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My 3080ti causing my "problems"?

Zeebedy

Zeebedy

Zeebedy

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Hey guys,

Sorry, but I started a new post as I think my issue is intermittent.

Sometimes when I power my PC on and check into afterBurner, my GPU MHz and MEMORY MHz are at "idle" (GPU : 210MHz and the MEMORY : 405MHz), and the average power draw is around 40W for the GPU according to AB..GPU usage also remains low spikes..

BUT! Sometimes when I boot up the PC, my stats do "drop" and rise again, and also go right down, if say im at 100% idle (leave the computer for 5-10 minutes and come back)..but then rise again, with the (GPU : 210MHz and the MEMORY : (in the region of) 1905MHz)..with the "GPU Usage" still low but he power draw now averaging around 100W??

Now, is this a situation to cause performance loss? damage the card? damage to the whole PC??


Any response would be greatly appreciated, as I want to ensure that my system that cost me a good chunk of change, is performing OK / Safe!
 
all your components will power up briefly as the computer comes back to life

as for 100w draw every now and then is not going to hurt anything it will draw 350-400w while gaming

a lot of the time its better to not have the metrics on all the time I keep cpuz running but that was more to remind me to dedust the pc every now and then

but outside of benchmarking I dont run a gpu monitor and find you play a game better when you dont even have the fps running all the time
 
This is normal, Nothing to worry about and it won't do anything to cause performance loss.

GPU clocks, GPU memory clocks and power usage will spike even when idle with certain GPU accelerated items on the desktop even if it's just for a moment.
 
Thanks for the replies guys..

So its normal? Even if AfterBurner is saying that the "Memory Clock" is constant at full load, and the "Power Wattage " is constant at 100W with little drops in between times??

And the GPU usage stays "minimal" until I load a game etc..?

Im really confused. :confused:
 
Zeebedy said:
Thanks for the replies guys..

So its normal? Even if AfterBurner is saying that the "Memory Clock" is constant at full load, and the "Power Wattage " is constant at 100W with little drops in between times??

And the GPU usage stays "minimal" until I load a game etc..?

Im really confused. :confused:
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Yep completely normal, Memory clock won't be at full speed all the time unless something in the background is being used, GPU usage will also remain in the single digits until a GPU accelerated task launches i.e a game, Rendering something etc...

Do you have "Prefer maximum performance" or "Normal" in the Nvidia control panel ?
 
Dicehunter said:
Yep completely normal, Memory clock won't be at full speed all the time unless something in the background is being used, GPU usage will also remain in the single digits until a GPU accelerated task launches i.e a game, Rendering something etc...

Do you have "Prefer maximum performance" or "Normal" in the Nvidia control panel ?
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Perfect, thanks for the clarification.

Its on the "normal" setting atm..?

Its confusing, as sometimes when I start the PC up the Wattage and Mem clock etc stay low? And sometimes it doesnt.

So it must be certain things under use, as the temps and GPU Usage stay low until, like you said, a game etc. launches.

Would a screenshot of AfterBurner help??
 
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Zeebedy said:
Its confusing, as sometimes when I start the PC up the Wattage and Mem clock etc stay low? And sometimes it doesnt.

So it must be certain things under use, as the temps and GPU Usage stay low until, like you said, a game etc. launches.
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This is very normal behaviour :)
 
the only problem i see really is why is it drawing 100 watts at "idle" if i load gpu-z at an idle desktop my card jumps around 15-25 watts
 
Dicehunter said:
If it'll put your mind at ease post up the pics and we can tell you what's what :)
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Alt0153 said:
the only problem i see really is why is it drawing 100 watts at "idle" if i load gpu-z at an idle desktop my card jumps around 15-25 watts
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Sorry, must update, when I leave it "idle idle" eg. literally leave it and come back, it does downclock, just when I start using it, even basic tasks, that it goes back up.
 
if you worried download gpuz and set it to log the data

its in a much more easy to read format with time stamps
 
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