Msi After burner

[gooseuk]

I've had my 3070 a small while now, noticed in MSI afterburner over the past months. It used to run quite power efficient when doing nothing let's say. But now it seems locked at 1800mhz range mem clock locked in at 7000 and all I am doing is on this webpage.

Now I have changed motherboards also to a b550 one vs my old b450. Just wondering is this a change from Nvidia perhaps.

Bios up to date, gpu drivers up to date etc.

Thanks to all that reply

 

[Game]

try gpuz and check msi afterburner is reporting things right

my card is sitting at 14-66 mhz while browsing

 

[***F1ZZY***]

Check nvidia settings. Power on maximum performance can keep the watts flowing even in 2d.

especially if lots of pixels and high refresh rate in desktop.

 

[gooseuk]

Check nvidia settings. Power on maximum performance can keep the watts flowing even in 2d.

especially if lots of pixels and high refresh rate in desktop.

Checked everything, and still would not budge from 1800mhz. Uninstalled the latest driver and boom it's sorted. Afterburner working as expected.

 

[stooeh]

My 3080 sits at 210MHz while idle/browsing with the occasional fluctuations, power management on 'Normal'

Ah sorted it with a driver change

 

[gooseuk]

My 3080 sits at 210MHz while idle/browsing with the occasional fluctuations, power management on 'Normal'

Ah sorted it with a driver change

Yeah, this is more of the MHz I was expecting and now is thank god. I just kept hearing fans ramp up a bit, and then I put my hand over the card and thought that's warm.

 

[gooseuk]

Played some warzone last night all seemed ok. This morning it's reverted again. So uninstalled drivers again and tired may drivers and it's ok again. Odd behavior afoot

 

[Wahzy]

I use afterburner for a fan curve and that's about it.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

I've had my 3070 a small while now, noticed in MSI afterburner over the past months. It used to run quite power efficient when doing nothing let's say. But now it seems locked at 1800mhz range mem clock locked in at 7000 and all I am doing is on this webpage.

Now I have changed motherboards also to a b550 one vs my old b450. Just wondering is this a change from Nvidia perhaps.

Bios up to date, gpu drivers up to date etc.

Thanks to all that reply

Check task manager in windows to see what the GPU load is and what process it's coming from, it's almost certainly some app that's being GPU accelerated that's loading the GPU enough for it to need to clock up. Quite a lot of modern apps can use GPU acceleration including browsers for things like video decoding. With chrome it has a nice built in task manager of its own (shift+esc to bring it up) and that'll tell you what the GPU process is doing, and you can list things like GPU memory allocation there as well.

Also you might want to check the Nvidia overlay if you have Geforce Experience installed (Alt+Z to bring it up) and see if you have Instant replay enabled. This Shadowplay feature records the last X many minutes of activity continually and allows you to dump it to disk but I believe it also records the desktop as well as any games, so would run continuously in the background and cause a background level of activity.

 

[gooseuk]

Check task manager in windows to see what the GPU load is and what process it's coming from, it's almost certainly some app that's being GPU accelerated that's loading the GPU enough for it to need to clock up. Quite a lot of modern apps can use GPU acceleration including browsers for things like video decoding. With chrome it has a nice built in task manager of its own (shift+esc to bring it up) and that'll tell you what the GPU process is doing, and you can list things like GPU memory allocation there as well.

Also you might want to check the Nvidia overlay if you have Geforce Experience installed (Alt+Z to bring it up) and see if you have Instant replay enabled. This Shadowplay feature records the last X many minutes of activity continually and allows you to dump it to disk but I believe it also records the desktop as well as any games, so would run continuously in the background and cause a background level of activity.

Since reverting to 466.47 drivers it's been perfect. Come to think of things I was using game filter but only for warzone. Maybe there is a bug with the latest drivers and that perhaps.