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6GB is very much recommended, 3GB is very small now, even at 1080p games need a bit more grunt.

Your i5 2500k is just fine, but I do recommend that you give a push and OC it.

Another stick of 8GB memory will give you an enormous boost too.
 
A fair few people on here are still running their systems on a 2500k... I'm sure its a solid CPU and will OC really well...

Like KNiVES has said above, go for the 6GB.. the 3GB is a good card but its held back in some games at 1080p.. I was asking the same question not so long ago :)
 
going for the 6GB is probably the biggest "must" in the whole PC market. I'd sooner run 4GB of system RAM and the 6GB card than 8GB system RAM and the 3 GB card.
 
As it's not been explicitly spelled out - the GPU on the 3GB card is not the same as the GPU on the 6GB, it's a cut-down chip so as well as having less memory it is also less powerful.
 
Definitely the 6GB for the reasons given. Also the resale value will be much better. In a year or twos time a 3GB won't be very desirable.
 
3Gb one will likely be minimally slower on non demanding vram titles to the point you'll likely not notice there is less cores than the 6Gb card, personally wouldn't say the core is the issue, more the vram.

You could save the extra cash and as long as you don't whack all the settings up, keep it under 3Gb and it is a smashing gpu.

It all depends whether £50 is worth slightly higher settings or you want to game for less outlay.

Hopefully no one is going to come in the thread and stupidly mention there's no need for more vram as the core doesn't have enough grunt as it certainly does have plenty grunt.

3Gb will limit your max playable settings and introduce stutter when hitting the vram buffer, for instance I can ramp up the settings in Forza Horizon and it actually completely pauses play in game and displays a message onscreen telling you that the gpu is running out of vram advising to turn down vram heavy settings even though it's flying along at 50+fps.
 
At the moment Asus has a white 6gb 1060 at OCUK for £220, It comes with a free copy of Dawn of War 3 and a free copy of Rocket league.

I got one a couple of days ago and it's a solid card, no backplate though.

Today Dawn of War is £40 and Rocket league's around a tenner so you have a nice saving there if either game interests you.
 
nashathedog said:
At the moment Asus has a white 6gb 1060 at OCUK for £220, It comes with a free copy of Dawn of War 3 and a free copy of Rocket league.

I got one a couple of days ago and it's a solid card, no backplate though.
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That's the one he linked mate, huge comparative price jump imo at this pp.

Enjoying it?

Quite surprised at the performance of mine considering it's the laptop one which Nvidia just cut the vram in half and left the core intact the exact same as the 6Gb, where as they reduced the desktop cores on the 3Gb part.
 
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I would have bought that Asus had it not been for subjective aesthetics. It's the best deal you will find online. Especially if you punt the game codes. What with exchange rate and lack of 480's only expect that to go up.
 
tommybhoy said:
That's the one he linked mate, huge comparative price jump imo at this pp.

Enjoying it?

Quite surprised at the performance of mine considering it's the laptop one which Nvidia just cut the vram in half and left the core intact the exact same as the 6Gb, where as they reduced the desktop cores on the 3Gb part.
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It does a good job, A bit of a downgrade from the Fury I had before but it's been doing okay at 3440x1440 so far.
 
I ordered the white Asus 1060 today,and its been shipped,where do i get the free game codes from,will overclockers email them to me in a seperate email ?

Edit: i got the codes thanks ocuk,just need to wait for the card now.
 
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karik666 said:
I ordered the white Asus 1060 today,and its been shipped,where do i get the free game codes from,will overclockers email them to me in a seperate email ?

Edit: i got the codes thanks ocuk,just need to wait for the card now.
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Yeah the price is awesome on this card, then the fact your getting like £60 worth of games too really sweetens this one. :)
 
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