Overclocking done wrong?

[Alexinhooooo]

Hey all. I didn't know in which category to fit this question, because it involves 3 different things.

I'm running GTAV on the background right now, and it's really laggy typing this, and it might be because of what I'm going to say next.

I have a GTX 1060 ROG OC @ 1939MHz boost clock and 8488 MHz memory clock, with the power target at 116%. I have an i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz. My power supply is a XFX TS 550W 80 PLUS Bronze.

Since I OC'd my CPU and GPU, I've been getting weird crashes mainly on PUBG, and now that I was playing GTAV, I noticed that when I was looking through my settings, it was down to like 10fps for some moments. As I said, typing this is also really laggy with GTAV open, running in the backgroud. The usages and temperatures of all hardware are looking fine, so my guess is that 550W is not enough for this OC (?).

Would like very much to read your guesses.

[narrdarr]

did you OC both your CPU and GPU at the same time.

 

[Lemtea]

500W should be plenty for that hardware, typically if you run out of wattage the overcurrent protection in the psu kicks in and just shuts off the power supply. It looks like you may have pushed the overclocks too far, I know its a bit of a pain but the what you should do is start with everything at default settings than start by overclocking just the cpu or gpu and running stability tests for an extended period time (at least a few hours) than once you are happy with the overclock and are sure it is stable and the temps are within check, move onto the next thing and start to overclock, testing for stability and keeping temps within check. It is also a good idea to make sure that performance is scaling as you overclock by using a benchmark. 

[Wh0_Am_1]

20 minutes ago, Alexinhooooo said:

Hey all. I didn't know in which category to fit this question, because it involves 3 different things.

I'm running GTAV on the background right now, and it's really laggy typing this, and it might be because of what I'm going to say next.

I have a GTX 1060 ROG OC @ 1939MHz boost clock and 8488 MHz memory clock, with the power target at 116%. I have an i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz. My power supply is a XFX TS 550W 80 PLUS Bronze.

Since I OC'd my CPU and GPU, I've been getting weird crashes mainly on PUBG, and now that I was playing GTAV, I noticed that when I was looking through my settings, it was down to like 10fps for some moments. As I said, typing this is also really laggy with GTAV open, running in the backgroud. The usages and temperatures of all hardware are looking fine, so my guess is that 550W is not enough for this OC (?).

Would like very much to read your guesses.

How exactly did you go about OCing your CPU?

[Fasauceome]

Perhaps some instability due to low CPU voltage

[Alexinhooooo]

17 hours ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

How exactly did you go about OCing your CPU?

Well I just went on my BIOS and turned on the MSI game boost (I have a MSI Z170A Pro Gaming Carbon mobo).

[Alexinhooooo]

17 hours ago, fasauceome said:

Perhaps some instability due to low CPU voltage

I thought of that, but for this specific OC I think it's not necessary to change the voltages of the CPU. I might be wrong tho.

[Alexinhooooo]

17 hours ago, narrdarr said:

did you OC both your CPU and GPU at the same time.

 

I OC'd my CPU and a few days later I OC'd my GPU, I believe. 

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Alexinhooooo said:

I thought of that, but for this specific OC I think it's not necessary to change the voltages of the CPU. I might be wrong tho.

IDK what your voltage is so you should definitely try some more to see what changes.

[Void Stryder]

Well I dunno what GPU it is but I'm pretty sure it's your CPU. Running my 1060 with 1959MHz Boost and 9008MHz memory

[Alexinhooooo]

17 hours ago, Lemtea said:

500W should be plenty for that hardware, typically if you run out of wattage the overcurrent protection in the psu kicks in and just shuts off the power supply. It looks like you may have pushed the overclocks too far, I know its a bit of a pain but the what you should do is start with everything at default settings than start by overclocking just the cpu or gpu and running stability tests for an extended period time (at least a few hours) than once you are happy with the overclock and are sure it is stable and the temps are within check, move onto the next thing and start to overclock, testing for stability and keeping temps within check. It is also a good idea to make sure that performance is scaling as you overclock by using a benchmark. 

Yep that makes sense. But on the other hand, the CPU OC was a simple OC (from 4.0 to 4.4GHz) and I've seen people with the exact same GPU hitting 2100MHz+ (thing I can't do, my PC just shuts down, maybe because of what you said in the beginning, still weird tho). I should benchmark and try to tune the clocks until its good indeed.