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That's really great info chaps, thanks. It's interesting to note that with OpenHardwareMonitor running while Hogwarts is playing shows all 12 cores running instructions, was quite surprised with that myself. Always quite impressed with the gaming performance for this old kit but I do appreciate it is now running out of steam.

Budget (including currency): N/A Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming - Elite Dangerous, Hogwarts Legacy, F1 2022 etc Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Ok, so I currently have a DELL T5500 which has dual Xeon X5650 which run at 2.66Ghz across 2 processors (6 cores each, 12 threads total; 12 cores 24 threads), GTX 1080 (waterforce), 72Gb RAM, SSD boot and gaming drives (SATA) and spinning rust large drive running Windows 10 Pro. I've been looking to update my graphics card (I am also on the lookout for 2x 5680 or 5690 processors) but am aware that should I go too high the CPU will be the bottleneck and I was wondering how far I could go up the GeForce line? (the machine has a 1000w PSU as standard) The 1080 is still a great card for me, plays most things at high settings at 1080p (monitor bound). I am quite happy with this but just thinking ahead a little want the machine to still be working fine come the end of Win10 support (when I will start from scratch with building the 3x rigs we need here for me and the kids). So, which is the best (cheapest) GeForce card I can put in this machine which will push the CPU to it's limit? (also, if I upgrade the processors). If you need the FULL specs of the machine see below. OpenHardwareMonitor.Report.txt

Hey guys. this has probably been covered before, but what about cheap 'unbranded' GTX1060's from Hong Kong? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Graphics-Card-GTX1060-5G-192Bit-PCI-E-DDR5-Gaming-Triple-Fan-Metal-Backplate/264170850876?hash=item3d81cf4a3c:g:~3wAAOSwGBRcUTxq:rk:1:pf:0 I've been very tempted just to have a punt, do these work as well (or at all) as a branded 1060? This one is just under £60 with free delivery... so that is about C$102 give or take a few cents. There are plenty of other cheap ones on there. 1070, 1080 etc. Just the 1060 was easiest to find.