EVGA RTX 2060 KO Video Card Review and LN2 Overclocking

There are a total of four screws holding the dual fan cooler to the RTX 2060 GPU.  Removing these and the single fan header will expose the GPU and PCB.

I am happy to see that EVGA included thermal pads on the memory and connected them to the cooler.  This should keep chips at a consistent level though the connection at the heatsink isn’t more than along the edges of the radiator fins.

What is surprising is that the VRM is not cooled and does get extremely hot when fully loaded.  The board has holes to support a VRM cooler though for some reason EVGA didn’t include one on this card.

While four screws hold the GPU cooler on eight of them are used to secure the backplate to the PCB.  Given that the backplate reinforces the PCB I won’t complain.  Removing the backplate exposes the three thermal pads which are positioned over the memory chips, again leaving the VRM exposed.

Speaking of VRM there is a number of different phases on this card.  Four appear to support the GPU with an option to add two more for when they want to expand what this board design supports.  I was surprised to see a choke and three capacitors located across the top of the card which is normally devoid of anything. 

This will pose a problem for any sort of extreme overclocking with LN2 given that the GPU pot needs to occupy that space.