Mining VS Gaming Load

[Lenixx]

So I just tried mining with my GTX 1050 ti & I know it's kinda not the choice for mining but I just wanted to gave it a shot. What I noticed was the temperature of my card hit 81 celsius!!  I know under 85 C is fine but it was the first time I saw my card running this hot. I fired up MSI afterburner and the clocks were damn too high,  about 1700 mhz+ all the time. So I decided to underclock the GPU forcing it to run at 60C max & obviously with some fewer bucks/day it maintained the temperature. I fired up GTAV & the temperatures weren't this bad. About 69C-ish so I wanna ask what is making such a huge difference! The clocks hit about the same frequencies anyway but still, the temperature is far better!

[ImNotThere]

afaik mining is an inconsitent load so during low points the card will boost higher than at high points

[Steemax]

1 hour ago, ImNotThere said:

afaik mining is an inconsitent load so during low points the card will boost higher than at high points

Yup, load drops momentarily between finding new jobs.

[ImNotThere]

53 minutes ago, Steemax said:

Yup, load drops momentarily between finding new jobs.

wooo, i know something about something i have never done before!