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3060 Not Downclocking at Idle

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I recently reformatted my machine and installed drivers 555.85. My 3060 does not ever downclock, stays at 2000 MHz always. What setting do I need to change to get this thing to idle again? I have manage 3D settings in NVidia Control Panel set to Default, Power Management Mode in that is set to "Normal", only other option is high performance. There isn't a lot installed on this computer right now. Windows Power Mode is "Balanced".

I am running Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.19044.

I installed MSI Afterburner to set the undervolt I normally run, however does not appear to make a difference, as if it is disabled it still sits at 2000 MHz.

Uninstalling afterburner, still 2017 MHz shown in GPU-Z. Edit: reboot after uninstall of AB seems to have finally corrected behavior, but if thats the case, I am not sure how to run my custom curve in afterburner and still get idle performance...

Edit: Seems to be an issue with the latest MSI Afterburner 465, using old version 464 with custom curve, now I have no problems.
 
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Can you try the last 466 beta version? Been using it since it was released
This is the latest post for the beta from the dev himself above. The site has the download for the beta, but it is older than this.
 
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