880m and "The Crew" boost issue!

I have a 880m installed on a Clevo P150SM.

I have noticed in many games that the gpu clock boosts from 954 to 993 Mhz and stays there.

Only while playing "The Crew" the clock boosts to 993 at start of the game then goes down to 954 and stays there.

I have also noticed that the 880m runs cooler when the boost is ON.

In other words, if the clock is 954 then the temp of the gpu reaches 90C. However, if the boost is ON the temp. max at 80C.

Is there a reason on why it does not boost all the time while playing "The Crew"?

I have tried Metal Gear Solid 5, BF4, and Resident Evil Revelations 2. All of which the clock stays boosting and the temp never reaches 80C.

 

I'm pretty sure that your boost happens BECAUSE your card is cool and not drawing much power, rather than the other way around.

The 880M was also a broken piece of trash. If you could sell it and get a 970M and overclock that, you'd have a much better system. MUCH better.

 

Actually the 880m is a great GPU imo. I have been using it for a year now and all games I play are on ULTRA settings with 1080p and FXAA only.

I never had any issues with this GPU. Only "The Crew" have this issue, the rest are OK.

If I could find a way to keep the boost while playing "The Crew" then I would not have any concerns.

 

The 880M is generally an overheating, broken piece of crap. You would much more likely have a better chance if you had a 780M set to 993MHz on the core. There's tons of evidence on these forums about the 880Ms being generally broken.

If you like it, that's fine, but your "issue" is that "The Crew" is making your GPU too hot, and it's not keeping its boost clocks. I've never seen a single GPU game that forced my card to 90 degrees. I would have to run Furmark to get the same experience.

 

The Crew is a poorly optimized game. It is likely watch dogs would do the same thing with your card.

It sounds like you got a good one, I had two pairs and they would regularly drop below 954MHz with the stock vbios, sometimes down to the 850 range, and with the modded vbios they would hit 94C and throttle within an hour.

May I ask are you using vsync? Because that makes a huge difference in heat output when you have games that run over 60FPS and could easily explain your low temps and consistent boost in most games. For me, 120 FPS was my target and SLI rarely hit that in console ports (SLI maxed Watch Dogs was a mess... Frame rates would not even maintain at 45 on Ultra).

Anyway, The Crew is another Ubisoft garbage console port that has ludicrous requirements to run probably 20-30% of what it would actually run if optimized for the PC. Pair that with a garbage overheating video card and you've got throttle. Just be happy it doesn't throttle further.

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I did not feel that I had any throttling as the clock never goes below 954. I have Vsync ON and the game runs at 60fps.

If I open the map the clock goes to 993 and the temp of the GPU goes down 5C fast.

However, while driving sometimes the clock goes to 993 and most of the time it stays at 954.

I tried EVGA X precision to keep the clock at boost, it worked. But only for 10 min. after that the clock goes back to 954 and stays there.

 

Its throttling back to stock clock because it's most likely drawing too much power to sustain boost when you're gaming.

Use of vsync explains your low temps in most games. I used adaptive vsync half-refresh to force 60FPS and most games dropped to the low 80s too but I didn't buy a 120hz screen to play at 60 FPS.

Anyway, the only way to fix the loss of boost would be to flash the modded vbios that forces boost (at the expense of temps) but really it's more trouble than its worth for such a small increase in GPU power. Just be happy that you are staying within advertised specs on the card and go about your day, the situation with those cards is generally far worse than your present one.

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Thanks for the answer....I have a feeling that the 880m is a disaster from what people talk about it.

However, this card never failed me. I game in all the games with 993Mhz boost clock. I have also tried to increase it +30 and had no issues.

How could Nvidia make a GPU with such reputation?

 

Trust me they have made worse.. Look up the 8600M GT fiasco

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sour...=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=nvidia 8600m gt failures

 

7900 GT as well. EVGA replaced mine with a 7950 GT and I was fortunate to get a good one as those were failure prone also,presumably due to the same flaw.

http://www.overclock.net/t/359558/what-caused-the-7900gt-failures

EVGA even made a statement about the issue. It was pretty bad.

http://www.overclock.net/t/94328/7900gt-cards-prone-to-failure#post_976430

The cross ship was nice.

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I think the 8600M GT fiasco on the whole was much worse for NVIDIA then this tbh...

 

High failure rate is a high failure rate. Most of the stories covering the issue are long gone either because the site deleted it or the site no longer exists. It was a big deal at the time as it also affected the flagship GTX.

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