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I'm on a budget and I've narrowed down my choice to either the 1060 6gb or the RX580 for a GPU And as for a CPU its either the the i38100 or the Ryzen 3 . I'm curious as to know which combination of the processors will yield the best results in terms of FPS. Like pairing the ryzen processor with the rx580 P.S The rig should be able to atleast run Cyberpunk on Low 1080p. Any advice is appreciated.

Is a 1060 worth $200 Canadian? for A Zotac AMP, never mined on or OC'D. As i have the potential to buy one for this price. Thanks

Just got a new video card: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 ZT-P10620A-10M 6GB 192-Bit GDDR5X PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video Card and need some assistance installing on my system. I've got an old ASUS motherboard with no on-board video. When i plug the graphics card in, i don't get any display. Yes, i've checked the power requirements and all the power cables are plugged in. Assuming it's just the new video driver that i need, but how am i supposed to install the video driver if i can't get any display. I have no on-board so i can't use that. Any ideas???

I need some help. Hope there is someone who co could tell me if this is dangerous and i should not stick it into my pc. THis is a GTX 1060 SC 6GB that i just received in the mail yesterday. Purchased used off of a store on ebay. I took it out of the box and after the initial inspection of the PCB i found some marks that resemble dried up water.I have not put the card into my pc yet as the presence of those marks makes me a little worried. i,ve looked for similar things in other topics and other forums, but didnt find anything definitive. Someone says wipe it off with IPA someone says dont touch it and enjoy your GPU while it lasts, other people post pictures of BLOWN GPUs, or components on their GPUs PCBs. Id like to figure out whether i should just get my money back and get a different 1060 or if i should start brushing that PCB with short bristles and IPA. Id like to hear from someone who has seen this before or knows what it is and how to deal with this and whether to deal with this at all. Any help is appreciated. Below you'll find photographs of the said marks on the GPU.

I have come to terms with my 1060 possibly being dead. I have checked if my cables are properly placed and the card is a little over 2 years old. The card does not turn on. Onboard video works, but does not work if the card is plugged into motherboard. Could this be a indicator that the cards still is saveable? The 1060 is being detected by devicemanager, afterburner and the Nvidia website as of now.

Drat! I bought a Gigabyte P106 6GB from Taobao to run in my desktop with an i5-3470. Unfortunately, it won’t work as a video card with this CPU as it’s a third gen chip. Heads up to anyone who wants to buy one of these, make sure you have 4th gen or higher. Oh well, it was worth a try. Only set me back a total of $138 Cdn to my door.

Hello, I recently got a new Lenovo Legion Y530 144Hz, with i7 8750h processor, GTX 1060 6GB video card, 512GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. I'm writing here after 5 days of: -changing settings (selecting the prefered video card that the system should use, program dedicated video card that should be used, max the fan power) -playing games on both the factory version of BIOS and the latest update from lenovo's site -undervolting -overclocking -changing thermal pastes -CHANGING THE ENTIRE LAPTOP AT MY RETAILER The main issue is that i have medium, not to say low performance in games, comapring myself with other laptops with the exactly configuration that i have at the moment. Games of reference are GS GO (90-105fps); League of Legends(90-140 fps); Civilization VI(100 fps). Any settings i'm trying to play on i get the EXACT same fps; the same on very low, the same on ultra. I can't understand why is that happening. Maybe i'm missing something very little from the equation. I also have to add that in benchmarks i get the same scores, temperatures and performances as other people with my configuration. Please help me! Thanks

Long time viewer, first time poster. I built my first PC a couple years ago with my main focus being a movie/music server. Going forward I realized my thermaltake x9 was too big to make a portable solution so I started building an itx ryzen system. Salvaged the 1060 GPU from my original PC which being an i5 6600k was about the only hardware I could reuse while keeping the "server" PC operational. My latest scheme has been to prioritize one as my gaming rig and use the other as a dedicated streaming PC. My question now is which CPU will give me the best results on each end, and which, if any should I choose to upgrade?

Is it worth it? Since I saw the benchmarks, it has great improvements in terms of FPS, but I'm only playing 1080p 60Hz, So?

