NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Reference Model Pictured – Single 6-Pin Power Connector, No SLI Bridge

[Kunter]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

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If he meant that, he has no brain.

480 had 1x6-pin and 1x8-pin and a power draw of 300W, thats why it is hot as fuck, 1060 has a TDP of 120 according to this leak, so it should be reasonable cold (at least my 960 with the same TDP is).

[unsubscribed]

What's with the extension nonsense again? Looks awful. I know it's a marketing stuff but even then it looks ugly.

Do you guys care about the GPU having hefty and unnecessarily long shroud? Or would you buy one regardless of the length as long as the cooler is decent?

[79wjd]

21 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

 

Both of you failed to get what he's doing. 

 

 

Anyway nvidia 480 was so hot you can bbq on it.

 

 

He clearly said Amd 480.

 

id assume he's talking about the penis extension actually (since I'd want to assume he's smart enough to realize the 6 pin power isn't the same issue as on the 480)....although the power connectors are at the end of the card, which is nice.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, djdwosk97 said:

He clearly said Amd 480.

Nvudia had a hot 480 too

[Kobz360]

Very interesting placement of the 6-pin, outside the PCB. Not sure if I've seen that before although it may be more common than I'm thinking 

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

Nvudia had a hot 480 too

He still clearly said AMD 480. YOU were the one to bring up the gtx480.

[That Norwegian Guy]

The Nvidia nerf creep continues. Is it affordable for humans? Nerf it. Force those fuckers to buy halo products.

[Misanthrope]

30 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

 

Both of you failed to get what he's doing. 

 

 

Anyway nvidia 480 was so hot you can bbq on it.

 

 

And you had to reach so far you went back 6 years into the past, gg.

[DocSwag]

Wait, did anyone else notice the 6 pin power connector was at the end of the cooler whereas the pcb ends way before that.....  

 

Are they using a cord to extend it? Why?

[Trixanity]

5 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Wait, did anyone else notice the 6 pin power connector was at the end of the cooler whereas the pcb ends way before that.....  

 

Are they using a cord to extend it? Why?

So that you avoid having the connector in what will become the middle of the card (the cooler is almost twice as long as the PCB).

 

The problem I see with that is what will that do to the aftermarket coolers? And no, I don't mean custom OEM cards. I mean replacing the cooler with either a better air cooler or a water block. Will the aux connector just dangle freely on its wires? No coolers?

[NumLock21]

9 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Wait, did anyone else notice the 6 pin power connector was at the end of the cooler whereas the pcb ends way before that.....  

 

Are they using a cord to extend it? Why?

I don't see solder points on the card.

[79wjd]

27 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

So that you avoid having the connector in what will become the middle of the card (the cooler is almost twice as long as the PCB).

 

The problem I see with that is what will that do to the aftermarket coolers? And no, I don't mean custom OEM cards. I mean replacing the cooler with either a better air cooler or a water block. Will the aux connector just dangle freely on its wires? No coolers?

Good thing most people don't water cool x60 cards anyway because that's just ridiculous and even fewer put on a better third party cooler.

 

41 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Some of you take this thread way tooooooo seriously... 

 

Or your post just wasn't funny.

 

/double post because mobile

[Trixanity]

38 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Good thing most people don't water cool x60 cards anyway because that's just ridiculous and even fewer put on a better third party cooler.

Taking away options is rarely a good thing. I have had to replace coolers before.

Of course that was years ago and chips aren't as power hungry today and the coolers are better, but still.

This is not a good thing.

[zMeul]

1 hour ago, edsdrafts said:

What's with the extension nonsense again?

they need to fit the radiator and FAN in that two slot wide envelope

it allows them to fit a thicker rad and a thicker fan

[PlayStation 2]

It's not gonna surprise me if it sticks to its TDP without an OC but it goes up quite considerably under a good OC. 

[Suika]

I like that NVIDIA kept the 6-pin power off of the PCB, so you don't get that weird cable management like on the RX 480, but I'm curious what that'll mean for disassembling the card or even water blocks.

[Misanthrope]

2 minutes ago, Suika said:

I like that NVIDIA kept the 6-pin power off of the PCB, so you don't get that weird cable management like on the RX 480, but I'm curious what that'll mean for disassembling the card or even water blocks.

I think they didn't plan on anybody water cooling mid range cards like this. Also why it probably won't support SLI.

 

So if you wanted to then yes it would probably be an issue, but I kinda doubt you'll be able to find a cooler. Still kind of annoying if you ever want to reapply thermal paste and such.

[LAwLz]

Please don't fuck this up. Please don't fuck this up. Please don't fuck this up....

If the rumored 250 USD MSRP is accurate then it will probably be the same or faster than the RX 480. Hopefully we will get non-FE versions shortly after as well. Seems like they are better deals when it comes to the GTX 1070 and 1080, so it will probably be true for the 1060 as well.

 

 

2 hours ago, Mr_Troll said:

nvidia doing the same mistake as amd did with the 480. Wow. GJ. and GL.

I wouldn't count on it. The problem isn't that the RX 480 uses a single 6-pin per se. The problem is that the TDP should have been something like 170W instead of the 150W advertised, the card draws too much power for having a single 6-pin (draws above 150 watts) and the way it distributes the power draw between the PCIe slot and the 6-pin connector. Those three things together creates the problem with the RX 480.

 

Pascal is a lot more efficient than Polaris, so it is very possible that it will have the same or better performance as the RX 480, but without any of the high power draws, or power draw distribution problems.

 

 

1 hour ago, Misanthrope said:

And you had to reach so far you went back 6 years into the past, gg.

To be fair, a lot of the Fermi jokes are still funny (at least to me) despite being 6 years old.

 

[Ridska]

Might switch to green team if the price is right. But knowing Nvidia, They will want even more moola from me versus AMD.

[samcool55]

GP104 = 1080 and 1070

GP106 = 1060, wut?

 

Also the TDP is a bit of a mystery tbh. It says it uses 120W, and it has half as many CUDA cores as the 1080, which has a 180W TDP.

 

Unless the IPC is higher on the GP106 than the GP104 i don't think this will be good... Also 1.7-2Ghz with 1 6-pin seems one hell of a challenge.

It will be a nice comparison of how good their IPC's is.

[kameshss]

I think they should remove the SLI support for 1060 and below cards.

 

Should make it available for xx70 and 80 and 80Ti cards.

[alexyy]

Good, SLI for lower end GPU's is silly.

[Guest Kloaked]

I thought we were at the point now to where everyone should be waiting on reviews, not fucking specs on a spec sheet, or rumors for god's sake.
 

4 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Uh, no? Not even close? Nvidia actually has an efficient architecture.

wooooow u nvidiet i bet u thnk the 1080 is betr thn the 480 lelelelel xDDD jajajajaj

[DarkBlade2117]

5 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Uh, no? Not even close? Nvidia actually has an efficient architecture.

Acts like NVIDIA hasn't fucked up before.

[Guest Kloaked]

3 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

Acts like NVIDIA hasn't fucked up before.

inb4 3.5 geebees of vroom ram and le fermi