GTX 1060?

[bainbridge]

Not much talk about this card and it's not on sale in the shop but it is widely available elsewhere and looks like a good mid range card.

Any comments?

 

[Brazo]

I'm currently looking to upgrade the 750ti in my htpc and this card has caught my interest, more than the AMD offerings as it appears a fair bit faster. Only thing is though I want a card where the fans don't spin up unless over a certain temp.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Good little GPU if you can get it at around £250. Very power efficient and gives GTX 980 performance.

I'm currently looking to upgrade the 750ti in my htpc and this card has caught my interest, more than the AMD offerings as it appears a fair bit faster. Only thing is though I want a card where the fans don't spin up unless over a certain temp.

Perfect HTPC card and fans stop at idle.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-30b-ea.html

 

[Brazo]

How do you know the fans stop at idle? Just trying to discover how I find this out, may even start a new thread!

 

[Bonjour]

Not much talk about this card and it's not on sale in the shop but it is widely available elsewhere and looks like a good mid range card.

Any comments?

It is for sale in the shop. Do a search rather than going through the menu.

 

[RavenXXX2]

How do you know the fans stop at idle? Just trying to discover how I find this out, may even start a new thread!

UPDATE 7/22/2016: EVGA sent over a new ‘FanStop’ vBIOS for the GeForce GTX 1060 SC that allows for semi-passive fan curve and also unlocked full manual control over the fan speed.

http://www.legitreviews.com/nvidia-evga-geforce-gtx-1060-video-card-review_184301/11

http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-1060-BIOS-Update-Single-Fan-Models-Only-m2520978.aspx

 

[Daaaveee]

Had one for around a week in a new build for the wife with an i3-6100 inside a HTPC case. Really impressed with the performance for the price. Using a Palit Dual fan version which was £250. Quiet, cool, can will clock to 2100mhz no problems. Hooked up to a 1080p 144hz G Sync panel its awesome bang for the buck!

 

[Brazo]

http://www.legitreviews.com/nvidia-evga-geforce-gtx-1060-video-card-review_184301/11

http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-1060-BIOS-Update-Single-Fan-Models-Only-m2520978.aspx

Cheers!

 

[Ewaf]

I picked up the MSI Gaming X one. Super card, not had much chance to overclock it yet.

 

[nashathedog]

Anything with close to 980 performance is going to do a good job and the extra 2 gb's of ram doesn't hurt either, Personally I'd always go EVGA for there customer support (just in case it's needed) plus they make good quality cards. The idle fan feature is the must have software accessory at the moment so the cards should tell you about it somewhere in the description. Some card makers are adorning there card with glowing Fan stop signs ffs, very tacky imo but as someone with a zero spin card I can confirm that it's very good for lowering noise at low load which is ideal for a living room set-up.

 

[AllBodies]

The 1060 is decent for the money yeah. A cheaper and lower power GTX 980 basically.

However the choice really is between it and the RX 480. And going off the past few years history, and the current benchmarks of the new DX12 and Vulkan graphics APIs, the RX 480 is very very likely the better buy in the long run.

1+ years from now I wouldn't be surprised if the RX480 is faster in all scenarios.

 

[southernorth]

The 1060 is decent for the money yeah. A cheaper and lower power GTX 980 basically.

However the choice really is between it and the RX 480. And going off the past few years history, and the current benchmarks of the new DX12 and Vulkan graphics APIs, the RX 480 is very very likely the better buy in the long run.

1+ years from now I wouldn't be surprised if the RX480 is faster in all scenarios.

I keep seeing this mentioned, could you say which future AAA games specifically will be using DX12/Vulcan and thus will give the rx 480 the edge?

 

[Aretak]

I keep seeing this mentioned, could you say which future AAA games specifically will be using DX12/Vulcan and thus will give the rx 480 the edge?

Over the next few months Deux Ex, Civ VI, Watch Dogs 2 and Battlefield 1 will all be shipping with DX12 support. All future Frostbite games like the new Mass Effect should do as well, since support will be baked into the engine. Given what a leap it is, I'd be surprised if too many big budget games didn't support it over the next couple of years.

I'd much prefer Vulkan to become the standard instead personally (not least because of the potential to move away from Windows that it brings), but that's not going to happen with Microsoft pushing DX12 so heavily.