EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC GAMING, ACX 2.0 (Single Fan), 6GB GDDR5, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC), 06G-P4-6163-KR

Amazing product . I did use the following products also to overclock with this: Thermal Grizzly Liquid Metal ( Warning this probably does void your warranty - I used this to replace the stock GPU Paste ) Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Thermal Grease Paste - 1.0 Gram Titan Adjustable PCIE FAN ( Placed under the EVGA GTX 1060 for increased airflow ) Titan Adjustable Dual Fan PCI Slot VGA Cooler (TTC-SC07TZ) Sally Hansen Clear Nail Polish ( For covering the capacitors and power connectors around the GPU because Nail Polish is Non-Conductive ) Sally Hansen Color Therapy Nail Polish, Top Coat 0.5 Ounce Long-Lasting Nail Polish with Gel Shine and Nourishing Care DISCLAIMER: I don't recommend you try the modifications I have in my review unless you know what you are doing, do so at your own risk as this most likely will void your warranty. But if $350 doesn't matter to you and you are an expert, then read on. I first unscrewed the cooler from the Graphics Card on the back plate with 4 phillips screws and disconnected the side fan connector, this exposed the copper heat sink and the GPU. I used Alcohol Wipes to gently remove all of the stock GPU Paste and waited a few minutes to dry, then I used the Sally Hansen Color Theraphy Nail Polish, which by the way is NON CONDUCTIVE and is safe to use, by applying it around the GPU Die on the capacitors and power connectors creating a protective cover. I waited 10 minutes for it to dry and then applied 3 more layers, this was done to prevent a power short circuit in case liquid metal got on the capacitors around the GPU Die. Just to be clear the Nail Polish was placed around the GPU and note directly on it. Once the Capacitors were completely covered in Nail Polish, I placed a pea sides amount of liquid metal on the GPU Die and used the QTIP to spread it nice and evenly on the GPU Die like butter. Turning on my computer the Idle Temperature went from 42 Degrees Stock Paste to 36 Degrees Ambient Temperature with the Liquid Metal. Starting off with testing, I did download the latest drivers from EVGA Website and as of this review it is display driver 398.11 with BIOS 86.06.68.00.62 as of 06/06/2018. Stock the card does come with a stock clock speed of 1607 MHz / Real Boost Clock: 1835 MHz. However, I was able to get that up to 2164 Mhz on the GPU Clock and 4498 Mhz on the Memory clock. Using the following settings with my modifications, I downloaded EVGA Precision OC from EVGA's website and also EVGA Scanner X For EVGA Precision OC I used the following settings: Turn on KBOOST ( Forces GPU to operate at full boost clock 100% of the time) 120% Power Target (This is your TDP - Thermal Design Power) - Gives your Graphics Card 20% more power for higher overclocks Break the link for both Power Target and Temperature ( You want this so that you get more power regardless of temperature) Set Priority to Power Target For Voltage I set it to 70% For Fan Speed, I set it to 70% ( It's loud but I can use a Gaming Headset ) GPU Clock Speed Offset set to +160 Mhz Memory Clock Offset set to +496 Mhz Also Motherboard Southbridge Voltage was increased to 1.25 Volts, VDDR Voltage increased to 1.25 Volts, VDDR PCIE Voltage increased to 1.25 Volts. This was done to increase power delivery to the Graphics Card from the PCIE Slot on the motherboard due to the high 120% TDP. Running a stress test for at 4K Resolution at 3840 x 2160 Pixels with 8X MSAA produced a steady frame rate of 43 Frames Per Second at 65 Degrees Celcius, up from 10 Frames Per Second at stock and this test ran for 10 minutes rendering over 25,000 Frames without crashing. This pretty much turned my GTX 1060 into a GTX 1070 for a much lower price as the 1070's sell for about $500 and made gaming at 4K on the 1060 to be actually playable. Gamers probably won't need to run 8X MSAA and can do just fine with 2X MSAA when Gaming at 4K with my modifications since you can't really notice jagged edges at 2X Anti Aliasing and 4K and overclocked the frames never ran below 30 Frames per second. Final Conclusion: The EVGA GTX 1060 6GB overclocks like a champ and with liquid metal, great cooling fans from your case and a PCIE Fan Cooler, you can easily turn your overclocked 1060 into a stock 1070 when running at 4K Resolution that is 24/7 Stable. Your results may vary with the Silicon Lottery, but I highly recommend this product if you are buying it with overclocking in mind, it does great. Pushing it past 2,200 Mhz however did not happen for me and most I was able to do was 2164 Mhz, it is probably possible to go to 2,200 Mhz by doing shunting mods, but that is probably a 2-4% increase in performance from 2164 Mhz and honestly not worth it IMO.

