8 years later, the GTX 1060 is still pretty good

[@Varmint260]

The 10-series was just too good. Don't worry, Nvidia won't be making THAT mistake ever again!

[@hankhuevos3336]

^

[@devilsoffspring5519]

I found the 10-series to be ok. I had a 1070 (8GB) that was a decent performer. The 1080 Ti (11GB) was a major disappointment, it had lots of memory but I thought that the GPU itself had poor performance for the outrageous price. I just screwed myself financially for a 4070 Ti Super. The price tag was beyond LUDICROUS, but it has the performance to match! For all the fuss people made over the 1080 Ti, I think it was a bit of a turkey. Modern graphics cards are ridiculously expensive but they have *awesome* performance. Try a 40 series card one day and while the money will really hurt, they are modern-day graphics cards with modern-day performance.

[@mikeoxlong6351]

​@@devilsoffspring5519 Me when I try to justify an absolute dog $h*t buy.

[@devilsoffspring5519]

@@mikeoxlong6351 You mean my post? Yeah, I think the new cards are dreadfully expensive. I also think their performance is amazing. The older "God-Tier" 1080 Ti was hyped up to the max as next-generation technology with a massive step up in performance that must be tried to be believed. I bought a 1080 Ti. I didn't think they were all that great--all hype and big $$$ but not much better performance than the 1070 I replaced with it. The 4070 Ti Super (16 GB) I have now was obscenely overpriced and I'm kicking myself in the crotch for buying it, it was a really stupid thing to buy because I'm poor! But it has all the performance to go along with its ludicrous price. The 40 cards are legitimately amazing in terms of performance and they even seem to do a nicer job of raytracing than the 30-series ones. You don't buy a Porsche 911 Turbo for Toyota Corolla prices. It's not because Corollas suck, it's because the 911 Turbo has exotic levels of performance so it costs a hell of a lot more. Everybody wants an RTX 4090 for 250 bucks. It's not happening!

[@mountain-man0]

Im still rockin a 1080ti and am completely satisfied. I have zero desire to upgrade.​@devilsoffspring5519

[@TheBigExclusive]

This is my exact card. I play all my games at 1080p at 60 fps. Don't need anything else. 1060 is Perfect for me.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Awesome

[@princekells2]

Exactly it has almost all the advanced features ❤

[@milosstojanovic4623]

all your games that are 10 year old xD

[@PRO_OF_MC]

​@@milosstojanovic4623what good game cant run on 60 on it?

[@milosstojanovic4623]

@@PRO_OF_MC Horizon FW, Alan wake 2, GoD of war both parts, Ghost of Tsusima, Cyberpunk, Avatar, Myth of Wukong. Probably more. And i am not talking about lower details, but at least medium on 1080p and with no high upscaling. I had 1080 which is much stronger card and it dropped fps in many new games bellow 60.

[@jeremygregorio7472]

I miss the days before Bitcoin and AI bullshit when I could spend $250 on a video card and play everything it good frame rates and 1080p

[@lewzealand4717]

Yep you need $300 now for that, which is $230 in 2016 dollars. So it's cheaper.

[@jeremygregorio7472]

@@kodokuj I had in RX 580 for ages but when I upgraded my CPU to a Ryzen 5600 All of a sudden it was crash City. I think I got bit by that issue where the Microsoft default drivers over road the AMD driver for some reason. But I ended up going with a GTX 1080 used for about 150 bucks off eBay about a year ago. I'm tempted to give AMD a try in a year or two when I can pick up a 6700 or 6800 for about 150 bucks. I suspect the next refresh of GPUs next year or the year after will cause the prices to drop

[@araylaurence6220]

you can still do that

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

​@lewzealand4717 $300 is more than $230 or didnt you learn math? Although obviously not a Gpu only issue, whole economic system, just the rich scamming the poor.

[@jeremygregorio7472]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j dude go easy on him. Anyway $300 wouldn't be that bad even if I have to inflation adjust it to be around $400 but 400 bucks doesn't really buy you a mainstream card anymore comparable to what the 1060 could do back in its day. For that you're looking at $500. Mostly because you really need 16 GB of RAM if you want a card to have the longevity that the 1060 had. Heck even now there are games that will stutter if you only have 8 GB of memory because of some poor programming choices. Mostly because they want to dump the entire game into VRAM like they can do on the PS5.

