"if you get the 2gb version, you'll keep thinking about whether or not you should have gotten the 4gb version" as an owner of a 3gb gtx 1060, I felt that
I had the very same 3gb gtx1060. Sold it along with my old motherboard about a year or so ago. I now have the RTX2060 6gb with a Ryzen 7 2700x. Going by the state of gfx cards at the moment. I won't be upgrading. In case you're wondering, my old CPU was an AMD FX8150. Sold the board, CPU, RAM etc as a package deal to my granddaughters boyfriend. To this day he still hasn't bought a chassis to put it in.
That's a completely different card, it's a bigger difference than the 1070ti vs 1070 (your missing a ton of CUDA cores, it's not the same GPU core even if you had 12 GB of Vram it wouldn't perform as well)
I bought a 460 for a build back then. Never got the funds for the rest of the system, sold it off, and played competitive StarCraft 2 on an A10 apu instead. It's fun to make fun of Fermi! I owned one for months but never got to use it. :(
@Lov Mir what? you dont grade a gpu buy its vram LOL, a 3060 Ti has a 12gb vram and 3070 has 8gb. The thing that its matter are the chip inside the gpu. Bigger Vram doesnt mean better graphic card if you has less powerfull chip
@Lov Mir SMH this guy has no freaking clue. 3060ti does not out perform a 3070 because of Vram. The 3060ti has a bus speed of 256 like the 3070 but the 3070 has higher core count thus more performance power. The 3060 while it has 12gb vram has a slower bus and becomes a bottle neck because it can’t buffer quickly enough to utilize the memory. Most games on ultra and 1440p barely use 8gb vram as it is. Please do research before acting like you know crap. Also you can’t compare consoles to a pc because of the difference in architecture and those have games solely optimized for 1 style of hardware where pc is set to run on a wide range of components . Get out of here with you console war baiting
Modern games use things like TAA so under-native resolutions aren't *nearly* as bad as they were before. Not to mention DLSS when RTX cards become more accessible... that's a killer feature, it can make 720p games look great on 4K TVs.
This might be buried in the comments, but next time you review a lower end GPU like this, could you please benchmark some fighting games, like Tekken 7? I'd love to see how they perform with it. Love your content
as a FG tournament player and PC builder for about a decade, i can confirm that a 960 should be enough for most FGs. you may have to run it at low, but it should be able to run most games at 60 fps. i run a 1600x/rx570 4gb card in my itx pc i take w me to tournaments and it runs every FG that came out this generation just fine at medium or better. (T7 auto scales to your hardware so theres not much configuration to worry about, i run SF5 at medium, which makes it look like the ps4 version) all 2d games like GG,skullgirls, under night etc run just fine maxed out at 1080p.
From personal experience, I can tell you that games like Tekken 7 and SoulCalibur VI perform very well on low end GPUs like this. I ran those titles just fine at 1080p@60FPS with only an RX 460 2GB, albeit with medium settings instead of Ultra.
I love how you are a RUclipsr who is honest an genuine and has a clear focus. Older and budget computer hardware and builds. I prefer to watch you over other, overrated tech youtubers who spend a fortune on computers rather than taking their viewers into consideration.
It is also one of the newest (and I guess most powerful) cards with official Windows XP drivers and is still supported by current Win 10 drivers, so I guess it (and especially the 4 GB version) will remain in a somewhat special place on the used market for a while.
I know this is an older video but I just picked up one of these on ebay for 20 bucks, did not come with the shroud or fan but that is still a great deal, and for what we are using it for it will be more than enough. I have plenty of spare parts to keep it cool.
I just picked up an identical Zotac card for my son's first pc build last month. I tested it in my pc and I was honestly surprised at how well it holds up. He played farming simulator without realizing I swapped out my 2060 for it and he didn't even notice the difference 😂
"hello everyone and welcome to another video and today we look at cards we still cant afford'' Edit: Im referring to older videos sorry i didnt say this before this is rather cheap im buying an rx 570.
@@DroneMee so what do you consider mid range? rx580's? 1660ti's? If thats the case they arent worth 500 imo but i see them listed at that right now everywhere and thats for used ones. New versions go for 500+ its a bit ridiculous.
I used a PALIT GTX 960 2GB since 2015 till December 2020. I loved it, it served me so well during these years. Last games I played were CoD WW2 and Death Stranding in FHD and the performance were decent enough for me.
Bro i just got this exact gtx 960 2gb but from a diffirent oem. In the 8350 build i just got you literaly just reviewed the entire pc in a week lol. Good timing I guess
It is summer 2016. The i3 6100 just came out and the GTX 960 was at a good price. You only need about 8gbs of ram to get by back then. Life was so good, so crisp so clear so clean. Times were good man. Time was good.
I love going to work and coming home to your videos, awesome video man i just built a budget pc from a optiplex 9020. it has 16gb of ram an i5 4440 and a gtx 960 2gb i pull 131fps on heaven. this card is a great budget gpu. Thanks for sharing. God bless
i still have this gpu but OC 2 gb version i am surprised its still doing good for me and i am enjoying the games on it even if its on low medium settings. Thank you for making the video
Well chosen and well done. My son built a new PC, buying a 960 2GB for $120 US a half dozen weeks ago as he had a tight budget and sprung for quality components elsewhere in the build that aren’t skyrocket priced. Runs ok and when prices become realistic, he goes for a power card. Then I will SLI his card with my 960 2 GB Stryx (I don’t need the high power).
