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DUAL Monitor 144hz causing graphics card overheating issue

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so i have a 980 strix and added a benq monitor xl2720z 144hz to my setup,i have noticed that having two monitors the graphics card wont down clock to much  keeping the clock at about 1100 mhz and vram at 3000mhz...so i changed the refresh rate and kept it at 120hz and that seemed to help and now downclocking to 135mhz\324 mhz but still very volatile...i had a temperature increase of about 10 to 15c Celsius ....pretty bad.......overall system temps just wont hold maybe causing heat issues.

 

i know my case has not the best airflow nzxt 440 but still.....just wanted to track this issue with other brands like msi, evga or gigabyte...Nvidia should be aware of the issue why cant the card downclock at 144hz doing nothing  or just browsing the web?

 

on top of that some video stutter on some videos at 144hz have to change the refresh rate to 120 or 60.... find this process just really boring and consuming they could have done a better job on the firmware or driver to automate this..

 

any way seeking lots of feedback, i have googled the issue but seems its not really out there....

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It seems to just be a common issue with running multiple monitors and the graphics card having to do more work, I run 3 and notice significantly lower idle temps when I go to LANs with only one monitor, it's happened on all the cards I've had. HD5450, HD6950, HD7770, GTX 590 and R9 290.

What Ahaber said also needs to be taken into consideration.

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ok so this needs a lot of clarification because you seem to be confusing refresh rate and clock speed. Refresh rate for your monitor is measured in Hz (Hertz) which refers to how many times it refreshes per second. Your graphics card has nothing to do with this rate, it is set by the driver and firmware on the monitor. Secondly your graphics card has a clock frequency meaured in MHz. These 2 numbers have nothing to do with each other. Also it wold be good to know what your actual temps are.

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ok so this needs a lot of clarification because you seem to be confusing refresh rate and clock speed. Refresh rate for your monitor is measured in Hz (Hertz) which refers to how many times it refreshes per second. Your graphics card has nothing to do with this rate, it is set by the driver and firmware on the monitor. Secondly your graphics card has a clock frequency meaured in MHz. These 2 numbers have nothing to do with each other. Also it wold be good to know what your actual temps are.

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ok so this needs a lot of clarification because you seem to be confusing refresh rate and clock speed. Refresh rate for your monitor is measured in Hz (Hertz) which refers to how many times it refreshes per second. Your graphics card has nothing to do with this rate, it is set by the driver and firmware on the monitor. Secondly your graphics card has a clock frequency meaured in MHz. These 2 numbers have nothing to do with each other. Also it wold be good to know what your actual temps are.

 

sorry about the Hz (Hertz) mix up...you right but i think you get my point.

 

 

 

maxwell is fresh but having the card sitting at 40 or 43c and building up while in idle is just "wrong" i have set a fan curve profile to 35% of fan rotation, helps a tad bit but nothing special.

before i added the second benq monitor the card sat at 27 to 30c....bah

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sorry about the Hz (Hertz) mix up...you right but i think you get my point.

 

 

 

maxwell is fresh but having the card sitting at 40 or 43c and building up while in idle is just "wrong" i have set a fan curve profile to 35% of fan rotation, helps a tad bit but nothing special.

before i added the second benq monitor the card sat at 27 to 30c....bah

 

When you are powering 2 screens with one card your idle temps will go higher. The temps you are sitting at now is normal.

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i got the same situaltion. when i use 1 monitor, my gpu sits on 300mhz and 32'c at idle. when i use 2 monitors, my gpy crank up to 400mhz and 39'c at idle. looks like the gpu needs more horsepower when use multiple monitor due the number of pixel.

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