GTX 1060

[vinchy]

Good day! Im going to be upgrading to a ASUS VG248QE or LG 29UM58 Ultrawide 75hz. It depends on availability. Will a Gtx 1060 be enough for the 144hz? Games to be played are Palaldins, Dota2, AAA Games, and little of csgo. 
Thanks guys! 

Current Specs:

i5-6600

2x16GB

H110N

128GB SSD

1TB HDD

620W PSU

 

[Skiiwee29]

You may not be able to push 144fps in all games, but it will still be a good addition to your system. 

[Energycore]

I'm getting 200fps in Dota 2 max settings with my setup, so for that and CS:GO it'll be enough. For AAA games, probably not on max settings.

 

But you should look into an AMD RX 480 and a 144Hz Freesync monitor, which will make framerates between 48 and 144 smoother and without screen tearing.

[LienusLateTips]

If your getting the 1060 3G, get the RX 480 4GB. Just a quick note.

[vinchy]

3 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

You may not be able to push 144fps in all games, but it will still be a good addition to your system. 

what would be your recommendation? should i just get the 144hz for now then save the money instead of buying a 1060 and buy a 1070 as soon my money is enough?

[Aytex]

I recommend grabbing a rx 480 8gb as freesync 144hz's are cheaper 

viewsonic xg2401 has my vote.

[vinchy]

2 minutes ago, JDE said:

If your getting the 1060 3G, get the RX 480 4GB. Just a quick note.

target for the 1060 is 6G.

[vinchy]

2 minutes ago, Aytex said:

I recommend grabbing a rx 480 8gb as freesync 144hz's are cheaper 

viewsonic xg2401 has my vote.

kinda wanna try it but im so loyal to nvidia haha 

[Aytex]

1 minute ago, vinchy said:

kinda wanna try it but im so loyal to nvidia haha 

Well the xg2401 has better colors, contrast gamma, and does not suffer from quality loss on 144hz unlike the vg248qe, or MG248q (The "newer" variant of the VG248)

also with freesync.

 

I really reccomend just grabbing the 480 if you want to have the smoothest best 144hz experience for your money.

[crzyces]

The 1060 and rx 480 are essentially the same performance wise. Whoever releases the latest drivers will usually be ahead by 3-5 frames in 60% of games. Then the other team will release new drivers and they will switch places. The rx480 (5 series comes out tomorrow btw; it's Monday here so Tuesday they are out). Add to that you will save 50-hundreds and hundreds of dollars buying a freesync monitor as opposed to a g-sync monitor. A $379 1440p 144 curved (27" I believe) was $379 earlier today on Amazon. The same G-sync model with G-sync (same brand, exact same specs) was $799 if I am not mistaken. Huge price difference. Also, you can crossfire the 480's for a cheap upgrade, you cannot SLI the 1060's.

Edited April 17, 2017 by crzyces
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[Aytex]

1 minute ago, crzyces said:

The 1060 and rx 480 are essentially the same performance wise. Whoever release the latest drivers will usually be ahead by 3-5 frames in 60% of games. Then the other team will release new drivers ad they will switch places. The rx480 (5 series comes out tomorrow btw; it's Monday here so Tuesday they are out). Add to that you will save 50-hundreds and hundreds of dollrs buying a freesync monitor as opposed to a g-sync monitor. A $379 1440p 144 curved (27" I believe) was $379 earlier today on Amazon. The same G-sync model with G-sync (same brand, exact same specs) was $799 if I am not mistaken. Huge price difference. Also, you can crossfire the 480's for a cheap upgrade, you cannot SLI the 1060's.

Nah, Gsync monitors arent THAT extravagant in pricing.

Cheapest gsync 144hz is $299 refurbrished PG248q, pretty damn good price

[crzyces]

10 minutes ago, Aytex said:

Nah, Gsync monitors arent THAT extravagant in pricing.

Cheapest gsync 144hz is $299 refurbrished PG248q, pretty damn good price

How big? I was just looking at 27" 1440 curved 144 (Acer and Asus,) and it's at minimum a $300 difference between varying sites.

Edited April 17, 2017 by crzyces
All were new, no refurbs

[Aytex]

3 minutes ago, crzyces said:

How big? I was just looking at 27" 1440 curved 144 (Acer and Asus,) and it's at minimum a $300 difference between varying sites.

