Never seen or had this happen to me before.

MSI would crash within 15 mins if I had these clock speeds set in MSI afterburner. From 15mins ingame time, it was completely stable. I don't know if what I said makes any sense, but what I mean is EVGA is giving me better, higher and more stable clock speeds. I would constantly see the clock speed dropping to low 2000mhzs and sometimes 1900s. The GPU would constantly throttle with MSI afterburner, it would never stay at 2100 or 2080mhz under load. This NEVER happened when I was using MSI afterburner. And power throttling for some reason, didn't happen as often. Just played some RE2, maxed out settings etc, and it was completely stable, never dropped below 2000mhz, and would constantly boost to 2100. Max clock speed/boost speed is 2134mhz now (215 on the core now), and this time, EVGA didn't mess with the clock curve unllike MSI afterburner. I decided to try out EVGA Precision X1 and these issues were fixed. Why is it changing the clock curve so much? Max clock speed would jump form 2085 to 2100, and sometimes it'll drop to 2055? And this is with a manual overclock of 205+ on the core.

some games wouldn't be fully stable with the 205 overclock, and msi changes the clock curve randomly too. On my laptop which has a 1660ti, if I overclocked the core by 205 which would be around 2085 max boost, and would boost to around 2055-2070 in games - but.

Msi afterburner auto overclock