12-30-2020, 04:36 PM
To update;
To my knowledge apparently the issue was due to bottlenecking because of the CPU temperature... which my braindead idiocy never thought to check. I know thermal throttling was mentioned on this thread, but I for some reason never thought it'd be my CPU.... I opened Speccy when hashcat was running and it was hitting 90-95c. I removed CPU cooler + CPU, removed the abundance of dust, and reapplied new thermal paste. Now I'm sitting at a healthy 58-65c under full GPU utilization and speeds seem to be normal... for now... so I'm concluding that the CPU temp was the issue!
Thanks
To my knowledge apparently the issue was due to bottlenecking because of the CPU temperature... which my braindead idiocy never thought to check. I know thermal throttling was mentioned on this thread, but I for some reason never thought it'd be my CPU.... I opened Speccy when hashcat was running and it was hitting 90-95c. I removed CPU cooler + CPU, removed the abundance of dust, and reapplied new thermal paste. Now I'm sitting at a healthy 58-65c under full GPU utilization and speeds seem to be normal... for now... so I'm concluding that the CPU temp was the issue!
Thanks