1060 6GB Random Black Screens w/Sound and Power Still ON

[alfredofromsd]

Hey everyone. I've been having a serious issue with my computer this week, as I receive black screens and No Signal prompts after about 5-10 minutes in any 3D graphics heavy game. I get a windows notification chime, but I can still hear whatever is going on in-game. The fans sound like they go to 100% when the black screen happens, but even monitoring temps on everything I don't see anything out of the ordinary (40C out of games, mid 60's in demanding games).

Things I've done already-

Reseated graphics card and reconnected the PSU pin
Dusted computer internals with compressed air
Drivers up to date
Tried recommended older Nvidia drivers (382.33)
Ordered new PSU and graphics card(upgraded to a 1070)

Specs: (Highlighted suspected problem areas)

CPU: i7 6700k
CPU COOLER: Hyper 212 Evo
GPU: MSI 1060 6GB 6GT
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
PSU: Corsair - CSM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Storage: 1TB HDD / 256GB SSD
OS: Windows 7 64bit Home

NO OVERCLOCKING DONE


This happens both in-game with both graphically intensive, newer AAA games and both older games that don't require high graphical requirements.

Doing some research on google has people coming to the conclusion it's probably either the PSU failing and not getting enough power to the video card, or an issue with the card itself starting to fail. I've had the card since December of 2016 and game on regularly, but I've never had a card just give out on me before like this. I'm at a loss with this, and I appreciate any help you guys can give.

 

[Greeko85]

Well if you've performed a CLEAN install of your drivers using DDU I'd say the next possible culprits are temperatures or power delivery. Is the psu you listed the old model or the replacement? What temperatures does your card reach before it craps out?

 

[alfredofromsd]

Well if you've performed a CLEAN install of your drivers using DDU I'd say the next possible culprits are temperatures or power delivery. Is the psu you listed the old model or the replacement? What temperatures does your card reach before it craps out?

I've done a DDU wipe twice.

Current PSU is the Corsair model.

Temps reach low-mid 70s, even when stress tested on heaven benchmark at the highest settings I can do at 1080p. I really don't think it's a cooling issue. I'll have both the new GPU and PSU by Thursday to test which part is actually faulty. This problem seems very prevalent with Nvidia GPUs, so I'm leaning more on it being the GPU just being defunct, but I couldn't get a concrete answer from anything online as to a consistent solution that works across the board.