Hello @ALL,
 
i am new to this forum and i bought my "hot" loved 1060 GTX back in april 2017.
The card works very fine, i have no issues or problems with it. The only thing is the very bad cooling solution that was used in this model of 1060.
I know my version is the "cheapest" in this series so i am not here for complaining. I found a bios version for this card that disables the FAN idle mode so that
the fan will always be pushing air to the card. I had several concerns about fan idle mode and the missing VRM heatsink because this area got very hot, even when i was not playing a game,
but with the Bios with modified fan curve i was fine.
 
While checking many forums about cooling mods i noticed that there must be a newer revision of this card that uses more than just the standard GPU heatsink, they also have a heatsink that covers the DRAMs and the VRMs also. I found a picture in this forum also, posted by one the moderators: 
 
There you can see that there are more than the usual 4 screws to mount the GPU heatsink, see the screenshot below:

The squares indicate how i believe the heatsinks are shaped, unfortunatly i was not able to find a front foto from a new revision of this card.
My question is, would it be possible to get those heatsinks as a spare part to mount them ? Where can i find them ?
 
Another thing i found through my researches was the fact that the EVGA PCB is nearly the reference design from nvidia. Just for testing i installed the nvidia LED Visualizer Tool,
it started and i was able to choose between the known different modes for static colour LEDs. After checking the PCB i noticed that on 06G-P4-6161-KR the LED connector is missing.
So i turned the LED on in the visualizer tool and checked with my voltmeter if i could measure voltage changings when LED starts to "breathe" but nothing happened.
I checked the LED a second time and noticed a resistor "5M0" on it that was missing on the EVGA PCB, perhaps you can not see it on the screenshot but the conducting line from 
this resistor leads to the part where the LED connector is placed on the nvidia reference PCB. Please see the screens below:
 
 
My question about this LED resistor, would it be possible to solder this resistor including the LED connector to the PCB in order to let the LED shine ?
Thank you for reading, answers also from moderators are very welcome.
 
Best wishes 
 
Bye
 
 

Sajin
 
Modifications to the pcb will void the warranty of your card.

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DeathAngel74
I'd advise against it. The last time I soldered anything that small was over 10 years ago.

Those soldering skills tho.
Nice mod.

Hello ! 
First of all, thank you for the answers.
It was just a question if it would be possible to enable the LED on the Evga PCB, i dont think i would try it while my card has warranty.
But the SMD piece is very big, in my opinion no problem to solder it to the card if you have the skill.
 
Regarding the cooling solution i would like to know if someone could get me in contact with an Evga employee that is able to sell me the cooling solution from
the "Superclocked" (SC) version of the card as a spare part, so i could mount the better heatsink to the card and i would not need to mod other cooling solutions until they fit the PCB.
 
Is there any chance to get that heatsink from Evga ?
 
With best regards