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[Official] NVIDIA GTX 1060 Owner's Club

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#1 ·
I figured I would start the GTX 1060 Club since it hasn't been started yet.
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I myself just got a ASUS GTX 1060 Turbo 6GB today and am quite happy with it.
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That new ASUS Auto Extreme technology is really cool i'm impressed by it and yeah mine was overpriced too.
 
#4 ·
I wanna join the club too, got an EVGA GTX1060 SC.

I'm shortly gonna be watercooling it with an EK Thermosphere.
That might sound daft since temps are high 50's or low 60's typically, but I already have a custom loop set up with 3 radiators, and theres no airflow in my case, so the temps shoot up to low 70s when I close up the case.
Also for aesthetics, will look better if its part of the loop too.
 
#5 ·
Welcome, looks nice ! How are you liking the 1060 ?
 
#7 ·
Have an EVGA SC myself. Very pleased with it after flashing the new BIOS which adds the 0dB mode at idle and relaxes the fan curve so that it's silent under load. Out of the box it's a little loud as the fan's minimum speed is set at 45% even for manual adjustment. The gentler fan curve does result in temperatures rising to the mid-70s under load, but that's perfectly fine for me. Could always set a more aggressive custom curve if I felt like it to get it back down closer to 60 like it is out of the box and still enjoy the fan stopping at idle.

Overclocks very well too. Mine did 1999MHz out of the box and sits at 2101MHz under extended load after overclocking. Also brought the memory up to 9GHz without issue. Not bad for such a tiny card.
 
#8 ·
Hey all,

I will need a bit of advice in regard to OCing Nvidia cards since the last one I did is kind of dated.
I have to say the Nvidia control panel is well rather basic compared to AMD. No OC either which could be hacked in for older NVCP.

Where can I disable gforce experience starting on launch? Or do I have to forcibly remove it in autorun manually?
Does MSI AB, EVGA Precission, Gainward what it is, support GTX 1060s for OC, voltage, power, fan changes? I guess there is no way to get that back in NVCP directly anymore.

What's up with Nvidia inspector and those kind of tools people often seem to be using? Kind of to force settings into applications that can't be done in NVCP?

Vibrance at 50% default should be neutral and no change done by Nvidia right?

I have Gainward GTX 1060 6GB version. Card seems decently built but not whine free completely at least not in Heaven. Got the usual Pascal artifacts in Heaven so far and the DPC latency is "garbage" even on latest driver compared to Intel and AMD GPUs.
GPU runs about 74C max, fans at 1800rpm but I guess acceptably quiet due to their smaller size.

Card seems reasonably efficient and dumps much less heat than R9 280x did. On the other hand it runs at the same temperatures and faster fan speeds or similar if fan size is compared 90mm vs 100m maybe.
It does stop fans at low load, right now 37C web browsing. Heatsink seems to be a single piece which cools everthing, GPU, VRAM, VRM and as such transfers heat from GPU to VRAM IMHO. The shroud is plastic and touches a heatpipe at the bottom/slot side, will see how that goes for the plastic.
 
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Originally Posted by Inity View Post

Hey i want to join the owner's club too. I ordered my 1060 STRIX today.
Welcome ! Great card !
 
#10 ·
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Originally Posted by Aretak View Post

Have an EVGA SC myself. Very pleased with it after flashing the new BIOS which adds the 0dB mode at idle and relaxes the fan curve so that it's silent under load. Out of the box it's a little loud as the fan's minimum speed is set at 45% even for manual adjustment. The gentler fan curve does result in temperatures rising to the mid-70s under load, but that's perfectly fine for me. Could always set a more aggressive custom curve if I felt like it to get it back down closer to 60 like it is out of the box and still enjoy the fan stopping at idle.

Overclocks very well too. Mine did 1999MHz out of the box and sits at 2101MHz under extended load after overclocking. Also brought the memory up to 9GHz without issue. Not bad for such a tiny card.
Very nice, yeah I hear pretty much all 1060's will be able to get to 2000mhz without any problems. I'm glad EVGA added that new BIOS in the forums the 0db is awesome, I wish mine had 0db but mine is using a blower.
 
