graphic card power limit locked

[RandomNeedsHelp]

Hi,

my graphics card did work fine, i did not actively change anything. However i started a game today and got 10-20fps, where as normally i get around 200. Confused i started to investigate, where i noticed that in msi Afterburner the powerlimit and templimit is somehow locked to 0. I can not change that. When i set it higher and press apply it just resets. It also doesnt show anything at core voltage anymore. It did work normally around 2 months ago, since then i havent opened afterburner again. I have reinstalled Afterburner and also installed graphic card drivers new (deleting old ones). That did not change anything.

 

Note: i am using a custom waterblock, the cooling is working fine. (MSI RTX3070 Gaming X Trio)

 

Hope you have any idea what i am doing wrong.

Thank you

[PcBeExpensive]

39 minutes ago, RandomNeedsHelp said:

Hi,

my graphics card did work fine, i did not actively change anything. However i started a game today and got 10-20fps, where as normally i get around 200. Confused i started to investigate, where i noticed that in msi Afterburner the powerlimit and templimit is somehow locked to 0. I can not change that. When i set it higher and press apply it just resets. It also doesnt show anything at core voltage anymore. It did work normally around 2 months ago, since then i havent opened afterburner again. I have reinstalled Afterburner and also installed graphic card drivers new (deleting old ones). That did not change anything.

 

Note: i am using a custom waterblock, the cooling is working fine. (MSI RTX3070 Gaming X Trio)

 

Hope you have any idea what i am doing wrong.

Thank you

click the reset button and see if that helps.

[Blai5e]

@RandomNeedsHelp - Why is the memory reporting 7001MHz? Shouldn't it read 1750MHz by default? If I were you, I'd DDU the driver, uninstall MSI Afterburner and start again with fresh downloads.

 

Scenario 1: Card is in "safe" mode. You may be having an issue with a PCIE riser/ motherboard PCIE slot or your power cables. You could try reseating the card and/or reseating your power cables.

 

Scenario 2: (Less likely) As you have a waterblock installed on the card, it could be mounting pressure (this is known to keep the GPU clock around 400MHz) but as you have had the block on for a while, I doubt this is likely.

[RandomNeedsHelp]

1 hour ago, Blai5e said:

@RandomNeedsHelp - Why is the memory reporting 7001MHz? Shouldn't it read 1750MHz by default? If I were you, I'd DDU the driver, uninstall MSI Afterburner and start again with fresh downloads.

 

Scenario 1: Card is in "safe" mode. You may be having an issue with a PCIE riser/ motherboard PCIE slot or your power cables. You could try reseating the card and/or reseating your power cables.

 

Scenario 2: (Less likely) As you have a waterblock installed on the card, it could be mounting pressure (this is known to keep the GPU clock around 400MHz) but as you have had the block on for a while, I doubt this is likely.

I have replugged the riser cable and the pcie 8pin expension cables. My card is running stable under normal power load now. However it is still reporting 7000MHz (instead of 7001 MHz lol) Performance is back to normal, is the weird frequenzy report something i should worry about or just ignore it as long as it works? I didnt DDU the driver yet, maybe that would fix the display but if its not necessary i can safe the work as i am currently not interested in the actual memory clock freq.

 

edit: interestingly it only shows 7000MHz under load, without load it shows more reasonable numbers... (??)