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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Graphic cards => Topic started by: RicoausTW on October 16, 2011, 04:51:00 am

Title: Is my GPU usage normal?
Post by: RicoausTW on October 16, 2011, 04:51:00 am

Hello everyone,

I have a question with my GPU usage,

here is the situation:

I used afterburner to monitor my GPU usage when playing 3D game such as BFBC2

If I am right the GPU usage should be at 95-99% as usual, but it turned out to drop to 65% or lower.
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I also used  Fraps meanwhile, it sometimes droped from 85+ to 60-.

I found it very strange so I am here to ask it is normal? Or it is because my Core Voltage is not  enough

the following is my PC setting:

Win 7 64bit
Motherboard: 970A-D3
Cpu: AMD X4 955 3.2GHz
Vgc: GIGA 560 Ti OC (bios: f31 driver:285.38)
power: 550W
RAM: DDR3 4G*2

Thanks for attentions :D

Title: Re: Is my GPU usage normal?
Post by: Dark Mantis on October 26, 2011, 11:20:02 am

Hi and welcome.

Sorry for the delay in replying, somehow I missed your post originally.

I haven't got your card or even access to it but from what I have seen on the forum it does sem to be a fairly common issue.  It would seem that most people do find that downclocking it to default levels does make it stable. Some have even overclocked it manually afterwards and got a better speed in the end. I agree that it is not something that you should have to do as the card was purchased as that spec. You could RMA the card and hopefully get a repair or exchange. If you decide to just do it yourself then just use the stock speeds etc as guidelines.