I have just installed an EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC GAMING [06G-P4-6267-KR] with driver version 388.13 [Win 7 Pro 64-bit].  The card has not been tweaked in any way; the following is my out-of-box experience.
    On the Windows desktop (not referring here to gaming), I intermittently get screen flashing / flickering.  It might happen in a split second and then quit for 15 minutes or several hours.  Or it might go on for several seconds and then quit for some span.
    The flickers happen so fast that I can’t be sure of what it’s doing; sometimes it seems like fragments of some unknown screen images flash over part(s) of the desktop, but sometimes it’s large blocks of color, like purple or green.  Occasionally the entire screen goes black for a second.
    This is disconcerting, to say the least.  I never saw anything like it when using the integrated GPU.  It is certainly not acceptable behavior.  I realize that this is a low-end card; nonetheless, it is very painful for me to pay this kind of money for a piece of computer gear.  It ought to function properly.

    Since writing the above, NVIDIA has released a new driver.  I cleaned out 388.13 with wagnardsoft.com Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) in Safe Mode and installed driver 388.31 using the clean install option.  No change resulted from this.
    If this were a gaming issue, I would want to test underclocked or in the NVIDIA Control Panel Debug Mode.  But since this is happening at the Windows desktop, the GPU & memory clocks are about as underclocked as they could possibly be already.
    My only reluctance about RMAing this card is the thought that someone could put it in a test station and stare at it for hours and never see anything amiss.  I don’t relish the thought of getting into a big fight with EVGA.
    Anyone have suggestions to offer?

I would have said change your refresh rate to 120 Hz if you're using a high refresh rate monitor, but it doesn't look like you're using one.

If you are seeing purple or other colored artifacts it starts to point towards a faulty gpu. But it seems odd it only happens on the desktop under no load but no in games which would point to something in Windows. It could even be your monitor since it's so infrequent it could be hard to track down .

But if you really belive the gpu is the cause talking with evga support doesn't feel like an arugment at all. They may ask what steps you have been able to do and to try a few others or even just execpt the RMA after a reply it just depends how well you explain and will vary by the rep

Try rolling back the driver to 368.81. From the research that I've done it seems that every driver after 368.81 has the screen flicker issue. Hope that helps.

I may have found the problem, but maybe to soon to tell.
I just checked the refresh rate it was auto set to 59Mhz I changed it to 60Mhz
and the flashing from desktop to a black screen has stopped as soon as I changed it. 
 
I'll post back if things change, but so far its looking good.
 
Edit well that wasn't it, but not as often as it was. Almost as soon as I posted it started again.
I will now that I have time use DDU and try some different drives. Wish me luck.
If I find the problem fix I will update so to help others that might run into this problem.
 

Looking at the GPU & memory clocks do those look about right for a stock clock for a SSC model under load??

TheWolf
Looking at the GPU & memory clocks do those look about right for a stock clock for a SSC model under load??

Yep.

TheWolf
I when to techpowerup and looked up the vbios 86.06.00.62 its there but has never been confirmed with warnings about use.
Is there anyone here that can confirm this is a EVGA stock vbios??
 
Edit: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/212082/212082
Matches my card

 
youre missing 2 digits in the middle
 
https://www.techpowerup.c...emSize=6144&since=
 

sorry, i missed your gpuz pic earlier. im not finding a link there for your acx3 and that bios you linked says its unverified. you can call evga with your part number and maybe your serial number too and they can inform you which bios is correct.

There should be a vbios sticker on the back of your card to tell you which vbios is the original.

No problem.

You might want to see if the monitor has a bios update or try a higher quality cable. It might be that the HDMI cable being used doesn't meet HDMI 2.0 standards.