Hey guys, making a fresh post here because i dont want to continue to blow up the 7059 owners thread with my problems. Looking for advice/ expirience with a issue with my gpu.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814202006 is the card im having issues with.
Back when i got this card i overclocked it to 1125mhz core/1300mhz memory and ran a lot of benchmarks for a week or so to verify that it was stable. It passed a lot of tests and i stopped messing with it as i figured i had dialed it in. A few days ago ( 5 months later now ) i decided to see how its doing and noticed the card was now throttling after 5 min of use in either a benching program or a game.
The temps on the card are not exceeding 62c vram temps 63c under full load for multiple hours. Power is set to +20% as it always has been.
Here's where it gets interesting. After much more benching i came to the result that 1075mhz core was running stable without throttling, anything over would throttle. benched for about 4 - 6 hours and then began to play battlefield 3 ect at these speeds without issue for several hours. 97 - 100% gpu usage no throttling. The memory i ended up going back to stock with 1250mhz as it showed a improvment in benches over 1300mhz, anything over would crash and 1200mhz mem would crash.
Now TODAY those same speeds are throttling and going a step further, crashing BF3, 3dmark and Heaven 4.0/Valley benches. At this point i put the card back to stock and dropped the +/- power to 0 as is normal and the tried more testing. Ther card would throttle beetween 733mhz ( weird) 850mhz ( normal clock ) 925mhz ( boost clock ) Constantly. put the power to +20% solved this issue and the card would run at 925 boost clock constant.
I thought Perhaps it was the power supply so i grabbed working 100% 700w PSU and hooked it directly up to the video card ONLY and the results were the same, when i clocked higher than 1000mhz core it would throttle after 5 min in any program/game. same results at stock clocks with the power slider at 0 ect.
So its definetly not the power, and the temps are fine. The performance of the card has significantly gone downhill in a matter of a few days. Now at any speed even stock speeds the GPU wont get used up to 100% ever. It is constantly going beetween 65 % - 99% where as it usually is 97 - 99% always. This is definetly indicating somethings wrong. Its not exactly throttling at stock speed ( going from 66 - 99% usage every second and dropping the core speed) its just flat out not using the card to its fullest. No hardware or bios or driver changes have been made to this card. It is absolutley running at stock voltages. I cant help but think tommorrow the card will be dead. I have never had a issue like this come up and any advice / theorys would be awesome. If you need screenshots of anything just let me know.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814202006 is the card im having issues with.
Back when i got this card i overclocked it to 1125mhz core/1300mhz memory and ran a lot of benchmarks for a week or so to verify that it was stable. It passed a lot of tests and i stopped messing with it as i figured i had dialed it in. A few days ago ( 5 months later now ) i decided to see how its doing and noticed the card was now throttling after 5 min of use in either a benching program or a game.
The temps on the card are not exceeding 62c vram temps 63c under full load for multiple hours. Power is set to +20% as it always has been.
Here's where it gets interesting. After much more benching i came to the result that 1075mhz core was running stable without throttling, anything over would throttle. benched for about 4 - 6 hours and then began to play battlefield 3 ect at these speeds without issue for several hours. 97 - 100% gpu usage no throttling. The memory i ended up going back to stock with 1250mhz as it showed a improvment in benches over 1300mhz, anything over would crash and 1200mhz mem would crash.
Now TODAY those same speeds are throttling and going a step further, crashing BF3, 3dmark and Heaven 4.0/Valley benches. At this point i put the card back to stock and dropped the +/- power to 0 as is normal and the tried more testing. Ther card would throttle beetween 733mhz ( weird) 850mhz ( normal clock ) 925mhz ( boost clock ) Constantly. put the power to +20% solved this issue and the card would run at 925 boost clock constant.
I thought Perhaps it was the power supply so i grabbed working 100% 700w PSU and hooked it directly up to the video card ONLY and the results were the same, when i clocked higher than 1000mhz core it would throttle after 5 min in any program/game. same results at stock clocks with the power slider at 0 ect.
So its definetly not the power, and the temps are fine. The performance of the card has significantly gone downhill in a matter of a few days. Now at any speed even stock speeds the GPU wont get used up to 100% ever. It is constantly going beetween 65 % - 99% where as it usually is 97 - 99% always. This is definetly indicating somethings wrong. Its not exactly throttling at stock speed ( going from 66 - 99% usage every second and dropping the core speed) its just flat out not using the card to its fullest. No hardware or bios or driver changes have been made to this card. It is absolutley running at stock voltages. I cant help but think tommorrow the card will be dead. I have never had a issue like this come up and any advice / theorys would be awesome. If you need screenshots of anything just let me know.