Computer upgrade cause slowdown?

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Crimsonrock

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In mid June, my GPU (GTX 650) overheated and caught fire. I finally was able to replace it with a new video card (GTX 1060). Now I am experiencing slowdown when using the Internet, and playing games I had no issue with before. Is this likely a driver issue or do I need to replace more of the hardware?
 
Did you install new drivers after installing the card? If not, then you need to uninstall current drivers and install latest for that card. May have damaged more then just the card if it caught fire.
 
Caught fire.. Lol.. I'm calling BS on that, but even if this is legit, why would you then go and buy a brand spanking new 1060 and install it in a machine that was supposedly just on fire.

WTF... LoL
 
Laquer Head said:
Caught fire.. Lol.. I'm calling BS on that, but even if this is legit, why would you then go and buy a brand spanking new 1060 and install it in a machine that was supposedly just on fire.

WTF... LoL
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I put it in because I wasn't sure what else had been damaged. I didn't want to drop $1000 on a new pc when I figured I could replace the damaged parts for cheaper.
 

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Intel_man said:
That's.. probably not a good idea. You'll want to diagnose the extent of damage that the fire has caused before putting replacement hardware in.
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You raise a very good point. From what I could tell, only one PCLE slot sustained damage, so I thought placing the card in the other PCLE slot it would work as before.
 
Depending on what sort of a slow down you're experiencing, it may be related to the DPC latency problem that the current Nvidia drivers are experiencing for the new Pascal video cards.
 
If you are going from a 650 you absolutely MUST uninstall the old drivers first before installing the new one. Secondly I'd get a professional to test your computer, probably won't cost much and it might save your 1060 from catching fire too. Unless you were overclocking your 650 (I used to have one) it is a low end card that runs very cool (like 50 degrees when gaming). It might be from age too but what if your motherboard caused the fire? Or your power supply?
 
You say your 650 'caught fire'. I guess you mean 'went bang and smoked a little bit' (that's not really catching fire - if your PC actually went up in flames you wouldn't be using it today!) Your 650 got a bit hot and that may have killed it, but there's no mention of what power supply you're using. What power supply do you have? It might not be sufficient enough for the 1060 and might be causing issues.

If you can see that one of your PCIE slots got damaged then it's probably fairly safe to say that you need to replace your motherboard.
 
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You say your 650 'caught fire'. I guess you mean 'went bang and smoked a little bit' (that's not really catching fire - if your PC actually went up in flames you wouldn't be using it today!) Your 650 got a bit hot and that may have killed it, but there's no mention of what power supply you're using. What power supply do you have? It might not be sufficient enough for the 1060 and might be causing issues.

If you can see that one of your PCIE slots got damaged then it's probably fairly safe to say that you need to replace your motherboard.
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My power supply is an ATNG 80 Plus ATM-600FB. So with a 600 Watt PSU, that shouldn't have been the issue right? I've been troubleshooting and it looks like the CPU is getting really hot, is there any way to tell if a fan is going bad?
 
That PSU sounds like a giant piece of feces just waiting to take down what is left of your rig.

I'd remove it, and do the best jump shot you have in you, and get that thing in the closest dumpster. Then, purchase a real PSU that doesn't reek of failure and smoked sausage

Those garbage chinese/taiwanese off brands are just pure and utter excrement...
 
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