I have a zotac gtx 1060 3gb mini and i'm using an aftermarket cooler "arctic accelero mono plus" which is very good but it comes with vram heatsinks which i have to put on the 6 vr heatsinks..........i cant stick them with the provided thermal adhesive since its permanent and the gc cant be sent for warranty if theres an issue(2 yrs warranty),so i am using thermal pads and on top of it the vr heatsinks(thermalpads are both side sticky) since thermal pads are easily removable,using a silicone thermal pad of 3.2 w/m-K rating and not the arctic thermal pads which are very costly in my country(India) but have 6 w/m-K rating.........just wanted to know if the thermal pad and vr heatsink combo works since we can only monitor the gpu core temps and not the vram temps.......my gpu temps went down like 20 degree C in heavy load so this cooler is very good although i would recommend anyone to buy "arctic atwin turbo 2" which is almost of the same price since the mono plus does not cover the vrams as a result we have to put the separate vram heatsinks while the twin turbo covers the heatsinks (although its rated for gtx 1070 and above) which reduces extra hassel
I have also overclocked my gpu using "firestorm" zotac software with GPU clock : +225Mhz and memory : +800Mhz and i am trying to boost the voltage to 70 percent which it shows on the app but does not show on the unigen benchmark,it just shows "OV : 0V",also after saving the profile i restart my system and load the profile and it shows gpu voltage set to 0 even though i saved it to 70 percent.............i tried other apps like MSI afterburner,EVGA precision OC which save the profile correctly but still dont show the "extra" voltage in unigen benchmark ................am i missing something,is there a voltage monitoring app? please help....
Also i have set the FCLK frequency to 1000 in my uefi menu,by default its 800, i want to know what the BCLK frequency does ,how much can we overclock it? is it worth it?
I am attaching a photo of my gpu which shows a black strip (heatsinks for power connectors) to the left of the cooler which is factory attached to it and under it lays the power connectors which produce a good amount of heat,but the strip is not removable,it slides a bit if i try to move it but i dont want to risk removing the power connectors below,mayb it is attached with some kind of thermal adhesive........i want to attach the heatsinks provided by the "arctic mono plus" cooler which i bought coz they are pretty good....any help regarding if i can remove it and attach my heatsinks...?
Sorry for the long post but i decided to write all my problems in this post instead of differnet posts......