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Upgrade to GTX 1060

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Hey, 

I have a little question for you guys :). I have an Intel Core i5-4460 CPU and an AMD Radeon R7-240 Graphics card with 2GB of VRAM. I wanted to upgrade the Graphics to an GTX 1060 with 6GB VRAM, but I wonder if I would get a bottleneck. Do you have any suggestions what I should buy or if I should buy a new PC ? Or should I buy a GTX 1070 Mini ?

 

Thank you ! 

 

Specs: 

 

Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.20GHz 

2x 4GB RAM 

AMD Radeon R7 240 with 2GB of VRAM, clocked at 730 MHz 

1TB Western Digital HDD 

120 GB ADATA SU 650 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, weissbrot_lp said:

Hey, 

I have a little question for you guys :). I have an Intel Core i5-4460 CPU and an AMD Radeon R7-240 Graphics card with 2GB of VRAM. I wanted to upgrade the Graphics to an GTX 1060 with 6GB VRAM, but I wonder if I would get a bottleneck. Do you have any suggestions what I should buy or if I should buy a new PC ? Or should I buy a GTX 1070 Mini ?

 

Thank you ! 

 

Specs: 

 

Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.20GHz 

2x 4GB RAM 

AMD Radeon R7 240 with 2GB of VRAM, clocked at 730 MHz 

1TB Western Digital HDD 

120 GB ADATA SU 650 

 

 

 

Why not an RX 580 which performs basically the same as a 1060, but is significantly cheaper?

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get a 6gb 1060 6gb, great for 1080p gaming. I feel like if you go with a 1070 on that cpu it's gonna bottleneck

Do i Recommend Ryzen? Yes. All of the Yes.

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Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.9Ghz

ASUS Gaming TUF B450 Micro-ATX

2x4Gb HyperX DDR4 @2133

GTX 1070 Founders Edition

Corsair Crystal 280X

500Gb SanDisk Sata SSD, 1Tb 7200RPM Hdd

EVGA 500 Watt 80+ Bronze

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ok, thanks for the suggestions. 

 

I was actually planning to get a 1060, but I will definitely take a look at the rx 580 ! 

 

thank you very much ! 

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