My GPU is constantly hitting power limit

[Noxthy]

I've bought a new card - gtx 1060 Windforce OC 6GB and tried to overclock it but when I turned on monitoring in MSI afterburner it showed up that my card is constantly hitting power limit. With and without OC. Here is a graph: http://i.imgur.com/CR9h0dah.jpg

Is it normal that my card is hitting power limits? And how about voltage limits? What if monitoring is showing that you card is hitting voltage limits? Is it dangerous for gpu?

 

[NateTech]

Hello!

This is normal, as GPU's enjoy eating as much power and voltage as possible when pegged with a benchmark or game. They will take as much power as possible to ensure as much system stability as possible, and there is nothing to be worried about here.

There is still headroom for custom overclocks, and if necessary of course you can turn up the voltage and power limits, though I'd be careful with using that feature seeing as a couple of my friends fried their cards being careless with the sliders. This doesn't mean you should be scared of utilizing more power and voltage, it just means to put your research into safe limits for your specific brand of card.

Hope this was of some help!


- Nate of Ralleon Custom Built

 

[henkkrakers]

Hello!

This is normal, as GPU's enjoy eating as much power and voltage as possible when pegged with a benchmark or game. They will take as much power as possible to ensure as much system stability as possible, and there is nothing to be worried about here.

There is still headroom for custom overclocks, and if necessary of course you can turn up the voltage and power limits, though I'd be careful with using that feature seeing as a couple of my friends fried their cards being careless with the sliders. This doesn't mean you should be scared of utilizing more power and voltage, it just means to put your research into safe limits for your specific brand of card.

Hope this was of some help!


- Nate of Ralleon Custom Built

it hasn't been dangerous to overclock gpu's in years. gpu manufacturers put power and voltage limits in there cards so that they can't be destroyed due to negligence. e.g. my card has a base voltage of 1.063v and my limit is 1.093v the card will physically not go over that. also my power limit is set to max out at 116%. you can't break anything unless you're doing it too a very old gpu which no one has because they are obsolete and even the best from 5 years ago cost under $50 today. I've put my limits too 100% of what they are capable off and have never broken a card in my life