When it comes to LAN rigs, there are some cases that support full sized cards, but when getting into the smallest options they need shorter ITX sized cards. Over the past few years, these options have been opening up, especially with the GTX 1060’s where the cooling and power requirements are a little lower but the performance is still what people are looking for. I’ve had the chance to check out one ITX sized 1060 back at launch and one that was close as well. Well MSI is introducing their new Aero ITX lineup with a GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 1060, and a GTX 1070. Today we have the chance to check out the GTX 1060 so I’m going to see what MSI is doing differently and then find out how it compares to the competition. Is this the card for your LAN rig as we get close to all of the spring events? Let’s find out.

Product Name: MSI GTX 1060 Aero ITX 6G OC

Review Sample Provided by: MSI

Written by: Wes

Pictures by: Wes

Amazon Link: HERE

 

Specifications

Model Name

GeForce® GTX AERO ITX 6G OC

Graphics Processing Unit

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060

Interface

PCI Express x16 3.0

Core Name

GP106-400

Cores

1280 Units

Boost / Base Core Clock

1759 MHz / 1544 MHz

Memory Clock Speed

8008 MHz

Memory

6GB GDDR5

Memory Bus

192-bit

Output

DisplayPort x 2 (Version 1.4) / HDMI x 2 (Version 2.0) / DL-DVI-D

HDCP Support

2.2

Power consumption

120 W

Power connectors

6-pin x 1

Recommended PSU

400 W

Card Dimension(mm)

175 x 115 x 38 mm

Weight (Card / Package)

472 g / 862 g

Afterburner OC

Y

DirectX Version Support

12

OpenGL Version Support

4.5

Maximum Displays

4

VR Ready

Y

G-SYNC™ technology

Y

Adaptive Vertical Sync

Y

As always I also have a GPUz screenshot. We always want to confirm that out sample has the same clock speeds as advertised. This is also so everyone can see what firmware and driver versions I tested on as well.

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