HELP!! Low power usage on card when overclocking causing crashes

[broseph5135]

Please help if you can!

Recently I bought a new 1070ti FTW Ultra Silent from EVGA. It was a good upgrade for me and am very happy with the near-silent performance. However, I am having some issues when trying to overclock it.

I was able to get +270 on the core stable in EVGA precision XOC, but now after a couple reboots my GPU power never goes above 90% and I can't get any stable overclocks above +120. I still have the power limit set to 120% The difference in the overclocks makes some pretty substantial differences in gameplay, so I would really like it back. I also know it isn't a cpu bottleneck because my cpu hums along at 50% utilization when running the benchmark (I do have an overall CPU bottleneck, but it isn't bottlenecking during a gpu benchmark).

Is there some kind of power limit EVGA has placed on these cards to make them "extra silent?" I am out of ideas and want my awesome overclock back!

Any help is appreciated!

GPU: 1070 ti EVGA FTW Ultra Silent
CPU: i5 6500
8gb DDR4 2133
650 watt EVGA gold powers supply
OS: Windows 10

 

[Ralston18]

Update your post to include full hardware specs and OS.

Be sure to include PSU information.

 

[broseph5135]

Update your post to include full hardware specs and OS.

Be sure to include PSU information.

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[norcalsc]

try reinstalling XOC or try MSI AB

 

[broseph5135]

try reinstalling XOC or try MSI AB

I've reinstalled and tried both softwares. nothing can get the power to go over ~90