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Why don't Nvidia cards downclock with 2 monitors?

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Hi all,

 

I have just noticed that my GPUs aren't underclocking when both of my monitors are plugged in. I know that this is meant to heppen, but why don't the cards clock down to a reasonable speed instead of staying in their 3D mode. All this is doing is wasting power unnecessarily.

 

Has anyone found a way of stopping this from happening?

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Nvidia Inspector, it's the only way^^

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Mine downclocks with 2 monitors....

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They are for me, I have a total of 9 monitors connected, and when I'm not gaming or folding, they clock down to around 500MHz.

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They are for me, I have a total of 9 monitors connected, and when I'm not gaming or folding, they clock down to around 500MHz.

Strange, mine are stuck at 980MHz ish and I have 2 1080p monitors. Maybe it's because one of my monitors is 144Hz.

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yea thats so stupid i had a laptop with a 660M and i plugged a secound monitor for windows tasks and stuff shit didnt downclock and now its all fuked up the GPU doesnt work anymore it overheated too much when i opened it up thermal paste was all around the place and it was horrible

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They are for me, I have a total of 9 monitors connected, and when I'm not gaming or folding, they clock down to around 500MHz.

Im gonna call bull on that how can you have nine monitors unless you have like tri sli or that wierd amd card with 5 mini dp out of it

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http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/1833/pg1/club-3d-sensevision-mst-hub-displayport-splitter-review-full-article.html

 

Or

TH2GO - Monitor cable splitters, usb displays,...there are more than just GPU outputs that can be used...can be done.

 

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/displayport/

 

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/digital/

 

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/display_wall/mura_mpx_series/

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Im gonna call bull on that how can you have nine monitors unless you have like tri sli or that wierd amd card with 5 mini dp out of it

 

I have a 670 and 3 640's.

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Mine clocked down to full idle clocks with 5760x1080 @ 120hz (324/324). I have 680 SLI.

 

When I added a 60hz 2560x1080 'accessory display' my idle memory clocks increased iirc, so it was something like (324/700~)

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Mine clocked down to full idle clocks with 5760x1080 @ 120hz (324/324). I have 680 SLI.

When I added a 60hz 2560x1080 'accessory display' my idle memory clocks increased iirc, so it was something like (324/700~)

Do you have the power setting at max performance in the nvidia control panel or is it on auto? I have a feeling I need to change some settings.

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Nvidia Inspector, it's the only way^^

 ^ this

Something buggy in the programming or something.

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 ^ this

Something buggy in the programming or something.

NVinspector.png

Thank you so much! I never realised that setting was there. :D

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