Force 3D performance to counter downclocking OK?

Hey, I was searching online and I found a possible solution to the G84 series downclocking issue. The problem is that during certain games the screen would stutter for a few seconds and the clocks would be stuck to 2D performance until a reboot.

I used rivatuner to force the clocks at 3D performance and while the stutter still occurs, the clocks do not drop. I was wondering if this could potentially hurt the system. The temperatures are fine and do not rise above 72C and the clocks are at stock for this 'experiment'. The drivers used are 180.48 and rivatuner recording of the GPU properties (temp, clocks, FPS) may be uploaded if it would help. I am using Vegas 2 as the game gives me the most problems (pre-fix) and has been pretty stable except for a couple 'stutters'.

Thanks for any feedback!

 

Not OK, the reason it's downclocking is because it's overheating (says the VBIOS) and since you're not allowing it to downclock it is definitely not helping the system. You'd best look to find ways to reduce the temps so that you don't need to do something like this.

 

Well the card downclocks at all temps. Sometimes at 72C, other times at 69C, etc. Other games, the GPU reaches much higher temps (76C) and the card is fine. Only with certain games the card will downclock at random temperatures.

And I use a cooler, undervolted and cleaned out the vents. If the GPU is downclocking at stock speeds, something is seriously wrong (no overclock while testing). The highest temps reached during Vegas 2 is 72C, which I thought was pretty cool.

Also, many different forums say this is a core inherent problem, with no relation to temperature. What I was worried about was not the GPU overheating but maybe it getting some sort of error from a memory leak or some other unknown problem.

 

I'd definitely get in touch with Asus about that since that's a hardware problem.