[@BonusCrook]

The 1060-3GB was the best version because the human eye can only see 24FPS 720p with low textures

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Ah yes my mistake 😁

[@JJ0203]

When you’re broke and gotta lie to yourself to keep yourself happy with a $40 GPU. (Same here)

[@passivevii4052]

Lies it can see way more than what y'all say the human eye can

[@ianhawkins4979]

😂

[@drewnewby]

@passivevii4052 I know right, obviously the human eye can see .024 frames per millisecond at 1080i.

[@nick403]

I have that graphics card it’s the ol reliable

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Absolutely

[@chaosblend4312]

Same i have the exact once bought it for 60 USD 2 years ago, gets the job done and more

[@PrototypeOnyx]

Same here. Too bad it can't do DLSS, otherwise, I suspect it would still be topping the Steam hardware charts.

[@luxxym]

my 1650 super still kicks ass in modern day gaming, it was a prebuilt for $200. not bad if you ask me.

[@extremelyaddicted]

Yes very much so, However 1650 Super struggles due to vram in UE5 games.

[@masterkamen371]

​@@extremelyaddicted everything struggles in UE5, screw games that use it.

[@snakeshepard9761]

​@@masterkamen371 yeah lmao I just finished Wukong with a 4070 Super and I was getting basically the same performance of when I played The Last of Us Part 1 with my 1070. To be fair I was playing with RT on, since if I'm going to stutter on UE5 at least I want the game to look nice.

[@ShadowRush2112]

Can confirm. My 1060 is getting there in terms of age and ability to play modern games but it can still play Baldur's Gate 3 at an acceptable framerate

[@ShadowRush2112]

Also when will FFXVI be added to the benchmark list? There's a free benchmark demo too.

[@gorillagroddgaming]

30fps is not an acceptable frame rate

[@ShadowRush2112]

@@gorillagroddgaming Baldur's Gate 3 is a much slower game than compared to something like CS:GO 2. I think 30's fine for something when it isn't needed.

[@haruusami1831]

@@ShadowRush2112 Every real "gamer" needs 240fps even if they're just playing a RTS etc 🤣

[@communicationmis]

​@@gorillagroddgamingdude only played fps games

[@flick4556]

Man this channel hasn't changed over the YEARS, i've been watching since you had like 20k subs and the content is the same. Love this channel

[@le4-677]

Ppl who’ve wasted thousands of dollars on GPUs hate this video!

[@princekells2]

Those are the people who want to see themselves on the game 😂😂😂😂

[@milosstojanovic4623]

People that bought gpu for 1000$ play those games at 100fps at 1440p or higher. So no you failed in comprehension. ;)

[@skinscalp222]

You realize the fps this card gets on most of these games are pretty much unplayable to the people who "wasted" thousands of dollars on their GPU? At least a third of them are running at 40 fps.

[@TheStrengthScholar]

Do you actually think this is the case? That's like saying that Lamborghini owners hate that Hondas are reliable cars. One is meant to get the job done the other is meant for a viscerally satisfying experience.

[@XZagatoX]

@@milosstojanovic4623 Not really, most of them just flex their builds on reddit. It's the sinking realisation that comes from overspending. Kinda like how billionaires are at best, attention seekers with their expensive cars being posted all over socials

[@toufusoup]

My first card I ever bought with my own money was the ZOTAC 1060 6GB Single-Fan off B&H for $220. It was a massive upgrade from the GT210 I was using for CSGO. I miss the days

[@phineas1112]

I miss csgo, cs2 is so bad and my gtx 1060 can barely run it 300fps+ even paired with 5700x3d :/

[@ebunnes]

Great timing for this video as I am just building my first PC in ages with a strict budget and got a 1060 6gb for 50€, and pairing it with a ryzen 5 2600 which I got for 25€. I have not been gaming for years so I think this setup should cover my needs for quite some time

[@lord-vz4xi]

I feel you bro. I have recently bought a rx580 and im using it with a q9500😂 till i can afford a better cpu. So i feel your pain. me and you both have a lot of catching up to do.

[@nintendoatarikiller]

Pour one out for all the 3gb 1060 owners

[@lynackhilou4865]

I almost bought that since i was tight on cash and then didn't at the last minute and got the 6gb model instead , thank god i didn't cuz that would've been a colossal mistake

[@phattjohnson]

@@lynackhilou4865 Yea kinda get what you pay for there.

