Zotac Geforce GTX 1060 Poor Performance HELP

[WoodChuckers]

4 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

Antec 850w...ok is there any model name?

I am sorry guys it is a Kentek 850W 100-240V/50 60Hz. I am sorry  I am just so frustrated about this whole thing I am not thinking straight. Just took a look at the PSU and this is what the brand and I believe model number is. Everything else in this build is correct I 100% guarantee it. Please forgive me.

[PRTI]

3 minutes ago, WoodChuckers said:

I am sorry guys it is a Kentek 850W 100-240V/50 60Hz. I am sorry  I am just so frustrated about this whole thing I am not thinking straight. Just took a look at the PSU and this is what the brand and I believe model number is. Everything else in this build is correct I 100% guarantee it. Please forgive me.

NEVER heard of the brand... @don_svetlio

[WoodChuckers]

3 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

NEVER heard of the brand... @don_svetlio

I picked this up a few years ago when I was starting my pc build and back then I didnt know the things i know now and bought it for like 50 bucks

[don_svetlio]

7 minutes ago, WoodChuckers said:

I am sorry guys it is a Kentek 850W 100-240V/50 60Hz. I am sorry  I am just so frustrated about this whole thing I am not thinking straight. Just took a look at the PSU and this is what the brand and I believe model number is. Everything else in this build is correct I 100% guarantee it. Please forgive me.

It's the PSU - I am 99% certain

[WoodChuckers]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

It's the PSU - I am 99% certain

If thats the case what PSU would be good then?

[don_svetlio]

Just now, WoodChuckers said:

If thats the case what PSU would be good then?

Budget?

[Bouzoo]

What are your GPU clocks? You can check that in MSI Afterburner. I had an issue where my AMD card was resetting its clocks due to drivers,

[Gordon Bennett]

Ignore any comments about the PSU, in this instance, it makes no difference whatsoever! The quality of the PSU matters for issues of power saving/longevity of the system. The idea that the electricity that is supplied by one PSU, is different to the electricity supplied by another PSU to is daft, its electricity.

 

There are issues where the quality of the PSU can affect your electricity bill, and the protection afforded to your system from spikes & surges, (which occur naturally in all electrical devices), and all PSU's lose efficiency as they age, and in those regards a branded higher certified PSU is preferable. It can't however affect how your GPU works! Your GPU is digital, its either on or off, it can't be 'a bit on' purely because of the electricity emanating from the PSU!

 

I am having the same issue with an ASUS 1060 Dual OC edition card. The issue seems to be GPU driver related, and gives DirectX errors. I have given up perusing the fault, as I was planning on clean installing the Anniversary edition of W10 on that machine anyway. Will do in the next week or so, but of the problem persists, then it is a faulty GPU board which I will have to RMA.

 

Hope this post gives you a slightly clearer way forward though...

[don_svetlio]

2 minutes ago, Gordon Bennett said:

Ignore any comments about the PSU, in this instance, it makes no difference whatsoever! The quality of the PSU matters for issues of power saving/longevity of the system. The idea that the electricity that is supplied from one PSU to is daft, its electricity.

 

There are issues where the quality of the PSU can affect your electricity bill, and the protection afforded to your system from spikes & surges, (which occur naturally in all electrical devices), and all PSU's loose efficiency as they age, and in those regards a branded higher certified PSU is preferable. It can't however affect how your GPU works! Your GPU is digital, its either on or off, it can't be 'a bit on' purely because of the electricity emanating from the GPU!

 

I am having the same issue with an ASUS 1060 Dual OC edition card. The issue seems to be GPU driver related, and gives DirectX errors. I have given up perusing the fault, as I was planning on clean installing the Anniversary edition of W10 on that machine anyway. Will do in the next week or so, but of the problem persists, then it is a faulty GPU board which I will have to RMA.

 

Hope this post gives you a slightly clearer way forward though...

That is not correct - a cheap garbage PSU CANNOT supply it's rated power and can starve a system.

[WoodChuckers]

15 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Budget?

100 at the most but i would prefer less

[don_svetlio]

Just now, WoodChuckers said:

100 at the most but i would prefer less

SeaSonic G-series 550W if you want higher end
SeaSonic M12II EVO 520W if you want cheap

[Gordon Bennett]

4 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

That is not correct - a cheap garbage PSU CANNOT supply it's rated power and can starve a system.

It is supplying it, otherwise there wouldn't be a display. Oh my!

