MSI gtx1060 6gb Idles at 139mhz, then normalizes under load

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I7-2600k (not OCed)
GIGAbyte ga-z68a-d3h-b3 rev. 1.0
MSI GTX 1060 gaming x 6g (not OCed)
16gb PNY DDR3 1600
xtreme gear 800w ATX

So I know this may not make sense, which it doesn't to me either, but it happened. I was playing Fortnite when my screen froze and said "your rendering device can't be found". My pc was not frozen. I hit the windows button and the desktop still came up. I was able to close Fortnite via taskmanager. With Afterburner up I could see my GPU clock was at 139Mhz and mem clock was 405Mhz (yes 139Mhz. and 405Mhz). I noticed just sitting here watching AB, my clocks jump to normal (1569Mhz and 4006Mhz) only for a split second for no apparent reason. When I run Kombustor or put any load on the GPU, the clocks stay normal for as long as the load is there. I did have my CPU and GPU Overclocked at the time this happed. I switch power supplys and the GPU still idles at 139Mhz. I changed my graphics card and driver to a gtx1050 and AB says that idles @ 146Mhz. Still everything runs normal under load but idles super low. The temps never went above 63c. The frozer fans work great. GPU-z, cpu-z all read the same Mhz. I think I may have killed my MOBO power distribution. Im actually typing all this on the same computer. I did also experience this with Overwatch.
 
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This is a save energy feature, all videocards in the last 5 years have this, if you have no load then it lower its frequency to save energy, if it is needed more power then it ups the frequency according to load, if you watch youtube you will see frequency rises but not at maximum, if you game then you will see frequency at maximum. Your crash could be because of a instable overclock, if you have no experience with overclock then read really really well before you do this. For now i advice you to leave at stock because of your lack of experience.
 
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The crash has happened a few times since. Not all the time though. The low idle is constant. When I first got the 1060 I noticed the normal clk jump between base clk speed(1569Mhz) and boost speed (1794Mhz). I found that to be normal. After the crash every reading is extremely low. To diagnose this I've been running games in windowed mode so I can watch AB and Gpu-z monitors. It seems after the Vram has been loaded the card goes straight down to 139Mhz. and that's when the game crashes. Sometimes the core clk jumps back up before it crashes. I've noticed that my desktop slideshow is causing the clk jump (139Mhz - 204Mhz -936Mhz - 1569Mhz - 139Mhz) when im not interacting with my PC (just watching AB). Maybe I should mention that the 650mV idle reading jumps in sink with the GPU clk and Mem clk. When I run any benchmark, all readings are normal during the benchmark.
Out of box Normal Idle b4 crash:
GPU clk 1569Mhz ; boost 1700's
Mem clk: 4006Mhz
Volt. : 850mV
After Crash Idle:
Gpu clk: 139Mhz ; boost 1964Mhz
Mem clk: 405Mhz
Volt. : 650mV

- GPU-z PerfCap meter keeps changing from Idle - PWR - Vrel during any load. Sits on Idle with no load

I hope this helps you help me. I hope im not leaving something out. And thnx for the help.
 

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