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Tobapple

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So there is this problem that I don't quite understand. So my GPU's clock speed is on 1200MHz while ideling when i have 3 displays plugged in and on 150MHz when i have 2, could someone pls tell me about the actual difference, considering the stress for the gpu, since i dont seem to get it. It doesnt matter what resolution or refreshrate I choose either, so it shouldn't be the actual stress for the gpu itself I guess. (Tested with 1080p/60Hz , 4k/60Hz, and 1440p/144Hz in all combinations)
If you actually know of a way of reducing the clockspeed to the clockspeed of when i have 2 plugged, if it is even possible, pls let me know :)

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If you have a wattmeter you could measure the power consumption at the wall socket. If not you could try HWinfo and see what the GPU is using at that moment.
 
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You need another GPU, have you tried using the CPU video out? Pretty sure you will have issue's running high res on three monitors with 1 GPU, though I dont have a 1080 so may be wrong.
 

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When I use the CPU internal graphics it's sometimes buggy and stuff happens, so i do not do that. About the power consumption, it is lower when the graphicscard runs at lower clockspeed obviously, though there is no actual difference in the Watt from ideling to playing games that stress my graphicscard to that 1200MHz point, so it is like I am constantly playing a game at 1200MHz what is not what you want when you idle a lot for example, when I programm and stuff, it is just a waste of resources I am not willing to have.
 

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When I use the CPU internal graphics it's sometimes buggy and stuff happens, so i do not do that. About the power consumption, it is lower when the graphicscard runs at lower clockspeed obviously, though there is no actual difference in the Watt from ideling to playing games that stress my graphicscard to that 1200MHz point, so it is like I am constantly playing a game at 1200MHz what is not what you want when you idle a lot for example, when I programm and stuff, it is just a waste of resources I am not willing to have.

Contact the card manufacturer and nvidia on this issue
 
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