Fine-tuning sampling rates for Gainward RTX 5080 Storm
I tried two different routes here. Path A was just cranking up the monitoring software priority, but Path B—diving into the HWMonitor settings and dropping the polling interval from 2000ms to 500ms—was the real winner. As documented in report GW-5080-A, read/write temps sat between 47℃ - 60℃, while data latency plummeted from 42ms to a much tighter 27ms range. This makes it so I actually see the temp spike the second I tweak the core voltage, rather than waiting three seconds for the UI to catch up. While the accuracy hit about 98.2%, there is a trade-off: the higher sampling rate pushed my CPU single-core usage up by 2% - 3%, which might cause minor frame drops if you're already hitting a CPU bottleneck.
