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Hello, everyone Can someone please take a look at my readings from HWiNFO regarding the PCIe Slot Voltage? I am a bit concerned if those drops on PCIe Slot during 100% load on my GPU are dangerous or not. The first screenshot shows GPU readings from HWiNFO and GPU-Z - and second one shows Motherboard side of things. I am confused whether the 11.6 V reading from GPU or 11.736 V from motherboard is more important. Are these drops acceptable? PS. Ignore my native language on HWiNFO My specs are: Motherboard: Gigabyte B85+HD3 Rev 2.0 PSU: Corsair TX650M RAM: 16 GB CPU: Intel i7 4790 GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3060 Windforce OC 12 GB OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit

Hello, I'm a bit of a novice in PC hardware , I recently bought a used RTX 2060 Super from Ebay for my first real PC build and watched a bunch of video guides on what to look out for in used graphics cards. One thing they told to check was whether the card was previously used for mining and had a mining optimized BIOS installed. I downloaded GPU-Z and googled the BIOS version, and it came up as 'unverified on the TechPowerUp website. My Card's BIOS: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/220261/220261 Stock BIOS as per TechPowerUp: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/215377/msi-rtx2060super-8192-190822 I messaged the seller on Ebay but they haven't yet responded. The listing didn't say anything about mining, only that it was a used but tested working graphics card. Questions: Do graphics cards need BIOS updates? Could it be that I just have a card with an updated official BIOS version but it's not yet verified? Are there any reasons to flash a custom BIOS to your graphics card? (for better performance maybe) Does this card have a custom BIOS because it was used for crypto mining? Should I re-flash the original BIOS? I haven't yet experienced any instability or random crashes but I'm a bit concerned that I'm leaving some performance on the table because maybe the custom BIOS renders the card less powerful than stock. Any insights would be very much appreciated!

Follow up to my original post. My gpu is acting all funny since I tried to overclock, adjusting the voltage curve, then cleaning my registry and uninstalling after burner. Somehow my 3080ti FE's clock frequency changed from 1665 mhz to 1965 mhz, and wouldn't revert, not even after DDU, and even changing mother boards. The voltage also got stuck somehow at a crazy 1.07. Now I have afterburner reinstalled and I have to launch it and load settings each time I boot my PC. Core clock is set to 1750 or so and voltage moved back to stock 0.9. Please take a look at these charts captured in GPU-Z. Can anybody tell me what would be causing these spikes? Last night I had everything working smoothly and eliminated the coilwhine. Today the coilwhine is back with insane stuttering. The only change was restarting my pc and setting my refresh rate to 120. Original post: "I installed afterburner on my new machine recently. I7-13700k and rtx 3080 ti founders edition. This machine ran fine for months until I tried to OC the graphics card with afterburner. I ended up turning the core clock up to like 2000 and the memory only about a +200 boost. I adjusted the curve manually and somehow made it unstable. No big deal I would just revert the changes.. but before I realized I had an issue. I went into CCleaner and cleaned the registry. I don't know if that is relevant, but now I can not get my gpu stable. I have tried everything I can think of: I have even changed out the motherboard and power supply (thought it may be cpu but am certain now its the gpu); I have reinstalled windows. I am watching the clock speeds for the card on HWinfo and it still wants to boost to the OC I set before all the troubleshooting. I Uninstalled afterburner and my gpu drivers with display driver Uninstaller via safe mode, but the issue persists. I have no idea what to do, any suggestions, please?" 1.bmp

Did i just break my gpu? GPU-Z is crazy? What did i do? I was just playing around in radeon settings overclock.

