1060 3GB / Overwatch / part-time Mining - Good enough?

[done12many2]

Alright ladies/gents.  Thanks to @MageTank I just ordered an EVGA GTX 1060 3GB for my son.  Through his additional, borderline conniving magic, I was able to get it for $110, which leaves quite a bit in the budget for some games.  

 

My son is constantly talking about Overwatch and while I know it's popular, I know nothing about it.  He has a 24" 1080p screen at the moment, but I'm going to guess that 1440p is in his near future.  Is this realistically enough card to run the higher resolution screen if we end up getting him one?  He's 7, so maybe the 1080p screen will be good enough for a while longer.  Who knows?

 

While a 1070 is doable, it really reduces the amount of additional gifts he'll get for Christmas.  

 

I plan to mine with it whenever he's not using it.

[Vroooom]

You can't mine ethereum on a 3GB GPU anymore, but you could mine other things. The card will realistically work fine at 1440p except for a handful of games. At the magic voodoo price you got it for, yeah, get that. 1060 + more stuff >> Titan Xp Hybrid OC SLI + less stuff

[Guest]

Yes the 1060 is well over enough for Overwatch on max settings, that game can be almost maxed out with older hardware like the 760. 
 

[Damascus]

It will easily hit 150 FPS on 1080p high/ultra, 1440p should run 100fps nicely

[done12many2]

3 minutes ago, Vroooom said:

You can't mine ethereum on a 3GB GPU anymore, but you could mine other things. The card will realistically work fine at 1440p except for a handful of games. At the magic voodoo price you got it for, yeah, get that. 1060 + more stuff >> Titan Xp Hybrid OC SLI + less stuff

 

Thanks for the mining info and I think I feel the same about more stuff is better than one really nice thing. 

 

2 minutes ago, Medicate said:

Yes the 1060 is well over enough for Overwatch on max settings, that game can be almost maxed out with older hardware like the 760. 
 

 

2 minutes ago, Damascus said:

It will easily hit 150 FPS on 1080p high/ultra, 1440p should run 100fps nicely

 

Thanks.  I'm hoping that he'll start to transition from all of this Roblox stuff to actual games.  

[MageTank]

3 hours ago, done12many2 said:

Thanks to @MageTank I just ordered an EVGA GTX 1060 3GB for my son.  Through his additional, borderline conniving magic, I was able to get it for $110, which leaves quite a bit in the budget for some games.