Well, hmm. MONSTER card for what I use it for! I like to game a bit and this card was more than I originally thought it would be. I had the 1050 2gb before I got this and didn’t think it would be a big jump, but I was wrong! The 6gb or vram make all the difference! Now I don’t have to worry about the textures loading only 10-15 ft in front of my characters ha. Definitely a good thing for the visuals! So you have a better idea of why it works well for me, I use: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit Intel i5-2500 3.3Ghz 16GB RAM DDR3 43” Visio Tv hooked up via HDMI This card has upgraded my pc immensely from my 1050 2gb that I was using before! For video and surfing the web it seems everything is loading almost instantly. For gaming, I’ve been able to ramp up settings full tilt on everything I play. I’ve over clocked this card an it took a few to get it to be both more powerful AND stable. After finding a sweet spot this card has managed to destroy what I throw at it! Assassins Creed Odyssey - Max settings is not exactly 60fps but you hardly notice it. Metro Exodus - Pretty damned good performance. Also not exactly 60 fps but you wouldn't know it. Fallout 4 is a breeze even with all the mods I have installed. 45+ 60fps almost always with a few drops Pro Evo 19 is a walk in the park. 60fps Far Cry 5 is a stroll. 60fps Subnautica is beautiful when I play. MGS V . Forget about it haha. 60fps Ghost recon Wildlands is now so detailed its ridiculous. 60fps Madden 19 has the slowest load times ever! But I highly doubt it’s the cards fault. Outside of loading the game plays buttery smooth! BATMAN Arkham City isn’t even close to a problem. 60fps NBA2k19 has some small stutters but plays so well! Every game I’ve mentioned is at ULTRA/highest settings except fallout 4 (removed god rays cause it’s only good for video capture or screen shots). I’m impressed by this card! I’d recommend it and as a plus I got it for $219 on thanksgiving day I think sooo DEFINITELY WORTH EVERY PENNY 😎 Edited: Found out why I got stuttering. Non stable overclock. Also updated games played. Added Metro Exodus and AC Odyssey.

This review is of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GDDR5 Superclocked card, p/n 03g-p4-6162-kr I got this quite a few months back, and at the time graphics cards were still at a premium due to crypto currency mining. I researched performance of the different models, and realized the 1060s were far better than the 1050s, and only slightly slower than the 1070s, with the 1080s being way out of my price range. And despite some really adamant bloggers complaining about the diminished architecture of the 3GB version, in real world performance testing, the 3gb and 6gb cards were functioning nearly identical. So when this particular card went on sale, I jumped on it. I've had no problems with EVGA products in the past, and they tend to out preform the competition with their OC models. One nice thing is size. It was easier to both install and remove, because there isn't more card blocking access to the PCIe x16 riser lock. When everything else is hooked up, that can be difficult to get to. Another great thing is that it needs just a single fan. That means it's quiet. And unless the graphics are getting really intense, that fan doesn't even need to run much of the time. This card comes with a good combination of ports. Ok, so to hook up all there of my dvi monitors, I had to buy two new cables, but it does support several monitors, which is great when working from home. Note: I honestly haven't looked into whether or not this card supports 3d output to multiple monitors, since most games do a terrible job of supporting it. I'm not an FPS fan, but I did want better performance and quality from the games I do play (Battletech, Fallout, a bunch of steam games, etc.). This card was an upgrade to my old PC, replacing a GTX570, and it significantly improved my frame rates, with higher quality settings. I've since built a new PC based off the i5-9600k, and this is still a perfect video card for what I'm playing right now. I'm playing all my games on the highest quality settings, and maxing the refresh rate of my aging 60Hz monitors. I expect I'll upgrade in a year or two, and probably buy a new gaming monitor at that time, too. For now, this still meet my needs, and I'm very happy with it. I haven't seen any graphical glitches, or had any crashes. The Nvidia driver installs are flawless, as always. There is a utility from EVGA, Precision XOC, that looks great for those that really want to control their overclock settings, but I haven't had need to mess with it at all.