[@Lurch-Bot]

Poor suckers, wishing they had a 1650. There are so many games these days that just don't run well on 3GB but run fine on 4GB. That's what happens when you get some oddball VRAM capacity. It is sort of like if you bought a 560Ti with 1280MB of VRAM and then were trying to play Fallout 4 on it a few years later, wishing you had a 2GB card.

[@connivingkhajiit]

that thing is ass man, complete DOA. My goddamn HD 7950 from 2012 had 3GB

[@q1337]

I honestly thought I'd be frustrated due to having 3gb on my 1060, however, that was not the case. Turns out all my favorite games are from around 2013-2018, there are maybe 1 or 2 games that clearly don't work with 3gb vram limit (SQUAD just has no walls or textures of any kind lol) but overall I can't say it was a bad purchase. In Europe where I am,at the time of the 1000 series the 3gb model was 40% cheaper than the 6gb model. I think I got my moneys worth many times over. Hell, It can even play star citizen at all low still in 2024. Never expected the CPU (4770k) to become the limiting factor in most games I played rather than the GPU (yes utilization is high but games like Cyberpunk 2077 which is very playable using FSR hit the CPU limit)

[@RazorPF]

Thank you for this video, perfect timing like always. I'm actually testing a GTX 1060 tomorrow, to see if it works or not. Wish me luck, haha.

[@asrr62]

Yeah you can still play cod but your gonna be blurry AF!

[@en3rgy1931]

"Well? We're waiting!" , Was the card any good?

[@RazorPF]

@@en3rgy1931 Yes, the card in fact still works!

[@StrawberryJam99]

I was just finishing cleaning a build with a 7700k and 1060 in and this notification popped up! I'll send it along to them 😂

[@KevinBarzahD]

RGIHD & Kryzpp: Let's upload a GTX 1060 Video

[@lukasgroot]

6gig vs 3 gig🎉

[@PimptatoPCs]

I just gave a 1060 6GB to my son's friend. He has a 5600G system and was struggling to run Sea of Thieves. The 1060 massively improved his gaming experience.

[@delorean8526]

Built my PC back in 2017 and still chugging along fine. After 2 CPU upgrades (Pentium G4560 -> i5-6500 -> i7-6700) and a RAM upgrade (16GB -> 32GB), my GTX1060 6GB still handles all the games I want. Definitely $349.99 well spent (bought it right at the start of the Bitcoin craze)

[@Lurch-Bot]

So you likely don't fully appreciate how lucky you were to not be facing both a mining boom and COVID at the same time, trying to buy an affordable GPU. I had to take up mining in 2021 just to have gaming hardware.

[@MsHaspei7]

Im rocking that same setup! Kudos, only difference is that I initially use the 1060 paired with pentium gold (no idea what It was), then i3 sixth gen and finally the i7 6700K (I never touched the oc setting so it's kinda the same as your 6700)

[@WackyT08]

Just cleaned and re-pasted my Asus 6GB GTX 1060 yesterday. Still works great!

[@GanonGuy129]

hell yeah, im truckin on this gpu since 2017 and its still a powerhouse

[@takehirolol5962]

The emblem of the 2016 PC Gaming Resurgence, a true legend. It can still run games and that is impressive, but it's time may he close to it's end if the new DX 12 Phase (3rd PS5 DX 12 phase) will be games as demanding as the new Monster Hunter.

[@phineas1112]

I think it can still run Monster Hunter Wilds on low settings with 60+fps

[@takehirolol5962]

@@phineas1112 nope, did you see the requirements on the new Monster Hunter game? Not Wilds, the new one.

[@Lurch-Bot]

Must have not been much of a resurgence if I waited until 2019 to get back into gaming.

[@takehirolol5962]

@@Lurch-Bot Facts... Not an individual perspective...

[@Burago2k]

The 3gb 1060 is literally dead for newer AAA games while the 6gb is doing just fine

[@tsu177]

no wonder they stopped being so generous with the vram

[@HerZeL3iDza]

And then there's a RTX 4060 with only 2GB more, lmao.

[@tsu177]

@@HerZeL3iDza exactly and the same with the 3070

[@Lurch-Bot]

Except for Alan Wake 2. The 1060 won't be doing fine for long.

[@milosstojanovic4623]

No its not, 40fps is not fine, its under optimal performance. Look at those settings low or medium with high FSR and still struggling. For example new God of war takes 12gb of vram, Avatar also, Horizon also, Alan wake 2, and basically any new AAA games.

