Nowhere.they said ftw+ is coming.they said ftw has no backplate.i think existence of + version is speed and backplate.result no backplate.worse than i think.

I'm waiting to buy a GTX 1060 FTW. I wish the FTW+ model included a backplate, but it wont. 
It says so in the chart below the GTX 1060 FTW+ product page.

schenkj

V3DTech

schenkj
It's a shame that the cooler sucks so much :(
 
How difficult was it to replace it? Does it just fit?

Not that difficult.
It just fits, it's from a GTX970. The only odd thing is the fans spin at 700RPM even at 0% then starts going up after 28% & maxes out at around 2450RPM.

Interesting. I have a broken EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST Superclocked, do you think the cooler would fit?

Just from looking at the EVGA GTX 650 Ti board, it does not look like it would.
 
I was also looking at some from GTX 660 Ti, GTX 760, & other GTX 970 cards, plus aftermarket coolers. I don't like the aftermarket coolers because all of them I've seen take up 3 slots & I have a capture card in a x1 slot directly under the GTX 1060. So a aftermarket cooler would force me to move the capture card to a x16 slot.
 
I like this Zotac cooler because it has no model branding, so it does not say GTX 970 on it, all it says is Zotac.

Edit: Wrong place

V3DTech

Not that difficult.
It just fits, it's from a GTX970. The only odd thing is the fans spin at 700RPM even at 0% then starts going up after 28% & maxes out at around 2450RPM.

Anyone have a idea why the fans spin now at 0% after changing the cooler? PWM issue with those fans? I would think at 0% it would shut the power off fully to the header.

Good morning,
If anyone can confirm that the EVGA GeForce 1060 GTX FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 or another card gtx 1060, has the 0db function with fans switched off, below a certain temperature.
Thank you, Sincerely.
Rossi

cicchello
Good morning,
If anyone can confirm that the EVGA GeForce 1060 GTX FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 or another card gtx 1060, has the 0db function with fans switched off, below a certain temperature.
Thank you, Sincerely.
Rossi

06G-P4-6268-KR does support the 0db feature. 

Hello everyone!!!
 
I also was not happy with the temps on this card.... always around 80C.... but it was the only card on stock by the time i bought it. 
So i did a little research and found this cooler on aliexpress:

It was easy to install and now my temps are always bellow 55C. 
Only drawback...the fans that came with it are not PWMs.
 
 
 

V3DTech

V3DTech
I know my EVGA GTX 670 FTW card was unstable out of the box with the factory OC, underclocking it just -13MHz made it rock solid stable & I never bothered to RMA it. That is part of the reason I went with the standard EVGA GTX 1060 vs the SC version, thinking the only difference was in the firmware.

My GTX 1060 should be here tomorrow so I'll report back after I do a few tests. My case has good airflow but my room can get pretty hot at times, sometimes over 90F.

Update: The Non-SC version sucks, even if in a cooler room at 76F/24.4C still hits the 83C temp target while gaming, 89C when Precision X OC decides to random ignore the target temp , even maxing out the fan can not bring it down and since newegg's return policy on it only allows replacing it with the same item if defective & EVGA's step-up program does not offer the SC version, I'm stuck with the card.
 
So I replaced the heatsink with a zotac heatsink I got on ebay for $13 with shipping.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
With the fans maxed out now it runs at 66C while gaming, room temp 77F/25C at a higher clock speed from the lower temps. That is a 23C drop from the stock heatsink, plus the mosfets now have a fan directly above them & the memory chips are now cooled by the heatsink also.

Thank you a lot dude!! i was just planing to ask what about cooling of  MOSFET/memory , coz I just ordered evga sc version.. And only disvantage that I read is that non memory cooling.. Can you give us egsact model of heatsink that you bought.And just my 2 c, in intel pentium times (pre 99 years) all temps under 90c were consider normal...

I recieved GTX 1060 (non SC) gamming as a RMA for my GTX 970 SC. Firstly I told to my self, ohh this card is beautifull, but when I started to use it the card reach 83-84C under full load. Ofc I stop everything, remove the cooler and the thermal grease was hard as rock. I`ve replace the termal paste and the card give me 78C, plus the card dont have VRM sinks. In this moment I`ve made a decision "Sorry for my words EVGA" but I`ll remove this little cooler from the card. And here are the result with little modded AC Accelero S3.
 


 

 
Now my card is cool and silent. I dont really get why evga made such a nice card, with that terrible cooler.