3070 TI Undervolting not staying!

[DontJumpSRK]

I have MSI Afterburner installed, and i usually set the voltage to be about 950 running somewhere at like 1800mhz ish give or take.

And my computer will randomly just decide "eh fuck your settings" and just revert back to the old way of the slow incline and just ignore the settings ive made.

Why does it do this?

Does it revert back if a game crashes? I've had issues with COD crashing but it is 1000% the game and not my card or cpu etc etc because the game is like this all the time and has Dev Errors, etc and junk showing up for people all over twitter and such.

Just wondering if there is a way to KEEP settings? Or do i have to keep just loading it every single time and check after any crashes?

Kind of annoying.

My CPU undervolt stays like a gem and i loovvvvveeeeeee it.

 

[eidairaman1]

Prob gpu driver itself and the game crashing

 

[freeagent]

Why do you want to undervolt it? It’s a cool running card already? 950 is low.

 

[agent_x007]

If game resets GPU driver, MSI Afterburner's setting will be reset along with it (just like a bad OC settings).

PS. To me 950mV isn't that low, 850mV would be though.

 

[Sithaer]

When I had similar issues I did the following, not sure which one helped but now my MSI Afterburner settings stay pretty much always:

Disabled Windows fast startup/boot.
Disabled every other GPU related addon software to boot with windows, only Afterburner does.
Gigabyte's Aorus engine or whatever was that especially caused issues with my custom undervolt settings so now I don't allow any of those to auto start regardless of the brand of my GPU.

Saved my custom profile in Afterburner and locked it just in case.

+What others said, game crashes can revert back everything to default.

 

[BSim500]

Just wondering if there is a way to KEEP settings? Or do i have to keep just loading it every single time and check after any crashes?

Try saving the settings to Profile 1 then tick "Apply overclocking at system startup". From what I recall it loads it from Profile 1. I undervolt with a custom curve and it works perfectly every time.

Edit: Also make sure "Profile Contents, Hardware settings" is ticked under the Profiles tab.

 

[freeagent]

PS. To me 950mV isn't that low, 850mV would be though.

I dunno.. mine drops down to 650 or so. I run mine at 1.1 for 2100. But it does 1980 @ stock.

 

[BSim500]

I dunno.. mine drops down to 650 or so. I run mine at 1.1 for 2100. But it does 1980 @ stock.

He probably means the manual undervolt voltage at max frequency under max load rather than the 0.65v idle voltage usually seen at 1400MHz or less used for lower loads. Maybe I've just been lucky, but the past couple of nVidia cards I've had undervolted down to 0.850-0.900v at max boost frequency (I'm currently running 1920MHz @ 0.850v. It actually works down to 0.825v but crashes at 0.800v, but I always back off an extra step for headroom). As for "why undervolt", lower power consumption = less heat = lower fan noise for any given temp. Even low wattage 75-130w GPU's can benefit, especially the single-fan ITX versions.

 

[Sithaer]

He probably means the manual undervolt voltage at max frequency under max load rather than the 0.65v idle voltage usually seen at 1400MHz or less used for lower loads. Maybe I've just been lucky, but the past couple of nVidia cards I've had undervolted down to 0.850-0.900v at max boost frequency (I'm currently running 1920MHz @ 0.850v. It actually works down to 0.825v but crashes at 0.800v, but I always back off an extra step for headroom). As for "why undervolt", lower power consumption = less heat = lower fan noise for any given temp. Even low wattage 75-130w GPU's can benefit, especially the single-fan ITX versions.

Yup also my reasons, started undervolting with my AMD cards but now I do it with my 1070 too and it works great.
Lowered the temps by a few degrees and a few % fan speed while keeping the same stable max boost clock in games, less power draw around 20-30w vs stock settings according to my power meter.

My GTX 1070 is stable with 975mV in games, tried to go lower but then I noticed stability issues so I've settled with this. 'old ass second hand card so I'm trying to take care of it'
I will definitely undervolt my next GPU too, whatever that will be.

 

[eidairaman1]

He probably means the manual undervolt voltage at max frequency under max load rather than the 0.65v idle voltage usually seen at 1400MHz or less used for lower loads. Maybe I've just been lucky, but the past couple of nVidia cards I've had undervolted down to 0.850-0.900v at max boost frequency (I'm currently running 1920MHz @ 0.850v. It actually works down to 0.825v but crashes at 0.800v, but I always back off an extra step for headroom). As for "why undervolt", lower power consumption = less heat = lower fan noise for any given temp. Even low wattage 75-130w GPU's can benefit, especially the single-fan ITX versions.

Case in point mileage may vary

 

[DontJumpSRK]

Thank You everyone for your replies! I'm still playing with it. Probably going to do 981v