[@jo54763]

Good ol' reliable... I grabbed one in 2016 and used it until 2022. Great card and this video is definitely inspiring me to put together a secondary PC with my older parts.

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

I had HUGE buyers remorse after getting the 1050Ti in 2016. I was immediately disappointed. I should've gotten the GTX 1060 or RX 580. Much happier with a 3060Ti nowadays, I am never buying entry level again.

[@tsu177]

yep, entry level is almost never worth it compared to used, all gpus have a base fixed cost so low cost new gpus are always terrible value

[@R3TR0J4N]

redeemed w/ that 3060Ti tho 👌always 1st experience w/ buying pc parts were the what if moments along the line.

[@vadnegru]

8gb on that 3060ti might be tight, especially on higher than 1080p native render

[@Lurch-Bot]

Benchmarks...exist. I have an RX6600 that matches the average benchmark performance of a 3060Ti and I paid $200 for it. There is 'entry level' and then there is 'sucker level'. Guess which one you were at... I recently bought a Quadro K2200 - essentially a 4GB 750Ti, which is better than it sounds because it was actually a 900 series GPU. I paid $30 for it and it ran Cyberpunk at 1080p low with ultra performance FSR 2.1 at a steady 30fps. Probably the best price/performance I've ever gotten out of a GPU. I forgot I was playing the game on an old POS because it was so smooth and consistent at 30 fps, compared to running unlocked on a much more powerful GPU. But if I had bought the GPU new, I would have been severely disappointed with it.

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

@@Lurch-Bot Very bad reply. First, RX 6600 is slower than 3060Ti. Second, upscaled 1080p low at 30 fps is not good performance. Third, FSR upscaling is bad image quality unless it's 4k. Fourth, I just didn't have as much PC knowledge in 2016 as I do in 2024, which is normal. Fifth, 1050Ti was bad value then and is worse now. 750Ti was never that good either.

[@JSTM2000]

I have the 3gb version and it's often bottlenecked by my 2500k. When (if) I get a 9800X3D with RTX 5070 it'll be a glorious day.

[@HeyItsDyl]

You’re still rocking an i5 2500k? What a lovely little chip 😊

[@phattjohnson]

Man the 2500k was bottlenecking me 5 years ago. So I grabbed the 9900k. Now it's also bottlenecking me :P You did the right thing by holding out. You saved yourself the double-upgrayyed!

[@Lurch-Bot]

Quit dreaming and go build yourself an RX6600/Ryzen 5500 machine and play some modern games.

[@connivingkhajiit]

i actually just upgraded from my old 2500k to a 5700X3D about a month ago. How you held onto it longer than me is impressive, the damn thing pegged at like 50% usage in skyrim with its RX 580. And that was at 4.7GHz. New chip never goes above 8%. Let me tell you its probably time to upgrade, a 5700X3D can be found for dirt cheap rn.

[@barrycheesemore2928]

Some pretty good results for a GPU of that age, and they can be had for a decent price nowadays. And to be honest if you only play 'older' games it'll probably be fine. Great video as always!

[@beatlejuice1165]

Good 'ol 1060 6GB. Even the mobile version in my old Razerblade lasted me 7 years before my battery expanded and separated the chassis.

[@oscarmike47]

what a great budget option. good to see this card getting love in 2024.

[@Celia97799]

Oh man, 8 years D= I bought pretty much that exact one at launch. It was my 1st real GPU after being a laptop gamer. Felt amazing lol

[@csgolegendaryceif8557]

I had a 1060 3Gb (blower style) up until about a week ago. It ran pretty alright for the most part. I bought a 4060, so there has been a massive improvement.

[@kajmak64bit76]

Hope you got the 16gb variant

[@csgolegendaryceif8557]

@@kajmak64bit76 Nope, just got a regular 4060, the Ti variant was just a bit out of budget for me unfortunately.

[@Lurch-Bot]

Sorry to say but you would have been better off buying a used 3060 12GB. The only thing the 4060 has is DLSS 3 support and less VRAM. The former can be more than compensated for with the Lossless Scaling app (does frame gen too) and the latter can only be compensated for if you know how to VRAM mod a GPU. The 4060 was not much more performative than the 3060 and people will still be using the 3060 12GB after the 4060 8GB has been declared 'obsolete for modern gaming' due to the VRAM. So you let Nvidia screw you twice in a row with a crap GPU that is overpriced for the amount of VRAM. Well done. You also could have had close to the same performance for just $200 with an RX6600.

