MSI GTX 970 - Power usage 10%, GPU usage 99% bad FPS in games

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ed0ras

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Hey,

I just bought new PC, ...
- MSI GTX 970 100 ME
- Asus Z170i PRO GAMING
- Intel Core i5-6600K (overclocked to 4.520MHz)
- EVGA SuperNova G2 750W

I did 2 days testing it in some games, mostly Star Wars Battlefront and Dying Light, I had on 60Hz@1080p V-Sync OFF on ultra details around 100-120 FPS, never drops undred 80 FPS.

And after 2 days if I will now try run some games, like Star Wars or Dying Light, there will drop FPS by 60-80% on same settings, like in Star Wars I have now 25-40 FPS, in Dying Light aroud 50 FPS.

MSI GTX 970 100 ME running on 99%, temperature around 45°C but power usage is at 10-23%.

What is wrong? What do you think? What can I do? I was try restart PC, and yeah it help, but just for few minutes/hours.

As you can see on that picture, during Bechmarking in Heaven Benchmark 4.0 GPU using 99% but at 400 Hz clock and FPS are now around 10, before this issue I had in Heaven Benchmark 4.0 FPS around 30-130 avg.60
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It's the overclock on that card. What case do you have?
By default, even without an overclock, the card is having 1050 MHz GPU clock and 1753 MHz memory clock. Now it has both clocks at 405, indicating an unstable overclock.
Lower the clocks, restart and see if that helps.
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Hey ed0ras,
Is your score in Heaven or anything else decreasing while having the GPu at 99%, if nothing has changed since the first time you benched, it is simply a software problem. Likely the software is inaccurate like many others and is going crazy. However if your performance has been suffering then its hardware for sure, this being that you got a pretty bad luck on the draw for the GPU silicon.

Truly, I believe it to be hardware, I think you just got a bad luck on the silicon or something may have happened while moving it around so that it is only noticeable now. If you can I would suggest a replacement or a refund. With a refund you can use it to buy a Gigabyte 970 or a Zotac 970 however with a refund, you'll just need to reset the overclocks and getting going.

If there is anything else I can do just reply or PM me and I'll reply as soon as I can
 
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It's the overclock on that card. What case do you have?
By default, even without an overclock, the card is having 1050 MHz GPU clock and 1753 MHz memory clock. Now it has both clocks at 405, indicating an unstable overclock.
Lower the clocks, restart and see if that helps.
 
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ed0ras

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I tried overclock +170 MHz Core Clock, +450 MHz Memory Clock without any other changes and without increasing Core Voltage. I tested this overclocking in Heaven without any crashes and artifacts, so I considered that the GPU is stable and I starting using it normaly.

Anyway when I posted this question, I already return all my overclocking to default (0) and tried restart.
Now I testing the GPU for about an hour, and it looks like it's okay (hopefully).

If it will be ok, can I again test some overclocking, or I was able to somehow damage this card by this issue? Should I be afraid of something?
 
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No, it'll not be damaged. But be aware that this is a card that already comes with a good overclock.
Also, be careful while playing with the voltage. Setting the frequency too high will not damage the card, but setting the voltage too high will.
Higher voltage allows for more overclocking headroom at the expense of power consumption and heat, but it's delicate work.

Setting an arbitrary overclock won't really help. You have to increase the frequency in small increments.
For reference, check out the tutorials on overclocking.

Here's one for the 760: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1958639/geforce-gtx-760-overclocking-tutorial-beginners.html
 
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