Gadgetory

I bet you're wondering who or what the heck xlr8 is well they're PNY now with the dedicated gaming division so if you see this name you'll know they're all about PC gaming they manufacture everything from SSDs to RAM to graphics cards and on that note in light of blue skies overkill spec sheet I asked them to send a GTX 1060 budget-friendly alternative for the 1080p in light 1440p gamer my first impression looks pretty dope accelerate proudly boasts the black and red color scheme a bit cliche sure but consistent to say the least you won't have an issue finding hardware to match a brief summary of the spec sheet upfront most of you know by now a 1060 is a 1060 1280 CUDA cores a boost clock of 1797 megahertz which is a mild jump from the reference frequency and six gigabytes of vram the card utilizes a single 8 pin also a bump from the stock 610 but still sits on power in relation to previous generations lengthwise the cards a little under nine and a quarter inches so it should fit in most ITX cases it comes with a backplate a staple in my book but with backwards writing that I wish they'd rotate around you'll find red LEDs under the two fans along with the prominent gtx 1060 logo up front my only complaint here the weird extrusion the frame it serves no functional purpose as far as I can tell and could potentially limit case compatibility especially with that left side panel other than that build quality is on point the shroud isn't flimsy and the cooler underneath sports copper pipes and aluminum sinks the kind of combination for which you'll want to look temperatures under load at stock never past 75 C even in a small form-factor case with minimal airflow the fans do crank up quite a bit though with the stock curve not as loud as the founder's edition of course but will become audible at around 30% fan speed by default the card will never pass 50 C unless you're doing something very insane with your graphics card and the sound was still tolerable in fact most hard drives are louder than this card is under load almost always a part of third party coolers now let's talk performance if you see gtx 1060 reviews in the past this one's probably nothing new in terms of frame rates anyway I ran the latest geforce driver 370 eight point seven eight and four different games which pull pc resources and unique ways the computer in question my ITX pc build from a few months ago it's boarding an i-5 7600 k clock to four point four gigahertz and sixteen gigabytes of 2.8 gigahertz ddr4 pairing a gtx 1060 with something like an i7 7700 k or an i7 5820k wouldn't really make much sense in the real world so we won't be doing that here a card this size fits with plenty of room to spare even in something as compact as this fractal design note - oh - after a quick boot and driver install it was off to the races now seeing as though this is my first official benchmarking video of a gtx 1060 which is kind of hard to believe just never owned one until now I was actually pleasantly surprised I was running each of these games and at least the ultra preset in 1080p something my old GTX 970 could barely handle and was impressed by what I saw first up Witcher 3 received a respectable frame rate we didn't reach 60fps on average but bear in mind this is witcher 3 on ultra which will tax the living hell out of any modern GPU and at that 39 ain't bad for a minimum i expected worse moving on a GTA 5 good ol 69 on average 47 for the men GT 5s an excellent example of balance between GPU and CPU intensities gameplay was smooth and rich especially with everything maxed out save anti-aliasing battlefield 1 is another beautifully optimised game and my experienced minimums and averages are always very close that's exactly what you want to see a staggering 86 on average here is superb for a card in the mid $200 price range lastly a CPU intensive title cities skylines won't tell us much about how powerful the graphics card is other than to say that you could swap this card for one three times its price and you likely won't see much of a difference in framerate making the 1060 a sweet spot for most gamers in 1080p it is no secret at this point that the aurochs 480 is a very compelling competitor we asked a roomful of a hundred people which one they would prefer I'm sure around 50% would say the AMD card the other 50% would say Nvidia for various reasons I prefer Nvidia for their software but I prefer AMD for their value it just comes down to which one you weigh more but if you ask me this particular card I think could look a bit better but it definitely falls into the gtx 1060 sweet spot in terms of price it's also manufactured by a reputable brand I use PNY SSDs all the time so if you're in the market for a green team car that looks favorably on your budget this 1060 here is the way to go and as always you can find links to the card showcased in this video in the description both my Amazon and Newegg affiliate links are tied to those so if you do purchase something via the link I do get a small kickback it goes a long way I do appreciate it it just won a thumbs up inside it was cool thumbs down for the opposite click a subscribe button if you haven't already I will catch you in the next video this is Salazar studio thanks for learning with