[@csgolegendaryceif8557]

@@Lurch-Bot For the most part, I agree. However I got 2 4060s brand new for just 330$, that's why I bought them. Not too long ago (before my now current PC) I had bought a 3060 TI and that performed a bit better than what I can see now (from memory so grain of salt).

[@kajmak64bit76]

@@csgolegendaryceif8557 should have saved up that slightly amount of money 16gb is a huge plus...

[@surinaam1186]

Had to switch to my friends 1060 6gb after my 2070 broke. So far it's ran every game I play at 100+ fps on 1080p if I optimize settings.

[@MCMonsterbuilder]

Friend of mine used to have one, recently upgraded to a 7800xt. I also had a few over the years. Very good card the pascal architechture was just too good. Something we won't have again anytime soon.

[@JarvinTheJar]

Bro wake up RGHD is benchmarking my gpu in 2024.

[@CyberAlien]

This is a simply legendary graphic card, my favorite.

[@ineligible2267]

My brother ran this card for years, always surprised me just how much performance this thing could put out for its price

[@Jabati]

it did way batter than I thought. BTW thank you for your content. I find your channel one of the best about hardware

[@deiveonmartinsen1831]

Just picked up a foudbers edition for $65 on my local marketplace. Excited to try it out in a build.

[@willywonka6487]

I upgraded from my 1060 6gb this august. Was perfectly servicable for most games.

[@dctemy]

My friend still rocks this beast! Glad to see it still gets some attention 😅

[@Danixik]

my first proper gaming gpu back in 2021 during shortage, used it for my first PC and still holding on :) long time since i sold it, but seeing how it still holds amazes me, pascal was the best GPU generation ever

[@packerman1203]

When i upgraded my computer i gave my sister a lot of my old parts for us to build a computer. That build originally had a 970 but i got her an upgrade for her birthday, an evga 1060 6gb acx 3.0. It was 80$ over a year ago and still serves her well.

[@milanvillan]

Interesting video, thank you. What I find interesting is a lot of people moaning about the RTX 4070 Super being only 12GB RAM and not future proof...Here we are with a decade old card with the RAM still holding it's own inn someway! Thanks mate

[@megapet777]

Considering how usable 1060 still is, I think my brother will be happy with his 1070 for long time. He has never complained about lag yet.

[@bryndal36]

I had this card, same model even, with my Intel 3570K cpu and 16gb ram and it ran like a dream.

[@freedomearthmoon1]

8 years ago the card made sense. Today, it does not.

[@kypdurron]

GTX 1060 is still above all modern iGPU even latest ones like Lunar Lake Battlemage or AMD 370HX with 890M, the 120W TDP is still rather tame without high power spike like latest generation dGPU and a high memory bandwidth. I wouldn't buy one today but it won't fall behind in games until newer APU are released.

[@vadnegru]

We heard lies for a while but all of those were using upscaling like you can't use that on 1060 too

[@tenoribarelyknowher868]

absolutely loved my 1060 rocked it up until 2022 when i upgraded from a 1060 and i7-7700 to an rtx 3080 and an i7-12700kf

[@Legitti]

Had to upgrade year ago to RTX 4080 as it wasn't good enough for my use anymore, rip 1060

[@Burago2k]

rip wallet too lol

[@le4-677]

What you trying to play, Crisis 4?

[@Legitti]

@@le4-677 Halo Infinite was what pushed me to upgrade, and games such as Alan Wake 2.

[@R3TR0J4N]

another decade for that card 👌

[@WeatherMan2005]

@@Legitti i could play halo inf on mine. i deleted it tho cause the game takes 15 years to compile shaders

[@Zerbey]

I have a Quadro P2000 in one of my systems, which is basically a 1060 with arthritis. I was pleasantly surprised when I ran a few benchmarks to see how well it performs for gaming. Still a pretty decent card.

[@worldz_of_visions]

7 years later, still using my 3 GTX-1080s. Water cooled (which BTW is the only way to fit the 3rd one in slot). Of course the only software I have to use all 3 is DAZ Studio Iray rendering. And unfortunately the memory isn't pooled, so only 8GB total. But as long as the scene size isn't too large, it renders like a champ.