Just a standard 1080p 144hz, tn

[crzyces]

11 minutes ago, Aytex said:

Just a standard 1080p 144hz, tn

I gotcha. There is a relatively large difference in price in my opinion, but I'm also a single dad with a mortgage, cable bill, internet, phone, gas, oil, food, clothes, gym, my son's MMA and sports etc., so what may seem insignificant to you is different to me.

 

It's obvious that you want an NVidea card regardless, so it makes anything anyone says regarding AMD cards or freesync monitors a moot point anyway. In answer to your question, I think in most AAA games you will get between 45-85 FPS, so you should be fine. In CSGO you should be well above that.

[xAcid9]

3 hours ago, Energycore said:

I'm getting 200fps in Dota 2 max settings with my setup, so for that and CS:GO it'll be enough. For AAA games, probably not on max settings.

 

But you should look into an AMD RX 480 and a 144Hz Freesync monitor, which will make framerates between 48 and 144 smoother and without screen tearing.

How? I barely get 100fps-130fps  average with my setup.

[vinchy]

what if i just dont buy a gtx 1060 for now and just run igpu for the monitor then slight saving up of money then buy a 1070?

[JabroniBaloney]

6 hours ago, vinchy said:

kinda wanna try it but im so loyal to nvidia haha 

Why? Brand loyalty doesn't benefit you in any way.

[Energycore]

8 hours ago, xAcid9 said:

How? I barely get 100fps-130fps  average with my setup.

In dota 2? Hmm that's weird.

 

Well when I play it's between 100 and 140. I bet that's because we're CPU bound at that point.

 

7 hours ago, vinchy said:

what if i just dont buy a gtx 1060 for now and just run igpu for the monitor then slight saving up of money then buy a 1070?

Perhaps. But is it worth it to you? The difference will be some 50% more framerates so you'll be getting 100 instead of 70 in a lot of AAA games. For Dota and CS:GO there will be no difference basically.

[crzyces]

7 hours ago, JabroniBaloney said:

Why? Brand loyalty doesn't benefit you in any way.

Long, so you may want to tl; to the end .

 

I was the same way with Voodoo cards. Can you believe I almost bought a Voodoo 4 over NVidea Riva, and the Riva was less expensive I believe! That was when competition was off the charts. You had Voodoo in the lead, not because of quality at that point; NVidea, Ati, Matrox, S3 Virge, Rendition, and PowerVR (Who kinda worked with everyone, can't recall them ever actually releasing their own commercial gpu, but they were the first specialized card for designers who used old ray tracing and such; oh, and I believe they made the chip for the Sega Dreamcast). Anyway, I was almost stuck on Voodoo, but I kept reading about NVidea and 2d/3d rendering on one board along with 16 Mb of graphics. I was young, poor (No allowance, I had to work for my money starting at 11 as a dishwasher) so I gave the cheap NVidea a shot! Wow, what an improvement (They ended up buying 3dFX who made Voodoo btw), but then Ati did something similar to NVidea, they made a chipset that was >= NVidea, for less money! I tried them, with less worry as I made about $50 under the table per week washing dishes 3 nights a week in 3 hour shifts), and I'll be darned, for less money I got more.

 

But then NVidea released it's 256 MX series. Wow. The war was almost over now, as only Ati and Matrox I believe were left to compete with. Then came another switch. Right when NVidea launched it first 6000 series, it was a decent amount of $ for 2004/2005. I had a choice, a 6600, or an Ati x700 (The 800 was just a bit out of my price range as I was buying a new motherboard, proc, ram, and building/modding my first tower. This was my first *build*. So back to Ati. Worked great for KotOR, Neverwinter Nights, anything I tossed at it that 256Mb card dealt with great, for the next 5 years. Then back too NVidea for my next two cards, then AMD (returned a 480), then a 1060 (returned it for another 480).

 

The point of this rambling? Staying with a company because of a name is silly. It's not brand loyalty like purchasing a box of cereal for 30 cents more from a local business instead of your local Walmart, these are two huge corporations. Stick with what fits you best. A 480, right now, on a freesync monitor (which almost all are in the *normal price range* will look much better than an NVidea 1060 while having roughly the same FPS. On a very inexpensive no freesync no G-snyc display, they will appear pretty much the same, and on a more expensive G-sync the 1060 will look better.

 

It's not cool to be Green or Red team wise, it is far better to be on the side of the consumer, which AMD is proving to be right now. The more people buy AMD, the lower NVidea will have to go on pricing, and the better their tech advancements have to be. I'd love to see another GPU company jump in the mix. The problem is, NVidea and AMD buy them before anyone else can try competing. That said, rant over, smile, and I hope everyone had a nice Easter!