![]() With the 1069 SC flipped around we have a good look at the black PCB. But for air ventilation, EVGA goes out of their way to cut much larger holes for more air flow. You get a DVI port, three DisplayPorts, and an HDMI connection. The card still has the same five connections. Unlike everyone else they did keep the plug in the traditional orientation and because of that their fan shroud and heatsink have been designed to leave room for fingers to get in around the plug to disconnect it.įor the PCI slot cover, Zotac just used the same cover as the FE card, but EVGA went their own way. EVGA also tucked their fan connection up next to the power connection as well. Even being the highest overclocked of the three shouldn’t be enough reason to need more than a 6-pin on the 120 watt TDP GTX 1060 GPU. The SC down at the end represents that.įor power, the GTX 1060 SC has the same 6-pin power connection that the other two GTX 1060’s I’ve tested have. Well EVGA has two models of this card, one stock clocked and then this Superclocked card. You used to see this more but now it seems companies avoid it to bring out multiple models with different overclocks without changing tooling. Along with the EVGA logo, they actually put the entire model name up on the top edge. Up on the top edge of the card, EVGA did something that I really wish I would see more. So while this is an ITX card remember it isn’t a blower design and some of the heat will vent into the case. The fan shroud is open on three sides for some of that warmed air to vent out in each direction. The single fan blows down onto part of the heatsink and out across the rest. So while the card is short EVGA does seem to take advantage of all of the space they have. You see this a lot with AMD and Nvidia cards using the same cooling solution but EVGA has no need to do that because they are exclusive to Nvidia. This might sound obvious, but a lot of cards don’t do this because they use universal coolers to fit across multiple products. ![]() The end view of the card shows us that the heatsink runs the full thickness of the card from the PCB all the way to the fan shroud. The cooler design on the GTX 1060 SC uses two copper heatpipes that run from over the GPU out towards your motherboard and then over to pull heat out into the left and right sides of the heatsink. Given the ITX length and the normal height, this card should work really well in the extremely small form factor cases that have trouble with the “ITX” cards that use height to fit cooling. The single fan is a little smaller than the Zotac and because of that, the card is also a standard height where most of the cards are getting taller and taller. In the center where most companies put their logo in bright colors EVGA has just etched their E and it is only visible from an angle. Even the fan itself is a little simpler than normal. The silver grills are a small but nice touch that doesn't take away from the clean design. They did, however, slip in two small metal grills over on the left. This design is actually very close to previous generations with the black shroud with a curved up lip around the fan. It also doesn’t really pull too much from the EVGA 10 designs that had a lot of metal attached on their fan shrouds. EVGA went with a shorter ITX form factor for this card. Well, immediately it is clear the EVGA GTX 1060 SC is nothing like the Founders Edition GTX 1060 or the Zotac 1060.
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