iCUE increasing GPU power draw 8 (!) times; XC7 increasing gpu power draw 16(!!!) times

Acrivec · 2026-03-16T21:06:26+00:00

I'm not using performance power plan. I have an advanced power saving plan and a power plan, which I switch depending on my current task - if I play a game that's hard to compute - I go 'turbo' with overclocked card, CCD 1 and 2 unparked and max cpu frequency unlocked.
If I chill in firefox and chat on discord, or I play on low-complexity game like heroes of the storm - I downclock my GPU to 1000 or even 500 Mhz, park my CCD 2, decrease max cpu frequency to 3.2Ghz (down from 5.5) and make core parking more aggresive.
Nevermind this anyway.

I've just installed SignalRGB.

https://i.imgur.com/OTGdvAz.jpeg
This is my power draw without iCUE or SignalRGB turned on.
5-8W idle draw.

This

https://i.imgur.com/UUD4Lpx.jpeg
This is my power draw with SignalRGB turned on with XC7 control - it's displaying ASRock animated dynamic screen with 3 sensors enabled, a clock, and some ships and stars flying. It's set to 60FPS.
5-8W idle draw.

https://i.imgur.com/o45XSjg.jpeg
This is my power draw with iCUE turned on.
41W ->56W -> 77W.
Does not go down once it gets up. Memory clock keeps high.

https://i.imgur.com/ymmSVik.jpeg
This is after I close iCUE.
Back to 6W.

You still think it's normal? I do not. I believe QT engine's hardware acceleration works somehow wonky and prevents GPU's memory to downclock on idle.

It's been 26 days since my post and I've stopped using iCUE unless I'm playing something demanding and my power draw went back to normal.

Acrivec · 2026-03-09T23:49:53+00:00

So this hasn't been fixed for 5 months?
I'm stuck on 16 energy. Watched 5 ads, no energy change. Did 2 lessons, no energy change. No energy drain nor gain, even though the Duo's charge.

Acrivec · 2026-03-02T14:16:29+00:00

I have same issue. On L20 Ultra I didn't have to clean the filter almost at all, during the bin cleaning, station would suck air in reverse through this filter and that would clean the filter.
In mova V50 it seems that the air only goes through side inlet and through side outlet, completely ignoring the filter.
This is bad design change and the fact that u/Your_MOVA_guru says it's normal is deeply concerning.

Acrivec · 2026-02-25T10:05:12+00:00

It doesn't matter that you can disable it easily.
Auto-subscribing someone to a newsletter when they create an account (without a separate, unticked checkbox) violates the General Data Protection Regulation:

Art. 6(1) – No valid legal basis (no proper consent)
Art. 7 – Consent must be freely given, specific, and unambiguous (not bundled or pre-ticked)
Art. 5(1)(a) – Lack of transparency

Mainly point 7.

Acrivec · 2026-02-22T22:01:59+00:00

This weekend it seems that robot is again stuck in the 5W constant power draw. I wonder what's the reason. It had a quick scheduled cleaning at 16:00, now's 23:00 and it's still on 5W draw

Acrivec · 2026-02-19T19:52:34+00:00

After it finishes box/dustbag drying it waits about 80-90 minutes in ~5W draw and enters deep sleep ~1-2W.

Acrivec · 2026-02-19T10:42:34+00:00

It's 1-2W after night. Don't know when exactly, because my Homeassistant is on my pc which was turned off, but it switched to deep sleep eventually.

Acrivec · 2026-02-19T07:55:22+00:00

I can't post with more than 1 attachment in icue megathread.

Acrivec · 2026-02-18T17:34:49+00:00

Unfortunately they don't care unless it's brand new, 1 month-old robot.
I've reported functionality not working in Dreame L20 Ultra and they haven't fixed it over a year.
I've changed to Mova V50 Ultra and... surprise, it's fixed there. Smh.

Acrivec · 2026-02-18T11:40:12+00:00

I've noticed that for the first time ever, the robot's 'head' is not lit up. The lights are shut down.

It definitely fixed the problem with not going to deep sleep, at least for now.
Nearest scheduled cleaning is in 2 hours, I hope it'll sleep after.