First I'll disclaim I wanted to initially give this two stars for the noise, then three after I fixed it in my own way, but I'm finally opting for a four star review, mainly because EVGA provides very good service and warranty, and was very responsive to queries online. So consider the card 3.5 stars and an additional half star for the quality of service behind the product. ============================== I bought this card because Amazon wouldn't allow more than one per household on the MSI GTX 1060 AERO ITX model. This card is technically more powerful than that model, being "superclocked" and all. And I have to admit, it's a great card. However the enclosure and fan leaves something to be desired. The fan on this card is much too aggressive. Apparently it initially had a max fan speed of 2600RPM but a BIOS update on later revisions bumped it to 3900RPM after some issues with the EVGA 1070 and 1080 models. This card isn't impacted but I guess it was a precautionary measure. But because of this, the card sounds like a jet engine once you get into the mid-50% speeds on the fan, and the stock fan curve is extremely aggressive, ramping up as high as 70%+ speed when the card is around 70c (when it can easily go up to 80c without any throttling or problems). This was a souce of confusion, since video reviews on the card note it's whisper quiet, but that was way back before the vBIOS was changed. MSI Afterburner or similar software is a must for this card, not for overclocking, but for fan control. A custom fan curve goes a long way, and you can keep this card at around 75c or below at 100% load with a fan speed of about 52%, at least in my case (Corsair Carbide 100R Silent edition with two front intake 120mm fans and one rear exhause 120mm fan). I highly recommend installing MSI Afterburner or EVGA's own Precision X OC immediately after installing this card and setting your own fan curve. Doing so will turn this card from "powerful but I don't want to use it" to just "powerful." So basically, I tentatively recommend this card. It's good, and a fantastic 1080p gaming card, and pretty decent even at 1440p. But without an aftermarket cooler or a custom fan curve it's really noisy. ========================= Lastly, a note for Linux users: Obviously you don't have access to tools like MSI Afterburner. That's cool though, you've got bash. I got some help online and came up with a script that controls this card's GPU (well, any Nvidia card) based on the temperature. You can find it at the link below: https://pastebin.com/2iANCPEy The script controls the fan by using an offset value to set the fan speed to an offset of the temperature. If the card is below 56c the fan will stay on at 12% speed which is essentially spinning but inaudible. Once it passes that temperature threshold, it sets the fans speed to the temperature plus the offset. In my case an offset of -22 worked well. That way at 60c the fan will be at 38%, at 70c the fan will be at 48%, and so on. Seems to be perfectly adequate for cooling during gaming, and I'm seeing max temps of around 73-74c under load at 51-52% fan speed with the script. You can modify the offset value however works for you. To run the script, just make a copy locally and save it, chmod the file with a value of 755 (or just chown it, whatever), and call it with "bash ./filename.sh" If you do "bash ./filename.sh -v" it will do verbose output to the console and display the fan speed and gpu temp at each interval (8 seconds by default). If you're doing this from a remote terminal, you can use ctrl+z and then bg to set it as a background job, or just call it with the & symbol at the end when starting it so it doesn't take over the terminal session. Be aware, you need to be using the proprietary Nvidia driver for this to work, and you'll need to enable cool bit for fan control via "sudo nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=4" (or --cool-bits=12 if you'd also like to enable overclocking). Then reboot for the cool-bit value change to take effect. A value of 4 enables manual fan control, 8 for OC in nvidia-settings. 12 enables both. You can also enable voltage control in addition to the rest with a value of 28. This only works on more recent revisions of the Nvidia driver (I believe versions above 340). I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, and this should work on at minimum 16.04 and up, plus other distros with similar versions and kernels. If you have a really old distro or much older drivers for some reason, you can use the script I originally based mine on, which can be found at the link below: https://gist.github.com/loathingKernel/995777d2aab6dc82316ea2da62142975

