GTX 970 clockspeed stuck at 540 MHz. Need help

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LeoS

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I bought my GTX 970 from msi a week ago and i started overclocking it. Now it's stuck at 540 MHz for some reason but i don't know what it is that keeps the clock rate so low. Please help me. Thanks. :??:
 
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InfernalSurge

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What's the temperature? Might it be throttling due to overheating?
 
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babarv2

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Go to NVIDIA 3D SETTING > POWER MANAGEMENT > change from ADAPTIVE TO MAXIMUM.
and after that while playing games.. check if its reaching its Maximum clock.
Let me know if this works!
 
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I need help too, same exact thing. GPU and CPU are both at about 48c and randomly drop down from 924mhz to 540mhz, and it stays like that until I restart. I have tried manually overclocking, underclocking from stock, setting power to prefer maximum performance, and countless other tips and tricks. This is becoming a MAJOR issue as my fps goes from 75 constant, to 15-30 mid game when it happens.
 
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psycher1

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I uninstalled all overclocking utilities, that made it work.
My problem was that it wasn't throttling, it was ALWAYS stuck on the low power state. Not sure what caused it still, but it's fixed on my end for the time being.
 
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Soundchaos

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I've been using only MSI Afterburner, but I completely uninstalled it and the issue still happened. I pulled up nvidia inspector, and it looks like its in Performance level 2 (P1) state, which the normal before the issue happens is Performance level 3 (P0). Its so stuck that the GPU doesn't even do the low power 133mhz self underclock when on the desktop like it normally does, its permanently stuck at that 540mhz until restarting. I can use nvidia inspector to change the performance level 2 clocks, but then it just crashes as soon as I launch a game.

In case anyone else has similar system specs that might me causing this, I'm using a Clevo P670RE3 laptop, with 970m, g-sync, 75hz display IPS panel. The issue appears to happen faster on older games that are less demanding. It takes quite a while to start causing problems when I play modern games that stress the GPU. Alt tabbing mid game, or force quitting games also seems to cause it to happen suddenly.
 
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It happen to me also this down clock of gtx 970 . My video card is MSI GTX 970 Gaming ME edition. But this only happen after i upgrade to the latest nvidia driver. Once i play a dx 9 games my clock speed stock on 540mhz it will not back to normal untill i restart it. What just i do is reinstall the driver 355.98 version after that all becomes normal again all games now run in full clock speed.
 
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Tjbaxter

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I Have the exact same problem with my recently bought asus strix Gtx 980, My gtx 980 is does not go over 50% gpu usage, This is really annoying and I have been looking for answers for days now! I would love to know a solution.
 
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I uninstalled all of my drivers, changed all the nvidia control panel fetures, and did everything, but the one thing u have to do is if you're overclocking, change msi afterburners properties and check force constant voltage. It turns off the power saver mode, and, coupled with the preformance mode change in control panel, it fixed all my problems!

ps. make sure you are at a comfortable voltage oc though, because it no longer changes for you.
 
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This happend to me to, i figured that after the lastet driver G-sync were cousing the issue, especially when you have the option set to "Enable G-sync for windowed and fullscreen mode" in Nvidia control panel

So for now i just turn off G-sync until a new driver that hopefully fixes it.
 
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