I bought it used from China a couple of years ago and it's still rocking! Recently I finished Death Stranding and I had no lags or stuttering. The game is absolutely beautiful, a masterpiece!
To be honest the difference between 960 and 970 is too big and to small between 960 and 950. 960 is worth buying only if you can't find 950 cheaper, and 970 is the one for comfortable minimum at native 1080p
@@xsleepy1476 Yep 750ti is in my nephews budget build I did for him. Loves it as plays his favourite games Fortnite, Apex Legends and Rocket League with no problem at medium .
I just upgraded from my office PC i5 with a GT 1030. Now I am rocking a boosted i7 3770 with a GTX 970, 16 GB of RAM, MSI rgb case. Living the dream. All for $330. At least the best dream I can hope to her in this GPU market.
still using gtx 960 2gb, and pretty happy about it. for most part just playing battlefield 1 multiplayer still got 60fps and rarely dips at 900p. while 2gb version price is acceptable, in my country the 4gb version is 50usd more than 2gb ver.
I recently commented about my dead r9 290 reference. I bought a r9 290 tri-x, upgrading right now is hard when budget cards are now 300 or more. Would've got a gtx 1650 for nothing but r9 290 for 180. Whatever atleast the r9 still preforms great for the games i play.
i love what you do i bought a few hats to try to help support you and your sister cant wait for them to show up been wanting to get them for a while finally have the money keep up the good content
I had this exact card before my current 5700xt. Had i known that the 2gb was gonna be a problem so quickly back in 2015/16 I would have picked the 4gb model. Still, I was happy with mine and what it could do. And it overclocked like a beast.
I have this GPU, came with the PC I bought about 2 weeks ago. I haven't had any issues with it. To be honest, I haven't really got any new-ish games on Steam yet. What I have though, which is generally 2000 and 2010 era games, run great. Source games hit just below 300fps maxed. The most demanding game I have is probably one of the newer LEGO games, either DC Super Villians or Force Awakens where they hit about 60 - 70fps maxed out, they look amazing though, never thought LEGO could look so good. Even emulation works great on it, Wii U is possible if you set Async shaders on as it stutters when loading shaders, this can also be fixed by using someone else's shader files. Wii and GameCube are flawless. It's making it hard to go back to consoles...
I had a MSI gaming 960 4gb, one of the best cards I had, really good looking card, the cooler was the same as the 980ti, so it was cold next to frozen, never exceed 51 degrees at 40% fan speed. Overcloked the hell out of it, +150 mhz on core and +450mhz on memory, almost 20% increase by of performance, it really was insane! It was a really silent and powerful card, I have very good memories with it. Traded it 3 years later for an Asus phoenix 1060 3gb with little money difference in 2018, that card also did pretty well, the thing is it was a little toasty (74c degrees on metro exodus) even at high fans speeds and good airflow, but it didn't gave me any trouble.
I had a 960 2GB SLI setup for a short while because I won them for stupid cheap in an eBay auction. For the handful of games that supported it, the framerates were great. About equivalent to a GTX 980 in most cases. But the 2GB of VRAM left me at 1080p Low/Medium no matter if SLI was supported or not. Not to mention that the card struggled hard in games like Forza Horizon. Hitting around 50 fps at 1080p for me and constantly bouncing off of that vram buffer. Needless to say, I upgraded to a GTX 980 as soon as possible.
My 960 (4GB) held until 2021 since I bought it back around 2015. Don't get me wrong, It's still working on a different computer with no issues whatsoever :D
Still using the 2GB Asus Strix version. You can still get good performance with tweaks to the resolution scalers, anti aliasing and sharpening filters.
I have been running this (and still do) with an i5-3570 and 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM. 30FPS ultras in Witcher 3 (no hairworks), Fallout 4, Sekiro and DS3. I am not upgrading, because there is not a single game out there that makes me wanna spend big bucks on a new pc. Maybe by when GTA6 (lol) comes out, I will upgrade. Or maybe if Fallout 5 launches or a new TES game.
i bought the same gigabyte 2gb version you have about a month after launch back in 2015 it was a powerful card , very satisfying and ideal for budget 1080p 60fps back in the day ...then games started getting Vram demanding at the end of 2015....in my experience the 2 gb version letterly become obsolete after less then 1 year of its launch ..so imagine how it is in 2021.... however i sold and bought another cards like gtx 980 , 1060 and rx 480 and i was planning on getting an rtx 2060 , then things didn't go as planed and graphic cards become expensive and rare and hard to find and ended up with no gpu ( i invested in getting a ps4 instead ) ... then a month ago i found an old pc on sold with a cpu i5 1st gen 8gb ram and gtx 960 4gb version in it for around 170 usd . i kept the gtx 960 and sold the rest so it cost me around 60 usd ... anyway the 4gb version was so much decent and stands for late 2021 games and i could use up to ultra texture quality in some games when i was limited to low only on the 2gb version.... the only thing is its better to game on 900p with it on AAA 2021 games but you could use upscale to 1080p . my point is, from my 1st hand experience the 2gb version is a 100% waste of money push for the extra cost and get the 2021 decent gpu the 4gb version and its totally worth it.
