Gigabyte RTX 2070 OC

[todoroviclmilos]

Hello everyone, I have a little problem with my new GPU so I though someone here could help:

I recently purchased Gigabyte's RTX 2070 OC version, and was playing around with Aorus Engine. Now, curious me, I decided to try the auto scan setting to see what it would come up with, and it gave me a GPU boost up to 1950 MHz, instead of factory OC of 1740. Now that's a little scary to me, so I decided not to push it too much, but the problem is no matter what I try, it won't go back to that factory limit of 1740 MHz. No matter which preset I choose (OC, Gaming or Silent), GPU-Z still reports GPU Core Clock of 1950 MHZ when playing games. Tried uninstalling GPU in safe mode and reinstalling it again, tried with MSI afterburner as well, but to no avail, so if anyone has any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it.

I should also mention that the temperatures stay around 70 degrees when benchmarking, but I've had couple of situations where a game would freeze and crash to desktop, so it's definitely not stable this way.

 

[RememberThe5th]

I would on your way use DDU if you havent.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2767677/perform-clean-install-video-card-drivers.html

 

[todoroviclmilos]

I just did, and now GPU-Z sensor reports lowest GPU Core Clock at 300 MHz, and GPU Memory Clock at 101.3 MHz... it still goes to 1950 when I benchmark it, but now I'm even more concerned...

 

[RememberThe5th]

That 300MHz that is low powered state, thats normal.
Did you buy 2070 when it came out or later?
Cause some cards had issues with bioses, and guys had to reflash them, like stuck into power save mode, not able at all to boost to normal core clock or GPU boost....

I would contact Nvidia and see what they have to say, or the Gigabyte since its their software.
Have you tried older drivers with HotFix?

 

[todoroviclmilos]

Ok, it's good to know that 300 MHz is ok, cause it kept it at 1410 MHz even when idle before.

I bought the card last Saturday, so it shouldn't be and older model, and as for the drivers, I've only been using the lastest that came out January 15th.

I'll see about contacting Gigabyte then, see what they have to say. Thanks for the input.

Also, is it bad to overclock a pre-overclocked version of a GPU? Like do I shorten it's lifespan or something?

 

[RememberThe5th]

Hardly you can shorten the lifespan of the gpu if you dont overvolt it, since 1000 series and up its basically hard locked about that.

 

[normalnormgamer]

I think you will find this is just GPU Boost 4.0 which is making your card run faster. Apparently it's nothing to worry about. My Gigabyte 2080ti was hitting 1995Mhz without me touching anything and it did worry me. However I have recently learned that it is perfectly normal. Apparently Nvidia use something called GPU Boost which boosts the card speeds.