MrCheesecake

I'll tell him to look into buying a new cooler, I didn't even know he was using a stock one until now and I'm kinda face-palming at that. Also, sorry it's taking so long to reply, the guy on discord isn't being very responsive rn

He disabled boost clock since he's using the stock cooler and it throttles if it goes higher than 3.3 Ghz

3.3 Ghz He's about to try overclocking it Cooler Master 750W 80+ gold

after the underclock it's around %70-%80 and is running significantly better, but not as good as it should be No, it's not throttling at all

He doesn't want to disassemble it since it's still under warranty

No, hasn't tried overclocking it, but right now he's trying to underclock it to see if that helps and if not he'll try to overclock it a bit like you suggested He has a 660 previously and the 1060 is performing worse than it

He does, and he has the latest drivers Yeah, that's why I ruled it out, and it was also brand new so it's pretty much impossible for that to be it

i5-2500k

This didn't happen to me, but I was looking through messages in a Discord server and somebody said their friend's brand new GTX 1060, that they bought in person from a store, is performing similarly to a GTX 650. I asked him if maybe it was an older card with a GTX 1060s BIOS to make it appear as one in windows, but no, it's a legit 1060, but it's performing horribly. Any help would be great and I'll dm him with any questions you guys have since I know it'll most likely take a lot more information to figure this out.

....I need that setup in my life

Same here, I was thinking about waiting for the new gen GPUs but wanted to have an actual working PC for my birthday so I just went with current gen, and yeah your build is super powerful!

Aww man, that sucks and thank you!

Oh damn mate, that's gonna be one awesome PC!

For my needs, it's OP as hell probably the most demanding game I'll be playing on it is Kingdom: New Lands. And thank you! Hope your upcoming build goes well!

I chose most of them but had a ton of help and suggestions through the PC Part Picker discord server and from other on this site. And thank you!!