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Thursday, August 06, 2015 4:48 PM
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I'm on Win 7 SP1 64bit. Have an EVGA 780 classified as my main card and an EVGA 560ti as dedicated PhysX. While not gaming, I'm always running Folding @ Home on the 560... so I figured I'd try to get a boost by playing with the gpu clock. (I had just downloaded Precision and hadn't had time to tweak the 780 yet). First thing I did was add 150 mhz to the gpu clock offset and hit apply. The GPU clock reading went from ~850 to 405. Figuring I did it completely wrong, I clicked 'default' immediately, but beside changing the offset back to 0, the clock won't return to normal. The important detail that may have caused this, and that I missed, is that Precision isn't populating the Power Target and GPU Temp Target fields for that card. I can't use the sliders, but it lets me manually type in something for Power Target, but that does nothing. I've tried linking/unlinking the cards, restarting, updating drivers to Win10 ready ones. My theory is that GPU temp target being 'greyed out' is making it's target 0C and that's why under load of Folding, it can only reach 405mhz. I checked the .cfg Precision keeps for the card and it has "/Startup/PowerLimit" value="0.000000" and is missing the ThermalLimit entry altogether. I'm thinking maybe if I take out the 780, Precision might allow me to make the detailed changes I want to make to the 560. Is there anything else I can try before opening my comp up?
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Re: 5.3.6 Underclocked my physx card
Thursday, August 06, 2015 4:55 PM
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The cards shouldn't be linked. Linking is meant for same cards, with similar clocks, so they stay together in SLI. The 560 wouldn't be anywhere near the same as the 780 at all, so it would try to overclock both.
Have you restarted your computer? Just issue the answer in your original post.
Generally, when the card down clocks and gets stuck, it is indicative of a crash, even without the notification or botched screen. Since this card is not a main card, it could very well have crashed and didn't notify you. Remove Precision X completely and restart to see if it comes back up. Verify with GPU-Z.
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Re: 5.3.6 Underclocked my physx card
Thursday, August 06, 2015 5:56 PM
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Linking was wishful thinking. When I have the setting for them to be linked, moving the 780's 'Target' sliders also moved the 560's. I've restarted and uninstalled the steam version of Precision (to rule out Steam as a cause), and installed the standalone version. I'll try removing it completely and restarting as well as the profile folders it leaves behind.
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Re: 5.3.6 Underclocked my physx card
Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:15 PM
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OK, thanks a lot. That did it. I didn't think it would because Precision refuses to start with windows, but it totally went back to normal after erasing everything. I even reinstalled Precision and gave it a quick +88 bump to see if I could recreate the issue, but it seems stable. Maybe I forgot to set the fans to aggresive and it overheated the first time? Any tips on how I should proceed in tweaking it? Should I stop folding when I make adjustments? It's what I've been using to keep it at full load. Thanks again. Sorry if this is the wrong place for OC advice.
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Re: 5.3.6 Underclocked my physx card
Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:31 PM
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I broke it again at +129 GPU offset and 1026mV voltage. It didn't run hot at all, but after 2 minutes or so, I noticed Folding paused itself and all the sensors showed 405mhz again. Back to uninstalling and restarting I guess.
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Re: 5.3.6 Underclocked my physx card
Thursday, August 06, 2015 7:12 PM
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You should set your fans to cool at the capacity you can stand. There will be a point where the temps just stop going down all that much, so that is really all you need. It just becomes a noise thing after that. If you can take 90% and it keeps it cooler than 75%, do it.. If it is only 5 degrees difference, it will become a tolerance thing.
Bins for overclocking work in 13s. If you overclock 20, you are doing the same as what 26 would be, so go up in 13s to figure out where you are most comfortable. You may be able to do the single increments to better adjust if you find a spot that it helps, but it will be incredibly dependant on the way your reacts.
I occasionally adjust clocks on the fly whole folding. The issue I run into is driver crashes at about 60% of unit completion.
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