Hello, i have recently upgraded my pc with an RTX 3090 and i've gotta say im pretty let down with the performance, and im pretty sure it's a bum card, but i want to make sure. I've gone up from an MSI Aero RTX 2070 to the ZOTAC Trinity RTX 3090 24GB and the improvement is noticeable but not significant. I thought this card will be an absolute monster and the difference will be night and day. At first i thought my Ryzen 5 3600x was much more of a bottleneck than i thought it will be, so i upgraded to a 9 5900x but performance hasn't increased much. Before i ramble on for too long here's the specs(i'll provide more exact model names if required): - Windows 10 64bit - 1080p target resolution (bought the card for VR mainly) - ZOTAC RTX 3090 Gaming Trinity OC 24GB GDDR6X - Ryzen 9 5900x stock - 16 GB DDR4 3200 (XMP profile enabled) - Asus TUF B550 plus WIFI - Aorus PCIe 4.0 boot drive - Chieftec CTG-750C PSU - The main suspect, but if the performance now is the same as with the 3600x i don't think it's actually THE problem. Things i've tried: BIOS update; Clean driver reinstall (DDU); Upgraded tower cooling; setting pci mode to GEN4 in Bios; Digging in nvidia settings The performance is ok-ish, especially in Warzone 2.0 at settings maxed out and DLSS off im getting 100 fps, but i think thats low for 1080p, no? The biggest offence in my book, the one that triggered me to look into the issue is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqTtWGE12fY . I know his setup is overclocked but at 1440p he's getting 200 fps avg while im getting 168 fps avg @ 1080p (38 with rtx on). What i think may be the culprit is a faulty card, maybe a bad thermal paste application(i could do it myself but no point if its under warranty). The card runs fine untill the hotspot hits around a 100 degrees, at which point the fan curve get's overridden and the fans ramp up and down to 100% which on its own is starting to drive me nuts. Maybe thermal throttling? Im not sure if im power limited or temperature limited, i've got a GPU-Z log from a 10 minut furmark test that i've attached which might tell you more (also have a video recording but won't bother with uploading it unless someone asks for it). Feel free to point me to what benchmark to run and i'll update with the results, i appreciate all the help i get. GPU-Z Sensor Log.txt

Hey, first of all, not quite sure if I am creating this thread in the right topic, I just assumed that it will be okay under "Gpu" So to cut a long story short, I upgraded to an RTX 3070 TI a few days ago (former 1060 3gig) and in the begining it was alright, did a clean driver install and while yes, there was almost no improvement in the games I usually play I assumed that it is as they are CPU bound more than GPU (cyberpunk actually saw a massive improvement I am not even going to lie there, was barely running it before that) CSGO was an unlucky winner tho, somehow my performance dropped from 300-450fps to measly 100? 150? and if I were to move more and more it would even dip below 100? Did the following: DDU (tried it twice actually) Go back to an earlier version of the GPU drivers Checked if everything is good with my GPU (not overheating or anything)- while yes, it is getting 80C it does get quite enough air to go back to a normal temp when not on 100% load, thus overheating is out of the question I went through previous threads of users and did the "quick easy fix that I found" such as xmp profiles, gpu being "power limited" and so on and so forth, nothing appears to be actually working. The PC in question is the following: Ryzen 5 5600X RTX 3070TI (sadge) [EDIT: 3070 TI gainward Phoenix] RMX 750W 32GB ram (4x8G corsair vengance 3200mhz) Samsung 970 Evo Plus (gonna throw that in there just in case, I saw some people asked about "hey what drive do you have and does it have enough space", yes, it should definitely not be a drive issue. TL;DR once more, heavy games no issues, "lower spec" games (such as csgo, league, minecraft, you name it) are an issue and I have no idea what to do anymore. EDIT: After around 17 hours from the issue first occuring and 12 hours after creating this thread I was able to fix it, and you would never guess how. I was sitting in a call with a friend listening to me going bonkers about how tired and how much I want to give up when he suggested that I disconnect the fans that I installed about a day and a half ago (as a joke) at the time I didn't pay him much attention as this sounds unreasonable, right? [In hindsight this will be the best advise I have ever received.] So I carry on trying to troubleshoot the PC, old CPU goes in, new goes out, new GPU gooes out old goes in, ram, so on and so forth, clean windows install on another drive, xmp profiles, you name it, I've done it. Fast forward about 30-40 minutes ago, I have given up and will probably just use the PC to watch stuff on and not give it much thought as I am no longer really playing anything anymore so I decide to give it a shot, why not disconnect the intake and see what happens. I disconnect the intake, boot, (boots like 3x times quicker, which I didn't even really care about really, but somehow happen) run tests and WHAT??? the performance is BACK??? CSGO WITH OVER 800 FPS???? REALLY????? I go to plug the fans back in to confirm the theory, boom, nothing actually changes at all? The performance is still there but another issue starts, GPU fans (A singular fan out of the 3) spins 100% 24/7 and the system does not even pick it up as being spun. I am yet again left speechless and scratching my head.... alright, lets see, what can I do, maybe I left something out? Maybe I forgot to connect something? Nope, everything looks good, and there literally isnt anything that the GPU has to connect even other than the power connectors. Bad.. I think to myself, I could probably disconnnect the fand and just have two but, do I really wanna do that? Oh, whats that, my front RGB (case) controller is disconnected? Oh, let me connect it real quick. **CONNECTS** Alright, lets boot one last time and see if I can thinker a bit more with the GPU software, oh whats that? My fan is no longer spinning out of its mind???? WHAT??? A FREAKING RGB CONTROLLER??????? NO WAY, right? But actually, yes way, disconnected it to see what will happen and my GPU fan starts spining out its mind YET AGAIN, alright, there, found it, but how? How and how... TL;DR 2 - Fans+RGB controller somehow fixed CPU issue?????? okay..

