No worries, my card idles at 300mhz and seems to always boost to 1965mhz or so when gaming or doing benchmarks. I only did the Timespy bench so far and got 10296, so similar to yours though I'm only using a 9600K. If that's a lot lower than yours got previously, how much lower? Seems around 11k is possible with my set up so I'm not too worried.
Just to mention though, I was mistaken I actually have the OC Gaming version with the bigger cooler than the Windforce one, so not exactly the same as yours.
I almost RMA'd my own card due to some shoddy, dirty packaging but the card itself was fine and looked brand new. As for erratic performance, I encountered that myself after my first post here after using the Auorus Engine a bit more, I've come from a Gigabyte 1060 where the Extreme Gaming Engine was absolutely fine for setting custom fan profiles and OCs etc, but this Auorus Engine is garbage by comparison.
It offers 2 options for boost, manual and auto detect. The problem is the auto detect enables a lengthy auto OC test that is so bad it shouldn't even be included. Firstly it ramps all fans up to insane levels and takes forever. If you cancel it and select default settings to restore it, it doesn't even do anything except having massively down clocked your card without allowing it to return to defaults.
It had it running at a pathetic 1250mhz at max boost, no other setting would restore the factory state, so I uninstalled Auorus completely, and lo and behold the 1956mhz boost immediately returned.
I know Gigabyte software and auto OC software in general is bad, but that was something else entirely. Was ready to RMA again thanks to their crappy software that didn't even make it clear it was going to attempt an OC that could take 20 minutes, except all it did was enable almost half max boost with no way of restoring it within their software by setting it to default. It should have multiple warnings as to how long and exactly what it would entail. Truly terrible software.
Best of luck with your RMA, depending on the response I get for the bad packaging, I may end up doing a RMA myself, though in my case the card at least seems great.
Just to mention though, I was mistaken I actually have the OC Gaming version with the bigger cooler than the Windforce one, so not exactly the same as yours.
I almost RMA'd my own card due to some shoddy, dirty packaging but the card itself was fine and looked brand new. As for erratic performance, I encountered that myself after my first post here after using the Auorus Engine a bit more, I've come from a Gigabyte 1060 where the Extreme Gaming Engine was absolutely fine for setting custom fan profiles and OCs etc, but this Auorus Engine is garbage by comparison.
It offers 2 options for boost, manual and auto detect. The problem is the auto detect enables a lengthy auto OC test that is so bad it shouldn't even be included. Firstly it ramps all fans up to insane levels and takes forever. If you cancel it and select default settings to restore it, it doesn't even do anything except having massively down clocked your card without allowing it to return to defaults.
It had it running at a pathetic 1250mhz at max boost, no other setting would restore the factory state, so I uninstalled Auorus completely, and lo and behold the 1956mhz boost immediately returned.
I know Gigabyte software and auto OC software in general is bad, but that was something else entirely. Was ready to RMA again thanks to their crappy software that didn't even make it clear it was going to attempt an OC that could take 20 minutes, except all it did was enable almost half max boost with no way of restoring it within their software by setting it to default. It should have multiple warnings as to how long and exactly what it would entail. Truly terrible software.
Best of luck with your RMA, depending on the response I get for the bad packaging, I may end up doing a RMA myself, though in my case the card at least seems great.
