GPU Doesn't trottle up or down?

[EvansThePunk]

Hi Linus community

 

I've purchase a GTX980 Strix and my problem is, the graphic card NEVER change is speed. it's always 400mhz for idle and load too. the memory is also affected at 810mhz. I can't tweak the speed with GPU Tweak or MSI afterburner, the card isn't listening. 

 

somebody have an idea? 

 

thanks you 

[QueenDemetria]

You have the right drivers installed right?(either from the manufactures website or nVidia's website)

[MeltingPoint]

The clocks will throttle down in desktop to conserve electricity and lower temps.

 

Run MSI afterburner and its ODS monitoring tool then launch a graphics intensive application benchamarks or games. You could use GPU-Z too.

Check if the clock goes up. 

[EvansThePunk]

my driver are the latest from the Geforce experience. i use the OSD monitoring already, that's how i've seen my State clock problem. it doesn't change on the desktop or Firestrike benchmark

[Godlygamer23]

You have the right drivers installed right?(either from the manufactures website or nVidia's website)

Afterburner wouldn't get a reading at all if the proper drivers weren't installed. It would have nothing to interface with.

[EMENCII]

In the nvidia control panel? Check the power saving options in 3D settings...

[EvansThePunk]

thank you for the reply, 

 

yes, the power saving mode is set to max performance. Maybe a problem with the BIOS of the card?

[QueenDemetria]

Afterburner wouldn't get a reading at all if the proper drivers weren't installed. It would have nothing to interface with.

If you have outdated or broken drivers installed it will give improper readings. When I upgraded my GTX 260 to 650 TI in one of my machines, it wouldn't throttle down into 2D mode and it read a temperature of -122780 degrees Celsius(or its just dat Winnipeg ambient temp lol). It also would change the memory bandwidth reading every time I started GPU-Z too(sometimes in the 1000's of Gb/s, twas a beast of a card). I also have experienced issues with installing non OEM drivers on laptops, but the false GPU readings were the least of my worries(not being able to change screen brightness and waking up to a black screen were bigger issues lol).

[Godlygamer23]

If you have outdated or broken drivers installed it will give improper readings. When I upgraded my GTX 260 to 650 TI in one of my machines, it wouldn't throttle down into 2D mode and it read a temperature of -122780 degrees Celsius(or its just dat Winnipeg ambient temp lol). It also would change the memory bandwidth reading every time I started GPU-Z too(sometimes in the 1000's of Gb/s, twas a beast of a card). I also have experienced issues with installing non OEM drivers on laptops, but the false GPU readings were the least of my worries(not being able to change screen brightness and waking up to a black screen were bigger issues lol).

The 980 hasn't seen very many driver revisions since it was released. I highly doubt outdated drivers would be the cause because if it was, it'd be a lot more common. My drivers on my 970 were outdated by a day before updating them - no false readings. Drivers being outdated or not is irrelevant because outdated drivers won't necessarily cause the OP's issue.

[AGGELOS_970]

Is your motherboards chipset driver updated ?

[EvansThePunk]

i RMA my card. Asus don't know what's the problem is... thank for the help