Aztechnology
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Well if you can get a 970 for ~$150 then it's definitely worth considering. I've seen some around that price. But yea, only if you're worried about price and want to stay under $200.
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Nvidia GTX 1060 Reviews
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Well if you can get a 970 for ~$150 then it's definitely worth considering. I've seen some around that price. But yea, only if you're worried about price and want to stay under $200.
Same. If you can get a 970 for less than say... $170, go for it.
Otherwise stretch and get the 1060.
MSI's 1060 available at B&H but it's $299. This isn't fun.
There we go, MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GT OC bought. Pretty excited; I just hope it isn't loud as all hell, it's the cheapest of the MSI models.
Aztechnology
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I have a 1070 gaming 8G as opposed to X or Z. I've gotten higher clocks than others with those models. It's a lottery on overclocking. The only advantage of a "special" edition one is if you didn't plan on overclocking yourself. (Which is lunacy)
I was able to order a 250 zotac ITX 1060 today for my htpc. Already shipped. I have been trying to order rx 480 for a few weeks but has been sold out so I guess I got lucky.
I do have a 2x1080 setup for my main setup which i love, but I made my old pc parts into an itx build. Seemed a shame to waste the parts.
I do have a 2x1080 setup for my main setup which i love, but I made my old pc parts into an itx build. Seemed a shame to waste the parts.
Beerman462
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Pretty sad that all these 1060 AIBs are available and 480s ain't got shit yet.
-bakalhau-
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Your opinion is your opinion and your money is yours, so what you say is as valid as anything.
In my case though, the 50$ are worth so much to me over an AMD card. And man, I like AMD, I mean ATI, I like these guys, they have little market share but I appreciate that they offer similar or very oh so slightly less performance, but have cheaper cards. However to me the 50$ more give me (in my view and with my money) an awesome recording software, shadow play, day 1 drivers, Ansel, streaming to a tablet, and to top that usually a little bit more performance. I like what Nvidia offers on the software side, and I even appreciate little things like the tweak/graphics guides for major titles. I just feel my 50 bucks are more than justified, specially when generally I get like a 5% or 10% increase in performance over AMD, which is not a lot, but still nice for 50 bucks.
We're all different and putting this in a TL;DR post, I'm not sure there would be any reason to not go for Nvidia.
But as I said we all have our own views and I understand you see that way. I work in retail in this space and I do suggest a lot of people get a 480. Personally though, I prefer Nvidia's higher cost vs what it offers me vs what AMD offers at a lower cost.
Edit: with this I forgot to answer your question. In mmy opinion with Nvidia, but from what I've read lately driver support has been fine on the AMD side.
With this kind of stock, the 1060 might as well not be available.
Cernys-Sandwich
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Love my Gainward GTX 1060. It is 2-2.5x faster than my GTX 960. Really makes a difference in DOOM. With a minor mod this card turns into an OC beast too!
TheGoddamn
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What would you like to know? The only relatively modern game that I've run on it so far is Evolve Stage 2 (which it just tears through on Ultra).
I have the card running at stock, and idle temps are 38°C. Under load it peaks at 72°C. I need more intensive games to test.
But can it run Hearthstone?
Do you have Hitman?
G-guys... I just did this. Someone tell me this was the right thing to do.
I have a Z68 mobo with an i5 2400 and 8 gigs of DDR3 ram. This wasn't a dumb upgrade right? Am I going to be happy?
Edit:NEVERMIND... Just got an email from Newegg that while their website indicated the card was in stock... the stock was depleted by the time my order was processed. I was so excited. It's my birthday. I'm going out for a beer now.
I have a Z68 mobo with an i5 2400 and 8 gigs of DDR3 ram. This wasn't a dumb upgrade right? Am I going to be happy?
Edit:NEVERMIND... Just got an email from Newegg that while their website indicated the card was in stock... the stock was depleted by the time my order was processed. I was so excited. It's my birthday. I'm going out for a beer now.
G-guys... I just did this. Someone tell me this was the right thing to do.
I have a Z68 mobo with an i5 2400 and 8 gigs of DDR3 ram. This wasn't a dumb upgrade right? Am I going to be happy?
Edit: I'm worried that it says super compact... I literally saw this and didn't even look at the description before adding to cart, signing into PayPal, and buying. Hope I won't regret this.
You'll be good. That thing has copper heat pipes and 2 fans. It should oc well. If you can get a cheap used i7 k series though, you should, then oc it to 4.5ghz.
Thanks for the reply but, re: edit, I'm not getting the card after all. Newegg giving me blue balls.
dgrdsv
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Gainward GTX 1060 Overclocking to 2200 MHz with Stock cooler
It's hardly lunacy if you favor stability over a couple more fps. Factory OC cards are guaranteed to be stable on their stock clocks while any manual OC may lead to stability issues.
