ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Dual OC not giving good fps. Should I change?

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Hi,

Two days ago I purchased an ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 Dual OC with the intent of improving my fps in gaming. I bought a new computer a year ago (budget PC, specs below) to be able to play Counter Strike:GO with more than 60 fps. I kept my old graphics card, a GTX 760 2GB, since I knew it would be good enough for CS:GO. It worked perfectly, giving a steady 300+ fps.

However when I moved on to other games, specifically H1Z1 King of the kill, it would not suffice - running just 50-90 fps, depending on the grapichal environment. I have a 140Hz monitor, and I figured it's a waste to play with it on this fps. So... I bought the 1060.

BUT - after installing it, it only gives me 90-150 fps in H1Z1. I was dissappointed for sure, as I'm looking for a steady 140+. However, I know H1Z1 is not optimized and is currently having know fps issues after a recent update. So I figured I'll wait to judge after they fix it (if they ever do).

The real surprise came when I fired up CS:GO. The fps varies HUGLY from 180-300. I run it on low graphics and 4:3, exact same settings as my old GTX 760, which pulled a steady 300+.

What's going on here? Did I make a bad purchase? Is my Processor bottlenecking my card?

I'm considering going back to the store and changing it to a GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB or a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB STRIX Gaming.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks.

My specs:

Intel Core i3-6100 Skylake
Socket-LGA1151, Dual Core 3.7GHz, 3MB

Corsair CX550M, 550W PSU

HyperX Fury DDR4 2400MHz 16GB

ASUS B150I Pro Gaming/WiFi/Aura, S-1151

Samsung 750 EVO 250GB 2.5" SSD Bulk
SATA 6GB/s, opp til 540/520MB/s
 
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If you can afford it the i7 will last you a lot longer. Games are already starting to really benefit from the 8 thread i7s now. Either a 6700 or 7700.
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Well, it's not looking good.

Here are three pictures from the Tweak II software (link to Imgur).

As you can se the usage is only at about 50% :( The fans only kick in at one time. There is more info I can post if it will help get a bigger picture.

After the two first tests I reinstalled nVidia Experience and the latest driver. As you can see in the third picture, it didn't help.

What is the problem here?
 
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Update number 2: my PC is for the first time ever acting strange. Twice I've had to force restart it pressing the power button on the cabinet. This happened after I uninstalled drivers and reinstalled. This is really weird.
 
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I forgot to link to imgur, the link is now there. In addition I added a screenshot of CPU usage along with GPU-Z during H1Z1-gaming. CPU is at 85-90% utilization during gaming. Can it be bottlenecking then? Wouldn't it be at a 100% if it was?
 
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No, it doesnt have to be at 100% to be a bottleneck. For example if your game utilises only 1 core then you should be at 50%. But, I saw that you have on the ASUS Tweak the profile "My profile". Did you change any settings there? Cause that might be one part of your problem.
Also, fans not spinning is ok. Most 1000 series start using fans above 60C.

Try running 3Dmark futuremark
 
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I made a gaming profile, as the gaming profile they have in the program couldn't be set as default. So I hade to activly go in and change the profile. I had the same problems with their gaming profile that was shutting down processes etc. to maximise performance. At the moment I have uninstalled the whole thing to check how it's running. Still same fps in game.

This is so frustrating. Finding it hard to believe that the CPU is bottlenecking it. And I'm hesitant to buy a new processor in fear of just finding out that the problem persists.

The weirdest thing is that the CS:GO performance is worse than the GTX 760. That boggles my mind.
 
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So i did some googling and I see quite a lot of forum posts about people having fps issues with the 1060, with i5 and i7. Even there people are saying their CPU is bottlenecking this GPU. How big of a CPU does this card need. It all seems so strange. I'm wondering if I should take the card back and change it for a Radeon card or something.
 
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h1z1 simply runs like garbage, you need a LOT of cpu power and tweaked settings

i5 minimum, overclocked preferably
 
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You're better off changing the cpu rather than the card. The graphics card is good.
 
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Yeah, I think you're right. I'm formatting the PC now to see if a clean install helps. If not I will buy the i5 Kaby. That should do it, right?
 
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Thanks for the input! I'm thinking about getting the i5 Kaby. That should be good enough, right? I read that the i7 does little more than the i5 for gaming.

 
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