[SOLVED] GTX 1060 6gb incorrectly overclocked in my laptop. Did it fry it?

[johnbee715]

Hello guys,
So I followed a video on youtube to undervolt my laptop's gpu which is Nvidia GTX 1060 6gb. In the video the guy used MSI AfterBurner and claimed that it would undervolt the gpu and give less heat.
I followed exactly the same voltage curve graph in Afterburner he used, but as I am new to this stuff, I didn't pay attention to it.
After a week of playing and usual daily task working on my laptop I noticed it was heating up even on being idle, and the battery was running out faster than it should I started to wonder and checked to my surprise the GPU was clocked to 1899mhz even in idle condition at 0.874 volts.
I freaked out and uninstalled MSI Afterburner, but I am really concerned about my laptop now if any damaged has been caused to my card after this.
It's so silly I followed some random guy's youtube like that.
See the image to see the undervolt graph that I used that the guy used to undervolt the GPU.
Please guide. I hope my GPU is fine, I haven't turned on my laptop yet.
Max Temp while gaming I ever saw was 85c after hours of gaming, I literally played games on it for 8hrs+ everyday till a week with these settings.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

At 45 Deg C, you look fine. Though I'd ask you to see if the same clocks apply when you tax the laptop. Also, yes, point to note, don't always follow everything you see. Most often those people try and want people to watch a video for revenue(at your expense).

Mind sharing the video that you'd used for the undervolt? If your laptop is equipped with an Intel processor, you should've undervolted the CPU and NOT the GPU.

 

[johnbee715]

Oh that 45c is just when i put on the settings for the screenshot otherwise the temps would ramp up shortly after.
Well the guy took his youtube video or he blocked me from it, I can't reach his video anymore but I can see his reply on my comment in notifcation. His channel is called Bob Of All Trades

Yeah, I have already undervolted my cpu to -165mv from XTU, my processor is i7 6700hq. Was looking for a way to undervolt gpu as well but oh well it's a laptop after all I have limited option.
Thanks for the suggestion

 

[vivek_san]

hello
johnbee715

my AW 15 R3 i7 7700HQ and GTX 1060 6GB also had heating problems and fps drop issues. so i decided to check on that.
firstly there are two components contributing heating CPU and GPU.
seen tons of videos and read about all available software.

First installed Throttlestop and as all videos say don't need to have any knowledge and just do what i do. in the FIVR settings set voltage offset to -.100 on both CPU core and cache and -.040 on Intel GPU. and ran TS bench.
Got a lot of limit errors and then i decided to decrease to -.050 and core n cache. even then lot of limit errors.
Reset the values and uninstalled it.

As my heating problem persists, this time i tried with Intel XTU.
With stock settings ran CPU stress test of the program for 10 min and observed a constant Power limit throttle of CPU under load and temperatures of CPU touching 96 C. (Tropical country ambient is min 28 C reaching upto 40 C)
Then later on tested with an offset Voltage of -.050 and go on decreasing until i gained confidence on -.120 V.
I applied offset on only core and cache and left Intel GPU as it is as my laptop uses only Nvidia GPU.
-.130 V is my limit as i observed some game crashes and BSOD's.
Installed Throttlestop again for windows startup options with same settings. Now its fine.

On running stress test in Intel XTU for 10 min, I observed no Power throttling and CPU max is hitting 90 instead of 96 C and i felt i had done it. played some games like GTA V and Apex legends for 3-4 hrs, i still see CPU max hitting 96 C.

Then i thought its time to do some tweaking in GPU.
First thing that came in my mind is to undervolt, installed MSI Afterburner and HWinfo.
with stock settings i ran some graphic intensive games like Horizon Zero Dawn and GTA V.
in both the games i recorded the GPU max temps and max freq in Hwinfo.
i observed a constant Power throttle on GPU and Thermal throttle as GPU nears 91 C and tries to keep under around 90 C by decreasing core frequency.
This resulting in more CPU temps in return as they share same cooling and fps drops.

Now i recommend u to keep a record of the stock voltage, stock freq and Max Voltage & Max freq of GPU through HWinfo while playing heavy games.

i recorded my Idle voltage as .750 V and idle freq 1404 MHz and Max in games like HZD and GTA
Max freq 1873 MHz and Max voltage drawn is 1.050 V.
and your stock voltage curve in MSI afterburner should look like this for GTX 1060.

As in the above image you can see the Max Freq it can reach is 1890 MHz but it did reach 1873 MHz pretty good but later after few minutes of gaming the temps increased and due to power and thermal throttling it dropped to below 1600 MHz.

As for undervolting now we have to reduce the Voltage drawn at that desired freq and please not that that 1890 is the boost core freq and you cant be hitting it stable on loads.
with my info from the HWinfo i got a Max value which did hit is 1873 MHz but this also seems too much.
so i chose a value from the curve at -.100 V of GPU max voltage i.e (1.050 V - .100 V = .950 V) at 950 the value is 1800 MHZ.
modified the voltage curve with keeping all nodes after 950 brought down to 1800.
with this setting i observed Max Voltage drawn by GPU is .950 V.

Tested the games observed a just 1 C drop and power and thermal throttling still kicking in after some time of gaming.
core Freq is also not stable and drops slowly to 1600 after sometime.

Now what i did after is dropping the Voltage further in decrements of 25. testing for 875, 850, 825 and 800.

in the In-game Overlay i can clearly observe the the GPU and CPU temperatures coming down with the Voltage and Power and thermal Throttling slowly disappeared after .850 V and getting stability in Frequency as well.

now i am happy with GPU temps just touching 80 C & Max 83 C after long gaming hours, a 10 degree drop and CPU also sits around 84 C.
a stable Freq of 1800 Mhz in heavy games with no Power/Thermal throttling.
I tried with freq of 1822 MHz and 1845 MHz for all nodes 800 and above and faced game crashes. and also i felt its not necessary for now to undervolt beyond .800 V, so i settled with .800 V and 1800 MHZ.

For the Idle Freq as that concerned you, its the same as stock with the modified Voltage/ Frequency curve.

you may think 57 C is more for the idle, but i really don't know your case, but its the same for me before i did the undervolt for my CPU and GPU. my idle Temps are CPU 60 C and GPU 58 C. i can't bring that down even a little bit.

Now i definitely know that i undervolted my GPU because Max voltage is .800 V but as per the specs

in the above image as specifications 1404 MHz is base and 1670 MHz is boost.
but how am i able to hit 1873 MHz on Stock Voltage and how i am able to run stable at 1800 MHz with undervolt.
some say its NVIDIA GPU boost 3.0, if there is a room for more power draw it up-scales the core frequency until a power or thermal limits it.
That me too needed clarification.

I am not an Hardware professional, just watched a lot of videos and read forums.
i am not recommending any of the above settings, just my observations with my laptop.

Thank you.