Quote from: carlo_0000 on October 05, 2018, 06:15:48 PM

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Quote from: lexele on September 02, 2018, 07:55:24 PM

I stopped using power play tables since 18+ drivers. overdriventool is enough to achieve full hashrate at 165W with vega 64 and modified vega 56.
clock: set to 1600, voltage set to 850mV
mem: set to 1100, voltage set to 860mV
real clock is 1400 to 1500 depending of the card ; real voltage: 885 mV; shown in GPUZ.

4 cards rig is at 700W, system uses roughly 35W

This sounds like you still need PPT. Assuming a proper setup w/ PPT, actual voltage has historically *always* been lower than set voltage by at least 7-15mv, due to droop. A higher actual voltage vs what you set is exactly what you would have seen in the past w/o PPT, because your <=P5 voltages were fixed, and higher than your P6/7. Only thing is, those lower state defaults were usually much higher than 900-ish mv, so something strange is going on.

Also, a drop from 1.6 GHz to 1.4-1.5 indicates you are significantly off on your power vs frequency settings. Your card is being throttled because it doesn't have enough power, and sooner or later that will lead to instability. You definitely want to minimize that difference between actual and set frequency, by either increasing power, or reducing frequency. In the past, I've found that a proper ratio is around 1500 +/- 25 MHz for 900 +/- 15 mv

i notice something strange
when undervolting, at 900mv it use 115w in gpu-z for monero but if i add powerlimit -10 or -15 power goes up to 165w and the gpu clock drop a bit and hasrate also a bit, it also use more power at the wall

Sounds to me like you've pushed your card past some internal (or bios enforced) limit, so it's resetting to some kind of default.

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Your card is being throttled because it doesn't have enough power, and sooner or later that will lead to instability

that make no cense, why should it be lead to instability ??

powerlimit is made to limit lol, it s normal gpu clock get up and down, and for doing monero no need full speed but going below 1350 decrease the speed

Because throttling is a reactive behavior, and it is not instantaneous. There's always a chance that between the threshold exception and the throttling reaction that the hardware gets into a state from which it can't recover.

And not sure how powerlimit came into this discussion - we're talking about voltage settings.