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1060 bad install?

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior

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Just bought a new card above 6gb EVGA version, went for the small form factor one as it seems to get goodish reviews and I have a tightish case so the shorter card really helps

I had an old GTX470 in there, so removed all the drivers via control panel, (using the onboard graphics to run the monitor). Shut down the PC, removed the 470 and installed the 1060.

Powered back up and installed latest drivers from EVGA site, which I think may be slightly behind the latest but pretty close.

So the issues seem to be, its warm, and i know it will probably idle a little higher than a dual fan, but its sitting at about 64 degrees. Fan at 10%.
I don't have a recent game that will stress it, but I ran a game and it went to 67 and 23% fan. It was working a little. (oh tested with GPUZ in case that matters)

I noticed on GPUz that its also not reporting being Physx enabled. Which is obviously incorrect.

What would people suggest at this point?

If I uninstall the drivers is there some sort of driver cleaner thats safe to use? I am guessing thers is some sort of minor issue with old drivers, although the temps I wonder if something else is the issue.

Its not slowly going to 60 degrees either, its that temp by the time windows has booted and with a cold case with push pull I cant see that case temps can have contributed.
 
first thing I would suggest is to install the latest drivers from Nvidia's website and then try again. Nvdia drivers don't require cleaning, uninstalling etc. Just install latest ones and see if that makes any difference.

as for testing, you could try Uningine, it will show you the performance and temperature under stress.
 
Just checked EVGA website and 10xx series drivers are 376.33 which are up to date.
Whats the load when idle and at 67c in GPUZ ?

more likely your GPU-z is not up to date.
 
Did you go for the Evga SC or non SC version ? They have completely different coolers, the non SC is a bog standard heat sink and the SC is copper heatpipe
 
Griffildur said:
first thing I would suggest is to install the latest drivers from Nvidia's website and then try again. Nvdia drivers don't require cleaning, uninstalling etc. Just install latest ones and see if that makes any difference.

as for testing, you could try Uningine, it will show you the performance and temperature under stress.
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Only reason i wondered if something was wrong with drivers was because of the physx thing missing.

Will check that out later thanks
 
varkanoid said:
Just checked EVGA website and 10xx series drivers are 376.33 which are up to date.
Whats the load when idle and at 67c in GPUZ ?

more likely your GPU-z is not up to date.
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Was the latest i think. Can check that but its only a few weeks old at max as I downloaded it to check what the on board graphics reported via GPUZ.

The load at idle was nothing basically, when I tried a game it was about 20% iirc.

Would running multi monitor do anything. Ive got 3 monitors hooked up
Main is 1440p, 2nd an old 1200, and 3rd a 1080p

I think the game is mainly CPU limited, CPU was at about 50% (4360 so not that incapable).
 
RynceWynd said:
Did you go for the Evga SC or non SC version ? They have completely different coolers, the non SC is a bog standard heat sink and the SC is copper heatpipe
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Its the non SC, so I have the ACX2 not the ACX3, but they say the ACX2 is a very capable cooler.

I may install the EVGA overclocking etc stuff as that looks like it also reports back temps etc.
 
Ok so downloaded and tried heaven dx11 benchmark

GPU temp quickly rose to 80 or so, fan ramped up to about 50% then it just sat there
Ran it for about 15 mins and nothing moved much
On screen heaven reported 1911mhz on the GPu which seems higher than this is supposed to go, where as most of the time GPUZ reported 1797 iirc, it did blip up to 1827 a few times
So looks like that's the fan profile they are using. I closely watched it when I turned it on, it slowly rose from about 30 degress to low 60s then the fan slowly ramped up to 11%.

After the stress test I watch it cool down which it did quickly to 63 then the fan slowed down over a minute or so to 11% again

TDP was bouncing around 80-90% most of the time, briefly flipping over 100% when the perfcap reason would flick to PWR

still no idea on the PhysX as drivers are installed for it. I don't think its a big issue though I may try to see if it is at a later date.

Unless anyone thinks any of this is wrong I will take it as being fine.
Thanks for the help guys
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Its the non SC, so I have the ACX2 not the ACX3, but they say the ACX2 is a very capable cooler.

I may install the EVGA overclocking etc stuff as that looks like it also reports back temps etc.
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The SC version is also ACX2, same fan as the non SC. The difference between the two is the heatsink, which is the main reason for the different cooling performance.

I would recommend downloading EVGA's Precision X OC software from their website and setting up your own custom fan profile.

I have the SC version and the hottest I've seen it is 79 degrees with the fan at 50%, while running Witcher 3 with all bells and whistles at 1440p. Less demanding games tend to put the temperature somewhere in the 60-70 degree range running at highest settings at 1440p.
 
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