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I'd be more inclined to believe Heaven 4 is at fault, not the driver...
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4070 power draw/power % help
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Very possibly, I wasn't suggesting driver was at fault, just that there's some sort of conflict between the two.
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Yeah mate, at least you've found an alternative that you can test it with, FYI if you missed my previous post, mine sips power when undervolted and runs around 115-135w without the fan even turning on at 53-64C on anything without RT, then with RT on it's 135-145w max. That's 1440p max settings where the games allow, anything like CP PL that I fancy having RT on psycho, I'll make use of DLSS3.5/Frame Generation/Reflex because our cards are literally designed for it, the benefits are ridiculous fps increase wise, and whenever I use DLSS I always have it set on quality.
Have a play around with undervolting with MSI Afterburner, you'll love the fact it sips power and your room stays nice and cool and your gpu silent, mine lives under my desk so I like not sitting next to a furnace as I already do that with the airing cupboard next to my desk haha!
Thanks mate, that's very useful.
Once you get over current GPU pricing, I've been pretty impressed with the 4070 so far at 1440p. Yet to really test it and whilst I'd like to have been able to justify a 4070Ti or 4080 card, so far it's been a very decent improvement from my 1070Ti which lasted really well tbh.
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You're very welcome my friend!
I was set on a 7900XT for ages, then they went from £730 to £860-900 and up and down up and down, I then find out it only has a 1-2 year warranty depending on who you buy brand wise and the coil wine/temps are ridiculous, as is upto 450w peak power consumption - I personally like to be able to play 4-8 hours of an evening each night, maybe excessive, but then I built this purely FOR gaming. So it's a waste IMHO to not use the hell out of it
Anyways, I then considered a 6800-6950XT tier card, the AMD own branded 6950XT came with 1 year warranty - I'm sorry but I may like AMD but that is disgusting customer service direct from the manufacturer! And it is just a roided up 6900XT that rinses electric and isn't 'that' much faster, it cant even do native max graphics 4k on TLOU, even with FSR it manages to do around 52fps... Something our 4070 can easily achieve with DLSS, or at the high setting low to mid 60's...
I also really do not like the idea of having a GPU that uses 350-450w when I want to be able to rinse it 4-8 hours each night 365, enjoying what I've purposely built it for... That's a lot of electric for my area...
TLDR thanks to undervolting, my entire pc including my 31.5" 1440p 165hz monitor and my sub/speakers/amp uses 260-300w all in at the wall measured with a proper watt meter! That is LESS than a 7900XT/XTX on it's own at peak! So now I can kain the usage and it only use abit more than a PS5 on it's own! All in glorious silence with my fans barely spinning on my cpu/case and my gpu never even turning it's fan on, whilst not turning my room into a sauna!
My ASUS Dual came with a 3 year warranty, so I was happy to pay a little bit more than other brands/models of 4070 for that alone, especially when both ocuk and scan have reknown customer service when it comes to RMA's (been using both for 20+ years now!)
I find it hilarious that all these people were slating the 4070 and it's price and it's now cheaper than the 6800xt was at launch and now the 7800xt and packs way more futureproofing features/current next gen features than any of those, and happily punches above it's weight class...
A final thing I've noticed when comparing to a mates 6800xt... If we both play the same game, my 4070 uses around 2.3-3gb less vram in actual usage gaming, so that's ACTUAL usage not predicted/allocated in the settings menu... So the whole 4gb less vram than the AMD card's argument falls down there, as we know games are heavily catered/biased towards Nvidia, so they end up being way better optimised resource usage wise in reality, so I cannot see 12gb being a problem, and if it is, with how hard DLSS3.5 now is to notice from native (something I always thought was BS and marketing nonsense till I tried it for myself) I'll simply use that when and where necessary. Wether this is down to some kind of compression with our cards/witchcraft going on, I don't know, all I know is the reality is if both cards end up with the same actual physical vram remaining unused due to mine sipping it less than the 16gb AMD's, then that means we technically have the same free remaining vram, i.e. either card would suffer at the same point in the future
By that point though I've worked it out per year at my 8 hours a day x 365 I save around £112 a year in electric from not having an extra 300-400w added to my total draw from a more power hungry GPU, thus in 3 years IF this card is falling behind at the settings/res I want to run, I can simply sell it and put the £300 I've saved in electric and literally get my money back easily + a profit... So basically a free GPU for 3 years thanks to it being so efficient stock and when undervolted along with the rest of my builds spec/settings
Nice bonus eh, the whole it's a bit expensive to start with thing then doesn't matter, £600 for free in 3 years + whatever on top for a new GPU in 2026-27 seems like it'd buy me a reasonably decent card to last me another 3-5 years after that eh 
Is that figure when running furmark and prime95 avx simultaneously?TLDR thanks to undervolting, my entire pc including my 31.5" 1440p 165hz monitor and my sub/speakers/amp uses 260-300w all in at the wall measured with a proper watt meter!