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Zotac 2070 Mini weird behaviour?

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Hi
Been having troubles with the Zotac 2070 Mini (Non Super), no matter what software I use it will completely ignore any custom fan setting I have... Never going below 34% and ramping up to 100% after less than 5 mins of gaming... it then continues to ramp up and down, either 34% or 100% ignoring everything between... it does this wether I have AB fan settings set to user curve or auto... the only way I can control the fan speed is manualy setting it with the slider, but even that is ignore when gaming.
I do have the card overclocked at +100-core, +600-mem ... however the OC is not the cause becasue it does the exact same thing on default settings.
And while the OC is stable, in the sense that I have no artifacts and have a slight/modest bump in performance with games and benchmarks, it is constantly throttling... speed and voltage jumping up and down all the time, never leveling out for more than a second or 2... Gpuz showing 3 different perfcap reasons, Pwr, VRel and VOp... but temps rarely go above 75... I'm confused. Could there be a problem with the bios? could reflashing it help? has anyone else experienced similar issue?
 

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Its hard locked
 
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In what respect? Have Zotac locked-in an agressive fan profile? would flashing the bios fix it?
No its hardware limited
 
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Never mind, Fixed it all by changing the thermal paste... No throttling, No crazy fans, and knocked a good 15C off my load temps... thanks for all the help though, much appreciated.
 
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