Hello guys, I just thought of this... how can a software read ASIC quality to that accuracy degree? What process goes into benchmarking a GPU's ASIC exactly? I wanted to know just out of curiosity. Thanks for any answers

Hello i wanted to flash my GTX 970 to a PERFORMANCE STABLE ROM is my GTX 970 from MSI good for this or? I can't seem to get the rom off my GPU i remember i could before but not anymore HELP

I bought a secondhand R9 290x from Taobao and I wanna crossfire with my original R9 290. But due to some unknown reason, I can't use the crossfire for both of my graphic card. My motherboard also support AMD crossfire. AMD driver can detect both of my graphic card also GPU-z can detect both of them. But I just can't get it work. Here is the hardware I'm using now Motherboard：Asus Z97-k CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 RAM: DDR3 8 * 2 GPU1: Asus Radeon R9 290 DirectCU II GPU2: Asus Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II

Source: https://m.hexus.net/tech/news/software/123200-gpu-z-version-2120-flags-fake-nvidia-gpus/ According to hexus.net GPU-Z V 2.12.0 Now Detects Fake Nvidia GPUS. If A Fake GPU Is Detected GPU-Z Will Brand It As A Fake And Where The Logo Would Appear Put A Big Warning Triangle. (Shown In Image In Quote) The Update Is Also Including Stability Updates And The Ability To Extract And Update The BIOS Files Of The RTX 2080 Series. V 2.12.0 Is Avalible Right Now At https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/

hi guy gpu-z is telling me the wrong memory clock speed is this a bug? MSI afterburner are reporting the correct memory clock same goes to the super composition benchmark my gpu is a msi gtx 1080ti gaming x AM i right or is there something else?

Hey, does the ID change for every single GPU or for every model? Curious because I RMAd a 1070 and the device ID in gpu-z is the same as before.

I'm currently running an XFX AMD R9 390 GPU. I've been running folding on it for a while, and I was somewhat surprised to find that GPU-Z was reporting a VDDC Power In average of 150W and max of 198.6W given that the TDP of the card is 275W. Card is running at 1015MHz base clock and 1500MHz memory clock. Should I just consider myself the recipient of a lucky card, or am I missing something? Even for firestrike and unigine benchmarks I'm getting 175W average and 220W max draw

So i was getting fed up with my 980ti always getting so extremly hot. it would easily hit 90C in games after not too long and i thought i would change the thermal paste to see if that was the problem. what i saw was the worst ever job in applying the thermal paste. 1/3 of the die was not covered and it was just a mess everywhere else. i change it and am able to play again at now 72C instead of 90. a massive 18C drop which was very suprising. everything is going well and im playing DOOM and i thought i would try and see if i could overclock a bit higher cause of the lower temperatures. i managed to be able to play at 1565mhz core clock for a while but then it crashed. no big deal right? thats what i thought anyways... i can still play games and everything but its like my pc doesnt even know my gpu's are there. GPU-z can see its a 980ti but is missing alot of information, nvidia inspectors sees nothing, msi afterburner says 0 in everything and so on. this is the same case with the 560 that i have in my system (i use it to have more monitors connected) so i would say i can conclude from that fact that its not cause of the change in thermal paste that this is happening but that somehow my overclock managed to completely corrupt something. Specs: 980ti 560 i7 2600k MSI P67A-GD65 CM silent Pro M 850W Things i have tried: reinstalling graphics driver reinstalling gpu-z/afterburner restarting my pc I have been thinking of resetting Cmos but i cant see why that would do anything. i have attached pictures to show what i mean with my pc not being able to fully recognize my gpu's

