Hello, I have an nvidia quadro p520 and while I play the frequency of the graphics processor drops to the minimum value, it seems to me that the problem is in the drivers, but I don’t even know how to install one of the previous versions
Hello,
Did you try persistence mode? It can cause continuous GPU usage, but you can turn it off if you’re not playing a game.
sudo nvidia-smi -pm 1
If you’re sure the older version was better, you can switch to it like this:
sudo dnf install won’t install the older version, you should do it manually,
sudo dnf remove *nvidia*
If rpm fusion is not enabled:
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
If rpm fusion repos enabled but not updated:
sudo dnf update rpmfusion-free-release rpmfusion-nonfree-release
Check the correct version:
dnf list akmod-nvidia --showduplicates
Install to driver version you want:
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-<version>
Wait for a while to rebuild kernel and reboot.
If the kernel hasn’t been rebuilt correctly:
sudo akmods --force
reboot again and check to driver version modinfo nvidia | grep version.
For the exclude to auto update:
exclude=akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia* nvidia-settings nvidia-persistenced
Also, the older NVIDIA driver may cause kernel incompatibility, so you might need to use an older kernel version as well. So if you updated to kernel, switch to older kernel first.
Conclusion: Installing an older driver is a pain in the ass… Also, it can be quite unnecessary… 
You should confirm that this isn’t due to overheating. At work (where almost everyone was using the same model) we had a bunch of systems that made better vacuum cleaners than computers. At the time construction activity meant dust content in the air was higher than most office or home environments. Frequent application of compressed air was needed to prevent overheating.
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