Does lowering power limit lower the maximum temperature the card can hit?

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I have been mining recently on my MSI 1060 Gaming X and I currently have the power limit at 65% which lowers the temperature limit to 67 degrees Celsius.

My first question is, does this limit the graphics card from going over 67 degrees?

If the temperature is limited, does this mean I take a graphics/mining hit if the card tries to go over 67 degrees?

Here are the overclock settings I currently have: http://imgur.com/a/by7MM
 
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If the priority is set on the temp, then the temp won't go above that point, without throttling. If the priority is set on the power limit, then the GPU won't draw more than 65% of the value set in the bios without throttling.

Would you take a hit in graphics / mining? Yes, absolutely. You're setting the card to throttle at much lower temp / power limit than it was designed to handle.

I have to say....you're wasting electricity mining with an NVIDIA GPU. With that 1060, with an overclock, you're probably looking at 200khs, which is horrible. By comparison, a 290X can push above 1k. Mining with an NVIDIA GPU is really pretty worthless. Just lettin ya know.
 
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I have been mining at 23-4 Mh/s using claymore miner for ethereum and net around .4 ethereum per month which is around 120-130 a month. Purchased the graphics card at 240 so I will reach my ROI at around 2 months I don't understand why you are saying mining on a nvidea gpu is pretty worthless. 290x pulls in around 19-22 Mh/s so I don't see how your point is valid?
 
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Must be a pretty poor 290x....they should be up around 27. Some of it probably depends on what mining software you're using I guess.....

NVIDIA GPUs have always been really poor for mining, all the way back to the beginning. If you say you can make money doin it, best of luck to ya. I just wonder if you've taken into account how much electricity you're using. /shrug
 
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