GPU reaching 99% usage at just 700 mhz

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Hello Experts :)
I have a Gigabyte GTX 1060 GB graphics card I was having massive fps drops in all games so I decided to monitor what's happening and I found that my GPU was reaching 99% usage with just 700Mhz core clock and around 850mhz memory clock, that was a very strange behaviour from my GPU so I decided to do couple of things including a fresh installation of drivers using DDU, changing performance mode to prefer maximum performance in Nvidia control panel but nothing worked so after trying everything at last I stumbled upon to advanced 3D image settings in Nvidia control panel, and in there changing from "Let 3D application decide" to "use advanced 3D application settings" made it reach upto 1500 mhz but still having massive fps drops in all games that ran flawlessly in the past can you guys please suggest me something regarding this?(Note : I'm running windows 10 and it's up to date) Thanks in advance
My pc specs :
i5 7500, GTX 1060 6gb, Asus strix B250F gaming motherboard, 16gb ram and a 550 v psu
 
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Considering what your hardware is, you should not have this problem. It is possible you could have an infection targeting your video card("gpu miner"). I'd suggest running AdwCleaner, RogueKiller and TDSSKiller (all 3 are free). Run them in Safe Mode w/ Networking.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/
https://www.adlice.com/download/roguekiller/ <-- try the "Portable 64-bit" version
http://media.kaspersky.com/utilities/VirusUtilities/EN/tdsskiller.exe
 
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Might be a defective card, as no infection throttles a chip (they want to use your hardware for their gains, why would they slow it down).

(very) small chance, win10 is messed up.

Any option that you can swap the card for another, any nv card would do..
 
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Fr178 okay! so I tried the card in my friend's computer and bam it's running flawless without any problems and I think that this might be an issue with my HDMI cable and I guess I need to change it, let me know if I'm wrong do you think it can be an issue of just the cable?
 
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yeah, but the vs/cx series aren't very consistent in quality/power delivery.
they are ok, but i won't use them anymore in "gaming" builds, and prefer at minimum a gold rated psu,
as they tend to be better on components and provide cleaner/more stable power, especially the evga g1/2/3 series.


but for now i just want to exclude things to see what's causing the problem.

 
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Hii, changing psu came up with the same results but then again I switched back to "Let 3D application decide" from "use advanced 3D image settings" and now it's reaching 1911 mhz core clock and 4007 mhz memory clock but still the problem is even when the cpu is at 50-65% load the GPU doesn't cross 85% load and results in random fps drops plus I have already set it to prefer maximum performance in Nvidia control panel and windows is also running on high performance mode but still those random fps drops even with very less demanding games :(
 
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nothing will improve by using max performance in nv or windows settings, besides your power bill.
% of load hasnt really any saying ,but telling you how much load it has.
i play games that will not make the gpu pass 40% load, nothing wrong, just the game requiring less power.

go to the nv panel, and set "use advanced settings".
go to "manage 3d settings" and change the global tab settings to the following:

- max pre rendered frames to 3
- power management to adaptive
- shader cache on
- texture filter anisotropic sample opt to off
- texture filter to high quality
- texture filter trilinear opt to off
- triple buffer on
- vertical sync to let the app decide

in-game, change settings to 59/60Hz with vsync on

change windows power to balanced


 
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