ASUS Dual GTX 1660 Ti $240 shipped after Promo Code and MIR

[Tristerin]

https://www.newegg.com/asus-geforce-gtx-1660-ti-dual-gtx1660ti-o6g/p/N82E16814126297?Item=N82E16814126297

 

Seems like a good price to me!

[nick name]

Lol.  Are you killing time shopping?

[Tristerin]

2 hours ago, nick name said:

Lol.  Are you killing time shopping?

Every day I check the same 3 websites for deals on products Im potentially interested in, then I list the ones that seem like good deals

 

Im checking on PSUs for myself tbh, maybe a Hyper 212 at super reduced price as well

[Paul Rudd]

4 hours ago, Tristerin said:

Seems like a good price to me!

It's a historic low! It hit $250 for one day back on July 9th so this deal is the better deal. The 1660 ti is pretty much the equivalent of a 1070(depending on the game of course) with just 2GB less VRAM. Which barely matters, so this is a great find. The only thing you're gonna get from that extra 2GB of VRAM will only take place in the future or basically if you game in 4K. Sure there might be a few games that require over 6GB of VRAM in 1440p right now but you can just bump down a couple of settings and voila, problem solved.

1 hour ago, Tristerin said:

Im checking on PSUs for myself tbh

PSU deals are tough to come by. The best ones take place around major holidays. November and December are the months I notice them the most. Do you have any PSU's in particular that you have your eyes on?

[Tristerin]

3 minutes ago, Intransigent said:

It's a historic low! It hit $250 for one day back on July 9th so this deal is the better deal. The 1660 ti is pretty much the equivalent of a 1070(depending on the game of course) with just 2GB less VRAM. Which barely matters, so this is a great find. The only thing you're gonna get from that extra 2GB of VRAM will only take place in the future or basically if you game in 4K. Sure there might be a few games that require over 6GB of VRAM in 1440p right now but you can just bump down a couple of settings and voila, problem solved.

PSU deals are tough to come by. The best ones take place around major holidays. November and December are the months I notice them the most. Do you have any PSU's in particular that you have your eyes on?

A PSU that @LukeSavenije wont shit down my throat for buying   After many discussions with him I believe the Corsair CX is the PSU I am after (or equivalent in protections) looking for $50 or lower in price on sale - 450w minimum.  Agree on the timings of those sales - I don't NEED it, I just want to build another system from spare parts and right now I am PSU'less in the extra's parts pile. 

 

[Paul Rudd]

22 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

A PSU that @LukeSavenije wont shit down my throat for buying   After many discussions with him I believe the Corsair CX is the PSU I am after (or equivalent in protections) looking for $50 or lower in price on sale - 450w minimum.  Agree on the timings of those sales - I don't NEED it, I just want to build another system from spare parts and right now I am PSU'less in the extra's parts pile.

Surprisingly, that is the exact PSU I bought that had a $20 rebate at the time. It was $49.99 so $29.99 with the rebate. I just missed when it was $24.99 on Black Friday and luckily hit that $29.99 from Christmas day all the way until New Years, which is when I bought it. It did hit $29.99 again in January and February(which I bought it again for a 2nd build) but since then the price has done nothing but rise. And for good reason, it's an excellent PSU and I highly recommend it. I've had zero regrets with it. It's as quiet as a mouse and has been processing smooth as can be. Oh and it's the CX 2017 550W version. You might get lucky and see it drop in price around the same time but I wouldn't count on it being $29.99. I would guess $39.99.

 

If you lived down the street from me, I'd sell it to ya' straight up for exactly what I paid for it. While it is used, the PC in which I use it in I have not used for more than around 20 hours, if that. I built it because I had built the exact same PC before it and sold it within a month. So I built the exact same PC since all the parts were relatively around the exact same prices and because I sold the other one so quick. But I have yet to sell this one because I limited my buyer base.

 

It's been so long since then, I'm going to take it back apart and sell off all the parts at what they're currently valued at. And if no one buys the CX PSU, I'm going to put it into my current PC since it's coming up on 3 years that I've been using a Korean aftermarket 80+ 600W PSU. I love it to death though so it's tough to just make the swap.

