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Quickyk
By Quickyk
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Hey guys, I'm brand new around here and not too sure how this is done but I'm looking for advice regarding a new GPU I'm looking to buy.

Here's the situation, I haven't upgraded my PC in a while and I'm looking to buy the ASUS Dual series GTX 1060 OC edition 3GB GPU ( https://www.asus.com/za/Graphics-Cards/DUAL-GTX1060-O3G/ ). I am currently using a SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB. The problem is I'm using an AMD A8 5600K CPU running at 3.6GHz which will obviously bottleneck the performance of the card. Overclocking the CPU is an option as I have a corsair watercooler (I won it in a competition) but I have never done it before. I want to know if it is worth me upgrading the GPU and if I'll see a performance boost worth my money if I do?

Thanks in advanced!

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8 minutes ago, Quickyk said:

which will obviously bottleneck the performance of the card

no, that's only if you manage to task the cpu to 100% usage.

 

are you currently hitting 100% usage ?

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You will see a boost, yes, but like you said, you won't be able to max the 1060 3GB before you upgrade to a current platform.

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5 minutes ago, emosun said:

no, that's only if you manage to task the cpu to 100% usage.

 

are you currently hitting 100% usage ?

I'm actually not sure, ideally I would want to play games such as PUBG and Rise of the tomb raider so I'm assuming those would task the CPU to 100% usage?

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5 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

You will see a boost, yes, but like you said, you won't be able to max the 1060 3GB before you upgrade to a current platform.

How close would I come to using the full potential of the card?

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3 minutes ago, Quickyk said:

I'm actually not sure, ideally I would want to play games such as PUBG and Rise of the tomb raider so I'm assuming those would task the CPU to 100% usage?

yeah probably . i had to check what a A8 5600K even was and it doesn't look too good

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1060 3GB... Are you sure there arent RX 570s and 580s in this price range? Back when 1060 6gb and RX cards are extremely expensive I said 1060 3gb is as far as you can go while on a tight budget, but nowadays it's not. 1060 3gb isnt that much cheaper than the RX cards, while 3GB vRAM undermines its future.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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