Anyone got any info on this Graphics card?

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therdh

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Browsing for a GTX 1060 when i found this EVGA one: https://www.scan.co.uk/products/6gb-evga-gtx-1060-gaming-blower-fan

Thing is, this is the only website that I can find this version, I can't even find it on EVGA's own website, but I do know that scan.co.uk is a very legitimite website and wouldn't post an item if they didn't have it. So do you guys know if this is an actual product from EVGA?

Also I want to ask, is a blower/ rear exhaust GPU the best option for me? - It'll be going into a mATX case, with somewhat limited air flow, and the CPU is aircooled, and I'm pretty sure rear exhaust GPUs make other components run cooler, but the GPU itself runs hotter.

And, is the cooler on this card the same as the reference cards from Nvidia, or is it slightly better?

Or should I just get a typical aftermarket GPU with the fans blowing onto the card? Like the EVGA superclocked - not too bothered about the clock speed, mostly the temps and size
 
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I don't have any info on that exact card, but it looks like a genuine card to me.
As for your question about a blow style card, yes they are perfect for small mATX cases with limited airflow and not many options for adding more fans....most people with a mid case would be better with a non-reference style card as they run cooler, but only because they have more room to mount case fans, which you will be very limited.
Without knowing the exact card, I would think the cooler is similar to the NVidia reference on the 1070 (NVidia never released a reference 1060), so on a less powerful GPU it's probably not too bad....well that's my opinion anyway.
 
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for small case builds/poor circulation cases you want a blower type yes


no, the nvidia blower design is different


which is better is hard to say without benchmarks

 
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When you say it's different, how is it different?
 
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they have a number transposed. scan.uk is a legit website. they mean the 06G-P4-6161-KR but they put a 5 in there where it should be a 6 as that first number after p4 designates the family. the gtx1050 would start with a 5161/5163/5165 etc or whatever evge designates.

this is the actual card they are selling.
http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-6161-KR

what air cooled cpu are you running? are you overclocking?

a card as low wattage and low temp as the gtx1060(any variant) is not going to get hot enough for a blower style card to make and internal case temp different relevant to the cpu or other components. when you have a higher wattage card, especially cfx/sli, and you are overclocking then you can see a 3-10c internal case temp rise when the cards are under load and if overclocked to your max vcore temp limit or extreme edges of stability it can be an issue.

if the air cooled cpu is already running above 65c under a prime95 load then adding a graphics card will likely push temps up another 10c. any cpu with stock vcore can easily handle 75c but if you are overclocking with a higher vcore then this temp could be fine or could be dangerous... potentially dangerous for an fx8350, completely fine for an i7-6700k... depending on vcore.
 
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