Question New GT 1030 is not even reaching Base Clock (<700 of 1250/1500) ?

[boddole]

So I put my new GT 1030 [https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards-Components/Graphics-Cards/Phoenix/PH-GT1030-O2G/] into a computer someone gave me just to make sure the card was working (haven't had time to get the main system up and running), but I'm getting quite a weird result.

Note in the image, Valley is running and the gpu clock about 50% of what should be the base clock, yet the program registers clock speed at ~1900 (I didn't set that). It isn't drawing more than half the rated power, isn't close to thermal throttling, and no other component seems to be dragging it down and yet it refuses to do anything.

I have seen it briefly shoot up to 1250/1700+/2000+ but its only for a few seconds - and this happens in every benchmark / game I''ve tried (Valley, Timespy, WoW, Vindictus).

Any ideas on what is going on?

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[Eximo]

What motherboard? Not all PCIe slots are created equal, might be running into power issues.

 

[boddole]

What motherboard? Not all PCIe slots are created equal, might be running into power issues.

Sorry for the post delay - looks like its goofy driver support. I threw it into a system I happen to have available (not my main for various reasons), and when using the system normally, the card never does much of anything. However, I noticed that when I used Chrome Remote Desktop, all of a sudden it worked like it was supposed to. I saw other evidence of this as well, such as trying to change basic settings in Nvidia Control Panel, such as changing 'power saving' to 'performance' where the OS just flat out refused to allow the change.

So, its some combination of a goofy Acer Windows 10 install and compatibility issues with the Nvidia drivers (there is only 1 'approved' nvidia driver release for the machine from before the 1030 even existed), which won't be a problem in the main system.