I apologize for bringing this thread up once more, but so far I've never been able to get an answer from anyone about the frame buffer usage of my card at idle (screenshot linked in one of my above posts). I ASSUME that this is due to the card dropping into pcie 1.1 mode (and therefore , shrinking the bandwidth? not sure how that works exactly)? All I know is that my computer is making this mystery noise, sort of like a VERY muffled/quiet floppy drive (a:\, from back in the day if you are old like me) working/griding away, and it's bothering me a lot because my computer is on 24/7 in my room and I am in this room much of the day (working, gaming, sleeping, watching movies - I'm on the ocmputer a lot and it is on 24/7 for about 355 days a year). I was thinking the noise could possibly have something to do with the activity I see in that graph (?)
The noise seemed to start around the time I installed the card. It isn't always there, but I'm starting to notice that it is now happening any time I game and then STAYING there for many hours afterwards (12-16 hours after gaming, even if computer is at complete idle that entire time, sitting on the desktop). It's a very quiet noise, but because it isn't a constant low noise (like the sound of low rpm fans) and more of a broken-up electrical hum/buzzing it is a bit bothersome (again, very quiet, but easily perceptible to me because of my proximity to the computer and the fact that it's always on and I'm always around it). Anyway, I try and block it out by having several floor fans running (even if facing completely away from me) and a low-vol white noise machine in the room, but it still nags at me due to the fact that it could be the gpu and, if it is, it's doing it when NOT in use (even at idle) and I'm not sure what that means for the gpu/psu/etc.
Just wanted someone to take a look at the picture I uploaded up above (the MSI Afterburner Frame Buffer graph attached to one of my older posts) and tell me if that is how it should look at idle for the 4070 Super (or any of these 4000-series cards that drop into pcie 1.1 mode when not actively playing a 3D game). If someone who has a 4070 Super or newer Nvidia card can show me a SS of their FB% graph (or the gpu-z equivalent - I think it's "memory interface" usage) and it looks the same I would be much relieved.
Sry for words. I type a lot. But I would love an answer to this question (not the noise but just about the FB% usage at idle). My graph ALWAYS looks like that when not gaming. I've never seen anything like it with any other gpu I've used monitoring software with (980 ti, 1080, 2 1080ti's, 2 7800XT's, 7900XT).
Thank you.
EDIT: I'm attaching another screenshot. This is a SS I took after noticing annoying fan ups and downs while I was in a game but not playing. I noticed the game had gone into pcie 2.0 mode (not 1.1) after the 3D combat part of this game, once it went into this 2D dialog part. I would think the card shoudl stay in pcie3.0 (or 4.0, but my mobo is 3.0 only) whenever you're in a game, period, but I guess not? Is this also the intended operation of these new nvidia cards? To drop down to a lower mode (like 2.0) whenever it detects that the game isn't at that moment in need of a lot of "juice"? I've noticed as well in some cutscenes in certain games that the wattage will drop down to like 7-10watts (where it was using 100+ moments before) once a cutscene starts (or at the very start of a game when it's first loading), and sometimes it will be very choppy during the cutscene (or loading screens/scenes). Not sure if that's just the game(s) or if it has to do with this pcie mode-shifting behavior. Is this just normal behavior for these cards?
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