I have an MSI 960 2GB from before I replaced it with an RX 590. It did okay at 1080p but even a couple years ago, new titles were struggling for consistent 30FPS at all low settings. Can't believe I bought that thing new just months before the 1060 6GB came out at the same price.
My friend gave me a pc with a gtx 960 2gb in there. The diffrence between that and the laptop I was using A8 radian 5 integrated graphics was night and day. I can play all the warhammer games I wanted to play before now.
"I thought 1080p was fine but it turned out that it wasn't." *video starts to melt away* Me: "oh yeah its bad" *realized I'm watching at 1080p with crappy internet* Me: *Oh*
My grandma's HP computer has a 960 2GB, along with an i7-6700. It's a decent 900p card. Of course, the monitor is 1080p, so it struggles without fiddling with settings. I got a 970 to put in my Lenovo i7-4790 system.
i have 2 4 GB versions of these on my old build, and they are selling used for about 350 USD, which is NUTS, i would honestly sell them for cheaper than that
I play games on a intel hd 4600, 8 gb ram so I'm gonna get my first gaming pc, this is the only cheap card I could found that runs modern games at 30 - 60 fps at medium to high settings at a good price
Upgraded from this card to a GTX 1080Ti, difference in perfomance is uncomparable, but still, i miss the 960. That one didn't have the abysmal power consumption and heat output as my current gpu
My single GTX 960 2GB runs Tekken 7 at 60FPS on 1080p, settings mostly high, 100% scaling, high motion blur. Runs Left 4 Dead 2 (really old game) on ultra above 60FPS. Two 960s in SLI approximates a RX 5600 or a GTX 1070 (janky dual PSU setup, B540m, bridge). If you can get your hands on certain old cards, SLI/Crossfire is still a pretty sweet deal
I'd bought a 2GB OC version for £80 in Jan 2021. Runs Minecraft well and pretty much any other title my daughter threw at it. A decent enough stop gap.
Hi !!! my uncle is just starting with streaming stuff, this exactly config, with gtx 960 and i5 10400f, 16 gb of ram and m.2 is good enough to run warzone in 900p and stream in 720p? ill appreciate your answer because i found a good n cheap opportunity :)
I still have my 960 2gb, haha, was caught by the GPU shortage and was waiting for the prices to normalize before buying at new release price then prices got crazy. anyways this still can play persona 5, cities skyline, Crusader kings 3, stellaris and nba 2k21. My specs are AMD 3800x, inno3d 960 GTX 2gb and 32gb ram at 3200mhz
I have the Asus OC GTX 960. And that card has gone above and beyond what it should. Granted it has to output 1360x768, but that was enough play COD: Warzone. Only Division 2 became unplayable for this card. Thanks to your video I can sell it for close what I paid for it 5 years ago XD
Just finish repairing one, poor thing have tough life and still look beaten but during testing I was surprised it still can run games I play good enough. Maybe I need to start playing newer games :) It can't be sold with all repairs on PCB visible but it will make nice backup card, something we all need in these times.
I mean, I have the 4 GB version. It's a good card, yes. But I would, at best, consider it a low to mid range card. Low for anything that came out within the past 5 to 4 years.
But this now is a low end card. The fact that most of the games tested had to be dropped to 900p means that it can't drive the most common monitor resolution. Current situation with GPU's not withstanding, this would still be really far down the line on what you should consider unless you are playing 5 year old or e-sports titles.
dunno why i see this review when i currently own an Aorus Master RX 6800XT lol Still, pretty impressive that the GTX 960 is still holding well for current games, even more with just 2Gb Vram
Got a slightly overclocked (108% Power Limit/1500MHz Core [+170]/3000MHz Memory [+200]/+10mV Voltage) MSI 4GB 960 and it will have to do, I guess. It works really well for most of the things I play currently on a new 144Hz monitor. I postponed my CP77 playthrough, but that's probably a good idea in general, as they work on fixes. Didn't upgrade to the 10XX series cause it still was pretty new, 20XX was _meh_ - the 30XX series looks great, but well. We know how that went.
What a coincidence!, you released this video a day after mine arrived! Was supposed to be a 4gb one, but I'm not going to wait for another card, amazon support is useless and frankly I couldn't give a toss if it's the wrong one.
This is the most powerful card that supports windows xp without driver modifications, it might interest someone for this reason. Personally I prefer the gtx 750 ti because it doesn't need extra connectors.
I see these cards available in my area but the prices are too high. I have noticed people are not buying the overpriced older graphics card lately. I just bought an R7 360 2 GB for $50.00, that seemed very reasonably priced these days!
I still have a GTX 960 with 2GB but is a EVGA superclocked.. and its doing its best but not a good time with new games ☹️ lucky i have a huge backlog of older games that i still need to play 🤪
Card prices really are insane at the moment. It's amazing to me that I could sell the GTX 970 in my PC for pretty much the same money I bought it for from new 7 years ago.
