Review: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC Gaming 3GB

by Tarinder Sandhu on 5 September 2016, 16:00

Tags: EVGA, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Power, Temperature and Noise

There's no need for a huge, overbearing cooler when the entire system consumes 162W at the wall. There have been times in the past where a high-end system would eat that much when idling in Windows Vista.

The single fan's characteristics have been tuned for near-silent operation. We infer this because EVGA could easily keep the temperature below 70°C if needs be.

Monstrous coolers are more for show than genuine use on a GTX 1060 GPU. EVGA shows that it can produce a well-clocked core, cooled by a small heatsink, that's practically inaudible under load.

The company strikes the best balance between a lack of noise and reasonable temperatures in an already-quiet PC.