Exchanged original GTX 1060

[SnarkySinner]

So I originally brought an EVGA GTX 1060 6GB but upon examining it closely it had single fan and a standard basic cooler and once I installed it in my computer and played a game and noticed that it was loud and the temperature was around 83C under load and idle it sat around 45C anyways so I used a aggressive fan curve and that brought it down 10 degrees but I wasn't happy how loudly the GPU was working under load in a game and I couldn't stop panicking if my card was safe or not so in the end I took it out and repackaged it as was and brought it back to exchanged for the Asus Dual Series 1060 OC edition which has better heatsink, two heat pipes, dual fans and actual thermal pads on it and it's a lot more quieter and runs cooler which I'm a lot more comfortable with, sure I paid $50 more in the end but I wasn't willing to take risks and would rather be safe then sorry.

Basically end of my story is my first EVGA GPU experience wasn't great and while I own a PSU from them it makes me sad how EVGA kinda used less quality parts on the basic model.

[Snapjak]

Don't blame it on EVGA, blame it on the blower style cooler. EVGA has plenty of dual-fan coolers.

[zombie cat]

83 under load is still safe.

[Cathulhu]

EVGA botched it with their current iteration of Geforce cards. Their cooling is simply bad. So bad that the 1070 and 1080 literally burst into flames.

[SundownKid]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

EVGA botched it with their current iteration of Geforce cards. Their cooling is simply bad. So bad that the 1070 and 1080 literally burst into flames.

That doesnt apply to the 1060.

But obviously a dual fan model is gonna run cooler and be quieter than a single fan.

[Cathulhu]

While the 1060 does not catch fire, it does suffer from the bad cooling through thermal throttling, which has been proven in multiple independent tests.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

EVGA botched it with their current iteration of Geforce cards. Their cooling is simply bad. So bad that the 1070 and 1080 literally burst into flames.

None the EVGA issues are related to the actual cooler. It was the lack of thermal pads was all.

[SnarkySinner]

To all as someone who decided to switch brands to try something different which was EVGA I simply didn't feel comfortable having something poor quality and I have owned two previous cards from Asus and know what to expect so I felt a lot more better in the end and some of the comments are true about the 1070 and 1080 catching fire and the 1060 model the one I had is affected by thermal throttling and no thermal pads is a big big no no for someone like me.

[Arya]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

EVGA botched it with their current iteration of Geforce cards. Their cooling is simply bad. So bad that the 1070 and 1080 literally burst into flames.

None the EVGA issues are related to the actual cooler. It was the lack of thermal pads was all.

Thermal Pads were one issue, VRM was another, EVGA had a lot of scandals in quick succession last year and I would be surprised if the brand survives.

[SundownKid]

Originally posted by 狼 Wolfey 🔰:

Thermal Pads were one issue, VRM was another, EVGA had a lot of scandals in quick succession last year and I would be surprised if the brand survives.

EVGA will easily survive. First of all, they don't just make GPUs. They also make some of the most popular PSUs on the market, motherboards (albeit high end ones), RAM memory.

Second, they addressed the thermal pad issue and current models of the 1070 etc. have the thermal pads installed. They also patched the cards to prevent the issue, most people probably wont notice if their card has been slightly gimped.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Being in direct contact with many OEMs over the years, I know this won't set back EVGA one bit. Even after all of this they are still among some of the very best. Most GPUs I have owned and sold over recent years have been EVGA and I haven't really seen any major issues that would make me consider to stop buying/using their brand. Not many brands will offer an extended 10 year warranty or have a trade-up program. And what RMAs I have had to do with EVGA, have been fairly quick and painless to say the least. If anything I've had more issues with EVGA GTX 960 and 970 over any GTX I can recall and recent years, even the very latest ones. There were definitely design issues in the EVGA GTX 970 SC that I saw first hand, something that didn't really get addressed until they later released more variants, like the SSC. I have EVGA 980 Ti and 1070, both are the Hybrid models. They get used in stressful manners every day. And that's just a small % of my personal usage in recent months with that brand, not accounting for the many I have sold through builds and such. I would never buy ones like Zotac, PNY, Sapphire. Too many warranty/support related let downs over the years. A lot of whom have alot of hidden fluff in their warranty coverage polices. ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte; sure those are good. But again all brands offer cheaper/lesser quality products. You may see/seen many folks even on here saying they having issues with Gigabyte GTX 10xx GPUs, coil-whine, fan issues. Even previous GTX 7xx and 9xx variants from MSI and ASUS had issues with premature failing fans, fans not working right out of the box, 1 of 2 fans not going along with the fan-curve as it should, etc. So EVGA is not alone. If anything its one of those moments in time where other brands already made mistakes and made some adjustments, EVGA happened to trip up big time when they others did not. It happens. The issues were called out, EVGA saw the issues and corrected them. Unless you are buying a used EVGA GTX 1070/1080 series GPU from months ago, any newer batches will come with the proper cooling and not have a repeat of these same issues, that much should be made clear.

Sorry if this looks all jumbled, I'm on mobile at the moment.

[SnarkySinner]

All manufacturers had there share of issues and the issue for me with sticking EVGA is why would they provide a copper core and heat pipes on their SC variants while the non-sc has a basic cooler on it??

I'm not trying to put EVGA down or anything I'm just saying personally I'll go with a brand that has a better cooling solution offered.

I do my research before buying stuff and since I had a Asus GTX 750 and Asus Strix DirectCU II GTX 960 both OC models I felt comfortable getting a third GPU from them.