[LukeSavenije]

1 hour ago, Tristerin said:

Hyper 212

i summon @seoz to kill you

[Tristerin]

4 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

i summon @seoz to kill you

The only AM3 coolers I have are a H100i GTX AIO (with AM3 bracket and AM4 bracket not in use) and a AM3 waterblock - and Im not going to build a loop for an FX 8350 I figured if I could get a sub okay air cooler I could keep my H100i (I plan on selling the rig as a Fortnite rig for an affordable price....if not it will just sit there as a talking piece lol)

 

Im up for recommendations in the $20-25 range! (especially when on sale, and I have plenty of fans in the pile I can add to any HS)

[jiyeon]

29 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

i summon @seoz to kill you

23 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

and Im not going to build a loop for an FX 8350

Eh, if it's a CPU from that era, a Hyper 212 EVO ain't that bad. I have no issue with that since the 212 EVO was meant for CPUs of that generation.

 

Where I have an issue with the Hyper 212 EVO is with modern day Coffee Lake CPUs for example where there's other modern coolers that outperform it.

[LukeSavenije]

39 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

Im up for recommendations in the $20-25 range!

something like a gamaxx 400 would do pretty nice, it performs similarly, but a lot better mounting

 

but if you can find a big air cooler for the price (ninja 5 for example) and add some better fans

[Paul Rudd]

41 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

Im up for recommendations in the $20-25 range!

In that price range, you're pretty much getting the same results from the most common coolers. I'd opt for the GAMMAXX 400, Hyper 212 or the Pure Rock Slim. There are many others that will provide similar results, these are just the ones most people have gone with over the past decade or so. The GAMMAXX came out in 2012 and I personally think it's just a little better than the Hyper 212 but it's not by much.

 

Here's a video of what the GAMMAXX and Hyper 212 sound like plus the results of temps and noise level..

Her'es a video of the Pure Rock Slim...

I don't think this second video shows what it sounds like, still looking for a video of that.

[LukeSavenije]

16 minutes ago, seoz said:

Hyper 212 EVO ain't that bad

wow... i thought I'd never hear that

 

what about a gamaxx 400 though?

[jiyeon]

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

wow... i thought I'd never hear that

 

what about a gamaxx 400 though?

I said ain't that bad for that generation, although I certainly wouldn't actively recommend it due to that headache-inducing mounting system.

 

Gamaxx 400 sounds nice, I haven't seen the mounting or performance of it yet but based off my Deepcool Neptwin, the Gamaxx sounds solid.

[LukeSavenije]

3 minutes ago, seoz said:

the Gamaxx sounds solid.

and it has like... this

Quote

CPU Socket

AM2

AM2+

AM3

AM3+

FM1

FM2

FM2+

AM4

LGA775

LGA1150

LGA1151

LGA1155

LGA1156

LGA1366

LGA2011

LGA2011-3

LGA2066

 

[Paul Rudd]

7 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

what about a gamaxx 400 though?

If I was on a $25.00 budget for a cooler, the GAMMAXX 400 would be my first choice. It's the coolest, literally. It's also almost identical when it comes to noise as the Hyper 212.

[Tristerin]

1 minute ago, Intransigent said:

If I was on a $25.00 budget for a cooler, the GAMMAXX 400 would be my first choice. It's the coolest, literally. It's also almost identical when it comes to noise as the Hyper 212.

Ill check it out when I get home!  Ive seen them but never heard much about them - Ive either used stock coolers, or AIOs until I got into loops - never really bought any custom air coolers oddly now that I think about it lol

[Paul Rudd]

6 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

Ill check it out when I get home!  Ive seen them but never heard much about them - Ive either used stock coolers, or AIOs until I got into loops - never really bought any custom air coolers oddly now that I think about it lol

Cool. I've only bought one custom cooler myself but I don't think it's on the market anymore. It was $29.99 at the time, the Cryorig C7. Love it to death and it's a low profile cooler. It has such good performance because you can bump it up to 2500 RPM's instead of the average 1500-2000. It's a trade off though because with such high RPM's comes a little more noise. But since it's such a tiny cooler, it's surprisingly quiet. You definitely notice the noise when playing at full load in very high demanding games but the noise isn't exactly unbearable or anything. It's just, noticeable. When you get used to it, the temps it keeps my CPU at is beyond worth it. I have yet to see my CPU hit 60 degrees but that's most likely because I have my CPU clocked at a sweet spot of 3.0 GHz instead of its max clock of 3.2 GHz. I say go for whatever cooler you research the hell out of. Watch numerous videos on it and snag it. It's fun playing with coolers and clockings of CPU's, they're like toys.