So this just happened (GPU power % 53472662872)

[Guest]

installed the latest version of the nvidia drivers for the gpu & after it was complete, my fans went full blast for 3 seconds and when i checked msi afterburner it showed a spike at 53472662872 for power %, the max ive ever seen was 40-110%, is this a glitch or should i be worried?

 

[lunyone]

I wouldn't be too worried. I'm not an expert, but I've had this happen before after a new driver install. Now if this is constantly happening, I would then become concerned. If this is just a one-off thing, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Darkbreeze]

^^^^This.

 

[Guest]

I hope so, I'm guessing it's because I installed the update while still running Msi afterburner so it was misreading it, I mean if that was the real % of power being used im pretty sure the gpu would've crashed

 

[Darkbreeze]

If it recurs, or you have other problems, I'd seriously consider reinstalling AFTER running the DDU, as follows. Sometimes a rogue or incompatible registry entry can do really weird things.


http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2767677/clean-graphics-driver-install-windows.html

 

[Guest]

If it recurs, or you have other problems, I'd seriously consider reinstalling AFTER running the DDU, as follows. Sometimes a rogue or incompatible registry entry can do really weird things.


http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2767677/clean-graphics-driver-install-windows.html

Will do, thank you!
Is 40-112 power % normal besides that spike from the update? Or does power % need to be 100

 

[cst1992]

Assuming a 100W GPU, that % will equal to 53 GW, 8 times the power consumed by a typical supercomputer. You'd probably set fire to the generators(reference: Tesla).

It's just a read error, or a faulty sensor. If the problem recurs, it's the sensor. I have had my fans run at -128% of their original speed, which just meant that they weren't connected.

More than 100% of normal power(TDP) would mean it's an overclocked GPU. At idle it would be somewhere around 15% or even less.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Generally 0-100% or 0-110% would be a normal setting, depending on whether the card is manually or factory overclocked, just as cst1992 has said. If yours is set to 40% then it's never actually reaching idle speeds and is likely wasting power anytime it should be at idle, but isn't. I'd reconfigure your settings.