Omg :( GTX960 was BEAST it was overkill for all of games still Back then I thought why would anyone need gtx970 and 980 when even 950 was super overpowered Im suffering seeing such a beast can't do even low in 1080p in bew games ;(
I feel proud to finally see you review the exact same custom card I've been using for years. Things are so bad, I had to get a pre-built, but a RX 6700 XT is def an upgrade, can't wait
Already have one (for over a year). Got it before the price doubled. Yay me. But here's the thing: I have no tower to put it in. 😪 The prices these days....
I just got one myself. We use Steam streaming to a 1280x800 laptop so it's plenty. 60 FPS in Valheim nearly max settings, even AA enabled. :) I also got mine for 80, but took a while to find a deal.
"if you get the 2gb version, you'll keep thinking about whether or not you should have gotten the 4gb version" as an owner of a 3gb gtx 1060, I felt that
Same bought the 6gb 5600xt and wondering if the 8gb of the 5700xt would have made a big difference lol
As the owner of the 2gb version of the 960, i felt that in my soul.
@@Babbages That's not the same at all
I had the very same 3gb gtx1060. Sold it along with my old motherboard about a year or so ago. I now have the RTX2060 6gb with a Ryzen 7 2700x. Going by the state of gfx cards at the moment. I won't be upgrading. In case you're wondering, my old CPU was an AMD FX8150. Sold the board, CPU, RAM etc as a package deal to my granddaughters boyfriend. To this day he still hasn't bought a chassis to put it in.
That's a completely different card, it's a bigger difference than the 1070ti vs 1070 (your missing a ton of CUDA cores, it's not the same GPU core even if you had 12 GB of Vram it wouldn't perform as well)
"There are no bad cards, only bad prices."
Fermi has entered the chat.
if someone offered me a GTX 500 series gpu for 1$ I would take it.
Honestly it just depends on what you play. Plenty of people play 10+year old games regularly.
I bought a 460 for a build back then. Never got the funds for the rest of the system, sold it off, and played competitive StarCraft 2 on an A10 apu instead. It's fun to make fun of Fermi! I owned one for months but never got to use it. :(
Saying that to the gt210 is giving it too much credit
GT 710 wants to have a word with you.
Your vids are perfect
Your voice so calming
Your camera in high quality
Your content enjoyable and educational
The camera looks like a phone camera. Phones have better cameras than people realize
@@stonalisa3729 iPhone 8 lol
@@RandomGaminginHD please can you do some rocket league benchmarks it's becoming more and more popular now
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Wow, i have the exact same card. I got it a few months ago, bought from a friend for about 80 american dollars, roughly 60 pounds, i absolutly love it
Ah yes. My favourite Mr graphic cards tester. Keep up the good work my g
@Lov Mir what? you dont grade a gpu buy its vram LOL, a 3060 Ti has a 12gb vram and 3070 has 8gb. The thing that its matter are the chip inside the gpu. Bigger Vram doesnt mean better graphic card if you has less powerfull chip
@Lov Mir Gtx 960 is an old card, i can found one for $ 120 in a marketplace. Yet you compared it to a used ps4? its all about preferences
@Lov Mir SMH this guy has no freaking clue. 3060ti does not out perform a 3070 because of Vram. The 3060ti has a bus speed of 256 like the 3070 but the 3070 has higher core count thus more performance power. The 3060 while it has 12gb vram has a slower bus and becomes a bottle neck because it can’t buffer quickly enough to utilize the memory. Most games on ultra and 1440p barely use 8gb vram as it is. Please do research before acting like you know crap. Also you can’t compare consoles to a pc because of the difference in architecture and those have games solely optimized for 1 style of hardware where pc is set to run on a wide range of components . Get out of here with you console war baiting
@Lov Mir a gtx 960 with 2gb of vram is always better than a ps3 itself. The chip matters not the vram.
@@ap9821 he's dumb, just ignore him lol
First youtuber I've heard say 900p a good idea exactly the advice that I give people doing builds for kids
900P really is not to bad still these days. especially if used to console
I usually resort to 900p on my 1080p laptop a well, since my GPU can't really keep up even though it's got 4gb vram
Modern games use things like TAA so under-native resolutions aren't *nearly* as bad as they were before. Not to mention DLSS when RTX cards become more accessible... that's a killer feature, it can make 720p games look great on 4K TVs.
kids shouldn't be allowed on computers in the context you are implying .
You are really annoying
This might be buried in the comments, but next time you review a lower end GPU like this, could you please benchmark some fighting games, like Tekken 7? I'd love to see how they perform with it. Love your content
as a FG tournament player and PC builder for about a decade, i can confirm that a 960 should be enough for most FGs. you may have to run it at low, but it should be able to run most games at 60 fps. i run a 1600x/rx570 4gb card in my itx pc i take w me to tournaments and it runs every FG that came out this generation just fine at medium or better. (T7 auto scales to your hardware so theres not much configuration to worry about, i run SF5 at medium, which makes it look like the ps4 version) all 2d games like GG,skullgirls, under night etc run just fine maxed out at 1080p.
