EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC GAMING, ACX 2.0 (Single Fan), 6GB GDDR5, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC), Only 6.8 Inches Graphics Card 06G-P4-6163-KR

Review for: 1060 SC Gaming ACX 2.0 Single Fan 6GB

If you are as curious as I was to what the difference of single vs twin fan cards are, I found the simple answer browsing some PC build forums.

Basically, a lot of it boils down to looks, and the rest is how far you can overclock past stock.

-PC enthusiasts love beefy, expensive looking cards and equipment to fill out their towers, and twin cards deliver with their bigger case, lights, and backplate. Single fans don’t have any of that, but are cheaper as a result.

-Single fan cards also don’t stand up to overclocking as much as twin fans because of heat dissipation. That’s not to say single fans aren’t adequate out of the box. If you don’t plan on overclocking, a single fan is just fine and will never overheat.

You really don’t need a twin fan model, or really anything above a 1060 if you’re a basic gamer that doesn’t care about looks and just wants a high performance card you don’t plan on messing with. I’m playing on a 144mhz monitor and get 160FPS playing Overwatch on Ultra, and about 100 on Epic. TF2 is beyond easy to play at max and Subnautica looks absolutely beautiful on topped out graphics with no stuttering. My tower is in a somewhat confined space as well and the card has never overheated even in 5+ hours of non-stop gaming.

UPDATE: I downloaded the “Precision X” Bios from EVGA and updated the card. It’s now faster then ever. Even on stock tune and no overclocking the card is now peaking at 2012mhz, WAY higher than advertised and higher than any stock clocked 1060 on the market. I’m loving this card more every day.

Great for most games (as of 2015) at 1080p at 60hz with every thing maxed except anti-aliasing. If AA is maxed out it drops to 30hz in Metro 2033 redux and Metro: last light redux (max is 4-SSAA). I looked for a difference betwwen 4-SSAA and .5-SSAA in metro and I can’t see the difference. But I have a red-green color blindness so my perception is off compared to normal vision.(though I don’t know how my colorblindness will effect how AA works in games but I wish to mention it just in case I’m wrong)