Polargirl

GTX 1060 6GB or RX 580 would probably be the closest match not counting older cards like GTX 970 that you could get deals on.

Just rechecked the date. You're right. I don't know why Google put that old of an article in my feed. The picture of the liquid nitrogen cooler was still worth making the thread over. Will correct the date in the OP.

On Thursday, May 16, professional overclockers ran a kit of Micron Ballistix DDR4 3600MT/s modules as a blazing frequency of 5,726MHz. Quite the big liquid nitrogen cooling system they got there. Lol. https://www.techspot.com/news/80127-micron-ddr4-memory-breaks-world-speed-record-overclocked.html

I have an Acer Aspire TC-885-UR19 that comes with a 16GB Optane card factory installed. https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/DT.BAPAA.021 I'd like to know what M2 cards I can and cannot replace the Optane card with? It should be a non question but the problem is the service manual is proprietary information. Until right to repair laws are passed to legally compel the release of the service manual, I am forced to ask questions like this on forums hoping someone with product specific knowledge can give me information on the M2 port such as can it physically accept gen3 x4 cards and will the bios recognize it? Same goes for other types of cards like Gen3 x2 and other generations.

On eBay, about $200 plus the cost of shipping if it is less than $20. I have been looking at single fan minis lately out of curiosity. I don't know what the price of a used 1070 goes for in Brazil.

That is a 1150 mobo meant to support 4th and 5th generation Intel chips. Whether you take @kiwibacon reccomendation for an AMD chip or take mine (I7-9700K) if you decide to stick with Intel, you will need another motherboard.

The speculation I read is that the prices should keep falling in the 3rd quarter and might into the 4th but will rise steeply after that. Just in time for the holiday season. How cynical.

That is what I stated that they admit to. And you're right. It makes business sense.

Reference being the keyword is understandable. Although nerfing is denied, Nvidia does admit to refusal to support old hardware. Wouldn't be surprised if nerffing is passively done with plausible denial.

I could see the 1660 beating the RX 590 but the 980 TI seems to be pushing it. The 1070 slightly beats the 1660 TI so I am having a hard time with 980 TI being beat by 1660 (non-TI).

An update is the best thing I can think of especially when 8.1GB is reserved for hardware. The OP should manually seek out update 1903 if it isn't automatically available. 1809 had lots of problems.

There are options between the two like RX 580 and 1060 6GB you might want to consider. 1070 is above a 1660 but sells used for what a 1660 (non-TI) sells new.

The RX 580 costs only slightly more than the RX 570 especially used but even new to a lesser extent and does considerably better getting 60fps on ultra for 1080p. The RX 590 is coming down in price but not quite there yet especially new. In the used Nvidia category, 1060 6GB has been auctioning for only slightly over $100. A used 1070 is still pricey since they are going for about the same price as a new 1660 (non-TI) but sometimes go for significantly less.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/295027-amd-will-provide-a-free-temporary-uefi-upgrade-kit-for-ryzen-3000-motherboard-updates

I checked UK Ebay and there was no used I5-8600K so I just did my price checking on USA Ebay then used xe.com for currency conversion. There is 1 bid for $185 and a buy it now for $210 used. No active bidding on the Asus Prime-A Z370 but bidding for used starts around $50 and buy it now used around $80. Adding the two lower numbers then converting currency equals about £187 and the two higher numbers £230. Your price might be a bit high if your friend was this shopping savvy especially if he was patient enough to wait for each used part to go to auction on UK Ebayor another EU Ebay site but I wouldn't say it is unreasonable especially if your friend lacks either trait and more so if both traits.