Question RTX 2060 power spikes ?

Nov 12, 2021
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Hello, I am having extreme trouble with my RTX 2060 6GB. Everything has been normal and all of a sudden the card has been spiking up to 400+ watts making it unusable, and locking its core clock to 300 mhz. Idle it is around 110 watts! I tried an undervolt and it did not do anything. I undervolted it to around 850 mv which showed no difference. I am on the latest drivers, I reinstalled drivers, I adjusted nvidia control panel settings, I went in power settings, I tried a lot. I have always been using it fine, no overclock or nothing and all of a sudden having this problem. I am using MSI Afterburner and Alienware Command center to view my GPU's status and to mention this is a prebuilt Dell G5 Gaming desktop. It is only my gpu acting up. Please anyone reply ASAP.
 
Nov 12, 2021
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Does the gpu have high usage? malware scan the system?
no malware, and yes when it does this its at 100 percent usage but when idle its at like 2 percent and running 200 plus watts when its a 160 watt card and never does this. before it was running like a solid 120 maxed out gaming.