[@Foxtrop13]

A friend wanted to buy a gtx970 I borrow him money to go for the gtx1060, that card was a beast back then

[@Lurch-Bot]

The difference in rasterization performance between the 970 and the 1060 is miniscule and the extra 2GB of VRAM barely means something in 2024 and meant nothing, practically speaking, back when 10 series launched. Never ceases to amaze me how often people buy PC components without ever looking at a single benchmark.

[@Foxtrop13]

@@Lurch-Bot he was going to buy the 970 for more money but in quotas, and you are wrong vram makes a huge diference in many games

[@bosschungles]

I had the 980 Founder's Edition and it was pretty much on par with a 1060 and I used it until last year and it was an absolutely solid card, I got the 4060 now and it's crazy how far we've come

[@RSmerlinRS]

who else is watching this on a 1060 6gb? will finally be upgrading next year

[@xrayoriginal5016]

me, I might either keep the RTX 4060 Low Profile that I bought or buy an RTX 4070

[@rem_0]

Now just a reminder, Alan Wake 2 initially launched without support for 10 gen and even 1080ti was struggling with near cinematic fps at bare minimum settings

[@lynackhilou4865]

This was the first gpu i bought , have a lot of memories with this card

[@Cynic_6489]

i built my new rig this week with a 5700X at its core and currently using it with Ol' Reliable, an Inno3D IChill X3 GTX 1060 6GB. well more like X2 since one of the fans died. still does some decent work and never goes past 75 degrees C. in 33+ degrees C ambient heat.

[@whsprLenYT]

was about to sell mine, thanks for possibly giving me a customer

[@ZoldZsolt]

I still have this card (same manufacturer and model as shown in the video), bought it in 2016. Recently had to replace the fans, but other than that, it runs with zero issues (ofc i do annual cleaning and redo thermal paste, but still, amazing value for good performance and reliability). I've been running it with 10% factory overclock preset as well since i bought it, paired it with an i5-6600K (also 10% factory OC). Whats really funny is, that i could've sold it 4 years ago for about the same asking price as the retail price was just before the crypto boom (was lucky to buy it a month before that). In retrospect, i probably should've done that lol.

[@the_beefy1986]

My dual GPU system with Linux on bare metal and Windows in VM recently started having issues with my 5700XT becoming unstable. I dropped in a 1070 that i had already for reasons, and was quite pleasantly surprised by the performance. 10 series was a great generation.

[@cortkatanakx1q]

I still have this exact card since it was introduced. Occasionally, I play some older games so it is still good for that. Older games are cheap and you don't need new hardware for that, it is a win really.

[@vicmacarra]

I play everything at 2k, 1060 is a champ.

[@mouaxiong8618]

2k low? And what game? Roblox?

[@vicmacarra]

@@mouaxiong8618 War Thunder, BeamNG, Arma 3/DayZ, Assetto Corsa, Battlefield V, HMW mod, FH4, The Finals, MSFS(this one runs like shit). All paired with a xeon e5-2689.

[@yokingboii]

its possible, i ran cyberpunk at 1440p at 30 fps on a gtx 1650 on medium settings still not recommended vram isnt nearly enough and it stutters a lot the first few minutes, but still its nice to see.

[@mikaela43523]

@@mouaxiong8618 pcmr guys when they find out indie games exist: 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@tsu177]

yep, i played 2k on my 1660 super until recently, its surprising how many games run great

[@icdeadpipol]

Still using my GTX 1060 6gb and works well with most games I've played. Was planning on upgrading but realizing that I don't need the extra gpu muscle, settled for a Steamdeck instead.

[@mehiskortel6435]

Truly a card for the people. Still very decent especially considering most of the games we actually play are from 2016+.

[@lukesfilmltd]

update, got it and the fan is super sketchy but got an output from it. gonna try replacing the fans!

[@DeanoEssex]

Still using mine. Only because my 4070 failed and i had no prblems with the 1060 6GB. Kind of put me off upgrading for a while.

[@jhunsoo8587]

i sold my r5 3600 + 1060 6gb 16gb ram 1tb ssd for $300, now i can't build a pc with the same performance! price of pc parts in my country went up. 😭😭

[@R3TR0J4N]

this is actually my build 😅 upgraded from my Xeon E3 (same time i got my 1060) to an R5 3600 50$ upgrade each part going AM4

[@jhunsoo8587]

@@R3TR0J4N Nice man! good for you.

[@devilsoffspring5519]

Why did you sell it for 300 bucks? Twice as much would have been pretty good.

[@PrototypeOnyx]

That's why you build a new PC first, then sell the old one.