@@DatOneGuy901 thank you so much
Fighters are bad for benchmarking, because they are locked to 60fps.
FG dont demand much graphics power, Tekken runs well already with a gtx 750ti
From personal experience, I can tell you that games like Tekken 7 and SoulCalibur VI perform very well on low end GPUs like this. I ran those titles just fine at 1080p@60FPS with only an RX 460 2GB, albeit with medium settings instead of Ultra.
I love how you are a RUclipsr who is honest an genuine and has a clear focus. Older and budget computer hardware and builds.
I prefer to watch you over other, overrated tech youtubers who spend a fortune on computers rather than taking their viewers into consideration.
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Am I the only one who is really impressed by this card? Those were some insane results!
It’s hanging on in there!
It is also one of the newest (and I guess most powerful) cards with official Windows XP drivers and is still supported by current Win 10 drivers, so I guess it (and especially the 4 GB version) will remain in a somewhat special place on the used market for a while.
I know this is an older video but I just picked up one of these on ebay for 20 bucks, did not come with the shroud or fan but that is still a great deal, and for what we are using it for it will be more than enough. I have plenty of spare parts to keep it cool.
just wanted to say again, really appreciate the content you put out :)
Thank you :)
I recently swapped mine with a 4GB RX470 and it ended up being worth it. And slightly cheaper. 2GB really limits yourself on A LOT of titles.
@METhOdhowtoKilLnoObS well... Yeah. But it was still cheaper on the used market. At least in most cases I've seen.
Even 4GB is really limiting right now. Look what happened with GTX 1060 3GB. Pretty short-lived.
I just picked this up from my friend to complete my first pc build! All parts will be here tomorrow.
Awesome! Good luck with the build
Congratulations. You will never be the same.
Works Great!!!
I used to own this model of gtx 960 too! But I sold it years ago and upgraded to an r9 390
I just picked up an identical Zotac card for my son's first pc build last month. I tested it in my pc and I was honestly surprised at how well it holds up. He played farming simulator without realizing I swapped out my 2060 for it and he didn't even notice the difference 😂
This is what a good father should always do. Big guns are for big boys, that's the way it is. #respect 👍
Ah here it is, my graphics card finally shows up on the channel, I was waiting for this day, I'm excited to see the disappointment!
I were using 4 GB version of 960 since early 2016 and it was pretty good experience. Upgraded it to 1660 Super, but I still have my good old 960.
Can I have it please?
50 for it? Im broke 😑
@@trashgamedev5730 stop playing games if you were broke
@@wealthspirit4985 I'm not broke anymore, and I have a graphics card 👌
@@trashgamedev5730 congratulations👍
"hello everyone and welcome to another video and today we look at cards we still cant afford''
Edit: Im referring to older videos sorry i didnt say this before this is rather cheap im buying an rx 570.
$80-100 is not expensive for a gpu. $500 msrp is considered mid range now adays.
@@DroneMee /s
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@@DroneMee expensive for a gpu of this level
@@DroneMee so what do you consider mid range? rx580's? 1660ti's? If thats the case they arent worth 500 imo but i see them listed at that right now everywhere and thats for used ones. New versions go for 500+ its a bit ridiculous.
I used a PALIT GTX 960 2GB since 2015 till December 2020. I loved it, it served me so well during these years. Last games I played were CoD WW2 and Death Stranding in FHD and the performance were decent enough for me.
And I still use a MSI GTX 960 2GB
I like your content since it's much more simpler and fun than from other tech channels. Good job as always,
Bro i just got this exact gtx 960 2gb but from a diffirent oem. In the 8350 build i just got you literaly just reviewed the entire pc in a week lol. Good timing I guess
Haha what a coincidence
And how much did you pay for said 960?
Have fun playing your games in a jittery, stutter-infested mess.
@@exxor9108 my guy it’s not my main pc
It is summer 2016.
The i3 6100 just came out and the GTX 960 was at a good price. You only need about 8gbs of ram to get by back then. Life was so good, so crisp so clear so clean. Times were good man. Time was good.
960 served me well. Upgraded whole rig with 2060 oc windforce for 369$ on late Feb.
I love going to work and coming home to your videos, awesome video man i just built a budget pc from a optiplex 9020. it has 16gb of ram an i5 4440 and a gtx 960 2gb i pull 131fps on heaven. this card is a great budget gpu. Thanks for sharing. God bless
Still have one around but i rather use my GTX 1070.
Can I have it bro?
You should have compared it with that R9 380 you tested while back since this card was it's competing offer back then.
very nice vid, i got the 2gb Zotac version since 2015, 30fps low setting for demanding games, Esports title mid-high 60fps, both in 1080p
not bad for a card that released 7 years ago
im with a 1050ti,same settings as you,although I run all Esport games on high
i still have this gpu but OC 2 gb version i am surprised its still doing good for me and i am enjoying the games on it even if its on low medium settings. Thank you for making the video
Just bought a GTX 970 4gb that turned out to actually be a GTX 960 2gb. Thanks jerk at least it's the msi 100ME version
Well chosen and well done. My son built a new PC, buying a 960 2GB for $120 US a half dozen weeks ago as he had a tight budget and sprung for quality components elsewhere in the build that aren’t skyrocket priced. Runs ok and when prices become realistic, he goes for a power card. Then I will SLI his card with my 960 2 GB Stryx (I don’t need the high power).
