Bad Overclock or Driver?

[Mike Soda]

For the second time now I've encountered something weird I'm not sure if considered a crash or what. While playing RuneScape my OC'd 3GB MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X sometimes gets stuck at ~600MHz (will note exact # next time). Although how my PC is performing during this occurrence it feels significantly worse. Clicks, mouseovers & well any navigation in-game or my desktop is almost at a complete stop, taking just about a minute to even exit out of Afterburner only to result in it being unresponsive. Restarting my PC solves the issue but nothing long the lines of a BSOD or black screen happens. At these times I had +140 & +138 Core but have since reduced to +130. It's yet to happen again although so far appears to be once daily & my Memory OC has been at +700 the whole time. Is this a problem with my Driver, Afterburner or just too high an Overclock?

 

Other Notes & System Specs:

 

*Although I tested my OC's in Heaven & Valley with +140 Core & +700 Memory, which all passed settling at 2050MHz. Periodically when changing screen size or just moving around in RuneScape results in a temporary 2063Mhz clock. Even though according to my Curve in Afterburner, it shouldn't hit 2063 until 1100mV which it never goes to, only 1093mV where 2050MHz also aligns.

 

Ryzen 5 1500X (not OC'd still due to BIOS)

MSI B350M Gaming Pro

16GB G.Skill DDR4 3200 (stuck at 2933 due to BIOS too)

EVGA G2 550W

MasterCase Pro 3

Windows 10

Nvidia Driver 382.53

 

[limegorilla]

Have you tried event log? Might be something in there if it's a driver issue

[Mike Soda]

27 minutes ago, liamdoyle27 said:

Have you tried event log? Might be something in there if it's a driver issue

Yeah all looked fine except for the Core Clock, didn't hit power limit.

[chrisz5z]

Few questions,

1. what are your GPU temps before/during/after running the game?
2. Does it do the same in other games?
3. Have you tried an app like FurMark to see if the same slow down occurs?

and if you can, post your logs from Afterburner & FurMark

[Mike Soda]

On 7/1/2017 at 11:01 PM, chrisz5z said:

Few questions,

1. what are your GPU temps before/during/after running the game?
2. Does it do the same in other games?
3. Have you tried an app like FurMark to see if the same slow down occurs?

and if you can, post your logs from Afterburner & FurMark

I'm pretty sure it was just Driver based as with the latest 384.76 all is fine for 2 days now with the exception of some client issues. Temps are always fine, usually in the 50's & unfortunately I don't have any other games to test. I found some past threads for much older cards where a sketchy driver version resulted in almost the exact same thing. If it happens again I'll try Furmark although Heaven & Valley tests ran for several hours at a +140 were stable & I'm using +130 now.

[Shadow_Storm56]

On 30/06/2017 at 11:56 PM, Mike Soda said:

For the second time now I've encountered something weird I'm not sure if considered a crash or what. While playing RuneScape my OC'd 3GB MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X sometimes gets stuck at ~600MHz (will note exact # next time). Although how my PC is performing during this occurrence it feels significantly worse. Clicks, mouseovers & well any navigation in-game or my desktop is almost at a complete stop, taking just about a minute to even exit out of Afterburner only to result in it being unresponsive. Restarting my PC solves the issue but nothing long the lines of a BSOD or black screen happens. At these times I had +140 & +138 Core but have since reduced to +130. It's yet to happen again although so far appears to be once daily & my Memory OC has been at +700 the whole time. Is this a problem with my Driver, Afterburner or just too high an Overclock?

 

Other Notes & System Specs:

 

*Although I tested my OC's in Heaven & Valley with +140 Core & +700 Memory, which all passed settling at 2050MHz. Periodically when changing screen size or just moving around in RuneScape results in a temporary 2063Mhz clock. Even though according to my Curve in Afterburner, it shouldn't hit 2063 until 1100mV which it never goes to, only 1093mV where 2050MHz also aligns.

 

Ryzen 5 1500X (not OC'd still due to BIOS)

MSI B350M Gaming Pro

16GB G.Skill DDR4 3200 (stuck at 2933 due to BIOS too)

EVGA G2 550W

MasterCase Pro 3

Windows 10

Nvidia Driver 

usually a bad overclock will recover so it could be the driver 

[Mike Soda]

1 minute ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

usually a bad overclock will recover so it could be the driver 

Thanks for your input too, so far it's yet to happen so yes probably 382.53 Driver.