Took a gamble PNY had been around for years but I prefer to stick to zotac, evga, or galax (formerly known as galaxy). However this card is the only larger (dual or tri fan) cooled 1060 6 gb that sells for MSRP so I took a gamble to get the good value as all the Pascal cards ( gtx 1000 series) clock right about the same unless there was binning involved. I got pretty lucky and got a chip that does 2140 mhz stable core overclock and +500 memory overclocks. However your results may vary as this is a game of silicon lotto.
The card comes in decent packaging and comes with a few accesories none of which are anything special just normal stuff they toss in with a graphics card like driver discs and stuff. The cooler is surprisingly fantastic! (no pun intended) temps are very very good at load and even overclocked the card stays cool and very quiet for what it is. The cooler is straight overkill which is nice cause the card stays pretty darn quiet and as far as the bios goes the power limit is insane on their bios the card is by no means cooling or power limited on overclocks. The cooling is good enough too that the card will stay at full boost clocks. Running Unigine valley to stress the gpu managed to run the benchmark at full boost and stayed over 2120 mhz on the core for me so very much stayed at its boost clock and I kept a eye on temp and power limits with msi afterburner and neither one was a limitation infact there was a good 8% left over on the power limit which really suprised me the bios is really good on this card! Overall the cards really good the only downside is the fan bracket is the cheaper ABS plastic (the stuff on cheap pc fans) so it feels a tad cheap to the touch but looks fine and functions 100% fine...if this card was 270+ like most of the 1060s then i would consider this a definite con however they had to cut costs somwhere and im glad they decided to cut it on not having a backplate and using a cheaper but more then usable plastic fan bracket rather then sacrificing the VRM quality or the cooling. So considering the 250 buck price this is really not a con.
Pros- cooling is great! And the bios is awsome allowing more then enough power limit, one of the few cards at msrp!!!
Eh ---not con or pro-- fan bracket for the cooler is a touch on the cheaper abs plastic side and could be nicer but they had to cut cost somewhere to reach msrp so im haopy they did it they way they did
Cons- none
| Memory Speed | 8000 MHz |
|---|---|
| Graphics Coprocessor | gddr5 |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 3 GB |
