780ti underclocking itself?

[doomslay]

Hi guys, recently I got my ASUS 780ti and it seems to be underclocking itself in some games.

 

It reduces the clock speeds down to around 796mhz in WoW and refuses to move from around 60c degrees. In other games it works fine and powers onto its 83c threshold. (it also performs amazingly in heaven/valley)

 

I'm using EVGA precision to overclock the card and had it running comfortably at +200mhz on the gpu clock and +300mhz on the memory clock, it still seems to limit performance even with the OC off and the software not running.

 

The rest of my system:

 

3770k @ 4.5Ghz

Sabertooth z77

Revodrive 120gb PCI-E SSD

Corsair 750w Modular PSU.

 

I've tried everything short of a full OS re-install, any suggestions?

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

Joe.

[Joe3417]

In just wow? You are running maxed out right?

[AlwaysFSX]

Do you have the frame limiter on in precision or vsync enabled? Because if the card doesn't need that power to draw 60 frames a second then it's going to down clock itself to save power because you don't need it running any faster.

[mikeeginger]

Could you post a list of the things you have tried so we can 

recommend things which you haven't done

and don't recommend things you have already found to not work

[FloRolf]

you srsly bought a 780ti for WoW?

[zxcvbnmmssdh]

Hi guys, recently I got my ASUS 780ti and it seems to be underclocking itself in some games.

 

It reduces the clock speeds down to around 796mhz in WoW and refuses to move from around 60c degrees. In other games it works fine and powers onto its 83c threshold. (it also performs amazingly in heaven/valley)

 

I'm using EVGA precision to overclock the card and had it running comfortably at +200mhz on the gpu clock and +300mhz on the memory clock, it still seems to limit performance even with the OC off and the software not running.

 

The rest of my system:

 

3770k @ 4.5Ghz

Sabertooth z77

Revodrive 120gb PCI-E SSD

Corsair 750w Modular PSU.

 

I've tried everything short of a full OS re-install, any suggestions?

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

Joe.

WoW isn't the most demanding of games, it is probably just saving you some power and not trying to use unneeded power or be hotter than it needs to be.

[needmorewood]

wow isnt demanding at all. if u have a frame limit or vsync on there really is no reason for it to overcliock

[doomslay]

In just wow? You are running maxed out right?

Seems to just be WoW at the minute (and yes its at ultra, going to low gives me about a 5 fps difference in my favor). This has only started happening recently, checking other games now.

 

Do you have the frame limiter on in precision or vsync enabled? Because if the card doesn't need that power to draw 60 frames a second then it's going to down clock itself to save power because you don't need it running any faster.

Nope, i actually tried the frame limited to 60 to see if it solved anything, nothing moved at all. The card kicks out around 40 fps when in major cities or other heavy areas, but the clock speed seems to compensate for that.

For example when I go somewhere where its not being "challenged" so to speak, it shoots upto 200fps and the clock speed goes upto 1100mhz but under load seems to deliberately clock downwards. 

 

Could you post a list of the things you have tried so we can 

recommend things which you haven't done

and don't recommend things you have already found to not work

I have:

 

Re-installed precision,

Re-installed nvidia drivers,

Lowered the OC,

Gone higher on the OC

Pretty much messed with every setting in precision in relation to temp targets and power targets

 

you srsly bought a 780ti for WoW?

not sure where you got that assumption from but thanks for the input champ.

[ThaSandus]

Hey i've got the same issue with mine, same also an Asus 780Ti.

 

but it is doing this downclocking in a lot of games, like World of Tanks, Witcher 2, Dragon age 2, and sometimes in Grid 2

 

those are the games i've been playing lately, where in it is downclocking

 

tried pretty much all the same things, i've been using GPU Tweak and tried with MSI Afterburner aswell though.