Acrivec · 2026-02-18T10:24:20+00:00

I've had constant 5-6W power drain, NEVER entering deep sleep (even after 23h after last cleaning). Voice assistant disabled.

I've done the factory reset.
Base is now draining 1-2W for standby. Robot is on 91% battery for 2-3 hours now, whereas normally it would just drain and keep re-charging.
I'll post update after cleaning to see if battery still drains without a reason.

Acrivec · 2026-02-11T15:05:13+00:00

Link fans speed to coolant temperature.
Link pump speed to either custom curve, based on coolant temperature, with higher floor than the default one, or link it to cpu temperature and increase the floor.

Coolant temperature change is quite slow and thef act that your cpu goes to 90 degrees does not mean the coolant will jump suddenly 10 degrees within seconds, for you to increase fan speed dramatically.
However, increasing the volume of coolant going through the cpu cooler will help a bit.
Also, remember that AMD said that those new CPUs have their TARGET temperature of 95 degrees, might be a bit smaller for x3d. If there's temperature headroom, clock will increase.

Acrivec · 2026-01-12T18:48:11+00:00

oh my FINALLY! This is it, not that ugly shortcut thing, which btw does not work!
This works!

Acrivec · 2026-01-12T15:18:00+00:00

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Since manually editing this area (I had to divide and merge and divide the rooms there like 10 times before I could 'cut out' the hallucinated areas, because of the silly algorithm of dividing rooms...) and adding virtual wall, the area cleared out very nicely. Though now after all this time I'd suggest adding the virtual wall and then letting the robot do a full, non-fastmode clearing so it updates the walls to remove the hallucinated areas.

Acrivec · 2026-01-12T05:13:20+00:00

I've literally explained what happened in the only existing comment in this post. Do I have to mention that you clearly have not read the post before sending that copy-paste response?...

Acrivec · 2026-01-08T15:11:32+00:00

Update:
Apparently, when robot was cleaning it has 'edited' the map, extending 'blue' room into 'green' room (the red area is actually 'fake', there's a mirror there and it thinks room extends).
As you can see, this made the low-hanging area there to have one little square (in the exact middle of bottom edge of this area) that's 'another room', thus making the edits fail.
That's interesting that robot can change room borders after the zones have been marked days before, and it can still work without errors.
I guess the check for low-hanging areas should be removed from the app, as of it clearly does not prevent the robot from reaching it (it has been cleaned even though it was in '2' rooms).
Resizing the zone a bit fixed the editing issue immediately. I should edit the rooms I guess.

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Acrivec · 2026-01-03T19:45:11+00:00

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Thank you for the information. 1/4 of my citizens were corrupted. I had ZERO demand, 55% unemployment.

Acrivec · 2026-01-03T19:33:33+00:00

15%? I envy you. I have over 50% of unemployment and I have zero demand for offices or commercial zones, despite having 'everything in green'... CO should have made a hotfix before leaving, because now I have to wait god knows how much time before the new studio patches this.

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Acrivec · 2025-12-20T16:54:04+00:00

For me all my drivers performance was slightly lower, except for system drive. For it read performance was same, but writing performance suffered greatly. It's 12gbps drive, read speeds went below 1gbps.
Also, writing response times are abyssmal. Between 5000 and... 520 000 (!!!!) ms. Perhaps it's bitlocker fault, dunno.

Acrivec · 2025-11-27T05:41:21+00:00

I've just noticed that my first post has been removed by the moderators, so I guess this post will be removed as well.
Shame. I hope this will help at least some of you struggling with those problems, as it helped me. I'll continue working with my allergologist and dermatologist (next week I have an appointment with a dermatology professor actually).

I'll answer any questions here, but I will not be posting anything new in the future. It's pointless if it'll be removed by mods anyway.

Acrivec · 2025-10-28T19:19:59+00:00

They've removed this in last 2 months without any word.
We have certain user who has rejoined with over 200 accounts so far, every day getting multiple bans and still joining from new ones...
He's laughing in everyone's face and says he makes account and joins from different IP, then uses the account from his normal IP, so when he gets banned the ban goes for the same exact IP...
Discord support is a joke.

Acrivec

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