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Originally Posted by JackCY View Post

Hey all,

I will need a bit of advice in regard to OCing Nvidia cards since the last one I did is kind of dated.
I have to say the Nvidia control panel is well rather basic compared to AMD. No OC either which could be hacked in for older NVCP.

Where can I disable gforce experience starting on launch? Or do I have to forcibly remove it in autorun manually?
Does MSI AB, EVGA Precission, Gainward what it is, support GTX 1060s for OC, voltage, power, fan changes? I guess there is no way to get that back in NVCP directly anymore.

What's up with Nvidia inspector and those kind of tools people often seem to be using? Kind of to force settings into applications that can't be done in NVCP?

Vibrance at 50% default should be neutral and no change done by Nvidia right?

I have Gainward GTX 1060 6GB version. Card seems decently built but not whine free completely at least not in Heaven. Got the usual Pascal artifacts in Heaven so far and the DPC latency is "garbage" even on latest driver compared to Intel and AMD GPUs.
GPU runs about 74C max, fans at 1800rpm but I guess acceptably quiet due to their smaller size.

Card seems reasonably efficient and dumps much less heat than R9 280x did. On the other hand it runs at the same temperatures and faster fan speeds or similar if fan size is compared 90mm vs 100m maybe.
It does stop fans at low load, right now 37C web browsing. Heatsink seems to be a single piece which cools everthing, GPU, VRAM, VRM and as such transfers heat from GPU to VRAM IMHO. The shroud is plastic and touches a heatpipe at the bottom/slot side, will see how that goes for the plastic.
When you install the driver choose custom and un-check everything except Driver, HDMI Audio and PhysX this is what I do, I never use GeForce Experience. I never OC my video cards but if i did I would probably use PrecisionX. Yes Vibrance at 50% is the default I believe and I would leave it there.
 
#13 ·
Its really good, its a nice 100% faster than my GTX580.

In farcry 4, I still get some dips below 60fps and sometimes the motion doesn't look that smooth (like when in a car) even though the fps is still 60 (I use vsync).

I think its cause the game is badly optimised, thats what I've heard.
 
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Originally Posted by Yukss View Post

zotac gtx 1060 amp editions here.. no problems so far, is a little beast compared in size with my good old gtx 680
Right on !, yeah its funny that the 1060 6GB is like equal to 3 GTX 680 lol
 
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Originally Posted by colin-java View Post

Its really good, its a nice 100% faster than my GTX580.

In farcry 4, I still get some dips below 60fps and sometimes the motion doesn't look that smooth (like when in a car) even though the fps is still 60 (I use vsync).

I think its cause the game is badly optimised, thats what I've heard.
Awesome !, isn't the 1060 like equal to 4x 580 ? lol
 
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Originally Posted by IsaacFL View Post

I would like to join. I have an EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB SC.

It overclocks real well, GPU at 2164. Mem at 9180.
It holds that continuously or just well starts at 2164 but then drops to 2100 when GPU warms up etc.?

The new GPU boost 3.0 and boosting above boost clock is bad IMHO for OCing. It just does what ever the heck it wants and one can't limit the clock, it's more like hey could you run at this clock? And then it goes and runs 100MHz+ randomly picking a frequency based on mood.
 
#22 ·
Well this is my $259 Gainward GTX 1060, The most basic version with a dual fan cooler, it is a tiny card compared to Gaming X etc. similar in size to reference cards and has the same reference clocks 1506/1709/2002MHz that boost to 1847MHz under load.
Mine runs 1706/1909/2252MHz OCed now. Which seems to boost it to 2050MHz once warmed up. Don't even need to raise the power, temp limits or add voltage but I did raise power and temp anyway. That's on 6pin with 3+1 phase. Stock voltage on load is 1.043V even OCed, overvoltage goes to 1.09xV. It does not seem to like going for 2100MHz in boost with higher base OC even with added voltage. Above 2000MHz it likes to start to sing a bit in "coil" whine.
Like AMD 4xx where 1400MHz+ is rare so is 10xx going 2100MHz+.