My favorite card that I've ever owned and I'll tell you why. I was looking for a card with low power consumption that was great for gaming and needed to fit in a small case. This card fits that bill exactly. I have this paired up with an i5 6500, 8b DDR-4 Ram all in a Core V1 case. My computer is really silent and just sips power even when gaming. I'm more of a casual gamer now but I never want my games to dip below 60fps when gaming at 1080p, so this card does great. I mostly play Fallout 4, Doom, Tomb Raider, GTA V as well as lots of other older games in my library. You can look into other reviews but I've read this card does really well at 1440p but I am unable to verify that at this time. I'm planning on purchasing an HTC Vive and I've already tested my setup for VR and it is definitely VR ready. If you game at 1080p this is definitely the card for you, plus the small size means you can fit it in basically any case. There is another version of this card that looks similar in size but has a cheaper cooler on it, so spend the extra $10 and get the 1060 SC. I was also looking at the RX480 but I really wanted a smaller card and I was not impressed in regards to power consumption with the RX480. Pros -Max out settings for games in 1080p -Inexpensive card that can run VR really well. -Low power consumption -0db idle mode (fan doesn't start going until card heats up, only ever heard the fan turn on when I was playing Doom at max settings) -Perfect size for small cases (I have mine installed in a Core V1) Cons None really, I guess if you want LEDs or something more flashy look elsewhere but you'll pay more.

I bought this to upgrade a 960. Is it worth it? Yes! Performance increases vary from roughly 75% to sometimes a little over 100% increase in frame rates. It is probably just a small step down from the 980's which used to cost around $500. I am not sure I have ever seen that significant of improvement in one generation before. It has a small form factor so it fits in just about any size of desktop machine. Like the 960, the fan does not turn on until it hits 60C so if you are not doing anything intensive with graphics it is totally silent. It also only needs a single 6 pin power connector. As an example, this card can render Witcher 3 on ultra settings at around 60FPS with no stuttering and the colors look great. This card is paired with a i5-4690 3.5 GHz processor and 16 GB GSkill Ripjaws. The 960 could do 30-35ish FPS and to get 60 I had to turn a lot of things down. The lame hairworks thing is disabled for both. It does have some limitations that the 960 didn't have. 1. It has a single DVI port, and not the format that allows for DVI->VGA, so if you have a VGA monitor, you will be out of luck here. DP or HDMI to DVI is not an issue so if you have two DVI or HDMI monitors, at worst you will need an adapter. It also only has 1 HDMI, but again there are adapters for that. 2. No SLI connections. I suspect this was done because two of these would probably be equal or better of a single 1070 and possibly 1080. I don't know for sure, but it is the most likely explanation in my opinion because the extra cost over the 960 pretty much covers the additional RAM on board. One big annoyance, and I don't know if it is the fault of Nvidia or EVGA or not their fault at all, but you can not change the display order in the BIOS. It goes DVI->HDMI->DP. When I bought this I replaced one of my monitors with a DP monitor and I use that as my primary screen. The BIOS screen on boot up and GRUB2 menu would always display on the secondary monitor. That is annoying but doesn't affect anything once you are booted into an operating system where you can choose what monitor is the primary. A small DVI to DP adapter solved it without issue. I don't know if this has always been this way since I used to only have DVI monitors so I don't want to ding the rating for something that might be normal.

