Voltage/Wattage

[Akamii]

How to know if my GPU is getting the correct voltage or the correct wattage ? i mean at which number it should be?

using R9 285 dual-x oc

 

msi afterburner showing 1.207 V as the max voltage under load, and varies from game to game depened on the load so it stays between 1 and 1.180 or 1.2
and  0.891 V idle.

The Wattage on gpu-z on idle : 10W 

load : 45~90W

 

the psu is Thermaltake 730w se smart

 

so guys the question is simply.. how to know that im getting the correct voltage/wattage to be sure there's nothing wrong with the psu ? ty

[Mapleguy4]

Voltages seem right. Watt usage seems a little low, but it depends on what you were doing. What game(s) were you running when you reached 90? 280 series often reach about 170w and peak a little under 200w. That is, under very demanding games.

[SageC]

How many volts/watts your GPU uses is automatic so there's really nothing to worry about as long as your power supply is good enough or you're overvlocking. Which in both cases your GPU would become unstable if something wasn't right and you would have frequent crashes and/or obvious artifacting on your screen.

[Senzelian]

How to know if my GPU is getting the correct voltage or the correct wattage ? i mean at which number it should be?

using R9 285 dual-x oc

 

msi afterburner showing 1.207 V as the max voltage under load, and varies from game to game depened on the load so it stays between 1 and 1.180 or 1.2

and  0.891 V idle.

The Wattage on gpu-z on idle : 10W 

load : 45~90W

 

the psu is Thermaltake 730w se smart

 

so guys the question is simply.. how to know that im getting the correct voltage/wattage to be sure there's nothing wrong with the psu ? ty

Simple. As long as it doesn't smell bad and your GPU bursts up in flames everything's alright! 

[Akamii]

How many volts/watts your GPU uses is automatic so there's really nothing to worry about as long as your power supply is good enough or you're overvlocking. Which in both cases your GPU would become unstable if something wasn't right and you would have frequent crashes and/or obvious artifacting on your screen.

crashes for the pc or the game itself?

[Akamii]

Voltages seem right. Watt usage seems a little low, but it depends on what you were doing. What game(s) were you running when you reached 90? 280 series often reach about 170w and peak a little under 200w. That is, under very demanding games.

ye i was worried about that because i know that card TDP is 190W .. but im hardly reaching 90W and 120W using Furmark 1.5 , but im using 768p monitor, maybe thats why? because it doesnt use 100% of the gpu so the wattage usage is low? .. idk really im really worried about that.

and ye the higher grahpics game, the higher wattage i see .. but never reached something above 100W while gaming .

but in the same time i didn't get any pc crashes or restarts . its really stable so if the problem is that the psu doesnt provide the gpu with enough Wattage so the pc will simply crash right? or even if the psu is damaged since its 730w and it should provide the gpu easily .. or there's nothing like that ?

but there's 1 game that i crash sometimes playing it .. BUT its a game client crash not pc crash , it called Survarium and its an online fps game.

and i think the game client crashes maybe caused by a RAM issue or gpu driver or maybe the game optimization itself right?

[SageC]

crashes for the pc or the game itself?

 

The PC.

[Akamii]

The PC.

then im fine?

[SageC]

then im fine?

 

Should be, not utilizing 100% of the GPU is probably the cause of the weird readings.

[Akamii]

Should be, not utilizing 100% of the GPU is probably the cause of the weird readings.

ye maybe the monitor resolution is the problem : 768p