I built a shoe string budget gaming build for a friend who wanted to get in to PC gaming. The goal was to build a PC that could play BFV for as little money as possible. I would say the build was a success, however, i would like to increase FPS if possible in BFV. Would a GTX 1060 achieve better FPS over the GTX 1050 that is currently installed, given the capability (or lack there of) of the FX 8350 CPU? Currently with some system tweaking I'm getting 60-65 FPS on low/medium custom settings in maps with 64 players and 70-80 even up to 90 at times using the same settings on maps with 16 players. I found a good deal on a 1060, just wondering if its worth the investment. Here are the hardware specs: FX 8350 black edition (not over clocked) ASUS 5A78L-M mobo 12gb G. Skill DDR3 240gb SATA SSD Zotac GTX 1050 ti 4gb 450w EVGA BT psu

Been having some strange artifact issues lately with my 1060, I bought it 1 year ago new when I built my rig, I've done a bit of OC with afterburner with success in a lot of games seeing in some cases a 5 - 10 fps boost, As of lately, I've been noticing green squares, sometimes flickers appear on screen every few minutes when playing some games, mostly with WOT. Originally I thought I was maybe just pushing the OC too much, so I tried again with default clock and still having the issues, I game in 1080p, 1440p and in some games, I can even get away with 4k on lower settings with 60+ fps. I see artifacts no matter the resolution though. Is my GPU deteriorating? I always monitor temps and loads and the most I've run my GPU at is around the 80C mark for about an hour, usually around the 60C mark during normal load. i7 8700k Asus gtx 1060 6b dual 2x 8gb Vengence pro Asus Z370-A prime

hello im currently surveying for my new laptop since my old laptop cannot be booted at all. currently have eyes on asus tuf fx505 which cost Rm5110 since im from malaysia or convert which is $1242. the spec it give to me is, i7-8750h, 8gb ram ddr4, gtx1060 6gb ddr5, 128 ssd +1tb 7200rpm SATA HDD soo is there any suggestion or any other choice which cost lesser or same within its spec thank you for your opinion ?

OS: Windows 10 64bit MB: MSI z270 gaming m6 AC GPU: GTX 1060 6gb CPU: Intil i7-7700k PSU: EVGA supernova 750 G3 RAM: G.Skillz TridentZ 2 x 8gb BIOS Version: E7A78IMS.1A0 Situation Build was done to replace an older PC so windows 10 was already installed on an SSD as well as having another storage device. Problem When trying to boot with my video output coming from the GPU I get no video output. Attempts to fix I have updated the bios to what I believe is the newest version. I have updated the GPU drivers to version 417.35. I could not use geforce experience's game ready driver as it always failed to see the graphics card. By running off of the iGPU which I set in the BIOS I can boot up with the GPU attached and in the BIOS it is recognized on the board within the board explorer. I can also see it in the device manager after booting. I tried disabling the iGPU within the device manager to force it to the graphics card which did not work. I have re-seated the graphics card a couple of times as well as power cycling and checking the power cable. I have re-seated the CPU once and the RAM many times. I have cleared the CMOS a few times but I don't understand what it does so I might have done something wrong there. Currently I have the bios set to allow two different graphics card outputs, so I currently have my main monitor running off of the motherboard while my second monitor is running off of the graphics card which is displaying no output. Any help would be appreciated. I am not sure what determines if a graphics card is DOA, so maybe this is and I just don't realize it.

1060 6gb 0r Rx 590 8gb 1440p for gaming??

Hi everyone! So with the help of black Friday sales I upgraded my old PC (i5 760 OC to 4.1, GTX 650) to new ryzen 1700 and GTX 1060. Basically I upgraded/changed everything I had in my old system except of the case, PSU and a couple of HDDs. But now I'm encountering a problem: while testing stability of my overclock - after about 15 minutes to half an hour my system just suddenly shuts down. I am doing AIDA64 stress test (everything except local discs and GPU) and Furmark simultaneously. It does fine, temperatures look fine as well, but then it just shuts down. When I am doing tests individually - everything works perfectly fine again. Can it be an issue of my old 500w power supply not being able to cope with such loads? I remember it not being a particularly expensive one, but at the same time it wasn't the cheapest one. Sadly I can't provide you with any information about it because all of the stickers have already fallen of. But it was doing fine for almost 6 years I would say, in my old system. P.S. GTX 1060 is also overclocked to +150 on the GPU and +446 on memory (ZOTAC AMP! Edition) sadly can't remember the exact clock speeds right now, so only the offset. Power Target is 116%. Ryzen 1700 is OCd to 3.7 on all cores at voltage I also can't remember right now, but it is quite adequate. Thank you for your time reading it and your help! P.P.S. cooler master PSU calculater shows about 470-480 watts of peak load, but every other piece of information suggests that 500w should be plenty