[@jhunsoo8587]

@@PrototypeOnyx Good point! but i gotta move on and hoping that the price will go down soon! 😆

[@Chill_Mode_JD]

Ah yes love this card, it holds a special place in my heart as it was the first GPU I found for my kid back when we built her a pc in 2020, it was the msi gaming x version! Now she’s rocking the msi 6750xt

[@R3AL-AIM]

I just dumped my 1070 system earlier this year and I knew a couple people who were using 1060's until recently. My cousin still has his 1060 6GB MSI laptop as well and it'll do 1080p. Pascal is a brute for it's age.

[@Velaxity]

I have a 1060 6gb card as a back-up just in case my main dies. (I don't have any integrated graphics, so it's a must) It always served me well & never let me down!!

[@user-hv7gw8bu2w]

A video that I needed for reference, tanks

[@martingolding4951]

I bought the geforce 1060 6gb during the chip shortage. I paid £250 for it, and it's doing rather well for what I need it for. I drive in ATS and ETS2 play forza 5 F122 and have 3 32in curved monitors running from it

[@Kiyuja]

roughly 6 months ago I replaced my old 1060 6GB OC and I will say at 1080p for non AAA blockbuster titles at medium settings its still fine but trust me its getting long in the tooth. It definitely served me really well in all these years, I have nothing but love for my old friend Strix, but its time to move on

[@NGU7754]

Yep, I have one and everything I tried to run so far ran decently.

[@chaosblend4312]

did not expect starfield to run. I am pretty sure that game only exists to drive down the sales of older cards.

[@mhult5873]

Well.. the first game I remeber to play A LOT is stated on internet to have 8-10 FPS. I felt this was somewhat (no kidding) not fluent graphic. The game was F/A-18 Inteceptor on A500. Thank you for another great video! It was very interesting :) Thanks again! Br //M

[@MJ-mk8jg]

Im still running the 3gb, I have 50 cards in my collection & the 1060 3GB is the newest, so to me its state of the art !

[@Coyote.five.0]

one thing to keep in mind is if you are buying a 2018 graphics cards and expect to get 2024 levels of performance you have something wrong in your head , but if you are going to have realistic expectations then buy a 2018 graphics card and play 2018 games that were cool back then and you will have a great experience, a gtx1060 can still play gta5 no problems at all

[@manirea]

Its my main gpu since 2018. Calling it impressive its an understatement. It runs Space marine 2, God of war ragnarok or Horizon forbidden west fairly well.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

Good video. I bought a Gigabyte gtx 1060 6gb when it was newly released and it was a great 1080p card. It replaced my gtx 660 3gb oem card. My cpu was a socket 1366 Xeon 6 core/ 12 thread. I discovered the Xeon cpu was a bottleneck when I upgraded to rtx 2060 and there was virtually no difference. That is when I went to a Ryzen cpu. BIG difference.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Nice upgrades :)

[@goxy287]

Had this exact gigabyte ver for a few years before I got a 1080ti as an used upgrade

[@Linda-]

3:28 I didn't need to be reminded that the card is 8 years old now...

[@WanderingWind71]

80 bucks for mine and it'll be here next week. I love NVIDIA. The price to performance on older cards is still excellent.

[@AMDFan-s1y]

Yes however, the electricity bill is always higher as the GTX 10 series consumes a lot of power, while the RTX 4060 consumes 115W

[@centurion8446]

It's my 2nd GPU but my 1060 6gb has been great to use for 4 years and now in reserve to ensure i don't have to stress about extortionate prices

[@mapesdhs597]

That particular 1060 is a good model, runs very quiet. I built a system for someone a couple of years ago with a 5600X and the same 1060, for running mainly ETS2, it did a fine job, 60Hz locked (which is preferable for sim gaming). Note the 1060 is on a par with the GTX 980 for speed, but of course it has a VRAM advantage and some other things. I found the RX 580 8GB (testing with a Red Devil) is often about the same, but it depends on the game (it was 10% slower for ETS2, but faster for other games).

[@imzevo8387]

My Gtx 1060 with my set up plays Cyberpunk 2077 on almost max at 30+ fps with LUT Mods(pseudo rtx).

[@Ammageddon89]

Just bought a used GTX 1660 for an ancient T3600 built - 110 bucks was a bit much for my liking (should really have been around 80) but in the end all other cards where like 150 and above for a vega 56 or a 2060 etc. So seeing that a 1060 still works pretty well makes the 30 bucks a bit more bearable.

