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

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Er.. you have two psu running the thing?
The new psu is feeding the 12v input on the card? well er.. thats yer problem.
Is it even supplying power? is the new psu on? How are you powering it up? via the old pins connected trick or what? the ground cables on the connection supplying the card will also not be the same as the ones supplying the board..

Good grief, er could that have any bearing lol... thats like lol..
 
sideways14a said:
???
Er.. you have two psu running the thing?
The new psu is feeding the 12v input on the card? well er.. thats yer problem.
Is it even supplying power? is the new psu on? How are you powering it up? via the old pins connected trick or what? the ground cables on the connection supplying the card will also not be the same as the ones supplying the board..

Good grief, er could that have any bearing lol... thats like lol..
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Sorry. Like I said. I'm new to this. It's definitely supplying power. I can turn the on the fans on the GPU.
 
Can you post some photos of your setup please.

We need to see how you’ve set this up..

The fans are powered through the pcie lane rather than the power supply I’m sure.

Cheers
 
OWL282820 said:
Sorry. Like I said. I'm new to this. It's definitely supplying power. I can turn the on the fans on the GPU.
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Try using one psu for everything, and also try to reinstall Windows. The 1060 can run without the power cable connected but only at low clocks.
 
OWL282820 said:
Sorry. Like I said. I'm new to this. It's definitely supplying power. I can turn the on the fans on the GPU.
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The card will still be able to pull power from the pcie slot so that could be why your fans can spin. That does not indicate the PSU solely connected to your GPU is actually providing power. More so with the fact that your GPUz readout suggests power being the limiting factor to performance, even at 2D clocks.

Your power supply connected to the gpu will not be running unless you have put on an atx bridge or paperclip on the 24 pin.

Just hook everything up to one power supply.
 
Indeed, the second psu is likely not even on.
There are so many problems with this configuration, even if you got the second psu to send out 12v to the card you could have load balancing issues with the second unit getting mighty confused as to why one rail is under load and the rest and doing nothing.

I am amazed the card even spat out a video signal, it was likely more confused than i am right now and wondering why it only has 75w from the board to play with.
You wont need to reinstall windows, change any drivers or bios or anything. This is 100% your issue right there.
 
OWL282820 said:
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?
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You can't just "connect it". Without the other bits plugged in the motherboard can't tell the PSU to supply the power - it's talking to the other PSU instead. That would perfectly explain why your clocks are so low - the card is only getting power from the PCIe slot, instead of the PCIe power cable from the PSU, which is throttling it. That's why everyone was asking if you had the power cables plugged into the graphics card, which you don't actually have powered up.

Rearrange your case, get some extender cables for the bits that won't reach, run it off one PSU. Find a friend who knows what he's doing to show you how it works.
 
T.Kay said:
Try using one psu for everything, and also try to reinstall Windows. The 1060 can run without the power cable connected but only at low clocks.
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Why would he also reinstall windows?!

It's looking like the card isn't being powered properly. Maybe address that problem first and then if still having problems look at a reinstall.

If the OPs description above regarding 2 psus is correct it's likely simply powering the card properly will fix his issues
 
Thank you all for your patience and time. I'm an old fart but I learn quick and your knowledge has been invaluable. I thought I was going to have to throw out the new GPU, with all that money wasted, and put the old one back in. I'll strip it all down again and rebuild with extension cables. Sorry to have had you all running around with only some of the facts to work with. Again, I am extremely grateful. At least my lack of knowledge probably gave you a chuckle. I'm now looking forward to actually start feeding my new-found gaming addiction.
 
Deduct 10 points for leaving everyone in the dark about two PSUs. But give yourself 20 points for it being such a unique cause lol.
 
OWL282820 said:
Thank you all for your patience and time. I'm an old fart but I learn quick and your knowledge has been invaluable. I thought I was going to have to throw out the new GPU, with all that money wasted, and put the old one back in. I'll strip it all down again and rebuild with extension cables. Sorry to have had you all running around with only some of the facts to work with. Again, I am extremely grateful. At least my lack of knowledge probably gave you a chuckle. I'm now looking forward to actually start feeding my new-found gaming addiction.
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It is an easy mistake to make.

If you use two PSUs you need a special cable to connect both of them so they are connected to the motherboard or a special connector.

If the PSU does not think it is attached to a motherboard it will power nothing.
 
OWL282820 said:
Thank you all for your patience and time. I'm an old fart but I learn quick and your knowledge has been invaluable. I thought I was going to have to throw out the new GPU, with all that money wasted, and put the old one back in. I'll strip it all down again and rebuild with extension cables. Sorry to have had you all running around with only some of the facts to work with. Again, I am extremely grateful. At least my lack of knowledge probably gave you a chuckle. I'm now looking forward to actually start feeding my new-found gaming addiction.
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Don't worry we have all been there (well not the two PSU thing ~ that is:confused::D). I'm addicted to this thread!
 
OWL282820 said:
Does this tell me anything?

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I've deleted and changed this post as I've now seen the more recent info & replies. It's good news that its only a mistake rather than a broken component. Best of luck. :)
 
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nashathedog said:
If that's the results after running a benchmark it tells us the gpu isn't being used, for example the gpu core clock is meant to go to whatever the boost clock is which at a guess should be 1800 mhz or more not 139 mhz as your's is showing, Check the things mentioned by Armageus and do it quickly so you don't go pass the 2 week return window. If none of those help I'd be inclined to return for a refund and then buy another one. If the problems with the gpu it's just bad luck.
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Read the thread, it's his PSU setup at fault.
 
Definitely going to be the secondary PSU.

Just a word of warning, turn everything off at the wall before you dismantle your system to rebuild around a single PSU. I fried a GTX480 once by disconnecting the secondary power supply while it was still drawing power even though the system was off, better safe than sorry.
 
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