EVGA GTX 1060 Gaming cooling

[SCHISCHKA]

So I wasn't impressed at my EVGA GTX 1060 cooling. I couldn't find any decent pictures online before purchasing my card so Ill make somewhat of a teardown here.

this is the card:

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-6161-KR

no heat pipes

its about half the size of an old core2duo heatsink

the cover is not required for operation (see below)

to remove the cover there are four screws underneath the fan blades - that is all

 

I guess i got what i paid for, and I would recommend spending a few extra dollars to get the dual fan models with heat pipes and more RAM.

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Running the card without its cover makes it run 5 degrees C hotter at idle, but i have not added any extra fans to it.

The heatsink mounting holes are not compatible with any other heatsink i own

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i need to find another way of cooling without spending money

Edited October 24, 2016 by SCHISCHKA

[Slottr]

So uh.. for reference, what temps were you getting before you removed the cover?

[SCHISCHKA]

48 minutes ago, Slottr said:

So uh.. for reference, what temps were you getting before you removed the cover?

idle is 60 degrees Celsius. it maxes at 83 degrees C before throttling hence my disappointment at the crappy cooler. I don't know what my ambient room temperature is. My CPU is 8120 with a passive cooler master hyper v600 (no fans), but iv got 3X fans intake and one exhaust near the CPU so the CPU heat shouldn't be too much of a problem. My old cards never ran this hot. I had a 210 silent, a 9800GTX+ and a EVGA GT 710 running in this setup without this level of thermal throttling. the 9800GTX+ is suppose to be a hot card but i do have an aftermarket cooler on it

 

[Techicolors]

the dual fan 1060 6gb didn't work out? 

[SCHISCHKA]

23 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

1 hour ago, Slottr said:

So uh.. for reference, what temps were you getting before you removed the cover?

 

I should say it idles between 53 and 60 degrees C and throttles around 83 C

 

9 minutes ago, Technicolors said:

the dual fan 1060 6gb didn't work out? 

i didn't buy the 6GB version, i just wanted the cheapest card available that could play CSGO & had a display port; because I bought a new monitor and i want to wait for next year's cards to come out

[Techicolors]

Just now, SCHISCHKA said:

i didn't buy the 6GB version, i just wanted the cheapest card available that could play CSGO & had a display port; because I bought a new monitor and i want to wait for next year's cards to come out

what was the price difference ?

[SCHISCHKA]

3 minutes ago, Technicolors said:

what was the price difference ?

this is NZ's cheapest supplier https://www.pbtech.co.nz/search?sf=EVGA+GTX1060

the price will seem high to you because its in NZD, it costs more to buy things in NZ, and we pay 15% GST on all our goods.

 

I paid NZD$330 for mine, the price has since gone up.

the 6GB SC is an extra $100

the two fan model is $150 more

[sazrocks]

That... is not a 1060 SC.

For reference, this is my 1060 SC:

Spoiler

Where did you buy that?

[kokakolia]

....Even my Zotac Mini has a bigger heatsink than that  

 

 

[SCHISCHKA]

1 hour ago, sazrocks said:

Where did you buy that?

You're right the SC is the 6GB version. thanks ill correct it

[sazrocks]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

You're right the SC is the 6GB version. thanks ill correct it

There's still a 3GB SC; I think (assuming you have a 3GB card) that you have the 1060 3GB non SC, which from the product page on evga's website seems to have the same cooler as the one picture here.

[SCHISCHKA]

2 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

There's still a 3GB SC; I think (assuming you have a 3GB card) that you have the 1060 3GB non SC, which from the product page on evga's website seems to have the same cooler as the one picture here.

yea i just checked my invoice. it doesn't say SC on it but i definitely bought the cheapest 3GB one. I didn't realise EVGA has a million SKUs of the 1060. Mine is the Gaming model

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-6161-KR

[sazrocks]

2 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

yea i just checked my invoice. it doesn't say SC on it but i definitely bought the cheapest 3GB one. I didn't realise EVGA has a million SKUs of the 1060. Mine is the Gaming model

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-6161-KR

Assuming you didn't break any warranty stickers, maybe you could return it and get a sc?

[SCHISCHKA]

Just now, sazrocks said:

Assuming you didn't break any warranty stickers, maybe you could return it and get a sc?

na i don't want to pay $100 more. i just want the cheapest card coz I'm saving for a proper upgrade next year. motherboard & CPU is 5 years old so I'm not wasting anything too powerful on it

[SCHISCHKA]

3 hours ago, sazrocks said:

Assuming you didn't break any warranty stickers, maybe you could return it and get a sc?

And there were no warranty stickers on the card