Finally upgraded my gpu

[frozentundra123456]

Finally upgraded from my 1gb HD7770. The low vram made COD WW2 a hitch-fest. Almost impossible to play. I got an Asus GTX 1060 6gb, dual fan, from Microcenter for 269.00. I could have lived with the 3 gb, but the cheapest one was only 30.00 less, so pretty much a no brainer to go for the 6gb. Stock is pretty good on a variety of 1060s, but most are still over 300, pretty high for this late in the life cycle.

Very happy with it so far. WW2, Witcher 3 and ROTR were the only games I have that ran poorly on the 7770, and they all will do 60FPS on high to ultra at 1080p. Surprisingly, my ancient i5 2320 holds up fairly well. 80 to 100% usage, but I dont notice any stuttering. These are all single player results though, I dont play on-line.

BTW, not planning to overclock, at least right away, but how do you overclock with the boost clock?

 

[Iron Woode]

turn off Vsync and see what your FPS is like. I have a gigabyte 3GB 1060 and I hit 125 fps in Doom maxed out at 1080P.

 

[frozentundra123456]

turn off Vsync and see what your FPS is like. I have a gigabyte 3GB 1060 and I hit 125 fps in Doom maxed out at 1080P.

Yea, planning to do that at some point. Just got the card installed last night. I had some trouble getting it to recognize my second monitor, but it seems fine now that I installed the latest driver.

 

[Bouowmx]

GPU Boost 3.0 uses a V-f table: each voltage point is associated with a core frequency.

The easy and old way to overclock is to apply one offset to all voltage points. Tools: MSI Afterburner and NVIDIA Inspector (portable and my preference).

The advanced and more energy-efficient way to overclock is to use the fact a different offset can be applied to each voltage point to combine a undervolt and overclock. Tools: MSI Afterburner and nvoclock (portable, CLI, and my preference).

EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB SC:
0.900 V ~ 2000 MHz
0.762 V ~ 1708 MHz

 

[wilds]

your 1060 probably tops out around 2000-2050MHz; your memory around 8.8 GHz. My friends does around 9200 Memory, but he crashes at 9.4. the OC is totally worth it imo.

2000 mhz core and 8.8 ghz memory are easy overclocks. If your card does have an unlocked power limit and voltage control you can go higher.

With an OC, your GPU boost becomes very small. For example, my card boosts to 2063 MHz and down to 2050 MHz in games once it warms up. Memory speed will always remain constant.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Thanks for the overclocking info.

 

[Mopetar]

Good call on the 6GB model. It also has more cores in addition to twice the VRAM. Easily worth the $30 price difference.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Good call on the 6GB model. It also has more cores in addition to twice the VRAM. Easily worth the $30 price difference.

Yes, the 3gb was tempting at (cheapest was 239.00) vs the 300.00 plus cards, but the Asus 6gb was 50.00 off at 269.00 so I figured it was worth 30.00 difference. Only negative I have found so far, (not a big deal, but surprising) is that the fans are noisier than I expected. Not oppressive, but definitely you can hear them, especially when you close out a game and they are still running faster to cool down the card. Also clearly louder than my single fan HD7770.

 

[Guru]

Well the Asus Dual is one of the weaker models out there, MSI's GamingX is virtually silent during gaming. Aorus Xtreme, Asus Strix, Gainward Ichill 3x, etc... are all much better, but they also do carry a premium for the price.

Regardless, you can undervolt your GPU and have it run cooler, but pretty much still on the same clocks as before.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Well the Asus Dual is one of the weaker models out there, MSI's GamingX is virtually silent during gaming. Aorus Xtreme, Asus Strix, Gainward Ichill 3x, etc... are all much better, but they also do carry a premium for the price.

Regardless, you can undervolt your GPU and have it run cooler, but pretty much still on the same clocks as before.

Might try that. Like I said, not a major problem, but noisier than expected. OTOH, even though nVidia cards are efficient, the TDP is still 50% higher than the 7770, so there is more heat to dissipate. I dont notice it during gaming.

 

[Iron Woode]

my Windforce card is virtually silent. Even after an hour of Doom I can't hear the card when I exit the game.

Of course I am not a hardcore gamer by any means.