GTX 670 core clock question

[Bags]

Hey, mine is supposed to be 965/1045, but in MSI afterburner it says the core clock is 705 idling and during gaming.

Wassup with that?

[Goku]

Try running 3DMark in windowed mode and checking that. I'm assuming you are tabbing out of the game and that is causing it to possibly revert back to a idle state.

[Bags]

Doing that, but I haven't been alt tabbing; I ran msi afterburner on my other monitor during BF3.

[Bags]

It stayed at 706 the entire time.

[Goku]

I honestly do not know the issue. Get a hold of MSI support and see what they have to say. Make sure you have the latest drivers, windows update, and so on also.

[Bags]

Yeah, I have the newest drivers. Will contact msi.

[Ailos]

That kind of a drop is beyond what their turbocore/turboboost/whatever the kepler auto-clocking utility has the power to do. That's... warranty-recall worthy.

[Bags]

Well, gonna see what tech support has to say.

Is there another program to show what clock speeds my card is at? Maybe afterburner is buggy.

[Goku]

EVGA Precision is one people are making use of a lot for the 600 series.

[Ailos]

GPU-Z might also be helpful

[Bags]

Okay, I updated afterburner and ran gpuz, both of them are showing a correct speed of 967.

[Goku]

I was also assuming you had the latest version of Afterburner...lol

[Bags]

I thought I did too, I have it set to automatically download new updates. Underload my core clock was getting up to 1123mhz.

[Goku]

Pretty good.

[Bags]

Yeah. Hits 80C and sits there. Fan doesn't go above 40% in games. In 3Dmark it started making a quiet grinding noise, but it wasn't audible over my headset.

Getting ~80FPS with BF3 maxed @ 1080p, and a straight 60 with Vsync on. Me gusta.

Bring on Planetside 2!