Hi

I have evga sc 1060 3G (single fan) card and when I play Mafia III the temperature reach 85 c, fan speed is 65% and audible so is that temp dangerous ? it is my first evga card.

how I can lower temp ? I did not OC my card

my case is open not closed and if increased fan speed it will become very noisy. is it suppose to be like 75c or under that number ? all reviews say that

80c would be normal.

Sajin
80c would be normal.

Lol, i'd be scared to ever see that number... The last time I've seen 80's were on fermi cards... =(

GTA V or Mad Max does not reach that temp it is only Mafia 3

Your card is running into its throttle point. That chart with max temperatures is all fun and good, but if Nvidia cards (ever from Kepler onwards, so since 2012) run past 80 C they will start running at considerably lower clocks unless you've done some specific core overclocking, and they will try hard to keep their temperature below 80 C.
 
The best temperatures for Pascal are below 50 C. That is impossible on air cooling, but with a regular blower style cooler Pascal really shouldn't get any hotter than 75 C - ideally, you'd want to shoot for 70 C tops to get the best performance out of your card. Go lower and you can clock a bit higher, but you'll only get that if you OC the card yourself.
 
FWIW, I would strongly suggest you find an alternative for the sound card of yours. Unless you're an audio enthusiast, most recent motherboard's onboard audio these days is more than OK.
 
Also next time you buy a GPU, avoid the blower style / reference coolers. They are absolute junk unless you have a really, really small case with little to no airflow (and as you can see, even then they aren't much good for your temperatures). Somehow EVGA manages to do worse on that reference design than Nvidia itself, as well. I've had an EVGA GTX 660 SC with a blower and it was similarly crappy.

I suppose it is not the SC version, right? The non-SC is much hotter than the SC because of the heatpipes included. Anyway I (personally) would try to not reach 80ºC; my psicological maximum is 79
 
Up to 75% the fan noise is reasonable for me. From that point it increases the noise a lot with a "bigger multiplier". Making numbers, my GTX 1060 SC 6GB reaches 73ºC on Unigine Heaven with 70% fan speeds, and aprox. 66-68 ºC when playing games with 60-65% fan speeds. So if I were you I would do an iterative test with Unigine (As I think it will hit your GPU more than Mafia III) and I would try to have a maximum temp of 80ºC with 75% fan speeds. Even if the noise is not too high (for me), who cares about the noise when playing? With the volume of the game and the attention I put on it, I don't realise that my computer is doing any noise
 
PS: I don't know why you bought a non-SC version when the prices are almost the same. About changing to MSI... you will get less performance (less factory overclocked) for a higher price. The only positive thing is that it will be a bit (very little) more cooled. And maybe the same noise, because if it reduces the fan noise, for example, 4dB for one fan, you will need to add 3 more dB as they are two fans! (Equal noise levels add 3dB to the single level). But it's your decision.

izac3d
I am selling this card and getting MSI, the cooler in this card is really bad and noisy it is a shame it has great price and cute shape !!

izac3d
I moved my sound card to another slot and temp now is 78c in mafia 3, mafia 3 is the only game that has low fps !!

 
So wait...it wasn't EVGA's fault that the card was getting hot...it was how you built your system??
 
Are you still selling the card?

izac3d
I am selling this card and getting MSI, the cooler in this card is really bad and noisy it is a shame it has great price and cute shape !!

I don't think this is a *sound* reason to switch to any one vendor IMO. The card is operating fine, you just need to move things around in your case.

If any reference GPU is trapped and blocked by another card or has bad 'airflow' in the case for other reasons your *temp* results would generally fair the same; a Super-Hotttttt card under full-load.

Also, you will be missing the awesome EVGA forum folks who tend to be ultra friendly and knowledgeable on said subject matters. {No rage threads included.}

This is cliche, but its really true from my own experience [and surely many others'] evga's warranty and customer-care is truly the best there is.

Goodluck with MSI however...

izac3d
I moved my sound card to another slot and temp now is 78c in mafia 3, mafia 3 is the only game that has low fps !!

Mafia III was originally capped to 30fps. They patched it, but since the game was never meant to run past 30, it does so sub-optimally. On high settings/DX11/1080p, Mafia averages 42FPS on a 1060, 56 on a 1080 according to Guru3D.
 

Vayra86
Your card is running into its throttle point. That chart with max temperatures is all fun and good, but if Nvidia cards (ever from Kepler onwards, so since 2012) run past 80 C they will start running at considerably lower clocks unless you've done some specific core overclocking, and they will try hard to keep their temperature below 80 C.

True thermal throttling doesn't start until 94c is reached. Dynamic frequency control is what you're talking about, dynamic frequency control isn't true thermal throttling.