SLIing the cards will definitely be fun 😂
It's weird to think I bought this video card for my first custom build PC 5 years ago and it still holds up so well
I had the msi version of this and absolutely loved it at the time.
I bought it used from China a couple of years ago and it's still rocking! Recently I finished Death Stranding and I had no lags or stuttering. The game is absolutely beautiful, a masterpiece!
What graphics were u playing at and how was the fps for death stranding
@@user-fn4su7zs3n I played with the standard settings and did not messure the FPS.
Me: plans to buy GTX 970
My wallet: *get the GTX 960*
Me: plans to buy a gpu
My wallet: Your 750 ti is fine so no
Lmao same, im talking to a guy for 970 for 70€ and 960 for 60 to the other Guy ir they have Not Patience its a good buy for me
To be honest the difference between 960 and 970 is too big and to small between 960 and 950. 960 is worth buying only if you can't find 950 cheaper, and 970 is the one for comfortable minimum at native 1080p
@@xsleepy1476 Yep 750ti is in my nephews budget build I did for him. Loves it as plays his favourite games Fortnite, Apex Legends and Rocket League with no problem at medium
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Atleast get 1650super after this crysis is over
2 months ago my old 3080 died and my old reliable 960 saved the day until I got a replacement. I will always love this little card :)
Thanks for the benchmark man! I want to buy this card but first ima upgrade my CPU, Mobo and Ram
I just upgraded from my office PC i5 with a GT 1030. Now I am rocking a boosted i7 3770 with a GTX 970, 16 GB of RAM, MSI rgb case. Living the dream. All for $330. At least the best dream I can hope to her in this GPU market.
I've had the 4 gig version, and it was a perfect workhorse for five years, until I sold it last April. The 900 series cards were really nice.
can i ask what's your psu?
@@gelo4580 Chieftec smart 400+
still using gtx 960 2gb, and pretty happy about it. for most part just playing battlefield 1 multiplayer still got 60fps and rarely dips at 900p. while 2gb version price is acceptable, in my country the 4gb version is 50usd more than 2gb ver.
I recently commented about my dead r9 290 reference. I bought a r9 290 tri-x, upgrading right now is hard when budget cards are now 300 or more. Would've got a gtx 1650 for nothing but r9 290 for 180. Whatever atleast the r9 still preforms great for the games i play.
i love what you do i bought a few hats to try to help support you and your sister cant wait for them to show up been wanting to get them for a while finally have the money keep up the good content
I had this exact card before my current 5700xt.
Had i known that the 2gb was gonna be a problem so quickly back in 2015/16 I would have picked the 4gb model.
Still, I was happy with mine and what it could do. And it overclocked like a beast.
I saw a video where someone was able to solder more vram to this GPU
How did he get the bios to address it?
Love ya! Just this card! Ty for the great test ✌️✌️
I have this GPU, came with the PC I bought about 2 weeks ago.
I haven't had any issues with it.
To be honest, I haven't really got any new-ish games on Steam yet.
What I have though, which is generally 2000 and 2010 era games, run great.
Source games hit just below 300fps maxed.
The most demanding game I have is probably one of the newer LEGO games, either DC Super Villians or Force Awakens where they hit about 60 - 70fps maxed out, they look amazing though, never thought LEGO could look so good.
Even emulation works great on it, Wii U is possible if you set Async shaders on as it stutters when loading shaders, this can also be fixed by using someone else's shader files.
Wii and GameCube are flawless.
It's making it hard to go back to consoles...
I had a MSI gaming 960 4gb, one of the best cards I had, really good looking card, the cooler was the same as the 980ti, so it was cold next to frozen, never exceed 51 degrees at 40% fan speed. Overcloked the hell out of it, +150 mhz on core and +450mhz on memory, almost 20% increase by of performance, it really was insane! It was a really silent and powerful card, I have very good memories with it. Traded it 3 years later for an Asus phoenix 1060 3gb with little money difference in 2018, that card also did pretty well, the thing is it was a little toasty (74c degrees on metro exodus) even at high fans speeds and good airflow, but it didn't gave me any trouble.
I swear it’s like you can read my mind before you post each vid... Love your channel btw!
I had a 960 2GB SLI setup for a short while because I won them for stupid cheap in an eBay auction. For the handful of games that supported it, the framerates were great. About equivalent to a GTX 980 in most cases. But the 2GB of VRAM left me at 1080p Low/Medium no matter if SLI was supported or not. Not to mention that the card struggled hard in games like Forza Horizon. Hitting around 50 fps at 1080p for me and constantly bouncing off of that vram buffer. Needless to say, I upgraded to a GTX 980 as soon as possible.
My 960 (4GB) held until 2021 since I bought it back around 2015.
Don't get me wrong, It's still working on a different computer with no issues whatsoever :D
Still using the 2GB Asus Strix version. You can still get good performance with tweaks to the resolution scalers, anti aliasing and sharpening filters.
