970 SLI Clock Speed

[Silence]

I've recently purchased a pair of MSI GTX 970s to run in a SLI configuration. They're fantastic.

I'm noticing something unusual with these though. With my old 770 when there was nothing visually challenging on the screen the core clocked itself down to 135MHz. On my SLI configuration, the second card is currently sitting at 135MHz, but my primary card is running at 896MHz, and also running a good bit warmer than the other one (to be expected, given that the monitors are plugged into this one).

Given there's nothing really happening on the screen, should both cards not clock themselves away down to reduce heat and power? My aim was to get them to remain fanless as much as possible, but it's not happening much with the primary card. This might just be because of SLI though, I really have no idea.

Thanks.

 

[setter]

Could be down to running dual monitors.

 

[whyscotty]

Is one of your monitors a 144Hz and is your refresh rate set to 144?

If so, this prevents down clocking.

 

[RanxZy]

Could you not edit the fam profile of the primary card in afterburner to make it quieter?

 

[Silence]

I've just realized that it's the dual monitors doing this. However, I thought I would be clever and put one of them on the onboard graphics... but it's doing the same thing there! I didn't think there was any link between the integrated graphics and the discrete graphics... or have I got that wrong too?