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GPU decision help?

Etherton

Etherton

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Building a rig for my son and need some advice on a GPU. He got most of my retired system and he is wanting to play the latest and greatest games BF1, Dishonored 2, ect... Monitor will be a 1080p 27-32". I bought a Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 6gb from MicroCenter but have not opened it. I paid $289 plus tax with a $20 MIR.

edit: just found an MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GTX 1060 GAMING X 6GB over on SlickDeals. It'll be quite a bit cheaper than the Gigabyte. Cards seem pretty comparable. With their $15 MIR and the $25 off with a MasterPass it'll end up being $220 to my door.

Should I be considering anything else in that price range instead? The AMD 480 8gb comes to mind? I am not opposed to buying a used one here on [H] either. Performance and price wise what would you do here?

System will be an Intel 4770k with an Intel AIO cooler, Asus Gene VI, 16gb Gskill DDR3, Seasonic 850w PSU, 512GB SSD Micron M.2 (will be using the on-board adapter for the motherboard)& 3TB WD Blacks.

Regardless, it'll be quite the upgrade! His current system is a Intel i7 920 G0, EVGA Classified, XFX 6970 and 8gb GSkill DDR3.

Thanks for any advice!
 
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Besides you could have gotten a slightly cheaper GTX 1060, I dont see the issue.
 
For 1080p with those games you're looking at an AMD RX 480 or an nVidia 1060. If you have a Freesync monitor it's a no-brainer to go with AMD. If not then a 1060 is not a bad choice.
 
Unless you have a Maxwell card hanging around or can find one ridiculously cheap, I'd stick with current-gen Pascal/Polaris. The power savings on Pascal over Maxwell are phenomenal (which is why I ended up going 1070 over a sale-price 980 Ti). Polaris power draw (sans a golden tiger sample) is about equivalent to a Maxwell card but is (IMO) a better choice than a last-gen Maxwell card.
 
I was really surprised at how energy efficient these cards had become. Cheaper to run and cooler! Win, win!
 
It's not a step down by much. Not yet anyway. We'll see with more dx12 and vulkan games
 
I usually pay no tax for newegg, so newegg FTW!
I'd recommend MSI vs Gigabyte, MSI runs cooler and quieter, the heatsink in the Gigabyte card is subpar compared to the MSI one in my opinion.
I agree with these folks if you plan to get the cheaper freesync monitor vs the G-sync monitor then go for the RX480. Other than getting FreeSync monitor, I would say go for the GTX1060, as it uses less power (120W vs 150W) and less power consumption usually results less heat which also means lower chance of failure though they do rate GPUs to survive extreme temps. GTX1060 also outperforms the RX480 in most games.
Lastly the GTX1060 does not support SLI so upgrading is buy a new card~! RX480 supports CrossFire so in the future you can just buy another card and performance boost. They do say that two RX480s out performs the GTX1080 but who needs that much power?! Or rather when is enough power haha.
Would you take the green pill or the red pill?
 
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