I see someone else on the thread you refer has the issue even with Power Management on
– Try the same with the nVidia Power Settings (in 3D settings)
Other things to try to see for trouble shooting:
– start a long render and disconnect the monitor cable from the computer (then windows won’t think the screen has not been refreshed for some amount of time…) and see if it makes a difference in time it took to render.
– other troubleshoot idea: set the fan to manual so it’s always on. Run test, any differences… actually this test only works if you can have a previous install to compare against (to see if this slows down the previous version).
– overclocking will require a larger power block
– note: depending on how things are internally implemented you do loose CPU compute power when processing with GPU as there is some thread management involved in controlling the gfx card. It’s much more significative on a quad core then on a 12 cores say I noticed.
– I haven’t tried recently (don’t have dot 0.2 installed) but try to see if there is a difference setting the memory Preferences in Premiere to Favor Memory. This sometimes helped in the past to go faster.
Pierre