Some of your bullets: Gigabyte Z790 Gaming X motherboard nVidia RTX 3080 10G (Zotac AMP Holo LHR model) disabled SpeedStep, Energy Efficient Turbo and C-states So, that last one, not a Gigabyte customer, but a little use of google leads me to think those relate to the MB and OC, not the GPU and GPU OC?? LrC may or may not have issues with CPU OC, appears to be some disagreement on that, may be a difference between OC via BIOS and third party App. And may be more of an issue in GPU OC. (this may be outdated info) As for the GPU, apparently a heavy build into Gamer performance. Is their some GPU OC running that is not internal to the GPU settings? A third party App? (MSI Afterburner comes to mind), LrC can have issues with GPU OC (sometimes fixable in OC App settings) (this may be outdated info)
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