- Jun 18, 2009
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You clicked here rolling your eyes ready to tell me the thermal paste or fan has gone bad, didnt you? HA! Well sadly its not that simple 
When I open Chrome, the GPU goes from min p-state to mac p-state. So im idling on full throttle so to speak. the load is at 0%, and it hovers around 71c (fan@42%). When it is truly idling it drops to 38c (as it should). On 100% load full clock settings its roughly 76c(fan@95%).
I gave done the following:
1. Went int Chrome plugins and disabled all 3D stuff. Also disabled flash.
2. Went into chrome:flags and disabled 3D acceleration evertwhere I fount it
3. Using --disable-gpu --purge-memory-button --unlimited-quota-for-files --flag-switches-begin --conflicting-modules- For the start shortcut.
4. manually underclocked the GPU to force it to stay at idle settings (135Mhz memory 101MhzShader clock) so I could check if Chrome -needed- higher settings. Scrolling and such used roughly 60% load at those underclocked settings and everything was as smooth as ever.
5. Closed all tabs in chrome except a blank one. Still no help.
Strange thing is when i changed the shortcut arguments, the process in chrome called "GPU Process" disappeared and Chrome would default to true idle settings (p-12) when I was doing nothing n Chrome. When i scrolled or did other things it would immediately goto full clock state (p-0) and then back to p-12 when i was done. thats something i can live with. However now the GPU process is back and I cannot force it to fuck off.
So i ask the attractive and scholarly members of Anandtech my ultimate question: WAT DO?
Edit: Okay so messing around some more in Chrome taskmanager Im able to force teh GPU process to stop with a blank tab open. However when I open a page (this page) the process would come back. I did this a couple times, and not I have this window open AND the GPU process is NOT loaded. The page preforms fine scrolls smoothly and loads other links fine all while my GPU isnt slowly cooking itself (in p-12). The hell is going on with Chrome?
When I open Chrome, the GPU goes from min p-state to mac p-state. So im idling on full throttle so to speak. the load is at 0%, and it hovers around 71c (fan@42%). When it is truly idling it drops to 38c (as it should). On 100% load full clock settings its roughly 76c(fan@95%).
I gave done the following:
1. Went int Chrome plugins and disabled all 3D stuff. Also disabled flash.
2. Went into chrome:flags and disabled 3D acceleration evertwhere I fount it
3. Using --disable-gpu --purge-memory-button --unlimited-quota-for-files --flag-switches-begin --conflicting-modules- For the start shortcut.
4. manually underclocked the GPU to force it to stay at idle settings (135Mhz memory 101MhzShader clock) so I could check if Chrome -needed- higher settings. Scrolling and such used roughly 60% load at those underclocked settings and everything was as smooth as ever.
5. Closed all tabs in chrome except a blank one. Still no help.
Strange thing is when i changed the shortcut arguments, the process in chrome called "GPU Process" disappeared and Chrome would default to true idle settings (p-12) when I was doing nothing n Chrome. When i scrolled or did other things it would immediately goto full clock state (p-0) and then back to p-12 when i was done. thats something i can live with. However now the GPU process is back and I cannot force it to fuck off.
So i ask the attractive and scholarly members of Anandtech my ultimate question: WAT DO?
Edit: Okay so messing around some more in Chrome taskmanager Im able to force teh GPU process to stop with a blank tab open. However when I open a page (this page) the process would come back. I did this a couple times, and not I have this window open AND the GPU process is NOT loaded. The page preforms fine scrolls smoothly and loads other links fine all while my GPU isnt slowly cooking itself (in p-12). The hell is going on with Chrome?
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