So here's a weird thing i've noticed since fitting my card this afternoon. For some reason that i can't fathom my card will ramp up to 1671 mhz after about 10-15 mins from 203 mhz after doing absolutely nothing (from a cold boot even) other than having HWMonitor running and wont seem to go back down to idle speed. I first noticed earlier after i first booted and installed the drivers and whatnot while watching some youtube vids that it ramped up and went back down as it should but after i went afk for awhile and came back that it seemed stuck at 1671mhz and wouldn't go back down for which i thought the screensaver was to blame but apparently not
. Am i missing something obvious? I can't see anything obvious running in the task manger.
I don't have any ocing software installed (afterburner or even whatever the asus utility is called) and i have tried to trigger it to drop by changing the refresh rate. The only settings i have touched are in the nvidia control panel in the global settings. I made sure gsync was on, set power management to prefer max performance, prefered refresh rate to highest available and vsync on.According to HWmon the gpu utilization is at 0%.
(Haven't even played any games yet
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edit* Just downloaded and installed GPU Tweak II and so far (30 mins or so) it seems to have stopped the gpu from spiking up and staying there.Technology is weird sometimes.