Don't let a single fan fool you! I bought this card worried about just that, and let me tell you, I'm eagerly surprised. I haven't taken the shroud off of the card to put new paste on it either; a proper fan profile with Afterburner or PrecisionX and you'll be just fine. I haven't seen my card go over 63C, and it's rated to tolerate much higher. Plus, in Afterburner it autoclocks it to 2000MHz, though it runs anywhere from 400 to 1600 with idling and light gaming. The most 'intensive' games I play revolves around Doom (2016), Rust, GTA V, Metro Last Light and The Forest. I don't know the exact average, but I'll put what I remember from said games in regards to frames per second. Also keep in mind the processor can also affect performance, as well as the RAM when it comes to Ryzen. I'm using a Ryzen 5 1600 and 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM. Doom: Ran everything on Ultra/highest possible settings on everything, 1920 x 1080. Dipped slightly below 60FPS once in a blue moon, but never under 57FPS. Very smooth. Rust: Honestly Rust still has some sketchy optimization, but it never drops under 70FPS (1920 x 1080, minimal settings w/FXAA on and a render distance of 2,500) for me. I've also played w/everything maxed out on some empty/almost empty servers and averaged right around 85FPS. Of course, that's an empty world; a populated world got me right around 45FPS (200 out of 300 slots being played) which is playable, but definitely not recommended for a game like Rust. Metro Last Light: Never went below 60 FPS. Everything on Ultra, 1920 x 1080. If you never want to go below 60FPS with the same setup as I have, just turn everything on High instead of Ultra. The look is negligibly different. The Forest: Is optimized horribly, so your experience may vary. Usually 50+ FPS on mid-high settings, but going Ultra on a game that's still in alpha is honestly a stupid decision anyhow. GTA V: Most settings on High, population density smack dab in the middle. Game looks pretty, never drops below 75FPS. 1920 x 1080. I love this little card. It's cute as a button but performs like an Olympian.

This review is for the 1060 3GB SC Single-fan model, which I bought just over a year ago. The 1060 was the first GPU upgrade I ever made, as I wanted to explore PC gaming and move away from consoles. I settled on the 1060 because the $200 price point was very attractive, and the performance seemed sufficient for games I wanted to play. I'm willing to sacrifice graphics for smooth 60 FPS gaming, so making the leap to a 1070 at >$400 didn't seem necessary. I was impressed with this card's ability to handle certain games. Battlefield 1 ran smoothly with most of the settings set to maximum. Skyrim Special Edition (with >50 mods installed, many enhancing graphics and effects) ran very well with occasional hiccups on maximum settings. The card struggled at times with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, even with the graphics settings downgraded significantly. FPS could drop to 45-50 in cities, but was typically >60 FPS in less dense areas. The GPU temperature rarely rose above 70 C, and the fan was barely audible even at maximum speed. I probably could have gained another 3-4 FPS by overclocking it, but I didn't know enough at the time to experiment with that. This card was worthy of at least a 4 star review. That is, until it died on me. I was playing PUBG on my usual settings, which I've played over 700 hours with, when my entire computer suddenly shut down. Worse yet, there was a faint burning smell coming from the computer. I opened it up and noticed a thin trail of smoke rising from within the 1060. After a few minutes, I attempted to power on the computer but a bright spark flashed from inside the card. I replaced it with my old 720 and the computer booted up without issue, confirming the 1060 was dead. I contacted EVGA and promptly received RMA approval, and a week later the replacement card arrived. They sent the dual-fan FTW model, which is technically a upgrade so that's a plus. All-in-all, I was happy with the card while I had it, but it only lasted a year which is pretty disappointing. Thankfully, EVGA's customer support is great, and I have an even better card now. Hopefully this one lasts longer.