Hello, my computer is: i5 - 6500 AsRock H270 Performance GTX 1060 Palit Super JetStream 6GB Kingston HyperX 8x2 GB 2133 mhz WD Red 1 TB Kingston SSD 240 GB Seasonic 620W Bronze I ve been using my pc about 1.5 years and everything was good. In March 2018 Windows 10 started to download " extremely important" update while I was playing and lags came. I thought its just update downloading and everything will be fine after finishing it. But I was wrong. Half a year has passed and I still cant fix them. I have lags everywhere : while using computer, in games, etc. I tried to do everything I could find in the interent : reinstalling windows, cleaning computer, downloading some soft\drivers, changing something in BIOS. The only thing that helped me a bit is trying to reduce DPC Latency by changing something in bios and in windows. But I still have these problems. Can you help me?

Hello Guys, I'm looking to overclock my PC even though a little bit to see how much performance more I can get from this hardware. Below you can find the hardware i have: Operating System: Windows Home x64 CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz . With a Hyper 212 EVO for cooling. GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB RAM: 16,0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1064MHz (15-15-15-36) Motherboard: What do you recommend me starting with? i have never done OC on any of my PCs and don't want to break it since is the only one i have, so that's why i came to the LTT forums since i have been following this channel for years now. Thanks a lot in advance Fernando

Hi, my laptop is an acer predator helios 300, after updating the nvidia driver i started to notice that my fps was well below what it should have in fortnite i was easly hitting 60fps(with v-sync) and now im only hitting 30 fps or below, i tried re installing the driver (version 417.22) but it didnt do anything, if someone can help me it would great thanks

I just got my three monitor set up going yesterday and I have found that during any kind of gaming my computer seems to randomly freeze up and or full on crash. I have two LG 34" Ultrawides (https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-34UM67-34-Inch-LED-lit/dp/B00VBNQJSM?tag=linus21-20). One vertically mounted on the right hand side in Portrait (flipped) orientation, and the other above my Dell S2716DGR in Landscape Flipped orientation. I am very pleased with my new Dell monitor (First proper gaming monitor.), however, whenever I play anything at all, whether it be Rainbow Six Siege, Age of Empires 3, or Starcraft remastered, at some point during the session, even with particularly non-intensive moments in game, the game will either freeze and/or crash. Sometimes with no error report or anything, other times with a "Send Error Report", although no extended view to actually read up about the error. Sometimes the PC will even completely freeze up and reboot itself. As far as my PC build goes. I have a MSI Vortex G65VR 7RD (Intel Z170, 16GB DDR4 2400Mhz SO-DIMM, 450W PSU, Intel i7-7700 CPU, Discrete MXM GTX 1060 6GB), 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD. I have the Ultrawides hooked up via HDMI (Same cables I was using on them before.), and the Dell hooked up via a male display port mini to male normal display port connector. I have no issues with the monitors or PC when I am watching videos, have 2-3 windows open on each monitor at the same time, doing some photo editing, or any other productivity/entertainment work. This only happens when I am specifically gaming. When gaming all the parameters for my hardware is within normal operating limits. Temps are fine, a little bit of voltage throttling here and there on the GFX Card, but otherwise none that I think would be out of the ordinary really. Nothing is overclocked. The fan is not turbo-ing up to max at all or anything. And then, out of the blue, the game will crash and/or become completely unresponsive, and then I must try and kill the program via task manager; or the game might crash and after a few moments the PC will reboot itself with no blue screen or anything. And yes, ALL of my drivers are updated. Overall, here are my hypothesizes based on some research I did. - Could it be the GTX 1060 just cannot handle the extra ultrawides regardless of what is on them while it is trying to contend with the 2k 144Hz Dell monitor in a game? - Some bug in G-Sync? - I read something about some audio bug with Nvidia graphics drivers? Maybe? Although a bit out there. - Maybe the cable I got for the Dell (Display Port Mini to Normal Display port) is somehow causing it? Please help me guys. I really am at a loss here. And I would prefer to keep the current setup I just got as it is really awesome. When it is working that is. Also, just in case you misunderstood. I am not trying to set up Surround with PhysX or anything. Thank you all in advance!

