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GPU Clock Speed stuck at 253

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Hello,

 

Installed a GTX 1060 6GB on my father's PC yesterday. Enabled high performance in windows power options. Enabled prefer max performance in Nvidia's controll panel. Used DDU to uninstall all drivers twice and reinstalled latest drivers, but the card is stuck at 253MHz, where the least should be 1620MHz (Asus Strix OC edition). Why is this happening? 

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3 minutes ago, Tech Wizard said:

Hello,

 

Installed a GTX 1060 6GB on my father's PC yesterday. Enabled high performance in windows power options. Enabled prefer max performance in Nvidia's controll panel. Used DDU to uninstall all drivers twice and reinstalled latest drivers, but the card is stuck at 253MHz, where the least should be 1620MHz (Asus Strix OC edition). Why is this happening? 

Is this under load or when you idle at the desktop?  The gpu with clock down when idle.

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1 minute ago, Ryoku said:

Is this under load or when you idle at the desktop?  The gpu with clock down when idle.

It's in idle yes, but the idle clock should be 1620, where is the option to disable downclocking? 

My GTX 1070 G1 Gaming runs at 1595MHz (stock speed) during idle

Main:  1650 v2   @ 4,6GHz   -   X79 Deluxe                -   GTX 1080 @ 2000MHz   -   24GB DDR3 @ 2400MHz / CL10

Side:   i7-4790K @ 4,5GHz   -   Maximus 7 Hero        -   GTX 1070 @ 2114MHz    -  16GB DDR3 @ 2666MHz / CL12

 

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1 minute ago, Tech Wizard said:

It's in idle yes, but the idle clock should be 1620, where is the option to disable downclocking? 

My GTX 1070 G1 Gaming runs at 1595MHz (stock speed) during idle

It's not supposed to that's a waste of power lol

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27 minutes ago, Tech Wizard said:

It's in idle yes, but the idle clock should be 1620, where is the option to disable downclocking? 

My GTX 1070 G1 Gaming runs at 1595MHz (stock speed) during idle

It...really shouldn't.

There's nothing wrong with your GPU downclocking to save power and increase its overall lifetime when it's not doing anything. You wouldn't keep your car revved right up while idling waiting for the traffic light to go green would you?

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its fine... GPU like CPU downclocks its frequency when in idle to save energy since it would be a waste and decrease life span to be running on maximum all the time, use Msi Afterburner and run a game or any benchmarking you will see that when it Is required it will use its full frequency.

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