Little Monsters 8 Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Upgrading GPU from GTX 580 to GTX 1060. I'm not made of money so can't afford a 1080 lol but I recently did a "will it run?" style check to see if I could play PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS but my graphics card was letting me down, since it hasn't been upgraded since it was built ten years ago. These are my specs: CPU: Intel Core i7-970 @ 3.20GHz Memory: Corsair Vengeance 12GB DDR3 1600MHz Graphics: PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GeForce GTX 580 Motherboard: ASRock X58 Extreme6 Power Supply: Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850 Display: ASUS VG236HE Cooling: Corsair H70 Hard Drive 1: 90GB Corsair F100 SSD Hard Drive 2: 3TB Western Digital HDD Hard Drive 3: 1TB Seagate (External) HDD Computer Case: Corsair 600T So I've bought a MSI GTX 1060 6GB GPU for a bargain (imo) price of £195, which is approximately $245. Will hopefully pick it up tomorrow and install it sometime this week. I've downloaded the latest 3DMark benchmarking tool so I can compare the performance between the two. To be honest I'm a bit concerned about switching it out because it has that radiator attached to the old card, but hopefully there's a way I can clip that off the card and leave it in my case so I can keep the airflow it provides as well as the two new fans on the new card. It could go disastrously wrong though so wish me luck with that! Can anyone offer any advice on this switch? Here's the GPU-Z screenshot: My benchmark score for 3DMark Fire Strike was 4288: And I think it's quite telling that I am unable to run the Time Spy, Fire Strike Ultra or Fire Strike Extreme benchmarks as my GPU doesn't have enough VRAM. I'll run Fire Strike when I've got the new graphics card, and will see which of those three will work. I presume FSE won't but the others should. Anyway: upgrade, yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tony 5,207 Posted April 18, 2017 Administrator Share Posted April 18, 2017 1060 packs a punch, even if it doesn't get the love that the 1080 does. Hell, I'm using just a 950 (until I move up to the 1080 myself) and it handles Rust, H1Z1/KOTK, and a few others just fine. I haven't played PUB yet myself but I'm sure your rig will be more than sufficient. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Monsters 8 Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 Installed it. Helluva difference. :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GradientWizzard 127 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I bought the 1060 6gb and wow, what a fantastic card it is for the money, wouldn't fault it 1 Achievements: February 14 2013 - Joined WebFlake & Became Moderator.March 26 2013 - Became a Dad of 1 kid.April 8 2015 - Became a Dad of 2 kids.July 15 2015 - Retired as a Moderator.November 11 2016 - Passed my Car Driving Licence.April 13 2017 - Became apart of the Junior Moderator Team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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