Thanks,
@orbitalwalsh I've not overclocked it, as I don't know how...but the motherboard webpage seems to talk about having ways of doing it, etc. Again, forgive my ignorance!
Can you advise on which 1060 6Gb to choose? Feels like a bit of a minefield.
first port of call- update the bios ! and then from there- cant quite remember with that board but there should be an auto overclock feature in BIOS that will do it for you! if not- software that came with the board can do it aswell
if your not comfortable doing it yourself- really worth giving the auto OC features a shot- should hit a good overclock and will get you gains and ease bottleneck.
Good time for mobo/cpu at the moment and getting better- but def see how you fare with GPU upgrade
can only give my personal opinion- and im biased to ASUS and Gigabyte - but even have pet hates for certain models in their own range.
selection in different prices and brands.
asus is current on sale - and is a good price- personally dont like this model they do and the Strix flagship is a better made card and looks stunning but you pay the price. the cooler is cheaply made on the Dual and they dont bother to cool the ram chips which are left naked - juts lazy
Gigabyte have solid rep presence on this site- to be honest its more of a bonus if you've bought the card else were as OCUK doesnt have awesome CS and RMA but gigabyte reps can help with RMA as well - even have a drop in center if your local lol.
They tend to cool the key 3 components , Chip, Ram,VRM on the main heatsink which most rivals dont- good practice but often leads the cards being warmer then others
Zotac have 5 year warranty - its 3 years and sign up for 2 year. First 3 years retailer deals with RMA, 2 years after that gets sent to Hong Kong - unless ocuk can handle full 5 years- zotac normally are very aggressive on pricing to
EVGA- RMA center is in EU but might have UK center now - the star attraction is the support 2nd hand RMA! meaning if your selling your card- people will more then likely choose EVGA cards as warranty can be transferred
also their Overclock software is one of the best- most either use theirs or MSI's one
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Most of my own builds tend to be Gigabyte/Aorus with top ends being Strix cards- although zotac deals do pop up and hard for me to resist - but i buy via trade and pricing is very different
£44 lands you Coolmaster small tower, black with window panel