Good day,
I have the following setup:
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
Intel Core 2 @9500 Quad 2.83GHZ
8GB
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X
Driver 441.87
Whenever I'm using Chrome Browser and then run MSI Afterburner, I noticed that that the GPU & Memory frequency and temperature are quite high as if I'm playing some game!
GPU Clock: 1582MHZ
Memory Clock: 4006MHZ
Temperature: 59C
If I close Chrome, they drop down to normal idle settings.
GPU Clock: 139MHZ
Memory Clock: 405MHZ
Temperature: 46C
This does not happen when I use Firefox or TOR and remains idle.
So is there something wrong here and what can I do?! It doesn't seem right going so high by just running Chorme?!
Perhaps I have caught some malware, virus that uses my GPUs resources to mine crypto currency & bit coins?!
Any info would be highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance
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Last edited by retroborg; 28th Jun 2021 at 08:29.
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go into chrome settings and disable hardware acceleration and restart your browser and see if that helps.
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seriously, did you look at the numbers you posted?
Whenever I'm using Chrome Browser and then run MSI Afterburner, I noticed that that the GPU & Memory frequency and temperature are quite high as if I'm playing some game!
GPU Clock: 139MHZ
Memory Clock: 405MHZ
Temperature: 59C
If I close Chrome, they drop down to normal idle settings.
GPU Clock: 1582MHZ
Memory Clock: 4006MHZ
Temperature: 46C
139MHZ vs 1582MHZ and 405MHZ vs 4006MHZ.
your card is idling and i'd guess the temp reading is wrong. there is no way a card at 139MHZ with mem clocked at 405MHZ is over 30c.--
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OK, I just disabled hardware acceleration in the Chrome Advanced settings and now the GPU, Mem & Temp remain low same as in Firefox. So is that Hardware acceleration in Chrome even needed and where does it benefit overall? It seems to stress the card a lot when it's on!
There is also another setting "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" which I also disabled but it doesn't seem to affect the GPU either way. I don't even know what's the point of having this enabled when you're not running Chrome?! -
Yes! It was just a typo! I meant to write those in reverse!
Anyway, I just disabled hardware acceleration in the Chrome Advanced settings and now the GPU, Mem & Temp remain low same as in Firefox. So is that Hardware acceleration in Chrome even needed and where does it benefit overall? It seems to stress the card a lot when it's on!
There is also another setting "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" which I also disabled but it doesn't seem to affect the GPU either way. I don't even know what's the point of having this enabled when you're not running Chrome?! -
Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed means that chrome is still running in the background,this helps slower computers,same for the hardware acceleration,only needed for slower computers.
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read here to see what hardware acceleration actually does - https://www.howtogeek.com/412738/how-to-turn-hardware-acceleration-on-and-off-in-chrome/
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