GTX 680 Clocks all over the place [HELP]

[Skeng]

Salutations,
Last night I was playing some battlefield 3 when I realized my second card was not initializing (Precision X). I exited the game, opened Nvidia control panel and clicked maximize 3D performance, clicked apply then relaunched the game. Shortly after exiting the game I noticed Precision X was showing both my cards were still utilizing the 3D clocks. I repeated the method previously maximizing the 3D performance and my clocks went back to normal. I've just booted up my PC about an hour ago noticed the clocks are still high, repeated the previous method to no avail and played some BF3 and the clocks are just all over the place. It's perfectly fine when I'm playing a game but just general browsing and idling are causing both GPUs to act erratic.

As you can see my clocks are up and down, this goes for both GPUs. I'm using driver version 314.22, I'm hesitance to update since I've heard all the news about cards getting damaged. I'd also like to add I've been on these drivers for a while now and this is the first time this has happened. I've also tried adaptive and max performance power management.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

-Skeng

 

[spixelspixel]

played some BF3 and the clocks are just all over the place. It's perfectly fine when I'm playing a game but just general browsing and idling are causing both GPUs to act erratic.

Which one is it as bf3 is a game ? If its fine when gaming but clocks are just jumping during idle + browsing then its nothing to worry about.

Things like windows aero and hardware acceleration in browsers can cause clocks to change all the time, happens on every card I've used.

 

[Skeng]

Which one is it as bf3 is a game ? If its fine when gaming but clocks are just jumping during idle + browsing then its nothing to worry about.

Things like windows aero and hardware acceleration in browsers can cause clocks to change all the time, happens on every card I've used.

But in the past I remember my cards just being at a solid 324MHz constantly during 2D even when browsing or streaming a video. It's just so confusing. Is it really normal for them to be doing this?

 

[spixelspixel]

But in the past I remember my cards just being at a solid 324MHz constantly during 2D even when browsing or streaming a video. It's just so confusing. Is it really normal for them to be doing this?

If you look at the power graph, every time the clocks spike so does the power. Something in the background must be using the gpu. Try disabling hardware acceleration in whatever browser you use and see it it stops it happening.

 

[spixelspixel]

Just had a peek at my msi afterburner

 

[Gregster]

I would do a clean install of the drivers. Make sure you uninstall Precision X and AB first, click on the drivers you want to install and tick the "Clean Install" box. After that, install Precision X and AB if you like and see how that goes.