It's hardly lunacy if you favor stability over a couple more fps. Factory OC cards are guaranteed to be stable on their stock clocks while any manual OC may lead to stability issues.
https://forum.beyond3d.com/posts/1931955/
Guess i should have specified in america.
Much like the 1080 and the 1070 being sparce here, it seems to be much easier to get in europe or the uk.
Doesnt matter to me though cause i was lucky enough to snag me one on newegg when it went up. But the shipping is slow, so itll get here saturday.
Edit: nor does that post even prove anything since all the cards get front loaded, and the avg number will continue to drop with each passing day.
TheGoddamn
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It can't : O Shame about your Newegg order not pushing through. We would have had identical cards.
No, but I'll be trying out Ashes of the Singularity later. It's the only DX12 title I have. I'll also try out the Doom demo.
I'm determined now that it's been snatched out from under me. We shall be GPU bros soon.
MrOogieBoogie
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Is the 1060 comparable to the 960 in relation to the 1070 and 1080? Like, is that the purpose it serves?
SmartWaffles
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In terms of power difference, 1060 to 1070 (50%) is a bit smaller than 960 to 970 (50-55%) so pretty comparable. But I also think the purpose is a bit different: the 960 was never ever a card suitable to 1080p triple A gaming, it struggles at higher settings almost right out of the box, but the 1060 is very capable of running today's games at great settings with great performance.
ambar_hitman
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I am interested in load temperatures and noise. 72 C on load sounds great.
The only reason I bought 1060 (have msi R9 280) is to save power. 120W vs 250W on load holy shit.
I had no problems with 280, it was almost noiseless and never used to go to 70 C on load.
Since my PSU is over 5 year old now, I wanted to get a low power card so that I don't have to worry about system stability.
As long has new card is relatively quiet and doesn't have any heating issues, I will be very happy.
DemonCleaner
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there are both 1060 and 480 (8GB) in stock here in germany. and that's not for the premium price models. both start at 279 respectively 269 for stock items. that's no paper launch.
Shadowhaxor
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It has that fancy LED setup where you can customize it how you like. I just picked this up today after returning the RX 480. The card also features a backplate as well.
Is the MSI ARMOR version (https://www.scan.co.uk/products/msi...phics-card-1280-core-1544mhz-gpu-1759mhz-boos) worth £40.00 more than the regular version? (https://www.scan.co.uk/products/msi...hics-card-1280-core-1544mhz-gpu-1759mhz-boost)
ISee
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Stats look very similar so far, but...
The armor edition comes with an eight pin connector, a different heat pipe and fan (rotor blade) design. My best guess is: You could get better overclocking results with the armor edition vs the normal one due to higher possible power targets and (probably) slightly better cooling.
But that's just a guess.
dgrdsv
Member
I would say no unless you're planning to overclock.
Aztechnology
Member
It's likely completely fine if the 1070/1080 situation is anything to go off of.
No, factory-overclocked mid-range cards seldom are. That's only £100 less than a 1070 and that's a lot faster.
SmartWaffles
Member
If you are willing to lower settings.
I'm curious about this, do we think that the 1060 will allow 1080p/60fps on high for the next couple of years? I'm looking to upgrade my 280x at present and torn between the 1060 and 480 (I have an i5 4670k CPU)
SmartWaffles
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i5 + 1060 will still be stronger than the strongest console of this gen (Scorpio) so my wild guess is a 1060 should be able to last you till the end of this gen before PS5 or next Xbox.
Aztechnology
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Ultra/Maxed with extra goodies like hair-works probably not. High? I think you're good.
Sounds good
Yeah I don't need ultra or hair works so sounds good to me again! Now just to wait for the reviews of the 3rd party 1060s to see which is best bang for my bucks
John Wick
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I'd personally go for the 1070. It's a better card all round and will serve you better and for probably longer. Especially if you start to play at higher resolutions than 1080p
But tests with an i5-2500k suggest that a CPU upgrade wont make any difference at 1080p. No need to burn money there yet.
SmartWaffles
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Unless your CPU is really weak, like pre Sandy Bridge i5s or AMD, it mostly will bottleneck at high framerates only. For 60fps uses an moderately OCed i5 2500K will be fine.
You don't need any OC, save the heat for winter:
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-07/geforce-gtx-1060-test/4/
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Didn't even get a notification it was sent so that was a fast delivery by Nvidia!
Now the fun of getting it into the Alienware X51.
Now the fun of getting it into the Alienware X51.
SomedayTheFire
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My Gainward was just delivered there. Shame I've to wait another 5 and a half hours to get off work to play with it.
No open world games though. You can't just use those 4 games to make a claim like that.
In some games a good cpu can make a big difference.
http://www.purepc.pl/karty_graficzn...x_480_polaris_test_karty_graficznej?page=0,17
Games like the Witcher 3 and GTAV also show big improvements when overclocking and using I7s.
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