High core clocks when rog swift in 144hz

[Simon Belmont]

Just installed my 980 in SLI. I have my rog swift on 144hz and my 2 cards are in very tight SLI and core clocks on top card only were 1150 something all the time. Bottom card was fine. I was like wtf is going on. once I dropped rog swift to 120hz the top card clocked down? I was happy, but Is there a way for me to have 144hz and still have top card clocked down. Don't like it that high at idle.

 

[Simon Belmont]

thank you gentlemen

 

[Simon Belmont]

To elaborate on what pgi947 said - set your desktop to 120hz, and then in the NV control panel there is an option under 'manage 3d settings' for 'preferred refresh rate'.

The theory is, if you set this to 'highest available' in the dropdown, then in games the swift will bump up to 144hz, and then when you exit a game it will go back to 120hz, thus allowing proper idle clocks on the desktop (144hz on the desktop does not allow my top card to clock down fully either).

HOWEVER, it doesn't work! At least not for me. My swift will clock up to 144hz in games, but won't go back down to 120hz on the desktop automatically.

Don't know if it's an SLI issue, but I've given up for now and just run 120hz all the time. Don't really need 144hz in games anyway I guess.

hahaha that worked a treat wunkley. Cheers

 

[Simon Belmont]

How come it doesn't work for me then?

Just did what you said and it clocked down. went in a game g-sync worked and went to 144hz. stopped game it went back down to 120hz.