Hot Gpu- Low Usage

[Johoni]

Hello

My Gpu is about 2 months old and my case is the phanteks p400s with 2 fan intakes and 2 outtakes.

With that said i played ark survival evolved for the first time in a while yesterday and after i stopped playing i realised that my gpu was still very hot, sitting at around 60 degrees which is strange because it normally goes down to around 45 also straight away.

I didn't think much of it and thought i it might just need time to cool down, so i left it over night and nothing has changed. The temp is still 60 and the gpu core is clock for some reason is 1557Mhz with 4.7% usage on my gpu memory.

 

Ive attached a photo to make it clear so you can see for yourself

Ive also gone through task manger and nothing is open that could be causing it (I think)

 

Thanks for your replies in advance

 

[Noyu]

9 minutes ago, Johoni said:

The temp is still 60 and the gpu core is clock for some reason is 1557Mhz with 4.7% usage on my gpu memory.

 

Ive attached a photo to make it clear so you can see for yourself

Ive also gone through task manger and nothing is open that could be causing it (I think)

 

Thanks for your replies in advance

 

either your drivers got stuck or there's something using that GPU in the background (e.g. apps with HW acceleration, miners haha)

I also (sorta) experienced this with my GPU (Gigabyte RX580). Apparently the Gigabyte software was causing the core clocks to get stuck at 100%. 

 

EDIT: The software was the AORUS Graphics Engine. and uninstalling it and reinstalling drivers did the trick

[Jurrunio]

Worst case is that your PC is being used as someone else's mining machine. This is done by either infection or scripts in websites that makes the browser run the mining codes in the background when you closed the browser itself.

 

Another thing is that you might have used high performance power plan inside Nvidia Control panel, which forces the minimum clock speed to be the base clock of the GPU

[Johoni]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Worst case is that your PC is being used as someone else's mining machine. This is done by either infection or scripts in websites that makes the browser run the mining codes in the background when you closed the browser itself.

 

Another thing is that you might have used high performance power plan inside Nvidia Control panel, which forces the minimum clock speed to be the base clock of the GPU

I restored my nividia 3d settings in the control panel and restarted my pc and the only difference is the clock speed is no longer 1557 but now 1443

[Johoni]

15 minutes ago, Noyu said:

either your drivers got stuck or there's something using that GPU in the background (e.g. apps with HW acceleration, miners haha)

I also (sorta) experienced this with my GPU (Gigabyte RX580). Apparently the Gigabyte software was causing the core clocks to get stuck at 100%. 

 

EDIT: The software was the AORUS Graphics Engine. and uninstalling it and reinstalling drivers did the trick

I uninstalled my equivalent for palit and nothing changed im afraid, thank you though

[Noyu]

1 minute ago, Johoni said:

I uninstalled my equivalent for palit and nothing changed im afraid, thank you though

have you tried reinstalling the drivers? (e.g. uninstalling using DDU, then reinstalling the latest NVIDIA drivers)

[WereCat]

Do you use Wallpaper engine with animated background?

[Johoni]

Just now, WereCat said:

Do you use Wallpaper engine with animated background?

No

The problem only started occurring once i played ark for some reason

[Johoni]

25 minutes ago, Noyu said:

have you tried reinstalling the drivers? (e.g. uninstalling using DDU, then reinstalling the latest NVIDIA drivers)

I deleted all my driver in the control panel and re downloaded them. My gpu is now 8 degrees cooler but the clock speed is still high at 1443

[Noyu]

5 minutes ago, Johoni said:

I deleted all my driver in the control panel and re downloaded them. My gpu is now 8 degrees cooler but the clock speed is still high at 1443

try again using DDU. it may be a registry problem.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

[Johoni]

16 minutes ago, Noyu said:

try again using DDU. it may be a registry problem.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

That worked a lot better the clock speed is low and the temps are going down, looking more like what they did before (look at the image i attached)

Im pretty sure this is normal but it does spike up to about 1500/1200Mhz every now and then but its not just sitting at one number constantly this time, goes up and changes then goes down which i think is pretty normal

Thank you very much