Hi guys. I hope someone could help me with my issue here. This may be a little long but I need to detail out everything.
At the time of this writing, there's a very noticeable fps drop on my games. I mostly play Monster Hunter World and Horizon Zero Dawn and my FPS usually runs for 110-150 at ultra settings (1440p). I also noticed that the power draw went down to 270-280w in Afterburner (previously at 320w)
Here's what I've been looking at as the possible reasons to what happened in my GPU
This past 3 weeks, I've been using my rig to mine ETH for 12 hours everyday (I mine while working from home. Also I work on my laptop so my gaming rig is not doing anything except mining). Core clock was reduced to -400mhz, power limit to 72%, memory clock +1000mhz
My rig is custom watercooled in an ambient temp of 25-26 degrees celsius. I think its worth mentioning that I played a few hours last week when I'm not in the mood to mine and everything is same as before.
Second possible reason is maybe the nvidia driver update? I updated my driver last Tuesday to the latest one (version 466.11) but I did not play any games until now. That's when I noticed the significant drop in my fps and power draw. I checked my Nvidia settings and it is set to Prefer Max Performance
What do you guys think? Is it the driver update or I'm now experiencing the drawbacks of gpu mining?
Below is my specs btw
i7 10700k
Zotac RTX 3080
16gb T-Force Delta 3200mhz
Lexxar 1TB nvme ssd
Corsair RM1000x PSU
Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL
Thanks in advance!
At the time of this writing, there's a very noticeable fps drop on my games. I mostly play Monster Hunter World and Horizon Zero Dawn and my FPS usually runs for 110-150 at ultra settings (1440p). I also noticed that the power draw went down to 270-280w in Afterburner (previously at 320w)
Here's what I've been looking at as the possible reasons to what happened in my GPU
This past 3 weeks, I've been using my rig to mine ETH for 12 hours everyday (I mine while working from home. Also I work on my laptop so my gaming rig is not doing anything except mining). Core clock was reduced to -400mhz, power limit to 72%, memory clock +1000mhz
My rig is custom watercooled in an ambient temp of 25-26 degrees celsius. I think its worth mentioning that I played a few hours last week when I'm not in the mood to mine and everything is same as before.
Second possible reason is maybe the nvidia driver update? I updated my driver last Tuesday to the latest one (version 466.11) but I did not play any games until now. That's when I noticed the significant drop in my fps and power draw. I checked my Nvidia settings and it is set to Prefer Max Performance
What do you guys think? Is it the driver update or I'm now experiencing the drawbacks of gpu mining?
Below is my specs btw
i7 10700k
Zotac RTX 3080
16gb T-Force Delta 3200mhz
Lexxar 1TB nvme ssd
Corsair RM1000x PSU
Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL
Thanks in advance!