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Thermal and TDP throttling

Devrij

Devrij

Devrij

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Does anyone here miss the days when you overclocked a gpu and it just got hot instead of throttling the clocks down? I can't remember when exactly this happened, but why can't we just force clocks like we used to? Or am I missing something?
 
If my card got too hot I lowered my overclock. I didn't want the card to decide for me. Guess what, never fried a card. I have a 5850 that has been running a ridiculous overclock for over 6 years and is still stable. I didn't mind if the occasional game pushed the card to 85c on the rare occasion like on a hot summer day, I just made sure it ran under 80c most of the time.

It just bugs me a little bit.
 
Devrij said:
If my card got too hot I lowered my overclock. I didn't want the card to decide for me. Guess what, never fried a card. I have a 5850 that has been running a ridiculous overclock for over 6 years and is still stable. I didn't mind if the occasional game pushed the card to 85c on the rare occasion like on a hot summer day, I just made sure it ran under 80c most of the time.

It just bugs me a little bit.
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I run my 290X at 95 degrees all the time. Oh wait...
 
The reference card is not designed to be run over long periods of time at a higher rate anyway. The custom cards have enough tdp that the limit won't kick in.

We have been unlocking and dealing with this stuff on the mobile side for ages.
 
JanxSpirit said:
I think you need to read the opening post again.
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No he means that there is a thermal cutoff that will shut the chip down if it hits extreme temps, which is a safety feature that is different to throttling clock speeds.

razorpakk said:
You can change that with a custom bios.
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I have considered it. I had a custom bios on my 290s when I was mining with them, but I could never edit the bios and still have a uefi bios after editing. Not sure how important that is tbh but it was a minor bug.

It just seems like it's a babysitting feature when people who are affected, overclockers, should know how to keep a card within its limits for whatever they are doing whether it's benching or 24/7 use.
 
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Yes, I can't stand all the damn throttling, and how you have to jump through ridiculous hoops in order to maintain performance. A lot of the time, it is throttling at STOCK settings. What the hell?
 
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