As a Norwegian, I can confirm that Norway is quite demanding. Never been to England though...
😂
I have been running this (and still do) with an i5-3570 and 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM. 30FPS ultras in Witcher 3 (no hairworks), Fallout 4, Sekiro and DS3. I am not upgrading, because there is not a single game out there that makes me wanna spend big bucks on a new pc. Maybe by when GTA6 (lol) comes out, I will upgrade. Or maybe if Fallout 5 launches or a new TES game.
i bought the same gigabyte 2gb version you have about a month after launch back in 2015 it was a powerful card , very satisfying and ideal for budget 1080p 60fps back in the day ...then games started getting Vram demanding at the end of 2015....in my experience the 2 gb version letterly become obsolete after less then 1 year of its launch ..so imagine how it is in 2021.... however i sold and bought another cards like gtx 980 , 1060 and rx 480 and i was planning on getting an rtx 2060 , then things didn't go as planed and graphic cards become expensive and rare and hard to find and ended up with no gpu ( i invested in getting a ps4 instead ) ... then a month ago i found an old pc on sold with a cpu i5 1st gen 8gb ram and gtx 960 4gb version in it for around 170 usd . i kept the gtx 960 and sold the rest so it cost me around 60 usd ... anyway the 4gb version was so much decent and stands for late 2021 games and i could use up to ultra texture quality in some games when i was limited to low only on the 2gb version.... the only thing is its better to game on 900p with it on AAA 2021 games but you could use upscale to 1080p .
my point is, from my 1st hand experience the 2gb version is a 100% waste of money push for the extra cost and get the 2021 decent gpu the 4gb version and its totally worth it.
I have an MSI 960 2GB from before I replaced it with an RX 590. It did okay at 1080p but even a couple years ago, new titles were struggling for consistent 30FPS at all low settings. Can't believe I bought that thing new just months before the 1060 6GB came out at the same price.
I have the 4GB 960 strix card. It does okay for anything 1080p(monitor limited in my case) except for the absolute latest stuff.
Insane that a 960 goes for £80 but a GTX 980ti just a few months ago was going for £220. Crazy situation right now
Even higher now :(
On r/hardwareswap I saw 980 ti going for about 150 usd back in December now there going for about 300 to 320 usd
@@BOT76395 Yeah I got one for £220 in Jan
@@RandomGaminginHD Crazy, imagine if in a months time the 750ti starts going for over £100
@@Arthur-jx8bm already does lol
My friend gave me a pc with a gtx 960 2gb in there. The diffrence between that and the laptop I was using A8 radian 5 integrated graphics was night and day. I can play all the warhammer games I wanted to play before now.
It is a great card for a HTPC as it decodes 4K60 content on RUclips fluently unlike many iGPU's.
I remember seeing this in a second hand store, I only had a laptop with HD graphics so I was desperate lol
I'm sitting here with an RTX 3080 but watching this guys channel on the best budget cards for your buck... 🤷🏼
Finally, a video with same configuration as my self
"I thought 1080p was fine but it turned out that it wasn't."
*video starts to melt away*
Me: "oh yeah its bad"
*realized I'm watching at 1080p with crappy internet*
Me: *Oh*
960 was definitely always a 900p gaming card, it's cool that it's still sorta usable
Lmao no it wasn't. Even my 2gb version runs GTA 5 in 1080p and mostly high settings without a problem.
@@tommeiner9983 gta 5 ain't exactly that difficult to run, it's a mainstream game
My grandma's HP computer has a 960 2GB, along with an i7-6700. It's a decent 900p card. Of course, the monitor is 1080p, so it struggles without fiddling with settings. I got a 970 to put in my Lenovo i7-4790 system.
i have 2 4 GB versions of these on my old build, and they are selling used for about 350 USD, which is NUTS, i would honestly sell them for cheaper than that
I like watching these videos more than I like watching videos of cards that I won’t be able to afford for the next 6 years
GTX 960 2gb user here
i'm glad i can feel remembered somehow... and no AAA games for me.
I play games on a intel hd 4600, 8 gb ram so I'm gonna get my first gaming pc, this is the only cheap card I could found that runs modern games at 30 - 60 fps at medium to high settings at a good price
I got a gtx 960 with a 22" 1080p 75hz ips monitor, I'm poor but happy :)
will you try GT 1010 ?
you can't buy it anywhere unfortunately
Upgraded from this card to a GTX 1080Ti, difference in perfomance is uncomparable, but still, i miss the 960. That one didn't have the abysmal power consumption and heat output as my current gpu
Currently in my rig. 2021 and still rock solid!
My single GTX 960 2GB runs Tekken 7 at 60FPS on 1080p, settings mostly high, 100% scaling, high motion blur.
Runs Left 4 Dead 2 (really old game) on ultra above 60FPS.
Two 960s in SLI approximates a RX 5600 or a GTX 1070 (janky dual PSU setup, B540m, bridge). If you can get your hands on certain old cards, SLI/Crossfire is still a pretty sweet deal
I'd bought a 2GB OC version for £80 in Jan 2021. Runs Minecraft well and pretty much any other title my daughter threw at it. A decent enough stop gap.
