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I'm planning to get a 1060 but don't know what to buy. 

 

My options are:

- ASUS

- ZOTAC

- GIGABYTE

- EVGA

- MSI

 

What 1060 should I buy? I'm looking for maximum performance, lots of overclocking room and quiet fans.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Yoo Song Won said:

I'm planning to get a 1060 but don't know what to buy. 

 

My options are:

- ASUS

- ZOTAC

- GIGABYTE

- EVGA

- MSI

 

What 1060 should I buy? I'm looking for maximum performance, lots of overclocking room and quiet fans.

 

 

EVGA or MSI, unless Gigabyte have improved massively. EVGA for OCing.

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In my opinion EVGA, although i have seen friends getting awesome ASUS and MSI cards. My grandma has a Gigabyte Windforce 980ti and she thinkgs its great, so i'm sorry but i can't really help you much on this one.

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EVGAs top line of cards for overclocking

Zotac for the fastest stock cards

Zotac and Gigabyte for OC and looks seeing as EVGA cards look like shit

personal fave is gigabyte because IMO there cards look the best and then Zotac

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I say EVGA. Their cards are not always the highest clocked out of the box, but they are great all-rounders; excellent in every category, but most importantly they have superb customer service. Maybe you get 20MHz more out of an Asus, but when the card has to be RMA'd... well, I need say no more. 

All the cards are pretty much the same, the biggest difference between them is the companies' CS. Maybe if you're getting a low range card it doesn't matter but if you're shelling out £500 for a piece of kit, it's pretty damn important, imo.

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EVGA has one of the best RMA processes usually, but I still see people report bad experiences form time to time. Other than that they are all the same, just some aib companies releases will cool/overclock better on average than others. Sense the 1060 uses different fan shroud styles than the 1070/1080 and is still new we don't know who has the best model yet however you will be fine with any of them I recommend a two-three fan cooling system with more power phases than founders because it is really lacking, EVGA seems to be offering the stock pcb on all models except the FTW edition for overclocking a 1060 your best bet would be to go for the Asus, Msi, or the Gigabyte one. 

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EVGA, read some nice stories about them.

I would get a card of them if i want to buy a nvidia card, but i don't want to :D

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31 minutes ago, spidsepttk said:

In my opinion EVGA, although i have seen friends getting awesome ASUS and MSI cards. My grandma has a Gigabyte Windforce 980ti and she thinkgs its great, so i'm sorry but i can't really help you much on this one.

 

2 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

EVGA, read some nice stories about them.

I would get a card of them if i want to buy a nvidia card, but i don't want to :D

 

14 minutes ago, App4that said:

EVGA

 

14 minutes ago, LeapFrogMasterRace said:

EVGA has one of the best RMA processes usually, but I still see people report bad experiences form time to time. Other than that they are all the same, just some aib companies releases will cool/overclock better on average than others. Sense the 1060 uses different fan shroud styles than the 1070/1080 and is still new we don't know who has the best model yet however you will be fine with any of them I recommend a two-three fan cooling system with more power phases than founders because it is really lacking, EVGA seems to be offering the stock pcb on all models except the FTW edition for overclocking a 1060 your best bet would be to go for the Asus, Msi, or the Gigabyte one. 

 

25 minutes ago, treeroy said:

I say EVGA. Their cards are not always the highest clocked out of the box, but they are great all-rounders; excellent in every category, but most importantly they have superb customer service. Maybe you get 20MHz more out of an Asus, but when the card has to be RMA'd... well, I need say no more. 

All the cards are pretty much the same, the biggest difference between them is the companies' CS. Maybe if you're getting a low range card it doesn't matter but if you're shelling out £500 for a piece of kit, it's pretty damn important, imo.

 

31 minutes ago, spidsepttk said:

In my opinion EVGA, although i have seen friends getting awesome ASUS and MSI cards. My grandma has a Gigabyte Windforce 980ti and she thinkgs its great, so i'm sorry but i can't really help you much on this one.

This is the EVGA 1060 SC... One fan... This is why I'm hesitating. 

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Just now, Yoo Song Won said:

 

 

 

 

 

This is the EVGA 1060 SC... One fan... This is why I'm hesitating. 

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Haha, reminds me of when i bought my gtx 750ti that i currently STILL game on. I was so glad that i waited for EVGA to add the FTW edition of my card.

 

Also, don't judge a card by the amount of fans! Look at the R9 Nano!

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1 minute ago, spidsepttk said:

Haha, reminds me of when i bought my gtx 750ti that i currently STILL game on. I was so glad that i waited for EVGA to add the FTW edition of my card.

 

Also, don't judge a card by the amount of fans! Look at the R9 Nano!

Sarcasm?

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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40 minutes ago, spidsepttk said:

My grandma has a Gigabyte Windforce 980ti 

Now that's something you don't hear every day!  Awesome.

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Just now, App4that said:

Sarcasm?

No sarcasm at all. The R9 Nano is a great card 

 

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My new gtx 1070 xtreme gaming from gigabyte has two additional years of warranty (in total now 4). It sounds great but i dont know if its worth something and how their warranty polices work.

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41 minutes ago, spidsepttk said:

In my opinion EVGA, although i have seen friends getting awesome ASUS and MSI cards. My grandma has a Gigabyte Windforce 980ti and she thinkgs its great, so i'm sorry but i can't really help you much on this one.

Your grandma has a 980Ti!?!? Wow...

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Just now, ace_cheaply said:

Now that's something you don't hear every day!  Awesome.

Yeah! She is a perfectionist that won't settle for anything other than the best (it was the best when she bought it). She plays Civilization off it.

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Just now, Teddy07 said:

My new gtx 1070 xtreme gaming from gigabyte has two additional years of warranty (in total now 4). It sounds great but i dont know if its worth something and how their warranty polices work.

My Z97UD3 Black edition basically came ****ed in the box. After weeks of fighting with customer support I finally got some results from Gigabyte, they told me to pay 90us to have it shipped so they could "look" at it, or kick rocks.

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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Just now, ShadowTechXTS said:

Your grandma has a 980Ti!?!? Wow...

Looks like it is time to upgrade my signature on this forums!

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2 minutes ago, App4that said:

My Z97UD3 Black edition basically came ****ed in the box. After weeks of fighting with customer support I finally got some results from Gigabyte, they told me to pay 90us to have it shipped so they could "look" at it, or kick rocks.

Wow. Complete opposite of my experience with a Z87-ud5h that had two usb 3.0 ports not functioning in the rear i/o.  they sent me a shipping label, and replaced the MOBO without any issues. 

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Its EVGA for sure.

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All 1060s OC the same. Get EVGA for superior customer support

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Advanced Micro Devices are pretty good too, although they like to use different colour scheme than nvidia by default ;)

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