Hi there,
I am posting here to get understanding and possibly help for a strange behavior I have with my Z800 machine.
This machine is running Windows 10 x64 Pro and it is equipped with a Nvidia Quadro 4000 graphics board.
The system is basically quiet and not very hot, but my issue is that everything I turn on any kind of graphical software, the system become immediately extremely loud and hot, due to the Quadro 4000 fan.
I understand that, obviously, the graphical card is generating heat under heavy load, but my issue is that it spike to max power for any kind of graphical computation.
For instance, just by browsing the internet, any webpage that has a small Flash animation or anything inside, will immediately spike the Q4000 to maximum clock, heat production and surely ventilation.
I ended up disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome to avoid this very annoying behaviour.
Same thing for application like AutoCAD: as soon as I turn it on, it apparently commands the graphics card to immediately run at high clock rate. Even if I am not drawing at all, or just drawing very basic 2D object, the graphics card appears to be running at maximum capacity.
I noticed that this, strangely, also happens with some completely non-graphical related tasks. For instance I noticed that Visual Studio installation program spikes the GPU usage as well (while the IDE itself does not produce this behavior).
For your reference, please find following an example of idle status of the machine:
While the following image shows what's happening after a few minutes of AutoCAD basic drawing (just 2D design)
Now the basic question: is everything OK here and the behavior of the card is the one I should expect and I simply misunderstood how it works, or is something actually wrong and I should do something to fix it?
Thanks for any insights you might provide.
Luca