MSI GTX 1060 Armor 6G OCV1

Need more gigabytes

New games of 2017-2018 finally proved that the 3-gig version of the GeForce GTX 1060 is no longer enough for comfortable gameplay. Without exception, all big-low-cost new games require 4 GB of VRAM even for low graphics settings, and for medium or high graphics settings, you need 6+ GB. Fortunately, the GTX 1060 has an older modification with 6 GB of fast GDDR5 memory and 1280 Pascal architecture microcores (the 3-gigabyte version has only 1152 microcores).

Not a poor relative

MSI GTX 1060 Armor 6G OCV1 is the younger sister of MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G. They differ only in design (black and white versus black and red) and frequency (in the second it is slightly higher). However, the difference in megahertz is easy to compensate and even surpass by manual overclocking using the proprietary MSI Afterburner application. The programme is so convenient that it is often used to overclock video cards even from other manufacturers that have their own utilities similar in functionality.

Magic of reincarnation

And if you manually select the frequency formula for the graphics core and video memory, you can tritely flash the MSI GTX 1060 Armor 6G OCV1 with a ready-made BIOS file from a higher-frequency Gaming X. Rumor has it that after that, Armor even slightly increases the potential for manual overclocking, which initially, apparently , limited by software. As a result, we safely recommend the MSI GTX 1060 Armor 6G OCV1 paired with an Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 processor.