1060's Default boost clock in GPU-Z issue

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Hey all,

I'm having some odd issues with my son's PC which as yet, I cant figure out, hoping someone can help. The image of GPU-Z shows circled, a default boost frequency of 524MHz, which is not right. This PC is a 1st Gen I7 950 3.06GHz, with 6GB 1333 DDR3 RAM, on a Gigabyte MB, #GA-X58-UD3R (rev2) running Win 10 (ver 1709, ver 1803 failed to install correctly) yep, an older platform, I know. The card is a MSI 1060OC, basic card, no lights, but still a new lease on life for this PC.

Another issue is, in trying to show my son what his old 400 series card could achieve, compared to the 1060 when running Unigine Valley, it crashes the PC completely, shuts off and power's down. What's strange is, he can play games no problem, well so far playing mostly Fortnite, not sure if issues with other games. I thought maybe power supply, so checked voltages with AIDA Extreme and saw all voltages pretty stable running Prime95 Blend (well within 5%). Uninstall and reinstall all graphics related drivers, Valley still shuts PC down. Updated Bios from FF to FH with Gigabytes @bios (due to bios filesize changing), re-seated RAM, changed 6 Pin lead on card, to a different one from power supply. Nothing helping, I7 950 idle temps were 50 degrees Celcius and upto 90 when running Prime95 (PC has been cleaned, 3 case fans, 2 in, 1 out + power supply fans). Removed heatsink, reapplied thermal paste and dropped CPU temps by 10 degrees, but still cant run Valley without shutting PC down.

Just realised the bus interface is at x16 1.1, not sure if this is the problem yet, will check. Gigabytes latest drivers for this MB are Win 7 x64 only, so the most current chipset drivers, etc, are installed. The GPU-Z Render test runs no problem to, no other benches tried at this time. Have also tried re-installing GPU-Z and Valley. Graphics driver is from late January... hmm, any other ideas?

 

[Tatty_Two]

Your PCI-E @ 1.1 in GPU-Z is normal, if you run the render you should see it go up to 2. As for the boost clocks, seems strange, maybe a driver issue, try a clean uninstall and re-install a different driver set just to check.

 

[Caring1]

...in trying to show my son what his old 400 series card could achieve, compared to the 1060 when running Unigine Valley, it crashes the PC completely, shuts off and power's down. What's strange is, he can play games no problem

Unigine Valley is heavy on the CPU, If you want to test the GPU try Unigine Heaven.

 

[eidairaman1]

Ddu the gpu driver twice, install new chipset drivers, install a older driver for gpu or latest. Remove gpu-z and install it fresh.

 

[newtekie1]

I wouldn't really worry about what the default clocks are reading, the line above them are what it should actually be running.

Put the card under load and check the sensors tab to see what clock speed the GPU is actually running at.