Yay it works, but boo, it doesn't work. Turn on PC, fans on card come on, blow, begins loading windows, driver loads just before login screen, fans turn off... but that's fine, it's at like 18W power use on desktop... they'll turn on if I load it... and load it some more... and load it... crap, GPU-Z shows fan power demanded but it's not happening. Theoretically, top temperature for this thing is 83C... I am chickening out at 80, still no fan.... oddly, it seems to give the odd blurp at random times. RPM is showing wrong also keeps flashing up to 750,000, not sure if it's picking up EMI off the SATA cable or something. Have loaded Afterburner and put the fan slider up to 100... nothing.
BUT ... is it me or them? Lots of chatter about Asus 1060 cards being weird with the fans, and some special driver combo and moon/planet alignment required to get it working, *sigh* and since this is a used card, unsure whether BIOS fan profiles have been messed with.
Then also ... do I want to fix it on this test system? .. it's the AMD Athlon II X2 again running windows 7... I am putting this card in an M83 i7 4770 running windows 10, ultimately... do I assume this is normal stupid shit that is not worth the time to mess around with on this system and build out the M83 and deal with the problems there.
The known 1060 fan issues have been called system specific, it might not even do it in the other box. Or it might be a simple fix on this one and 3 years hard labor fix on the other. So I dunno, card can turn fan on, seen at boot, card can turn fan off, seen at login, in between, is that software snafu or hardware fubar ???
edit: just started wondering, did later series of cards start using 3.3V logic for their PWM signal??? I can't find any references or real datasheets for known fan models. Though since I have 4 pin fans known to be good for 10x0 series and later, I will try one on the header alone and see what happens. Also might just try the fans as is with the pwm header pin slid out, so I can assess max cooling potential.
editII: Had it on a ubuntu 22.x desktop the other day and the fans are turning there, not full blast, I wanna say about 40%, didn't have a doohickey lined up to check... (installs are 4 gigabytes of nothing these days, they used to be packed with utils on a CD install)
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.