Underclocking video card for power savings

[0roo0roo]

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[clickynext]

Yeah, I found that underclocking my card by any decent amount makes it crash as well. It's just not made to run under speed, I guess.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
these days it doesn't seem like the video card really needs to have the hundreds of mhz they are set to for just running windows, i'm pretty sure video cards have not been strained by windows at average resolutions for years now. so is it worth the trouble to set the 2d clock freq very low? or is it just wasting time because power use is very low during idle?

heh i tried setting it to 75mhz and it crashed go figure. underclocking crash

I remember seeing an article somewhere that showed the power consumption of video cards at idle vs load. Let's see if I can find it.

- M4H