Well I am having a spate of problems with my PC recently and the latest is that my 1060 3gb card is running running capped at 139 mhz even while gaming. (see it in afterburner, firestorm, gpu-z) I had the same issue before and you can read about it here if you want. I solved it by uninstalling the via hd audio (onboard audio) drivers and disabling the nvidia hd audio drivers in device manager. I have my Headset installed so I still have audio so I was okay with running the system like that.
Win10 Pro
I5 4550
zotac 1060 3gb
8gb ddr3 ram
psu: 500w Artis gold (its not as reputable as say corsair or cooler master but it does the job)
As I said, its again running capped and gpu-z shows the reason as pwr limit same as before.
Now I was having an issue till yesterday where my seagate baracuda 2 gb drive was running constantly at 100% in task manager and I solved that by changing the sata cable AND using a different power cable for my hd1 a samsung ssd and my hd2 the seagate baracuda drive.
I also disabled windows search and another windows service which helps with faster starts but I think its changing the power cable which solved it.
I did that yesterday and after both my hd's were running normally again, played for like 3 hours at least with my 1060 also running normally.
However when I booted my computer again today and launched PUBG, I was again getting low fps same as before and when I went into gpu-z it said perfcap -> pwr sure enough.
I am not sure if this caused by the psu supplying limited power or if its because of some other reason and buying a new psu just so I can test if this is the issue doesn't sound like a smart thing to do... can anyone please advice me on this...
p.s when I got my 1060 running normally, gpu-z was still giving vrel as a perfcap reason a lot of the time while gaming. I think Vrel means that it wasn't getting reliably constant voltage.
p.p.s I apologize for any mistakes in my english I am not a native speaker
Win10 Pro
I5 4550
zotac 1060 3gb
8gb ddr3 ram
psu: 500w Artis gold (its not as reputable as say corsair or cooler master but it does the job)
As I said, its again running capped and gpu-z shows the reason as pwr limit same as before.
Now I was having an issue till yesterday where my seagate baracuda 2 gb drive was running constantly at 100% in task manager and I solved that by changing the sata cable AND using a different power cable for my hd1 a samsung ssd and my hd2 the seagate baracuda drive.
I also disabled windows search and another windows service which helps with faster starts but I think its changing the power cable which solved it.
I did that yesterday and after both my hd's were running normally again, played for like 3 hours at least with my 1060 also running normally.
However when I booted my computer again today and launched PUBG, I was again getting low fps same as before and when I went into gpu-z it said perfcap -> pwr sure enough.
I am not sure if this caused by the psu supplying limited power or if its because of some other reason and buying a new psu just so I can test if this is the issue doesn't sound like a smart thing to do... can anyone please advice me on this...
p.s when I got my 1060 running normally, gpu-z was still giving vrel as a perfcap reason a lot of the time while gaming. I think Vrel means that it wasn't getting reliably constant voltage.
p.p.s I apologize for any mistakes in my english I am not a native speaker
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