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Nvidia control panel settings

Keeping it NeilKeeping it Neil Posts: 53
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Hi folks

I've recently bought a new video card for my system (Quadro M4000) and I'm wanting to get the best from it. I've been looking around the Nvidia control panel, and was wondering if there are any settings I should change to increase performance? Also, I'm planning on getting a second card, are there any settings I should consider for this?

I'm a total novice when it comes to the technical side of things so any help will be hugely appreciated. If there is already a thread for this could you point me in the right direction?

Many thanks. 

Neil

Comments

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,146

    Not for performance as such - but I would suggest doing a custom fan setup to ramp the fan speed up sooner, as Nvidia seems to run the cards just short of thermal shutdown out of the box. I managed to cut the maximum temperature on my GTX 980 TI by 25% this way.

  • SixDsSixDs Posts: 2,384

    Strictly my opinion, Neil, but I would recommend that you not muck about with the default settings for your card unless you know exactly what you are doing. Many of the settings in Control Panel are designed to allow gamers to tweak their GFX cards. With the Quadro cards, there are optimizations possible, but they tend to be on an application-by-application basis, which is why the driver suite has an option for that. The optimizations are generally provided by the software companies (i.e. AutoDesk, etc.), and simply loaded. If, as is the case with DAZ Studio and many others, no driver optimizations are provided, then mucking about with your settings in the hopes of gaining performance is likely to result in little or no gain at best, and degraded performance or a borked configuration at worst. Again, just mt opinion, but I say leave it be.

    P.S. Since it is a mobile chip messing with your settings is probably even more of a dicey affair than with a desktop card.

  • Keeping it NeilKeeping it Neil Posts: 53

    Thanks for the answers guys. My new card was physically damaged on reciept so I couldn't do anything anyway. Still, I have a new card now and will leave the settings alone.

    Many thanks again :)

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