SLI watching youtube.

[BluD]

Is there any way to stop both the graphics cards firing up to full speed and going to 20% usage while just watching youtube?

I've so far tried setting power management in Nvidia drivers to Adaptive, turning off graphics acceleration in chrome and adding --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer to the shortcut. I tried reducing the power limit to 40% on the cards while i was watching youtube just to see if it drew less power, it did but the gpu usage went up to 66% on both cards then lol.

I dunno if its normal for SLI but i just remember with crossfire my second card used to stay turned off and the first one hardly fired up up at all until i started really pushing them in games.

 

[tommybhoy]

Don't know if you can but you could try adding a profile for chrome with SLi disabled?

 

[Cooper]

Don't know if you can but you could try adding a profile for chrome with SLi disabled?

Yeah that will work, I had the same 20% on both cards when watching Youtube with my two 970's, I then added a custom profile in NV control panel to only use a single GPU with my browser (Firefox).

Now GPU usage is only about 5%.

 

[BluD]

Hmm its not having it, i had a custom profile set for chrome and i changed it to GPU 1 only but as soon as i start a youtube video both gpus fire up, in window mode they only go to 5% usage each but as soon as i change the video to full screen both cards shoot up to 1500mhz and 20% usage.

Nvm i guess ill just switch to onboard for browsing i guess.

 

[chaparral]

Nvm i guess ill just switch to onboard for browsing i guess.

Why does it worry you so much if your GPU's are running at 20% while watching you tube video's ?

 

[BluD]

Its just a waste of power , plus is a bit warm atm so the less heat i can make my PC produce the better

Its ok im just extending my desktop onto my onboard GPU and using that to browse instead now, its how i used to do it anyway with my old amd cards when i was gaming and watchting tv at the same time.

 

[Rroff]

You may find that it is another process calling the shots rather than the browser process - plugins especially stuff like the flash playing backend are often loaded separate to the browser processes to give some crash resistance, etc. (not sure how it works with HTML5 video rendering through off the top of my head).

 

[BluD]

Yeah maybe, i dunno. What ever it is is using quite a bit of GPU power, its heating the cards from 28/27 idle to 40/38. My fans come on at 40 degrees so it would be annoying if i hadnt switched to onboard.

In gta with everything maxed im only getting 45/42

As soon as i start a youtube vid my power draw goes from 55 watts to 300+ watts.