About to toss my brand new GEForce 1060. Please help!

BongoHunter · 7 Mar 2018 at 21:19

I would clean install Windows at this point tbh, it's only going to take a few hours and might save days of messing about.

OWL282820 · 7 Mar 2018 at 21:30

BongoHunter said:
I would clean install Windows at this point tbh, it's only going to take a few hours and might save days of messing about.

Is that what my results are suggesting to you?

Ian Evey · 7 Mar 2018 at 21:33

OWL282820 said:
Is that what my results are suggesting to you?

Not to me, try what Amageus said and set all power options to prefer maximum performance in windows and the same in the Nvidia Control Panel.

OWL282820 · 7 Mar 2018 at 21:51

Ian Evey said:
Not to me, try what Amageus said and set all power options to prefer maximum performance in windows and the same in the Nvidia Control Panel.

Performance rather than quality in Nvidia?

Ian Evey · 7 Mar 2018 at 21:56

OWL282820 said:
Performance rather than quality in Nvidia?

Yes and also there is an option that says power management, set that to prefer maximum performance.

sideways14a · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:02

Yeah its not raising clocks by the looks of it, those core clocks should be more than ten times that number.
I dont think your card is physically broken, its almost certain a windows/driver/bios issue.

Edited to say

Try creating a brand new user profile in windows (an admin one of course) and rerunning the tests from inside it.
Might be a startup app or some other crap causing bedlam.

OWL282820 · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:05

Made the power changes. Still only 13fps

sideways14a · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:14

I notice it also says perfcap reason is due to power, are you sure your PSU is up to it? can you check the output of it, on the sticker it should be listed.

BS Dave · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:23

You have connected the power cables to the GPU right?

OWL282820 · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:32

sideways14a said:
I notice it also says perfcap reason is due to power, are you sure your PSU is up to it? can you check the output of it, on the sticker it should be listed.

Silverstone STRIDER SFX 600W FULLY MODULAR '80 PLUS GOLD' POWER SUPPLY (SST-SX600-G)
That's what's fitted and connected to the GPU. Checked the cable, (the GPU only has one power connection). tightly seated. I can turn the fans on manually via Gigabyte software.

Dirk Diggler · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:37

When you have it open in GPUz, click the little question mark on the right hand side (next to the bus interface info) of the main screen and run the render test. See if that puts it into 3D clocks and spins your fans up.

nutsnut · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:44

Have we actually confirmed the hdmi is connected to the 1060 and not the motherboard?

Armageus · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:52

nutsnut said:
Have we actually confirmed the hdmi is connected to the 1060 and not the motherboard?

That's a negative

OWL282820 · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:57

sideways14a said:
Yeah its not raising clocks by the looks of it, those core clocks should be more than ten times that number.
I dont think your card is physically broken, its almost certain a windows/driver/bios issue.

Edited to say

Try creating a brand new user profile in windows (an admin one of course) and rerunning the tests from inside it.
Might be a startup app or some other crap causing bedlam.

I'll give that a try also. Thank you.

nutsnut said:
Have we actually confirmed the hdmi is connected to the 1060 and not the motherboard?

Yes. The only HDMI output is on the GPU card itself.

OWL282820 · 7 Mar 2018 at 23:08

String said:
When you have it open in GPUz, click the little question mark on the right hand side (next to the bus interface info) of the main screen and run the render test. See if that puts it into 3D clocks and spins your fans up.

That's a negative.The render test didn't make the fans kick in and Task Manager showed GPU 3D as zero during the test.

sideways14a · 7 Mar 2018 at 23:09

Quite odd this, i take it there is no overclocking software running as a service or app in startup.
A new user account would help with a corrupt registry assuming it was in the profile area.

OWL282820 · 7 Mar 2018 at 23:09

OWL282820 said:
I'll give that a try also. Thank you.

Yes. The only HDMI output is on the GPU card itself.

New admin user profile gave same results as my own profile.

OWL282820 · 7 Mar 2018 at 23:13

sideways14a said:
Quite odd this, i take it there is no overclocking software running as a service or app in startup.
A new user account would help with a corrupt registry assuming it was in the profile area.

There is Gigabyte's own software running. Aorus Graphics Engine. It came with the 1060.

OWL282820 · 7 Mar 2018 at 23:16

This was GPU-Z during the render test.

OWL282820 · 7 Mar 2018 at 23:31

Just a thought. When I Installed the new card, a friend gave me a gaming case, so I decided to use it and transferred my own PC's contents into it. When I fitted it all together the 4 pin ATX cable and the 22 pin motherboard cables were too short. So, I connected the existing PSU to the motherboard and the new 600W PSU to the 1060 . Could this have any bearing on matters?