Need Help with OC - Overclocking Nvidia GTX 1060

[BestNoob]

Hello guys,

i have here an NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB from Zotac AMP! Edition.
I found a BIOS from other vendors with much higher values.

My PowerSupply is a MSI MAG 750W with PCIe 5.0 Support

So i planned to bring up my:

Zotac GTX 1060 VBIOS

6 GB GDDR5, 1557 MHz GPU, 2002 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Memory Size: 6144 MB
GPU Clock: 1557 MHz
Boost Clock: 1772 MHz
Memory Clock: 2002 MHz
Memory Type: GDDR5


Board power limit
Target: 120.0 W
Limit: 140.0 W


up to THAT

Gigabyte GTX 1060 VBIOS

6 GB GDDR5, 1620 MHz GPU, 2256 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Memory Size: 6144 MB
GPU Clock: 1620 MHz
Boost Clock: 1848 MHz
Memory Clock: 2256 MHz


Board power limit
Target: 200.0 W
Limit: 225.0 W


Should be doable or ? Hope that you guys can help me.


The AMP Cooler is strong enough
My Power Supply is strong enough
My PCIe 4.0 is strong enough

So first i planned to test these settings with MSI Afterburner + 3DMark. After that i planned to flash the BIOS.


My question now is what is the better way ?

Backup my old BIOS and flash it back with edited OC values ?

(thats the way i did it in the past)

or

Download a compatible BIOS (more recent one 2017/2018) from a different Vendor ?

Spoiler

btw. Zotac itself has a extreme oc card:

Zotac GTX 1060 VBIOS

6 GB GDDR5, 1570 MHz GPU, 2002 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Memory Size: 6144 MB
GPU Clock: 1570 MHz
Boost Clock: 1785 MHz
Memory Clock: 2002 MHz


Board power limit
Target: 130.0 W
Limit: 152.0 W

 

[BestNoob]

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[BestNoob]

Still in 2025 you CAN NOT EDIT and flash your 10xx cards (Pascal)
BUT you can use MSI Afterburner, NVIDIA Inspector and other tools/apps to OC your card inside Windows.

Tweaks you can do:
- after 4+ years you should renew your thermalpaste to prevent thermal throttling
- use MSI Afterburner and similar tools to OC your card
- buy a defective card on ebay etc. that has a better cooling solution than yours and apply it to your card (prevent thermal throttling)

- you can try to crossflash your card with existing bios from same or different vendor (be careful - could easily brick your card)
- use a hardware flasher



* Why cant you edit your threads here ? or am i just to new to do?

 

[Ruru]

I've practically never crossflashed any cards so I can't personally recommend doing that. I've also never owned a 1060, but I'm pretty sure that the power limit isn't going to be the limiting factor there. I quickly checked few 1060 reviews from TPU and they seemed to all OC to 2100+ MHz (except the GDDR5X version which uses a heavily cut GP104 GPU). Also your card seems to have a 6-pin power connector where the Gigabyte Xtreme has a 8-pin. PCIe + 6-pin = 150W so I wouldn't go over that even if the Gigabyte bios works.

* Why cant you edit your threads here ? or am i just to new to do?

You can for the first 24 hours from your post

 

[io-waiter]

Crossflash needs same or similar layout of the card, ports, power, memory etc.

What I would do and have done on my older cards is to repaste and add if needed pads. Also it would probably work out nicely to buy (or make) a fan adapter and replace the original fan, two X 120mm and in the process remove the shroud completly. But unless you have thermal or noise issues 90-95% of the achivable performance boost will be in Afterburner and that might give you 10% more performance than you have, so I would not recommend spending more money on what is likely a dead end.

EDIT: There is no game that will become playable on that card by tuning that is not already playable!