Overheating GPU?
1 minute ago, SSK-99 said:Thanks for the help.
Does this basically limit what your card can do in exchange for better temps? Just asking since I've never used Afterburner to change settings before, just to read temps.
Yes that is exactly what you do. When you buy a GPU it has a core clock and a boost clock. The core clock is the same for every card with the same chip (so all 1660 supers have the same base core clock). The boost clock will vary between AiBs, and this is a guaranteed boost clock. So Gigabyte, for example, will create a card with a cooler around a 1660 super and they will guarantee that this card will boost to xxxx Mhz.
Usually your card will boost higher, Nvidia cards have GPU Boost that takes care of this.
As I understand it (please someone correct me if I'm wrong): The GPU boost will try to clock you GPU higher until it either
a) reaches a voltage limit
b) reaches a power limit
c) reaches a temperature limit
The temperature limit is in your case probably 83 degrees. For some reason (at least in my PC) just lowering the temperature limit doesn't work, I need to keep the temperature and power limit coupled and lower them together.
What I did was lower these targets and set a custom fan curve (which made it quieter) and I went from 83 degrees under load to 74 degrees under load, while the card boosted 90MHz lower (still 75MHz over the advertised boost clock).
Hope this helps :).
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