, and no artifacting even under 100% load for hours. I then ran them together at the same time and noticed my VRam temps were getting pretty up there (encroaching on 90c). I stopped the test then. I think I was artifacting from cumulative heat. Unfortunately for my exact model 3090 there isn't a water block or backplate yet, at least that I can find, so I am sorta stuck with air cooling for the time being. Air was running fine with afterburner but the scene wasn't even loading with it installed.

I am wondering if there is an alternative to afterburner that anyone might know of that isn't associated with cuda error 700 issues?

[TStrolia]

Ok, I sorta kinda figured it out. I seem to be able to use MSI afterburner with reduced CUDA 700 errors if I drop my TdrDelay down to 30. Not as certain it won't throw an error but no more glitches and my temps look good.