galaxy gtx 670

bumpman · **galaxy gtx 670 -** 10-06-2012, 06:18 | posts: 3

I bought a gtx 670 4 months ago and all of a sudden it died. so i set up a rma with galaxy and i sent it in and they sent me a new one. so i installed it with the latest drivers. loaded up Heaven Benchmark and the fps was like 23 when the other card before it died was 63 . so i ran it in window mode and loaded up EVGA Precision X and noticed that the gpu was at 324mhz low power mode . i loaded up GPU Z to compare and it was the same but i noticed the power consumption was at 154% and it was that way on EVGA Precision X . i tried 301.34 301.42 306.23 drivers and in another computer and nothing changed. I went out and bought a gtx 660 which works just fine until I get a working 670 . anybody have a idea what's going on with this gtx 670?

bumpman · 10-06-2012, 22:12 | posts: 3

here is a snapshot of gpu z while running Heaven Benchmark

-Tj- · 10-06-2012, 23:06 | posts: 2,659 | Location: Downtown ✈

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It looks like its starts at full clock but then it throttles down.. Did you try prefer maximum performance power management mode?

bumpman · 10-07-2012, 00:24 | posts: 3

i tried that it made no difference . i played with the power target ,gpu and memory offset nothing worked . but what i like to know is why the power consumption is so high even at idle it stays the same.

Sever · 10-07-2012, 11:34 | posts: 4,826 | Location: Land of the Great Downunder

did you reboot after setting to 'prefer maximum performance'?

i find that for my system, that setting never really takes hold until a reboot.