[@randomisedaccessgaming1876]

Who needs to upgrade when an eight year old graphics card can play all modern games, absolutely brilliant video

[@niebuhr6197]

Because it barely runs many of these modern games?

[@PRO_OF_MC]

​@@niebuhr6197most of them are trash anyway

[@bcsr4ever]

I still have a PC in the house with a 1060. The PC is mostly for minecraft and Guild Wars 2, and the card is fine for those. It's been really good value. lol.

[@lordreaperofficial]

I have been rocking the 1060 6GB paired with i7-8700k since 2019. I Finally just ordered all my new parts for my new pc. (4080 And I7-12700K) finally an upgrade lmao!

[@yttrium5677]

Built a pc for my girlfriend using my old 10603gb. Used that gpu constantly since it came out and still works like a champ

[@lukesfilmltd]

Nice, just bought one for £35 off ebay lets see how it goes!

[@seresrobertwoodoo2451]

its kinda funny how the 3gb and 6gb versions are listed as a minimum gpu for 90% of the games coming out after 2020

[@getyerspn]

Still using my gtx1080 gamerock..it overclocks so well. .. there's still a ton of older games i haven't played yet .. having said that its handling horizons forbidden west at 1080p 60fps just fine with no upscaling... Just gotta keep the settings at medium the game still looks and plays great.

[@dcikaruga]

Aged better than an 8 year old CPU at least, I had this paired with an i5 -6500 back back then.

[@vickygunawan8775]

I'm still happy with my 1060, but with a lot better used graphic cards these days I'm considering upgrading.

[@ThisisCitrus]

Helldivers 2 not having any upscaling is criminal.

[@nocturnal2868]

I wonder if we could see any laptop contents in the future :)

[@cecilb7927]

I love the 1060 6GB for low end gaming PCs I am selling. The performance is actually decent. You aren't going to be running AAA games at high, but with FSR you can play most of them if you aren't too picky about image. In this area I can pick them up for about $50, and they pair great with older CPUs, and will run ESports very well. A 6th or 7th Gen i5, 16GB of RAM, and one of these makes for a half way decent PC, and a reasonable profit at about $250-275.

[@brfcitizen]

Just got an MSI one that came with a build I bought for parts. For sh*ts and giggles I decided to make a build with it paired with an old Ryzen 5 1600 and MY GOD it's still surprisingly good at 1080p. Pascal GPU's really were the stuff of legends.

[@samsowden]

I still haven't really found a reason why I absolutely need to upgrade my 1050... There are games I'm holding off playing until i get something better, but I could play them if i really wanted to.

[@le4-677]

8 yr old card and still kicking. Why upgrade when modern games are so trash? Maybe gta vi will force ppl to upgrade.

[@phattjohnson]

You got it! Since Cyberpunk 2077, what's been pushing graphics in a way we care about? Seriously? I was considering upgrading my 2070 the other year, but realized it was just for more frames in (poorly optimised?) FPS games.. nothing really looks better or has nicer looking scenes than anything in CP2077.. Maybe the new Hunt Showdown expansion? 🤷‍♂

[@vadnegru]

Maybe Stalker 2, but 1060 is a minimum spec there

[@Nunaden0]

@@phattjohnson Add in the fact that new games are just so optimised. Every single triple a game that has come out this year has been unoptimised. Frostpunk 2, space marine 2, the last of us, dragons dogma, outlaws, helldivers, any ps game. It’s so sad to see, I have an rtx 4060 and im basicially forced to use dlss or frame gen to achieve acceptable frame rates. At least I can work through my backlog :)

[@milosstojanovic4623]

@@phattjohnson Alan wake 2, Space marine 2, God of war both parts, Wu-kong, Witcher 3 next gen, Horizon both parts, Ghost of Tsushima...i can continue but will just wait for you dismissing anything that will prove you wrong, so go on, say it "ItS AlL TrAsH, My 7 YeAr OLd Pc ShOUlD RuN THoSe GaMes, BuT TheIr OpTimiZatiOn SUckS"

[@milosstojanovic4623]

@@Nunaden0 because you wasted your money on that worst card ever released, the worst value for money you could bought. You would be better with 3060ti or 3070 3080 or Rx 6700xt. Its your people lack of judgment when buying stuff and expecting Oh ItS NeW iT GonnA RuN EvEryThinG.