Gigabyte 1060 G1 6144MB Blank Screens & Fans on Full

[driver182]

Hi Just bought a Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6GB from the store and having issues. I've just upgraded from a gigabyte GTX670 windforce never had a problem with gigabyte and the previous card was dead silent so thought I would stick with the same.

So I have a 4670K overclocked to 4.6Ghz with 700W XFX PSU at 1080p 60Hz and its been stable for 3 years. I plugged in the new card and after 5 mins on Unigine the screen goes dead and the cards fans got to 100% until I reset. This is running the card at stock overclock. This is repeatable in games as well.

This morning I have reset my motherboard back to stock speeds and down clocked the card to reference GTX1060 speeds it is now totally stable!. After 15 mins running uniqine at ultra with 1080p its going fine so I have increased the card back to the default speed it came with = 1595Mhz and 8014Mhz for RAM. It appears to be stable still.

Case is very well ventilated GPU never goes above 58C at full load and CPU temp maxes at 40C as its de-lidded and massive cooler so its not temps.

So can overclocking my CPU affect the GPU. I am only changing CPU voltage and base clocked to 4.5 not changing the PCI bus speeds or anything else. RAM isn't overclocked.

Any tips ?

Matt

 

[Rroff]

Any change to a system can potentially unmask CPU instabilities that weren't exposed by a previous configuration - the GPU is one of the most realtime intensive parts of the system and very susceptible to and often the first noticeable point of failure when a system overclock isn't 100% stable.

 

[Kaapstad]

Any tips ?

Matt

Don't overclock your CPU that high it is not needed.

Anything over 4.2 or 4.3 is pointless in most situations. Even if you can get a few extra fps by going higher with low game settings your monitor won't be fast enough to use them.

For gaming I don't run any of my PCs faster than 4.0ghz, I just turn up the game settings to use the extra GPU grunt.

 

[driver182]

I do photo and video encoding hence higher clock speed. I've reset BIOS and Just set the overclock on the CPU to 4Ghz its been stable for a couple of hours now so I think it was the overclock. Will leave it at 4Ghz pushing it higher isnt going to make a massive difference. thx

 

[driver182]

Turns out the system was completely stable it was a dodgy display port cable. Once replaced everything is as it was but just with new graphics card. Wierdest issue was buttons on the monitor stopping working!