GPU won't downclock at idle

[Murilo_A]

I have a small problem where my 760 stays on 980MHz even at idle, at the NV Control Panel I checked a box so I can monitor the GPU activity, and closed everything that it was said to be running, but it stayed at 980MHz, I saw some people with that problem when they had a 144Hz monitor, but both my monitor and TV only runs @60Hz, not sure if that can be causing the problem, but the TV is connected to the Nvidia GPU and the monitor is connected to the Intel GPU. I didn't tested if this only happens when I close a game or even if I just turned on the computer.

[Goat]

I am having the same problem with my GTX 970. I am running a 144hz monitor. Funny thing is that it used to underclock itself and idle while using said 144hz monitor, but some time down the road it screwed up and kept running a 1113mhz at idle. Not a big deal for me, as the increased temps only prevented the fans from being kept off ( new gpus have a feature where the fans turn off below 60c or something ) so setting a custom fan curve more or less solved the higher temps at idle.

[SpriteNo5]

1 hour ago, Goat said:

I am having the same problem with my GTX 970. I am running a 144hz monitor. Funny thing is that it used to underclock itself and idle while using said 144hz monitor, but some time down the road it screwed up and kept running a 1113mhz at idle. Not a big deal for me, as the increased temps only prevented the fans from being kept off ( new gpus have a feature where the fans turn off below 60c or something ) so setting a custom fan curve more or less solved the higher temps at idle.

Set your refresh to 120 and the card should settle down. I'd rather sacrifice the frames to make my card behave as it was designed to.

[Goat]

16 minutes ago, SpriteNo5 said:

Set your refresh to 120 and the card should settle down. I'd rather sacrifice the frames to make my card behave as it was designed to.

I set my monitor to 120hz  but the card still does not underclock itself.

[Guest]

On 14.3.2017 at 2:36 AM, Murilo_A said:

I have a small problem where my 760 stays on 980MHz even at idle, at the NV Control Panel I checked a box so I can monitor the GPU activity, and closed everything that it was said to be running, but it stayed at 980MHz, I saw some people with that problem when they had a 144Hz monitor, but both my monitor and TV only runs @60Hz, not sure if that can be causing the problem, but the TV is connected to the Nvidia GPU and the monitor is connected to the Intel GPU. I didn't tested if this only happens when I close a game or even if I just turned on the computer.

I had the same problem some months ago with my 760. I did a clean driver install with DDU and it was fixed after that

[App4that]

1 hour ago, SpriteNo5 said:

Set your refresh to 120 and the card should settle down. I'd rather sacrifice the frames to make my card behave as it was designed to.

Why, let it clock. Not that big a deal.

[PCMasterDebater]

Turn off Kboost.

[Mick Naughty]

All of my cards do it. I think it's a windows 7 issues. My 1080 using a 1440 will stay high. My titans using surround will have the memory clocked high. Doesn't bother me on water but on air the cards idle at 60c. Which is a problem for me. 

[HotDiggityDaffodil]

In the Nvidia control panel, you can go to "manage 3d settings" and there's an option called "power management mode". If you have it set to "prefer maximum performance" your core clock will always stay high. If this is the case for you, then just simply select the other mode. Hope this helps.

[Murilo_A]

On 15/03/2017 at 2:14 PM, Medicate said:

I had the same problem some months ago with my 760. I did a clean driver install with DDU and it was fixed after that

Problem was solved with the new driver 

[Murilo_A]

On 15/03/2017 at 2:16 PM, App4that said:

Why, let it clock. Not that big a deal.

Don't know for him, but my 760 doesn't turn off the fans, and the noise is quite annoying when I'm not wearing headphones 

[Murilo_A]

On 15/03/2017 at 8:59 PM, HotDiggityDaffodil said:

In the Nvidia control panel, you can go to "manage 3d settings" and there's an option called "power management mode". If you have it set to "prefer maximum performance" your core clock will always stay high. If this is the case for you, then just simply select the other mode. Hope this helps.

Already tried that but didn't solved, btw updating to the newer driver solved it