Great Open Box 1060

[nickthequick]

At my local microcenter, they currently have an MSI GTX 1060 3gb on sale for $187.96, a Sapphire RX480 8gb for $231.96, and a Gigabyte RX480 8gb for $215.96. Which one is most worth buying? Personally the 1060 for $187 looks most appealing, bu what do you guys think?

[Energycore]

4 minutes ago, nickthequick said:

At my local microcenter, they currently have an MSI GTX 1060 3gb on sale for $187.96, a Sapphire RX480 8gb for $231.96, and a Gigabyte RX480 8gb for $215.96. Which one is most worth buying? Personally the 1060 for $187 looks most appealing, bu what do you guys think?

The 480 is better than the 1060 3GB by a bit, I would get the 480 also because of Freesync and because it supports crossfire. It's also the 8GB model, which usually costs somewhere in the ballpark of $250.

 

The 1060 is still a fine card and cheaper, but you'll have to be more conscious about game settings if you do AAA games in 1080p.

[stationvsbox]

1060 3GB<any 480

[stationvsbox]

11 minutes ago, nickthequick said:

At my local microcenter, they currently have an MSI GTX 1060 3gb on sale for $187.96, a Sapphire RX480 8gb for $231.96, and a Gigabyte RX480 8gb for $215.96. Which one is most worth buying? Personally the 1060 for $187 looks most appealing, bu what do you guys think?

go for the sapphire one as the gigabyte one has shit cooling

[nickthequick]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

The 480 is better than the 1060 3GB by a bit, I would get the 480 also because of Freesync and because it supports crossfire. It's also the 8GB model, which usually costs somewhere in the ballpark of $250.

 

The 1060 is still a fine card and cheaper, but you'll have to be more conscious about game settings if you do AAA games in 1080p.

So definitely the cheaper of the two RX 480s is my best bet?

[stationvsbox]

Just now, nickthequick said:

So definitely the cheaper of the two RX 480s is my best bet?

NO NOT THE GIGABYTE ONE

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, nickthequick said:

So definitely the cheaper of the two RX 480s is my best bet?

I would say so

 

Apparently cooling on it isn't great, but I wouldn't justify paying $20 more for it and you can undervolt the card to decrease thermal load. Tweaking is always going to result in an advantage

[nickthequick]

1 minute ago, stationvsbox said:

NO NOT THE GIGABYTE ONE

Woah woah woah why not that one?

[stationvsbox]

1 minute ago, nickthequick said:

Woah woah woah why not that one?

 

[ivan134]

Don't buy the gigabyte 480

[nickthequick]

51 minutes ago, Energycore said:

I would say so

 

Apparently cooling on it isn't great, but I wouldn't justify paying $20 more for it and you can undervolt the card to decrease thermal load. Tweaking is always going to result in an advantage

It does however have an extra hdmi port which is beneficial to me as I do not own any displayport monitors and would love to ditch my vga cable

[Crossbred]

See if you can find a 4gb rx 480. Newegg had the MSI one on sale for 160 the other day...

[Energycore]

46 minutes ago, nickthequick said:

It does however have an extra hdmi port which is beneficial to me as I do not own any displayport monitors and would love to ditch my vga cable

Hmm. Adapter should not be expensive, but if they are, no reason not to go with the one that has 2 HDMI.