Question Running at 100% load at minimum clock speed

[Colonius]

Hey folks. Struggling to get a search match on this specific concern. I have some games that I like to keep open in the background. Some release the GPU, some don't. If anyone knows how to force any software to release a GPU that would be awesome advice, but my question is, would there be any harm done by leaving a GPU clocked to minimum, so that it uses low watts and runs cool, but at 100% load of course because it's barely able to render the game? Obviously running games or mining crypto at 100% load 24/7 is the way to burn a card out as quickly as possible, but wondering if 100% at low clock is a completely different story since it's cool and simply can't manage the load.

 

[kerberos_20]

some games have option to decrease system resources used in background, some not
you could probably go with rivatuner, there you can set FPS limit to something like 5fps and tada GPU usage drops (cpu usage aswell)