I agree, I hope she has a good time
If you're on a budget then it's good. I suggest pairing it with ryzen 3 2200g or i3 9100f
@T-Jay no OFCORSE
*9100f*
@T-Jay yes
@@cannonsorted6729 sorry
@T-Jay yes
You should really test Halo 2 Anniversary, that game is a perfect benchmark for both CPUs and specially GPUs
Hi !!! my uncle is just starting with streaming stuff, this exactly config, with gtx 960 and i5 10400f, 16 gb of ram and m.2 is good enough to run warzone in 900p and stream in 720p? ill appreciate your answer because i found a good n cheap opportunity :)
I still have my 960 2gb, haha, was caught by the GPU shortage and was waiting for the prices to normalize before buying at new release price then prices got crazy. anyways this still can play persona 5, cities skyline, Crusader kings 3, stellaris and nba 2k21. My specs are AMD 3800x, inno3d 960 GTX 2gb and 32gb ram at 3200mhz
Its hilarious how you keep testing cards that I purchase a couple weeks before......excellent content as usual!
I have this exact card, got it in February 2016 for 175 EUR. I've seen similar 960 2GB models go for 150 EUR in local ads TODAY.
I have the Asus OC GTX 960. And that card has gone above and beyond what it should. Granted it has to output 1360x768, but that was enough play COD: Warzone. Only Division 2 became unplayable for this card.
Thanks to your video I can sell it for close what I paid for it 5 years ago XD
Just finish repairing one, poor thing have tough life and still look beaten but during testing I was surprised it still can run games I play good enough. Maybe I need to start playing newer games :)
It can't be sold with all repairs on PCB visible but it will make nice backup card, something we all need in these times.
Finally a youtuber who doesnt call good cards “low end” 🙏😂
I mean, I have the 4 GB version. It's a good card, yes. But I would, at best, consider it a low to mid range card. Low for anything that came out within the past 5 to 4 years.
A gtx 960 is low end though
But this now is a low end card. The fact that most of the games tested had to be dropped to 900p means that it can't drive the most common monitor resolution. Current situation with GPU's not withstanding, this would still be really far down the line on what you should consider unless you are playing 5 year old or e-sports titles.
If this isn't low end what would you consider low end
It can be good and low end at the same time
dunno why i see this review when i currently own an Aorus Master RX 6800XT lol
Still, pretty impressive that the GTX 960 is still holding well for current games, even more with just 2Gb Vram
Got a slightly overclocked (108% Power Limit/1500MHz Core [+170]/3000MHz Memory [+200]/+10mV Voltage) MSI 4GB 960 and it will have to do, I guess.
It works really well for most of the things I play currently on a new 144Hz monitor.
I postponed my CP77 playthrough, but that's probably a good idea in general, as they work on fixes.
Didn't upgrade to the 10XX series cause it still was pretty new, 20XX was _meh_ - the 30XX series looks great, but well. We know how that went.
this is the exact graphics card i first had lol, quite a while ago
What a coincidence!, you released this video a day after mine arrived!
Was supposed to be a 4gb one, but I'm not going to wait for another card, amazon support is useless and frankly I couldn't give a toss if it's the wrong one.
This is the most powerful card that supports windows xp without driver modifications, it might interest someone for this reason. Personally I prefer the gtx 750 ti because it doesn't need extra connectors.
I see these cards available in my area but the prices are too high. I have noticed people are not buying the overpriced older graphics card lately. I just bought an R7 360 2 GB for $50.00, that seemed very reasonably priced these days!
I still have a GTX 960 with 2GB but is a EVGA superclocked.. and its doing its best but not a good time with new games ☹️ lucky i have a huge backlog of older games that i still need to play 🤪
Card prices really are insane at the moment. It's amazing to me that I could sell the GTX 970 in my PC for pretty much the same money I bought it for from new 7 years ago.
It’s... unbelievable if you think about it.
Still useing my 970 I got in 2016. I want to upgrade as soon as cards are affordable again.
Omg :(
GTX960 was BEAST
it was overkill for all of games still
Back then I thought why would anyone need gtx970 and 980 when even 950 was super overpowered
Im suffering seeing such a beast can't do even low in 1080p in bew games ;(
While I'm still holding out for a 3070 in a country with virtually no used market, these videos are still fascinating
I feel proud to finally see you review the exact same custom card I've been using for years.
Things are so bad, I had to get a pre-built, but a RX 6700 XT is def an upgrade, can't wait
I'd recommend a 3060 ti for dlss alone but good luck either way
Hey man great video as always! Will/can you do another performance test on the newest Cyberpunk patch vs the older patches?
I have the 4gb strix model and it is still okay for some light to mid games
Already have one (for over a year). Got it before the price doubled. Yay me.
But here's the thing: I have no tower to put it in. 😪 The prices these days....
I just got one myself. We use Steam streaming to a 1280x800 laptop so it's plenty. 60 FPS in Valheim nearly max settings, even AA enabled. :) I also got mine for 80, but took a while to find a deal.
How is this card getting over 100 FPS in gta 5, my 750 ti on max settings couldn’t reach 60 most times
I'm impressed with the GTA V performance 😍