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970 - Locked at 1114MHz idle

I remember having similar issues, i think it was down to flash. Is yours up to date?

Edit. Actually thinking about it. I think it was shadowplay/geforce experience. Try turning off shadowplay or uninstalling geforce experience if youve got it installed?
 
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I've uninstalled GeForce experience and no difference

Flash is built in to edge/chrome so you can't update it but I have just used firefox and that didn't max out my GPU clocks, this is a weird issue
 
Getting the same issue in firefox as well and now it's doing it without any browser open

Starting to think I might need to RMA
 
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Some apps can also take over the Nvidia Global settings, even if it still says "Adaptive" in Nvidia Control Panel, and force maximum performance even when the app is not in use.

Downloading Nvidia Inspector and having a look in there might provide a clue. In Nvidia Inspector's "Global Driver" tab, you may see an app's name in brackets beside it. If so, that's the one that's taken over. May be a whole different thing altogether but I have a similar issue with an app.
 
I've just done another fresh install of Windows 10 and it's fine again now even with browsers open but it will lock at max clock speed again.....

I'll take a look at that nvidia inspector appreciate the suggestion
 
Danny75 said:
Some apps can also take over the Nvidia Global settings, even if it still says "Adaptive" in Nvidia Control Panel, and force maximum performance even when the app is not in use.

Downloading Nvidia Inspector and having a look in there might provide a clue. In Nvidia Inspector's "Global Driver" tab, you may see an app's name in brackets beside it. If so, that's the one that's taken over. May be a whole different thing altogether but I have a similar issue with an app.
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It seems that you were right

In nvidia inspector my global driver tab had an app name next to it and the power setting was changed from adaptive to maximum performance and even if I changed it back it wouldn't go back to normal until I restart

I think I have figured it out now and it seems like it was because of that

Really appreciate your help
 
Drake5 said:
It seems that you were right

In nvidia inspector my global driver tab had an app name next to it and the power setting was changed from adaptive to maximum performance and even if I changed it back it wouldn't go back to normal until I restart

I think I have figured it out now and it seems like it was because of that

Really appreciate your help
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You're welcome, Drake.

I need to manually go to the app's driver in Nvidia Inspector and set it to Adaptive, every time I update the Nvidia drivers. Bit of a hassle but personally find it preferable to having the GPU on max performance all the time.
 
Sorry for the late reply what i have found and just tested is
In the NVC (power management mode) Prefer maximum performance will keep the clocks at stock when idle for me that's 1127mhz then i switched back to adaptive restarted the pc and both cards idle at 135mhz.
(edit) oh seems you have sorted it :)
 
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