GTX280 stuck at 3d speeds even at desktop.

[turdhat]

Anyone else getting this or heard about it ? Running 177.41. Uninstlalled Rivatuner and Ati tool as well and still stuck at stock 3d speeds when no 3d apps are running. There is nothing in my startup in msconfig that I can see that would be causing this and as I said rivatuner and Ati tool are uninstalled.

[wollyka]

u mean stuck @ 100%? my card do that.. if it reaches 100% Fan speed, it won't go down even if no 3D app is running and the temp are low in the 50s

[K007]

i think he is talking about the clock speeds

[jAkUp]

What O.S?

[slaWter]

I have the same "problem" with Vista x64.
Could be a VGA BIOS issue...

[turdhat]

Well now its ok.... I reloaded drivers twice and I cant explain why the clocks were getting stuck...

[Dazz]

Reviewers have brought this up also. Seems to only effect the GTX 280, the 260 does not seem to be effected.

[wollyka]

i think he is talking about the clock speeds

yeah, silly me :)
no problem here

[azian257]

I found this the other day in a hardocp thread:

2). The GTX 200 series power saving features do NOT work on an Intel platform. That’s right. I thought I was the odd one out when I saw countless other websites posting about the down-clocks and down-voltages, whereby the GPU settles at 300Mhz Memory to 100Mhz etc when no 3D app is running. What some of them failed to state was that they only achieved this on an Nvidia platform; while ALL the reviews out there failed to warn consumers that this does NOT work on an Intel platform at all. The writeups out there further confuse you by stating the downclocks are achieved in drivers, while only the full hybrid power features, i.e., shutting down the GPU and offloads 2D to the onboard IGP require an Nvidia platform. They just don’t know what they are talking about.

This was confirmed after a 30 minute phone conversation with an XFX engineer, the manufacturer of my GTX 280.

What this translates to is that all the idle power consumption graphs you saw on reviews over the GTX 200 series do NOT apply to an Intel platform. Again, out of the 15 odd reviews out there, not one, I repeat, NOT A SINGLE ONE, bothered to state this clearly. Whats the user footprint in the real world with an Nvidia platform? 0.1% of the PC population?

But this thread, it seems indeterminate of what the cause of the issue really is..
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1318229

[slaWter]

lol nV seems desperate about their chipsets... they can add the power saving options as a reason to buy such a chipset. They now have two reasons :p

[K007]

lol....if this is true...then shame on nvidia -.-...and review sites for not revealing this.

[luigimita]

lol....if this is true...then shame on nvidia -.-...and review sites for not revealing this.

i use my 280gtx with asus m2n32sli (chipset nforce 590SLI) and i don't have this problem ;)

[K007]

i use my 280gtx with asus m2n32sli (chipset nforce 590SLI) and i don't have this problem ;)

i think they mean x38/p35/x48/etc not nvidia chipsets.

[nekrosoft13]

great how everyone jumps to conclusions. maybe it is a bug, not some mass conspiracy.

or maybe just a feature that is not possible on intel chipsets.

[luigimita]

great how everyone jumps to conclusions. maybe it is a bug, not some mass conspiracy.

or maybe just a feature that is not possible on intel chipsets.


probably is a bug of drivers as for the issue of fan speed.

obviously...Ati fans think always to conspiracy

[Tr1cK]

Most 4850s also sit on a high 2d clock / low fan speed, causing them to run hot. I changed the BIOS on mine so that the fan runs more and it's at more acceptable levels. Initially I was hovering around 80 degrees idle, now I'm around 50.

This is what happens when things are rushed.

[nekrosoft13]

damn 80c iddle is crazy

[Tr1cK]

damn 80c iddle is crazy

The fan was at like 20% duty cycle at 80. It hits about 80 at load now with around 50% duty cycle.

[turdhat]

My problem with this went away. Dont know why, dont care.. I reloaded 177.41, re-installed rivatuner and it was still fugged up. Then I notice over the last few days its fine. I think this is a bug.. AS long as the damn fan keeps spinning I dont really care.

[Muppet]

This would explain why I haven'y suffered from this. I'm sure it will be fixed in a future driver update.

[ekotan]

2). The GTX 200 series power saving features do NOT work on an Intel platform. That’s right. I thought I was the odd one out when I saw countless other websites posting about the down-clocks and down-voltages, whereby the GPU settles at 300Mhz Memory to 100Mhz etc when no 3D app is running. What some of them failed to state was that they only achieved this on an Nvidia platform; while ALL the reviews out there failed to warn consumers that this does NOT work on an Intel platform at all. The writeups out there further confuse you by stating the downclocks are achieved in drivers, while only the full hybrid power features, i.e., shutting down the GPU and offloads 2D to the onboard IGP require an Nvidia platform. They just don’t know what they are talking about.

This was confirmed after a 30 minute phone conversation with an XFX engineer, the manufacturer of my GTX 280.

What this translates to is that all the idle power consumption graphs you saw on reviews over the GTX 200 series do NOT apply to an Intel platform. Again, out of the 15 odd reviews out there, not one, I repeat, NOT A SINGLE ONE, bothered to state this clearly. Whats the user footprint in the real world with an Nvidia platform? 0.1% of the PC population?

I have an Intel 975 chipset mobo and my GTX 280 falls back correctly to 2D clocks after going full blast to run a 3D app.

What people are experiencing is more likely a driver bug which people have pounced on to weave new conspiracy theories.

[LitHiuM]

This very issue started happening to me today. No idea why. Clocks used to throttle back to 2D mode fine since I got the card until today :wtf:

Intel X48 (Asus P5E3 Premium) btw..

[LitHiuM]

Well, I just discovered that if I have dual monitor set up then the card does not throttle back, but when I disable the second display it throttles back to normal 2D levels...

Interesting...

Surely a driver bug..



Figured this because I received my 24" Samsung T240 today and figured it was worth a try...

[Xizorz]

Same problem with my EVGA gtx260.

If I reboot, I get 2d clocks. It ramps up to 3d clocks when I load an application, but doesn't clock back down afterward.

[DarkOneX]

My GTX was going down to 2D speeds after gaming for awhile, now it quit. Think it quit doing it after ramping up my overclocks.