ZOTAC H87-ITX WiFi motherboard

CPC_RedDawn

2013-07-27 17:24

What is your voltage on the overclock and what did you use to overclock it? Also what is your usage at idle? Do the spikes still happen when the GPU is idle. I would check processes running in the background you might have a bitcoin miner running that is using the GPU.

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driedupfish

2013-07-27 17:31

What is your voltage on the overclock and what did you use to overclock it? Also what is your usage at idle? Do the spikes still happen when the GPU is idle. I would check processes running in the background you might have a bitcoin miner running that is using the GPU.

I am not running anything like that in the background. However, from time to time, the usage does spike to 48% even at idle. As a matter of fact, it is doing it right now. I do have HWinfo64 and Afterburner both monitoring at the same time, maybe they conflict? However, as I've stated this has not happen in other games.

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CPC_RedDawn

2013-07-27 17:36

I am not running anything like that in the background. However, from time to time, the usage does spike to 48% even at idle. As a matter of fact, it is doing it right now. I do have HWinfo64 and Afterburner both monitoring at the same time, maybe they conflict? However, as I've stated this has not happen in other games.

Try and disable ULPS and reboot and see what happens?

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yasamoka

2013-07-27 17:55

Have you raised the power limiter to +20%?

#4627113

driedupfish

2013-07-27 17:55

Try and disable ULPS and reboot and see what happens?

Upon doing some research, it seems that I have to disable it via registry? Nah, don't wanna mess with my system registry.

#4627114

driedupfish

2013-07-27 17:56

Have you raised the power limiter to +20%?

Yes did that.

#4627124

Pill Monster

2013-07-27 18:26

GPU load is always erratic in Fallout 3 & FNV, it's the crappy engine. Idle spikes could be due to HW acceleration turned on in browser.....

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driedupfish

2013-07-27 18:47

GPU load is always erratic in Fallout 3 & FNV, it's the crappy engine. Idle spikes could be due to HW acceleration turned on in browser.....

Good to know. Thanks! But what I want to know is if there is any harm in playing a game when the GPU load is erratic.

#4627158

Pill Monster

2013-07-27 19:49

Good to know. Thanks! But what I want to know is if there is any harm in playing a game when the GPU load is erratic.

Well if it's overclocked it should stay at 1100mhz and not drop unless the vrm's overheat or it hits TDP limit. Your card doesn't happen to have 1.25v vcore does it?

#4627188

driedupfish

2013-07-27 20:59

Well if it's overclocked it should stay at 1100mhz and not drop unless the vrm's overheat or it hits TDP limit. Your card doesn't happen to have 1.25v vcore does it?

Nope, vcore at 1.15v. When playing New Vegas gpu core temp stays around mid 50s and VRM temp at about 62c.

#4627246

Pill Monster

2013-07-27 23:49

It won't do any harm btw.

#4627278

driedupfish

2013-07-28 00:50

It won't do any harm btw.

Thanks. I also want to ask what are somethings I should be aware of that may do harm to the graphics card? Besides high temp and voltage?

#4627287

Pill Monster

2013-07-28 00:59

^A hammer? 😀

#4627296

yasamoka

2013-07-28 01:24

The Fixer (ironically named) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6XayaLTw8 But you have an AMD card anyways so I wouldn't worry much about him ever getting near that card.

#4627379

Fox2232

2013-07-28 09:55

@driedupfish: it's understandable that GPU clocks drops down because game places very small load on GPU. Then due to lower clocks utilization percentage is high enough to bump up. I would not worry unless you get microstutter from that. One of solutions would be give such game change to place more load on GPU (maximum antialiasing, aniso, ...) Use RadeonPro where you can get some additional load. Your issue gets worse with VSync because it limits number of rendered frames per second therefore decreasing GPU load.

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driedupfish

2013-07-28 20:47

@driedupfish: it's understandable that GPU clocks drops down because game places very small load on GPU. Then due to lower clocks utilization percentage is high enough to bump up. I would not worry unless you get microstutter from that. One of solutions would be give such game change to place more load on GPU (maximum antialiasing, aniso, ...) Use RadeonPro where you can get some additional load. Your issue gets worse with VSync because it limits number of rendered frames per second therefore decreasing GPU load.

I am playing New Vegas at the highest graphical setting possible already, and with high res. texture pack. I've read somewhere that if the GPU usage / clock becomes too erratic, prolong use may damage your card because the voltage delivered to your card is not consistent. For example, clocks spike up and down while you are playing a game. The voltage being delivered also goes up and down accordingly, this inconsistency may screw up your card. That's what I heard, not sure how legitimate it is.