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Neoprod said:
Nobody plays with me anymore...I've been cast out. The tribe has spoken.

Might as well get Call of Duty now :cry:
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Tsek, you don't announce yourself when you're online and don't come on Discord unless I promise beer.
 
Corsair VS450, single 12V rail and two year old capacitors.

Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 + i5 4590, according to the online calculators my whole system during load should use 380W.

When running Unigine Superposition and Mass Effect: Andromeda I can see MSI Afterburner and GPU-Z say PerfCap Reason: Pwr (Limited by total power limit) and the core clock goes down below even reference speeds.

It's definitely the PSU right?
 
Soul Assassin said:
Corsair VS450, single 12V rail and two year old capacitors.

Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 + i5 4590, according to the online calculators my whole system during load should use 380W.

When running Unigine Superposition and Mass Effect: Andromeda I can see MSI Afterburner and GPU-Z say PerfCap Reason: Pwr (Limited by total power limit) and the core clock goes down below even reference speeds.

It's definitely the PSU right?
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Latest drivers?

Check, maybe there is a driver with power reduction, might close just not enough. a Simple driver "might" fix it in the meantime till you can get a bigger PSU.
 
Pitbull said:
Latest drivers?

Check, maybe there is a driver with power reduction, might close just not enough. a Simple driver "might" fix it in the meantime till you can get a bigger PSU.
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A good, brand new, 450W PSU might be just fine but a two year old Corsair VS450 not so much.

The card is working, I'm using my PC right now but it crashes when I start to do GPU intensive things, I just want someone else to confirm my PSU theory.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Corsair VS450, single 12V rail and two year old capacitors.

Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 + i5 4590, according to the online calculators my whole system during load should use 380W.

When running Unigine Superposition and Mass Effect: Andromeda I can see MSI Afterburner and GPU-Z say PerfCap Reason: Pwr (Limited by total power limit) and the core clock goes down below even reference speeds.

It's definitely the PSU right?
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Yes - it would say VREL or something if it was boosting like normal and hitting max voltage. Are your temps and voltages as expected?
 
Neoprod said:
Yes - it would say VREL or something if it was boosting like normal and hitting max voltage. Are your temps and voltages as expected?
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It didn't even go up to 60°C before I could see it start to throttle the core clock and voltage was 1.043 so well below the 1.093 limit.

PSU confirmed?
 
Soul Assassin said:
Corsair VS450, single 12V rail and two year old capacitors.

Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 + i5 4590, according to the online calculators my whole system during load should use 380W.

When running Unigine Superposition and Mass Effect: Andromeda I can see MSI Afterburner and GPU-Z say PerfCap Reason: Pwr (Limited by total power limit) and the core clock goes down below even reference speeds.

It's definitely the PSU right?
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ponder said:
Should be ok, what other components do you have?
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Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1
i5 4590
2x4GB DDR3
MSI H81M-P33
Blu Ray writer
7200RPM HDD
SSD
2x120mm high speed fans
LED gaming keyboard
 
Soul Assassin said:
A good, brand new, 450W PSU might be just fine but a two year old Corsair VS450 not so much.

The card is working, I'm using my PC right now but it crashes when I start to do GPU intensive things, I just want someone else to confirm my PSU theory.
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Sorry mised the age thing, also recalled something about rail capacity on older vs series.

Have you tried setting your power limit % to 90, 80 etc in msi afterburner so it uses less power for now?

in msi look at the power vs freq graph to see id the throttling corresponds.
 
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ponder said:
Sorry mised the age thing, also recalled something about rail capacity on older vs series.

Have you tried setting your power limit % to 90, 80 etc in msi afterburner so it uses less power fo now?
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If I set it to -20% in the Gigabyte utility and we assume it uses 185W it should limit it to 148W correct?
 
Soul Assassin said:
If I set it to -20% in the Gigabyte utility and we assume it uses 185W it should limit it to 148W correct?
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I'm not sure how it relates to base&boost clocks, try 80% and see what wattage msi reports under load running unigine or something like that and adjust from there. Or you can try dropping your clocks to the reference clocks (founders edition) or slightly lower/higher.
 
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ponder said:
I'm not sure how it relates to base&boost clocks, try 80% and see what wattage msi reports under load running unigine or something like that and adjust from there. Or you can try dropping your clocks to the reference clocks (founders edition) or slightly lower/higher.
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I knew you were going to help me out, for some reason I didn't think about lowering the power limit, I just assumed the Guru3D review to be correct and that the card uses 185W, I set the power limit to -30%, meaning it's limited to 129.5W and ran the Unigine benchmark and it went all the way through no problem, no crashing.

PSU confirmed to be the problem, sorry for hijacking the thread everyone but thank you for the help.

Will order a 700W this time and be done with it.
 
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