Yesterday, I saw someone on tieba/baidu.com (A Chinese Forums just like reddit) showed a way to change P106 to GTX1060. A P106 is about 500RMB (72$) on taobao.com. Then he got a modified driver and use the integrated graphics as the display output. Is this also useful to P104(GTX1080) for about 1100RMB(158$)? Sorry to my poor spoken English. Here is the link:http://tieba.baidu.com/p/5963527384

Hi guys, this is my first post here even tho I use this forum quite a lot as it provides plenty of useful information. However, I couldn't really find an resolved thread in which the same problem I have is being dicussed. Heres the deal: my ASUS GTX1060 Dual OC works perfectly fine with the original PCIe power cable of my Corsair CX550M, but if I put on any extension cable, it always ends to shutting down randomly in games to a black screen while ramping up the fans to 100%. So I know this behaviour probably means the card isn't getting the juice it needs, but I was wondering if anyone has a clue if theres a fix around that w/o ditching the extension cable? And btw: 1. the card doesn't crash on synthetical workloads like FurMark (even when OC'ed), so I guess its bound to games... 2. the extension is from cablemod (had upHere and Phanteks before and both did the same, but I blamed the cheap price of the extensions) I'd be really grateful for any advice really, even if it's just "No way of fixing that", as i'll just get rid of the CX550M then (as its loud as heck anyway).

Hi, not sure i make a right decision as I always wanted an AMD graphic card to pair my Free Sync 32” 4K monitor. Just saw the Amazon Black Friday sales for ASUS Vega 64 selling at USD474.99 and I just can’t control myself by clicking “Buy Now” button... ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB Overclocked 2048-Bit HBM2 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video Card (STRIX-RXVEGA64-O8G-GAMING) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0782PSHJ3/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_xa89BbK28AZSP Wish to have your opinion, is it a good deal? also wish to have your advise is there anything I need be careful for this super hot graphic card? my setup is: i7 8700k ASUS Strix Z370-F 32GB RAM PSU 750w Thank you so much!

Hi, Is it possible that Battlefield 5 runs at 35-50 fps max on all low settings with this pc: cpu: ryzen 5 1600 gpu: asus gtx 1060 6gb strix ram: 8gb Resolution: 2560x1080 thanks, qvasz

Hello! I am trying to install a EVGA GTX 1060 6gb GPU on an older system. The MOBO is a Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H When I plug the GPU in and turn the machine on - it goes straight to the BIOS screen, but doesn't let me enter the BIOS, or enter windows or anything - it pretty much is stuck there. I've tried taking the card out, then entering the BIOS to disable on board Intel graphics, as well as enabling PCI. No luck! Also worth mentioning, Before this happened the MOBO did beep, 1 long & 3 short which through google appear to be "Video card not detected, or bad card" And those beeps happen every time I try to reinstall and restart - could they mean anything else? SO - I'm thinking, it's most likely a BIOS issue - do I need to upgrade the BIOS? Previously the rig was running a GTX 620 without issues. I'm also thinking that the drivers definitely need to be upgraded, but I can't even make it into windows so most definitely BIOS ? If so, which BIOS do I upgrade to? Please any and all advice would be great, thanks!!!

Hello everyone, I have little to no knowledge when it comes to PC/PC gaming world, I love playing games, but I am not a PC guru, I am having a bit of trouble with my GTX 1060 ROG Strix, it is underperforming a lot in videogames, it always shows that GPU load is 98% or more while playing, and the maximun amount of VRAM I have seen the card use is around 500MBs of VRAM, only 1/8th part of the graphics card total memory, the furmark score I got was around 550 (while GTX 1060 average is around 4500+) and the average fps amount was 12fps (while the average GTX 1060 is around 60+) this just shows how bad the graphics card is working on my computer, I had a GTX 970 Strix before and it worked just fine. What caught my attention was the fact that it shows a power of 244% TDP and around 370W of power consuption in both HWMonitor and GPU-Z, which is making me feel really troubled about it, feels like I am overclocking the card a lot, I have made sure it is correctly connected, and it should be, I have reconnected it like 3 times already, it has 8 pins connector just like my previous GTX 970, I really can't guess where the problem is, if anyone has any advice, I will appreciate a whole lot, thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me. PC Specs: Mobo Gigabyte H97 Gaming 3 Core i7-4790K PSU Corsair TX850 bronze 850W 16GBs HyperX DDR3 RAM 1600Mhz Asus Geforce GTX 1060 6GB ROG Strix