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excellent what's up guys and welcome to my quick review of the EVGA gtx 1060 superclocked the 6 gig version mind you not the lowly 3 gig version that shouldn t be called a 1060 but coming in at 260 dollars just ten dollars more than in videos $250 MSRP this card has some standout features that make it a great choice in the mid $200 range if your patience just click link for it down in the video description and throw money at the screen or continue watching as I explain myself either way if you go down to the description the like button is down there too just sayin so let's start with aesthetics and I'd like to say that this card looks pretty nice I will say that this card looks pretty nice it is a dual slot open cooler with a single fan it's black with some silver accents and lettering no LEDs to be seen on the card which is fine by me and also no backplate so the 7-inch reference design PCB is exposed but since it's black it's not hideous or anything like that since the 1060 uses the reference PCB but not the original reference blower cooler the whole card is just shy of 7 inches long about 175 millimeters and the 6 pin PCI Express power connector is down here at the end of the PCB the only real difference between this and the reference PCB design which uses the reference uses an extension put that out at the end of the blower cooler anyway though beyond that we've got identical specs to all gtx 1066 g8 cards with a Pascal GP 106 GPU doing the heavy lifting built on 16 nanometer Pascal architecture with 4.4 billion transistors the GP 106 is paired with 6 gigabytes 192 bit gddr5 memory at 8000 megahertz effective clock speed and rounding out the specs you have 10 streaming multi processors 1280 CUDA cores 80 texture units 192 gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth 48 wraps and a 120 watt TDP sadly there is no SLI bridge on this card so no traditional SLI support but that was in videos call whether you like it or not so deal with it and video outs finally our three display ports 1 points fours 1 HDMI 2.0 B and one DVI just like the 1080 and 1070 that came before it for overclocking I of course used EVGA precision X utility and ended up tacking on a 95 mega Hertz GPU clock offsets and a 250 megahertz bump to the memory clock and with the power and temp sliders next at stock the cards base clock is 6 seven and the boost is 1835 but with that overclock just mentioned it jumped up to seventy no to base nineteen thirty boost and twenty one hundred max that max o'clock can be deceptive those after temps evened out the stable loose o'clock was about two thousand thirty seven to two thousand fifty megahertz on average which is pretty standard for a GTX 1060 temperatures were very reasonable considering how small the cooler is hitting seventy nine C under full load so just a little bit cooler than the reference design that is while overclocked though and with the fan speed also will overclocked ranging from forty to fifty one percent here's some fan noise testing so you can hear for yourself we're going to start with idle here's 45 percent fan speed about the average I was at while gaming here's 70 percent fan speed and here's 100% proving that no one wants to run their fan 100% all the time because it's loud moving on to benchmarks I tested this card at 1920 by 1080 which is the proper resolution for this GPU and here are my results okay it is conclusion time and I think the biggest question you'll want to ask yourself is should you get a gtx 1066 gig or @rx 488 gig and that is a tough choice the 1066 gig is clearly faster right now when tested across a range of games old and new but the Ark's 480 has shown some promising gains and titles to implement certain DirectX 12 features the leveraged asynchronous compute availability is also a concern with my quick and purely anecdotal look at current stock levels on new egg this morning revealing that seven of nine rx 480 models are in stock while just 6 of 13 gtx 1066 gig variants are in stock with the superclocked model being one of the unavailable ones all that said if you want the right now performance of the gtx 1060 i think this is a very good choice its small and quiet enough for HTPC use or small form-factor builds overclocking was right up there in the same range with larger moreover built cards although sustained clocks will probably be just a little bit lower than ones with a larger cooling solution and at $260 again it's just $10 more than the MSRP whereas other variants of the 1066 gig want 300 bones or more which is a significant markup at this price I would love to hear what you guys think of this card though so leave me your comments down in the comments section below links to this card on Amazon and my Paul's hardware store where you can buy shirts mugs and pen classes are also in the description hit the like button and get subscribed if you enjoyed thanks for watching and I'll see you next time