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AMD 290 Throttling solution

ICEx21

ICEx21

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Evening folks,

I'm a little confused as to what I have to do to stop this so hopefully someone can steer me in the right direction.

I have an MSI 290 GE and my GPU usage is spiking like a mofo in Afterburner while my fan speed stays the same.

Now am I correct in thinking that all I need to do is:

a) Go into CCC and up my power limit settings to MAX

b) Do the same in Afterburner

Are these the only 2 things I need to do?

As always any help is much appreciated :)
 
Ok I tried the above and still getting massive spikes while the fan speed won't go up. Is there anything else I can try?
 
....Wait so Afterburner is wrong? Yeah I've been looking at Afterburner and it keeps showing massive spikes which is why I thought it was throttlling.

Is there another way to monitor the GPU clock?
 
From what I've done, make sure that you leave CCC as stock and only make a change in afterburner as they can interact with each other...
 
Gpuz run it and click the sensors tab, then tick log to file or whatever it says in the bottom left and it will make notepad file with a full sensor log.

Play a game for a bit quit then check the log.
 
ICEx21 said:
....Wait so Afterburner is wrong? Yeah I've been looking at Afterburner and it keeps showing massive spikes which is why I thought it was throttlling.

Is there another way to monitor the GPU clock?
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Hmm wait what is spiking, the core / mem speed or usage %?

GPU Usage will spike, it does it on mine.

Core / Memory clock shouldn't be spiking.
 
Which flavour of 290 do you have, as I think the custom cooled ones play differently with regard to core/fan/throttling speed than the stock cooled ones.
 
If it was throttling, it would clock the card down. spiking load in AB is normal. use gpu-z and you will find the load is more consistent and that you are more than likely not seeing any throttling at stock.
 
It's the MSI Gaming Edition I have, I've also got a slight overclock on it as well so I'll give this a test tonight.

Thanks for the help folks!
 
Can't be bothered with the hassle of water cooling. I wouldn't trust myself putting it together either!
 
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