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 GramTitan 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 CareDISCLAIMER: 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 XFor 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 overclocksBreak the link for both Power Target and Temperature ( You want this so that you get more power regardless of temperature)Set Priority to Power TargetFor 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 MhzMemory Clock Offset set to +496 MhzAlso 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.

I ordered this card for two main reasons. One, I wanted a upgrade from my GTX-960 that would be in my budget range and two, if I upgraded my card I wanted a memory upgrade too. Since my old GTX-960 had 4 gigs of GDDR5 RAM then I wanted at least a 2 gig step up to 6 gigs. I also liked the short single fan cards as they fit in my case better without having to move stuff all around. (I like the case I have even though it's not the roomiest I've seen.) When I read about the GTX-1060 SC which was like my GTX-960 as far as shape was concerned. And then I found out it came in a 6 gig GDDR5 RAM set up. And to top this off it's specs showed it gave a GTX-980 a run for the money and then there was the price at $259 and that's when I ordered it on 7/19/16 when they came out. (I've noted a bit of an up ward direction of the price in the days after it came out.) It came in today and it looked to be just what I wanted. When I got it in, I noted it was about the same size as the 960 was. I noted it wasn't quite as heavy as the 960. but I noted that the heat sink looked very solid and had copper cooling pipes on it. It came with an adapter for using a old style molex type power plug to power the card.(I didn't need this as my PS had the correct cable and plugs to fit. The one thing I did note (and I was prepared for) was that the DVI output was the DVI-D type and no VGA output nor a DVI-I (which has a VGA output on the side.) So if your thinking of getting this card and you have standard VGA, you'll need an active DVI-D to VGA adapter or use the HIMI slots. I had gotten an adapter as that's what I read when I was considering this card. Installation when fairly smoothly. I first uninstalled the 960 by deleted the card from the device manager and then shutting down the system to do the hardware install. (Since this card uses the same drivers as the 960, I've been a bit lucky in that I've been able to delete the card in the device manager and then shut down and install the new card and boot back up and each time I've used this approach, Windows has always loaded the driver and identified the new card. (BTW: This wouldn't work if I changed brands.) This time was no different. Windows booted up and a couple of seconds later I was notified to reboot so the drivers could be installed and when I did the card was up and running with the latest drivers. I had no problems after the reboot and the card seemed very solid so far. I decided to fool around with a couple of things just to see how it ran. First I loaded up "Remember Me" just for a little play time. It ran great. I didn't experience any problems running the game. I did note that the game seemed to render somewhat better than I remember and backgrounds looked better. I ran Kingdom of Amalur and it looked much better. (I didn't note quite as many background scenes sore of change around as you got closer to them or looked at them from a different view.) I also noted the colors seemed a bit more vivid to me, but this might just be me liking the game which I do. I experienced no lags to speak of and the game just ran great. I did note a few things I did like. The fan on it was very quite to me, and I liked that it was on all the time. I've had a video card and a power supply burn up when the fan wasn't running even if it wasn't supposed to be and I like the fan running. (I noted the card ran cooler than my 960 at 35c when in idle.....nice.) I also noted that it was very fast when loading up images at least for me. It seemed well able to handle what I threw at it and I tend to be a rough at times. So far, I'm very happy with my new card. I'll need to see how well it holds up to use and that will really tell the tale. So far a very nice card for the money.