As the title says, my GTX 1660 SUPER keeps facing power issues as in going over the board's power limit and the board's power target, which is 125W, the card tends to boost in an aggressive way, attempting to maintain 1890MHz+ at all times when I'm playing games, causing the card to heat up to 70°C-73°C relatively quickly and then after a few minutes, the game I had open starts to either freeze or fully crashes.
I've attempted a list of things to see if I could get rid of this "aggressive boosting" behavior that the card has, such as using older Nvidia drivers, uninstalling EVGA Precision X1 and MSI Afterburner (I only have EVGA Precision X1 just in case and MSI Afterburner to apply my custom fan curve), using DDU to uninstall the Nvidia drivers and install the latest ones or older ones, etc.
Even after all of those attempts, I couldn't get rid of the aggressive boosting behavior that my GPU has, I even tried it in Linux and saw nearly the same boosting behavior though it was a little bit more tame, locking itself in 1845MHz at nearly all times, after seeing that none of the things I was trying weren't doing anything and the card kept boosting too aggressively and going over the power limit, I thought the issue could've been the vBIOS, but I wasn't quite ready to flash anything yet so I went through a lengthy process to use the GPU while passed to a Virtual Machine, this way I could load any vBIOS (that was obviously built for the card) without having to flash it directly, as it would be loaded into the GPU's ROM BAR and executed that way, or at least that's how it works for AMD GPUs, not Nvidia GPUs and I only realized this when I tested that, since it kept showing the same vBIOS version that the card came with, I gave up with that, which leads us to here, where I'm just posting about my problem in the forums to see if anyone has a possible solution
aside from the ones I've already tried.
One thing I should mention too is that when I was looking for a vBIOS to test in the VM, I saw a newer version built exactly for my card, though the upload was unverified.
post edited by David112x - 2022/11/12 19:31:50