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GPU usage drops momentarily while folding

Gumi Rokkaku
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Every now and again I can see my GPU usage drop while folding. This wouldn't be quite so annoying if I didn't hear my fans slow down then ramp back up. 
It's not a huge deal. Just want to know if this is me doing something wrong, or if the program is working as intended. It happens fairly regularly.

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4 minutes ago, Gumi Rokkaku said:

Every now and again I can see my GPU usage drop while folding. This wouldn't be quite so annoying if I didn't hear my fans slow down then ramp back up. 
It's not a huge deal. Just want to know if this is me doing something wrong, or if the program is working as intended. It happens fairly regularly.

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You could use fan control to set a permanent level.

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I did not think of that. I like adaptive fans, but I suppose I could just set up profiles in Afterburner. Or set temperature hysteresis to something a bit longer than 5000ms. 

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well, it's tricky to see the time interval there .. And as far as i can 
tell that is just a temperature graph. You will see momentary drops

to pretty much no usage during the checkpoints.

 

I don't think that would be enough to reduce temperature by 8 *C,

most likely you need to adjust your fan curve. But, you could try 

increasing the checkpoint interval and see what happens. Although

i am pretty sure that isn't the issue. 

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