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The Intel Arc owners thread

Can anyone advise how to fix IDLE high power draw, noticed it's pulling a fair bit with the board and chip draw, see picture below. I've got ASPM enabled, I'm on an ASUS PRIME B760M-A WIFI.


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It's due to the vram not clocking down. Now I don't know if it is intended behaviour from Intel drivers but you could try and test it. AMD had the problem a long time ago and the culprit was high refresh rate displays and vblank if my memory serves me right. So you can try and set the monitor to 60hz and also disconnect any additional monitors there might be. If that ends up working and the memory downclocks correctly then the next step could be to mess with CRU and set a custom resultion at 1 or 2 hz below maximum supported by the monitor. No idea if it will work though but its a place to start. In case it is intended behaviour by Intel then your SOOL(!"#! Out of luck).
 
It's due to the vram not clocking down. Now I don't know if it is intended behaviour from Intel drivers but you could try and test it. AMD had the problem a long time ago and the culprit was high refresh rate displays and vblank if my memory serves me right. So you can try and set the monitor to 60hz and also disconnect any additional monitors there might be. If that ends up working and the memory downclocks correctly then the next step could be to mess with CRU and set a custom resultion at 1 or 2 hz below maximum supported by the monitor. No idea if it will work though but its a place to start. In case it is intended behaviour by Intel then your SOOL(!"#! Out of luck).

Thanks, I can confirm this behavior, vram just not clocking down, I've tried all kinds of settings with ASPM, Windows OS changes etc, but it seems stuck at 2375.0MHz. I'm hoping some tech wizard on here can help me fix this, running so high at IDLE is going to bug me :D
 
Huzzah! Seemed to have made progress! This time I set everything to default, ARC drivers, and reset BIOS. Then I went through each section and turned literally every ASPM setting I could find to 'L1' and the power at IDLE has dropped! I just need to narrow down which ones actually do something?!

 
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