 

Oh, and it's 850W, even if the efficiency had dropped 50% (unlikely in the extreme) it would still power his system, the PSU is massively overrated for the spec!

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Gordon Bennett said:

It is supplying it, otherwise there wouldn't be a display. Oh my!

Yes there would be - do you even know how power throttling works?

[Gordon Bennett]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Yes there would be - do you even know how power throttling works?

Clearly more than you know about PSUs & electrical circuits! Its 850W. Posting nonsense and then arguing with anyone who disagree, is just daft!

[don_svetlio]

2 minutes ago, Gordon Bennett said:

Clearly more than you know about PSUs & electrical circuits! Its 850W. Posting nonsense and then arguing with anyone who disagree, is just daft!

It's NOT 850W - It WOULD be 850W if all of that was on the +12V rail and IF it was able to supply that continuously - go read up on HOW electrical circuits in modern ATX systems work BEFORE you throw accusations around.

[Gordon Bennett]

6 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

It's NOT 850W - It WOULD be 850W if all of that was on the +12V rail and IF it was able to supply that continuously - go read up on HOW electrical circuits in modern ATX systems work BEFORE you throw accusations around.

Yeah, so by your logic its the PSU because it doesn't have a shiny sticker, even though it's rated on a 850W PSU, on a GPU that draws 6W at idle?

 

How right you are then, it can't possibly be a driver issue or HW failure what with it drawing 6W? Oh my!

 

And you have 32,000 posts?  Wow!

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, Gordon Bennett said:

Yeah, so by your logic its the PSU because it doesn't have a shiny sticker, even though it's rated on a 850W PSU, on a GPU that draws 6W at idle?

 

How right you are then, it can't possibly be a driver issue or HW failure what with it drawing 6W? Oh my!

 

And you have 32,000 posts?  Wow!

You do realize that Kantek 850W units have 400W on the +3.3V and +5V rails - that make them essentially 450W PSUs on a good day. Couple that with the low-quality chinese caps, very shoddy soldering and unstable voltage and ripple and you get a ticking time bomb which cannot power and keep a system stable. If you wish to resume your condescending attitude, then I will advise the OP to not listen to you while we wait for the moderators to instruct you on proper forum communication.

[WoodChuckers]

47 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

NEVER heard of the brand... @don_svetlio

So I just did a fresh reinstall of my drivers and updated everything I possibly could and still no luck

[Gordon Bennett]

Just now, don_svetlio said:

You do realize that Kantek 850W units have 400W on the +3.3V and +5V rails - that make them essentially 450W PSUs on a good day. Couple that with the low-quality chinese caps, very shoddy soldering and unstable voltage and ripple and you get a ticking time bomb which cannot power and keep a system stable. If you wish to resume your condescending attitude, then I will advise the OP to not listen to you while we wait for the moderators to instruct you on proper forum communication.

I will do the same, and have referred your post as the GPU is clearly 6 watt, and giving people false information is clearly not what I (nor anyone else) would expect from this forum, and even a 250w PSU would power a system with a GTX 1060!

[don_svetlio]

Just now, WoodChuckers said:

So I just did a fresh reinstall of my drivers and updated everything I possibly could and still no luck

It's the PSU

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Gordon Bennett said:

I will do the same, and have referred your post as the GPU is clearly 6 watt, and giving people false information is clearly not what I (nor anyone else) would expect from this forum, and even a 250w PSU would power a system with a GTX 1060!

1060 is 6W? Really? A 120W-rated GPU (which goes to 150W) is 6W? Stop lying please. A minimum of 400W on the +12V rail is recommended for a 1060 system

[PRTI]

2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

1060 is 6W? Really? A 120W-rated GPU (which goes to 150W) is 6W? Stop lying please. A minimum of 400W on the +12V rail is recommended for a 1060 system

Stop lying! its 6w!!!

[PRTI]

6 minutes ago, WoodChuckers said:

So I just did a fresh reinstall of my drivers and updated everything I possibly could and still no luck

Most possibly its the PSU, since that's the only thing that looks unstable in this build...

[WoodChuckers]

3 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

Most possibly its the PSU, since that's the only thing that looks unstable in this build...

So would a EVGA 650W SuperNova 80+ Gold be good. As it seems to be my only option

 

[PRTI]

Just now, WoodChuckers said:

So would a EVGA 650W SuperNova 80+ Gold be good. As it seems to be my only option

 

What model is it? NEX,G2,GQ etc...