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The 6 GB version of the 1060 is probably worth $30-40 more than the 3 GB, in terms of performance you get.

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These are some of my favourites: 

  1. Asus - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Dual Video Card

  2. Asus - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Strix Video Card

  3. NVIDIA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Founders Edition Video Card

  4. Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card

  5. EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB SSC GAMING Video Card

Generally speaking, any graphics card cooler will be good if it's been created in the first place and silence is one of the major differences between different cards. But to be honest, just buy any graphics card will a decent size cooler. Sorry about the formatting, IDK what happened to it.

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Zotac Amp edition.. I can confirm 3x that the coolers are top notch, very quiet... I have my 3x them in my miner right now running at 2113-2123Mhz IIRC at a 90% power limit and a 170 OC on the core, and a 380-ish OC on the memory and run stable with low noise and heat.

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7 minutes ago, Rasbir Singh said:

These are some of my favourites: 

  1. Asus - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Dual Video Card

  2. Asus - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Strix Video Card

  3. NVIDIA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Founders Edition Video Card

  4. Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card

  5. EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB SSC GAMING Video Card

Generally speaking, any graphics card cooler will be good if it's been created in the first place and silence is one of the major differences between different cards. But to be honest, just buy any graphics card will a decent size cooler. Sorry about the formatting, IDK what happened to it.

but the evega one has just one fan that concern me a bit

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10 minutes ago, minervx said:

The 6 GB version of the 1060 is probably worth $30-40 more than the 3 GB, in terms of performance you get.

that depends on the games played actually, if alot of games are played that are 4gb+ using then it might be worth a lil more then 30-40 xD

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The cheapest one. You don't need two fans, especially for the 3 gb version.

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2 minutes ago, cowpker4life said:

And Vega isn't bottlenecked by memory bandwidth 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/gpu-accelerated-applications/catalog/

 

these are the only applications that apply support for cuda cores,   a gamer doesnt benefit from it

 

so please stop coming with bs

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2 minutes ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/gpu-accelerated-applications/catalog/

 

these are the only applications that apply support for cuda cores,   a gamer doesnt benefit from it

You also have 8 less tmus even if you are running a game that takes 100mb vram the 6gb is faster and always has been.

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