MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X always at 100% usage and FPS drop to 30 constantly

savior · 7 Mar 2018 at 08:06

Hi all, during the weekend i overclocked my GTX 1070, following a detailed guide. Everything went smooth, I didn't push it to the maximum, i stayed around 90% of what it could reach. actually i pushed the memory up to +775 and it was perfectly stable, but i didn't want to go further.
At the end i set it on +100 (core) +775 (memory).

Yesterday i noticed a strange framerate drop and GPU constantly on 100%, even after rebooting the PC.

I reinstalled the video card drivers and now it is back to normal. what could have been?

I read another case, where the user has a strange process active, and they told him he was hacked by a bitcoin miner.
I run a virus spyware scan (AFTER i had already solved the problem) and cleaned u a little, but there wasn't anything hinting to miners..

Do you think i can still overclock my card, or was i about to break it?

From what i read, it is quite safe now to overclock these cards, they underclock in case of excessive heat.

Thanks for any opinion/comment

Grandmaster Fap! · 7 Mar 2018 at 18:20

What were your temps while clocked and what games? If it seems fine after resetting it to normal clocks i would hazzard a guess it was throttling quite badly.

savior · 8 Mar 2018 at 08:04

temps were quite normal, around 66 Celsius for GPU. Resetting it to normal clocks didn't improve. Only reinstalling video drivers fixed it.

In another forum they told me probably those OC settings aren't stable and they corrupted video drivers. First time i hear this, but apparently this can happen.

what do you think?

Grandmaster Fap! · 8 Mar 2018 at 09:51

savior said:
temps were quite normal, around 66 Celsius for GPU. Resetting it to normal clocks didn't improve. Only reinstalling video drivers fixed it.

In another forum they told me probably those OC settings aren't stable and they corrupted video drivers. First time i hear this, but apparently this can happen.

what do you think?

Its possible but ive never heard of it personally. Could just be that the driver installation was wrong somehow and reinstalling fixed it. Trying to overclock again should be fine, they are voltage locked so you can only push them as far as the silicon will go before seeing corruption on screen or just not loading when trying to do something stressful.

adrichardson81 · 8 Mar 2018 at 20:51

Never seen it before either. Generally it either works or it doesn't. If I had to guess, something might have toggled by accident so you should be fine. Looking at your clocks:

core seems reasonable - low, if anything (2 - 2.05 should be doable if you max you unlock and max your voltages);
memory can be a bit of a lottery - some people can easily get another 700mhz out of it, others struggle to get 200mhz.

Don't worry about any harm from unlocking voltages, you can easily max the core voltage, power limit and temp limit sliders in Afterburner.

Disco_P · 18 Mar 2018 at 00:55

With a GTX 10 series card you'd be very hard pressed to cause damage from overclocking without hardware mods. Only danger I can think of is overheating VRMs.