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just to clarify in no way as I said before do we recommend doing this this is our latest hybrid mod for the GTX 1060 it doesn't make a whole lot of economic sense the PCB isn't in perfect shape we had to do some filing of the socket to fit the liquid cooler to it and then we had to buy copper shims to get the silicon to contact the cold plate before getting to the results of the 1060 high right which we now have thermal and other results this video is brought to you by MSI and their GTX 1060 gaming X with Twin Frozr 6 cooling that we reviewed recently so just like the our X 480 this was more of a mod out of curiosity than anything to see what we could learn about the card in the process of tearing it down and testing it and see what we can learn about if liquid is actually worth doing at this price point the answer is not really because the a IV partners are really good at what they do but well generally sometimes they're not but for cooling they're generally pretty good at what they do with this we did exceed the performance of a IV partner models like the msi card but you're still adding like a hundred bucks to do this plus a lot of time so unless you really want a weekend project i wouldn't recommend it that said the results are pretty interesting so here's what we have for the thermals first of all even with this crazy setup of silicon paste shim paste cold plate we're still getting a pretty good thermal output so we managed to drive thermals down to 17.7 5 Celsius a load on the 10 60 and that's a reduction of 25.9 Celsius from the reference card idle is down to 3.3 Celsius from 6.2 Celsius versus an after-market solution like the msi 1060 gaming X just because that's the one we have we're seeing a reduction still of 19.6 Celsius so almost 20 saw C is cooler than an AIB partner model though of course it's liquid so you'd expect that our maximum temperature is now in the low forties non Delta as opposed to the 71 Celsius throttle point ish of the F equal or originally as we showed in our review and most notably this thermal improvement did not once stabilized our clock rate without requiring a power target increase so previously with a 1080 hybrid and the RX for 80 hybrid mods we saw that the clock rate actually flatlined which is what you want you wanted to be pretty consistent with this we're still seeing some spike eNOS and the only way to really resolve that with the EFI model of the 1060 seems to be increasing the power target with the MSI card we have a pretty flat clock rate for the most part there's still a few sudden drops that we talked about in the review but we're not having to increase the power target in order to flatten that clock rate and it seems that a lot of this is just the design of the board itself and there v bios that they have the MSI card runs a lower voltage to sustain the same clocks that the efi card runs with a higher voltage and that certainly accounts for some of it as well we were able to slightly increase the overclock of the 1060 with the hybrid mod like previous hybrid projects but it wasn't quite as much as we saw with the 1080 hybrid now we're mostly hitting voltage limitation so we're able to sustain a higher and flatter overclock with the same 250 megahertz offset rather than the variance of the air-cooled version which was also 250 megahertz offset but it was fluctuating between 20 88 and 2150 1.5 megahertz whereas the liquid-cooled version that we built sits constant for the most part at 2150 1.5 megahertz and increasing that power target does actually flatten the curve of the chart so that's it goes to our theory that the power is one of the main limits here the efi card for the 10 60 FPS impact is marginal we'll see an extra frame here and there but that's it as we've said in the past this really isn't a mod that you're doing for X or frame rates that'd be kind of insane because it's an extra hundred dollars for almost nothing but the mod is mostly for fun and to see how things react to liquid and we do get a pretty good thermal reduction so that's potentially worth it for some users on the higher end cards again wouldn't really recommend it for this necessarily at the price the GN hybrid does routinely show merits of liquid though from the 1080 1060 and our X 480 that we've done one extra note here we're able to run fan rpms at lower speeds to reduce noise levels but still maintain significantly better thermal performance than the stock and AIB partner coolers the radiator fan is at 30% RPM and one of these tests that you're looking at versus the 100% or auto rpm and the giana hybrid version of the 1060 rests at $25 nine Celsius with that 30% fan speed there's only a 7.3 sauciest gain from the 100% fan speed and it allows for further recalled noise and by the way we're still barely 20 Celsius lower than the FE card with the stock cooler or about 15 SLC's lower than the MSI card okay so that's it that was the ten sixty hybrid project I'm going to take this one apart it does look kind of cool but it's definitely not healthy for the PCB there's not a lot of point and keeping this one assembled this way it's just annoying to store so this will be taken apart we're leaving the 1080 hybrid as it was our X 40 has been taken apart and reverted back to stock for further testing so all that's left standing currently is a 1080 hybrid but I'm sure we'll be applying these coolers to more cards in the near future so as always subscribe to that or for that and patreon link the postal video if you want to help directly thanks for watching I'll see you all next time