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Strange 560Ti issues...

tidusjar

tidusjar

tidusjar

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Hey guys was just browsing here and windows aero turned off, so i checked MSI afterburner and my gpu temps was spiking up! I have 560Ti Twin Frozr edition.
After about 1 min the temps dropped and aero turned back on. Nothing gpu intensive was running....

This was while aero was off...


This was while i was writing the paragraph above.
 
Is it me or are your Core clock and memory clock the wrong way round?

Download the latest version of afterburner if it isn't already :-)

BTW.. I discovered that MSN Messenger (LIVE version), actually makes the GPU run at full speed rather than reducing, maybe your's is similar?
 
tidusjar said:
Hey guys was just browsing here and windows aero turned off, so i checked MSI afterburner and my gpu temps was spiking up! I have 560Ti Twin Frozr edition.
After about 1 min the temps dropped and aero turned back on. Nothing gpu intensive was running....

This was while aero was off...


This was while i was writing the paragraph above.
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hate to say it but you might be having the same problem i and many other nvidia users have. surfing the web causes the temps to spike with the 280 drivers there is a HUGE topic on the nvidia forums about what could suddenly be causing nvidia gpus to display odd behaviour like what you're seeing and it leds back to the 280 drivers.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=207666

have a read over that and youll see that a lot of other people are having the same issue :(
 
Sounds like a similar problem I was having with a 6850 (see further down thread):

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18219933

and I posted at Rage3D: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33971978

Perhaps something similar is happening here - build up of instructions due to browser/OS acceleration and the card speeds up to max speeds and higher temps to clear the backlog.

I was told if "the command queue is full then the clock speeds increase til the queue is empty again". Strange that the card is speeding up to max clocks just for browsing.

Seems more severe here for nVidia. For AMD it was just clock and temp spikes, nothing else. Wouldn't have noticed without looking at a monitoring app. Haven't checked my card in a while, will have to see if it occurs with my new 6870 and recent drivers on the AMD side.
 
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It's possibly a driver issue that seems to be related to power state changing. From threads I've read it's generally more prevalent on the 400 and 500 series. It's hard to pin it down since the 'aero turning itself off bug' has been going on for a very long time and has many stories from many sources.
 
Well I just checked and it still does it with my MSI 6870 HAWK.

Firefox browsing speeds the card up to max clocks and increases temp, when doing simple things like scrolling.

Are you using Firefox? Try IE9 and see if you get the spikes with your GTX 560Ti.
 
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They have vashiro and I've tried reporting it to both AMD and Firefox developers. Still no fix.

It doesn't do it in IE9, so it's very annoying to have a card jump into 3D mode just for scrolling a webpage. Not enough people are complaining about it though, so it never gets fixed.
 
Hmmm strange, I'm browsing with chrome. I'm updating to the new afterburner now.

Just waiting for the new drivers to be released monday for BF3...
 
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Was this just a one off ?

Could have just been the Vista/Win 7 WEI running itself, ive had it happen a couple of times when, say ive updated drivers or put a new GPU in the system, and not refreshed the WEI myself, it does it itself at some seemingly random point which turns aero off while it runs, then pops back on once finished.
 
yashiro said:
AMD drivers have been doing the full speed clocks thing in firefox for a very long time.
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Looks like nVidia also suffers:
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1223925
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=185531

I'm seriously annoyed at this. I'm going to have to switch back to IE9 if I can't get this fixed, and I hate IE9 due to missing addons. Tried disabling hardware acceleration for Firefox. Anyway, I'm going to start a different thread soon as it may not be the OP's issue.
 
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