698301 - Scrolling and some rendering causes high GPU clocks and temps

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Jack Daniels]

Firefox 7, Windows 7 64bit, 6870, latest Catalyst 11.9.
Addons: Adblock Plus, Cookie Monster, Flashblock, Flashgot, BetterPrivacy.

Scrolling and rendering certain pages makes GPU temps and clocks spike for extended periods. Disabling hardware acceleration makes no difference. about:config shows it's disabled, but I still get high GPU clocks and temps at 45C (idle is 36C). I have been disabling hardware acceleration to deal with this problem, but in 7 it won't disable.

In IE9, my browsing and scrolling temp is 36C. In Firefox, 40-45C. nVidia apparently recently released a fixed driver for high temps during scrolling. 

See here for details with GPU-Z screenshots and links:

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33983045

Comment 1

[Jack Daniels]

Here are some additional reports of the problem:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1775755&start=1320
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2119709
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/803525
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=155885&enterthread=y
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=59830
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18276242
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18219493
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1223925
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=185531
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?268574-Firefox-4-and-GPU-utilization
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18219933
http://boardreader.com/thread/P150HM_W_6970_jittery_GPU_clocks_b0f41Xd4ez.html
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33971978

Comment 2

[Jack Daniels]

Also found some relevant bug reports:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647945
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575342
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682857

Comment 3

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Unable to reproduce in current versions.