The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/KillEvilThings on 2025-06-27 03:13:13.
I recently updated HWinfo and noted they had a PCIE error counter function.
To my dismay, I noticed I was rapidly building up several hundred PCIE errors over the course of casual gaming. However I read that anything that's in the recovery phase and nothing else is "fine." Don't know how true that is, so I remain neutral to the idea.
What did catch my eye is that I had over the course of playing GW2 for several hours, 14 or so "Bad TLP count." Intrigued, I turned off my undervolt/OC on my GPU and gave it some stress tests - recovery counts increased slowly but only when initially loading an OCCT stress test, by 1-2 at a time, and only when loading and unloading from the test. Transient power tests did not incur errors.
Then I went to cyberpunk and my Bad TLP counts shot up from 14 to 144 with several benchmarks (3-4).
The Bad TLP Count increased when loading into the benchmark and for a couple seconds after concluding the benchmark. They also increased when booting the game and exiting the game. It appears I have bad TLP issues when loading and unloading assets.
EDIT: I've noticed for games that load assets during menus (cyberpunk) there is always a LAG and delay. Just by scrolling through my Stash in cyberpunk I can dramatically increase my TLP count just by dragging up and down through it.
I am unsure for the reason behind this but I have no idea how significant these errors are. Nevertheless it is a concern. Anyone have any idea how to resolve this, explain what I'm even looking at, or if they're even remotely significant? Google has been very fruitless in explaining what it is and how exactly they occur and the significance of these issues.
My OCCT stress tests have shown no errors for multiple tests of my GPU OC and UV. Thus far my experience with games has been almost completely problem free.
Rigi s 7800x3d + Team Create expert CL30 6000 RAM Expo + buildzoids easy subtimings (tested stable) + 4070 Ti Super Ventus 2x OC (model).
Loading into cyberpunk with minimal power limit (30 or 35%) immediately made my bad TLP count jump up by 8. Loading into the benchmark jumped it up by 4. Again, I get no errors when gaming, just during load scenarios.