I have Precision X1 running and it's showing the memory clock spiking to 7000. With precision XOC it was setting off an alarm. X1 is also set to set off an alarm but doesn't. I haven't done any OC yet, everything is factory. It's a brand new build (my first) and it's been running fine the last three weeks. Now I'm getting these spikes. Any Ideas?
 
Thx,
-Dave

I haven't done any OC yet, so I'm not understanding why I'm getting these spikes.

Sajin
Just idling on the desktop with everything closed but precision it spikes to 7000?

Yeah it does.

yep core clock too, I'm looking at GPU Caps Viewer, GPU Shark and Process Explorer right now.

Here's a SC.

 
Looks like you had firefox open while taking readings. Certain websites can cause the gpu clocks to spike up and down due to browsers using gpu hardware acceleration. The simple fix for that would be to disable hardware acceleration inside your web browsers.

Clean boot results?

Ok. No problem.

If I run Precision X1 and the NVIDIA control panel I get the flashing side bar you see in the pic. If I close X1 it goes away.

X1 doesn't have fcat

ok I see it now fcat overlay

BTW here's a pic of my new Alien themed system. I'm waiting on the second GPU before I install the water cooling for the GPU's. EVGA is sold out, AGAIN!
 

LOL! I was going to do that as soon as I got the second GPU and the liquid cooling set up.
In the settings there is a check box in both X1 and XOC that says "play alarm sound when value is out of range" That is what started all this to begin with, that alarm went off and my speakers were turned up a bit and I went through the ceiling. Shot straight up. It's like XOC was saying DANGER! DANGER! YOUR FRYING YOUR SYSTEM YOU IDIOT! When I never did any OC, it was factory settings right out of the box. I've had the new sys running about a month now keeping an eye on the temps and don't remember it spiking like this. Nor did that damn alarm go off. Maybe I didn't have it checked.