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You May Remember Me (Under-performing gtx 1660)

SkeeterUK said:
You can always give msi afterburners auto ocing feature a go and see if you can get performance back that way.

https://www.msi.com/blog/get-a-free-performance-boost-with-afterburner-oc-scanner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcMYUvqQrHM
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Thanks, I did think about that, but at the end of the day all of the figures reported were normal (clock speeds and voltage), so figured I would leave it.

I'll try to get in contact with Palit today.

Thanks so much for your help.
 
SkeeterUK said:
You say you tested clock speed etc, is that at idle only or do you use a overlay for ingame to see what they are when theres load on the card too?
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I used HWMonitor to monitor min and max in each game, and under load, for example R6 Siege, it went up to 1920MHz
 
If you give them the serial number they should be able to tell you what the card actually is, that's assuming that it hasn't been copied.
 
Tetras said:
If you give them the serial number they should be able to tell you what the card actually is, that's assuming that it hasn't been copied.
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That's a good point. I have already emailed Palit asking for any advice. I didn't even think to give them the serial number, but hopefully they will be able to read it from an image I sent of the back sticker.
 
A 1660 for £100 seems to good to be true. I recently paid £150 for a used EVGA 1660 and that was way cheaper than I could find anywhere else. The unverified bios is also a worry - sounds like the card is a dodgy Chinese copy.
 
Can you not just try flashing it rather than emailing them and stuff?

From memory it doesnt look very complicated to flash a new bios onto a card.
 
I'd be concerned about flashing a card that you don't even know what it is, really easy to get the wrong one and brick it.
 
D1craig said:
Can you not just try flashing it rather than emailing them and stuff?

From memory it doesnt look very complicated to flash a new bios onto a card.
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I'm happy to try flashing the bios, but the original person who suggested this said he couldn't see the correct bios for my card to flash so I didn't look into this further, especially as it's not something I've done before.
 
Think things have moved on a bit since those tests, though I guess it depends on where the bottleneck is. Doesn't matter here though anyway, cos it was benchmarked again in a dual channel rig.
 
Looking at those pics, the heatsink mounting screw to the left of the sticker in the one picture looks like its been messed with and there is some what looks like thermal paste gunking up some of the SMD's, perhaps shorting something perhaps?
 
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