W1zzard over at techpowerup is looking for volunteers with Fiji based Graphic cards (Fury, FuryX, Nano) to help him get data for the GPU-Z tool. The original post is http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/looking-for-volunteers-with-fiji-gpus-to-figure-out-asic-quality.220266/ send W1zzard a private message over at techpowerup.com and ask for special instructions to help him test Fiji ASIC quality. It's just a simple test that takes a minute. With enough volunteers maybe those of us with Fiji based cards will get to see our ASIC quality in the not-to-distant future.

Hi everyone, can anyone explain to me what "VRel" actually is? I understand VOp as in the max voltage that the card is allowed to go, but I don't know what VRel is. The description says "Limited by reliability voltage" which does not explain it to me. I am running Furmark and this PerfCap is showing up so how do I interpret it? Thanks.

So the last couple of weeks i have been having fps drops, but not all the time. Some days i have been running fine and others i have sudden fps drops. The other day i fired up GPU-Z and went to play some CS:GO Matchmaking, to monitor temps, Suddenly my screen (Picture) freezed (i could still hear and talk to people on skype) for about 3 min, then my screen went black and i was still able to hear and talk on skype. And after a couple of minutes i decided to restart because nothing happening and my screen was black. I turned back on my computer and everything was fine, started GPU-Z, skype and steam and reconnected to the game i was playing, It didn't seem like anything was broke but i felt laggy for the rest of the game. Last report before the crash is 2015-08-26 20.33.57 The "GPU Core Clock" and the "GPU Memory Clock" seems over the place. Thanks in advance.

Hi i saw linus video on vessel, i tried the guide he made "gpu fanspeed" i saved the bios (with gpu-z 0.8.2) and extracted Nvflash / maxwellbiostweaker to same folder. tried to open the saved BIOS in the maxwell tweaker and i got this fail messesge. Unhandled exception occurred in your application. if you click continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. if you click Quit, the application will close immediately. Value og "5125" is not valid "value". "Value" should be between "minimum and maximum". Parameter name: Value. ________ DETAILS See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Value of '5125' is not valid for 'Value'. 'Value' should be between 'Minimum' and 'Maximum'. Parameter name: Value at System.Windows.Forms.NumericUpDown.set_Value(Decimal value) at .UpdateData() at .set_FanSettings2( value) at MaxwellBiosTweaker.frmMBT.(String ) at MaxwellBiosTweaker.frmMBT.(Object , EventArgs ) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8009 (FX35W81RTMGDR.050727-8000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll ---------------------------------------- MaxwellBiosTweaker Assembly Version: 1.3.1.0 Win32 Version: 1.3.1.0 CodeBase: file:///D:/Users/Casper/Documents/NVFLASH/MaxwellBiosTweaker.exe ---------------------------------------- System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8008 (FX35W81RTMGDR.050727-8000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll ---------------------------------------- System Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8009 (FX35W81RTMGDR.050727-8000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Drawing Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8007 (FX35W81RTMGDR.050727-8000) CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Core Assembly Version: 3.5.0.0 Win32 Version: 3.5.30729.7903 built by: Win9Rel CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Core/3.5.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll ---------------------------------------- ************** JIT Debugging ************** To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled. For example: <configuration> <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /> </configuration> When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box. so what can i do ? any help guys? would appreciate that. have installled OC guru to OC made custom fan curve. before i tried this "mod" i slight OC on both card (gpu and memory) Specs of the pc: Windows 8.1 Crucial SSD (OS) WD 1 TB 2 x GTX 970 G1 (gigabyte) (SLI) FX-8350 cpu Asus ROG formula-v crosshair (motherboard) 750 watt PSU (Corsair) CM evo hyper 212 (CPU cooler) some extra fans. plz?

