Zotac 1060 amp

Tom.F · November 25, 2019

I bought a Zotac 1060 off eBay is there anyway or any program that I could download to find out if it's the real thing or if the chips been flashed. Or do I have to take it apart and run the numbers on the gpu it self

MartinKweh · November 25, 2019

can you post the listing? you can cross reference it first with the gpu image of the actual item then an online image of the gpu.

Does that GPU look like this?

pizapower · November 25, 2019

Does it have a VGA connector?

Fasauceome · November 25, 2019

GPU-Z will tell you

but if it runs real good and accepts the correct drivers from nvidia then it's probably real. have you use it yet?

dizmo · November 25, 2019

Usually it's pretty easy to tell.

Tom.F · November 25, 2019

Looks just like the one in the pic. I just dont know that much about the cards. I used it. Had some graphing problems today playing Diablo 3 but I wasn't sure if that was the gpu or diablo itself. Card running 41 sitting idle and around 80 79-80 would load on it I was thinking about taking it apart and replacing the thermal paste on it. When I loaded the card into MSI afterburner I do believe it was the core clock was sitting at around 200 and all the images that I've seen show that it's sitting around 1600 that's at idle. Now I know those cards are supposed to throttle back when it's not being used I'm not sure if that's why it's doing it or not or if it's something with the card. no VGA connector.

Mark Kaine · November 25, 2019

5 hours ago, Tom.F said:

Looks just like the one in the pic. I just dont know that much about the cards. I used it. Had some graphing problems today playing Diablo 3 but I wasn't sure if that was the gpu or diablo itself. Card running 41 sitting idle and around 80 79-80 would load on it I was thinking about taking it apart and replacing the thermal paste on it. When I loaded the card into MSI afterburner I do believe it was the core clock was sitting at around 200 and all the images that I've seen show that it's sitting around 1600 that's at idle. Now I know those cards are supposed to throttle back when it's not being used I'm not sure if that's why it's doing it or not or if it's something with the card. no VGA connector.

That's a Nvidia power setting, standard is it it goes to like 439MHz while idling, but you can set it to "prefer maximum performance" then it'll still downclock while idling but only to like 1600MHz (on my MSI card anyways) and then there's "adaptive" power setting that is the best of both worlds and generally the preferred mode.

PS: I would replace the thermal paste, that's quite hot, my 1060 barely ever hits 60C and sits at around 35C while idling, but that could also just be model differences.