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    GTX 1060 AW18 working perfectly

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by expresstyle, Oct 29, 2020.

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    expresstyle Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys, after a bad gtx 1070 card i get an 1060 and it does work perfectly without throttling issues, just for normal pwr limit (78W)
    next move, get better thermal pads and thermal liquid and flash dell bios that is 88w should keep better high frequencies
     

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    Maxware79 Alienware died in 2014

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    Glad to see it worked out this time. How much did you managed to pick the card up for, if I may ask?
     
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    I get it for 200 euro on eBay as new from Europe I guess black pcb it’s a good deal for this gpu
     
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    Anyways no way to get working higher tdp, tried few vbios, with Alienware ones it goes throttling for some reason , it goes below 1ghz also, tried also ho omen one but it bricked the gpu, but I ve managed to recover it again. So no way to get better performance withou an spi programmer haha
     
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