Hi guys I just did a clean fresh install Windows 10 pro 64 bits, everything works fine (except my antivirus..Malwarebytes) but then I just opened GPU-Z and it says my GTX 970 G1 Gaming is DirectX 11.2 Isn't it supposed to be DirectX 12? I haven't installed any games yet, neigther I've tried Video editing, but I'm a bit concerned about this, as this was one of the main reasons to move to W10. So, should I be worried? or is it just an error of GPU-Z or DX12 is not available yet? I have the latest 353.62 driver installed it manually, Windows Update says there's 2 Updates to install, maybe it's that. Another question, in case DX12 was installed, would I have to get a new version of any game or any video editing software? Anyway thanks guys, I know it's maybe an error and I'm giving it too much importance so sorry if thats the case

Hello folks, Got myself a sweet 970 Strix like so many of you have, and found out it clocks like a beast, unlike my CPU, which probably doesn't so good because cheapish motherboard. Anyway, this is my first time using Firestrike, or even having a series attempt at overclocking a Graphics Card, so forgive me if I am making a rookie mistake, but here we go. Maxing out Asus GPU tweak, I went ahead and Downloaded MSI afterburner. The top stable result I have been able to get hold of is at 1450mhz Boost clock and 2000mhz Memory clock. During the Firstrike Benchmark, I can see that GPU-Z shows that I did indeed regularly hit up to and around 1450, especially during the combined test. What puzzles me, is that the Firestrike result at http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3712352 is showing that I only had it clocked at 1346mhz. Is the actual clock 1346 even though the card happily achieved ~1450? Any tips on the overclocking? Is it true I will get a better core speed if I turn down the Memory? On a related note, Firestrike also says that my general Ram (2x4gb) is at a speed of 800mhz when it should be at 1600mhz. Is this another mistake a result of my limited computing knowledge or is that correct? I'd have thought RAM speed would not differ by amount of kits in the motherboard, surely they both run at 1600 equaling a total RAM speed of... 1600. My my, I am full of questions today, but I do want to put the correct result in the LTT Firestrike spreadsheet.

I often update GPU-Z when there is a new release, but usually the changes are under the hood. the latest version 0.8.2 comes with a lookup button that redirects you to their website, to the page for your exact graphic card, and from there you can search for bios etc. and see official specs.

Picture: So, I over clocked my 650m since after the update 320 I think? Nvidia allowed you to OC 650ms. The problem Over here is: After OCing, everything is fine EXCEPT for the gpu clock speed, all programs I look at show the OC numbers BUT when it comes to actually using the GPU the clock speed stays at the default (On all gpu usage tracking programs) HOWEVER the OCed memory clock appears as normal and as it should. (The card itself only starts throttling at 85 - 90c) However, I suspect that the GPU clock speed IS over-clocked it's just the Clock meter which is broken, explanation: Example, when playing CS: GO at default speeds, I'd start lagging (Getting less than 30 fps) with global shadow high, AA bumped up by 1 and V-sync on (Normal) After OCing you can see my current settings + I have Tripple buffering V-sync on and the minimum fps I get is 35 (averaging around 40 -45 on demanding places) and I doubt just the 400mhz increase on memory clock speeds would give me such an advantage, so this is why I think that it's just the meter which is stuck on showing the default (It doesn't even show when gpu boost is non, even when not OCed) 1. Is there a way to find out what could be the problem? Or to see if it's just bad programming or the gpu tracking is actually broken ? 2. Or it's just the memory clock that stays fixed but Nvidia drivers are keeping the gpu clock speed at 745?

Picture below. Sometimes when I open my PC CPU-Z, GPU-Z, RealTemp and Revouninstaller have lost their icons in the start menu. It only happens with those programmes and it happens at random. Like today. It worked fine when I closed the pc yesterday, this morning the icons are gone. Nothing has changed. Revo and GPU-Z and RealTemp are portable versions but CPU-Z is installed. If I right click and choose Properties and try to change the icon I am able to do so in all 4 of the programmes except GPU-Z which gives me a file path and tells mere there are no icons in that destination. However, even if I change the icons in the other 3 programmes, it stays the same. So, where did the icons go? Why?