The gain from OC seems to be around 10% overall. Seeing this is the cheapest lowest binned chip card it's not bad at all to get up there to 2050MHz and 9GHz on VRAM. More testing needed with some games that aren't alpha/beta crashy crap. +11% on core clock, 12.5% on VRAM speed, so with this +200/500 profile it should be doing about 11.75% faster. I've run +180/400 yesterday in Doom and that was about +10% in fps. This card is plenty fast at stock for all games I've tried maxed out at 1920x1200px, sure there are titles like Arma 3 that run like total garbage maxed out at 60fps but bring it down to visually equal high settings and it runs much faster on these poorly written engines. No problem at all with Doom, Battlefield 1, Evolve, nor older DX11 games.

Fans stop at idle and card idles at 36C in my closed case with slow running 140mm fans. Playing video and using MadVR without crazy settings, fans still not spinning.



The fans are supposed to be PowerLogic 92mm, I think they are sleeve bearing by seeing the part no. They are quiet for the speed they run but sometimes there was this low frequency hum which was strange, you know like 1Hz.

Some pics from OCnet that I can't find author of again and a review with pictures:



PLD09210S12HH = IMHO PL a series, D transparent smoke plastic blade, 092 92mm size, 10 don't know, S sleeve, 12 12V, HH high high speed 3000rpm max.

The cooler is not that big at all maybe even smaller than on RX 480 Nitro, there are no vents top or bottom and all air is trying to be pushed out back or front. It is kind of all-in-one cooler and cools everything. There are no silly LEDs anywhere, this card is not a xmas tree.
Temperatures on load stay around 73C 1750rpm, depends on game it can go from 69C to 74C up to 1800rpm. OCed 74-75C it seems in Heaven. With power and temp limit to the minimum it runs on base clock, still damn fast and consumes what was it like 60W? Crazy. I will have to check that again.

As always MSI AB can't control a damn thing voltage wise, seems like that only works for MSI cards and that's it.
EVGA Precision XOC can control the whole card including voltage. But it can have trouble, inability to reverse reduced power/temp. limits.
Gainward OC tool works too but the frequency slider need 2x values for core clock, someone messed that up. It can save VBIOS too. GPUz cannot save, I just tried.

As usual the card has a weird design like all 1060s where Nvidia probably misinformed/rushed 1060 to production and all the 1060 boards are designed for 256bit bus 8 VRAM chips and this one also for 8pin power on PCB and the plastic shroud too fits 8pin power connector, including unused space on PCB for stronger VRM with more phases. Maybe they were expecting a cut down GP104...

Overall a decent card and Nvidia seems to be focusing on power efficiency only since their debacle with the 4xx 5xx series and guess what, just like Intel with CPUs was forced by AMD to do the same and was crushing AMD since... similar story seems to repeat on the GPU market. If only AMD would learn that already and pushed even more for better efficiency and for gorram sake availability.

This Gainward GTX 1060 is probably the most sold GPU in Europe this summer. Palit and PNY also sell the same card with a little different styling, all the companies seem to be connected/one company selling under multiple brand names.

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I don't think its the case, my card boosts almost to 2.1Ghz out of the box. I've seen 1060s run at ~2.25Ghz - which is closer to 1.4Ghz RX series in terms of rarity.
I have not seen one. There are threads on reddit where people report their actual overclocks and it's more 2.0-2.1GHz. Sure there are the braggers with 2.1GHz+ that have to post, but there are many with below 2.1GHz that don't normally post their results. It varies in reviews as well, some have had golden chips some normal ones.

I would so much like to tell that stupid Nvidia driver to not boost over my set boost clock, this has got to be the worst OC feature made, sure works on stock cards to get them that extra boost but when OCing I would gladly disable it in an instant as it does what ever it wants whether safe or not.

BF1 all I see is 100-110fps+, like it never goes below. I've disabled HBAO as I couldn't stand that cheap crap of a trick to make shadows was too distracting and annoying when shadows are where they aren't supposed to be.
 
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