Even before watching the video, I've said for a minute now that the 1660 Ti is the new meta for budget 1080P gaming. It's almost the same price as 1650's but with about 20-30% more power. I also love that it isn't super power hungry, so it makes it pair very well with Optiplex type builds with smaller PSU's.
True, i paired it with Optiplex 3050 SFF on I7 7700 with 1660 Ti EVGA. althrough i need to Upgrade my PSU to 450w and use an Adaptor so it could support Dell Motherboard and remove my side panel, Overal the specs and performance is really good. easy 100+ on 1080p Med or sometimes High settings.
I am running a 350W PSU with this card and a ryzen 7 5800x.. works so far. It is a be quiet bulk which has 20 amps on 12v1 and 16 amps on v2.. combined less than that, But it works (not yet tested with cpu and gpu at max at the same time..😅
Got two 1660 Ti cards and a 1080 ready for some flips...need to make some time for the builds as work is keeping my busy + the market is so competitive here
ive an i5 4460 paired with an gtx 960 4gb,i upgraded to 16 gb ram from 8 and 1tb ssd from 500 gb hdd...i play R6S,battlefield,souls etc 1080 medium 60 solid fps.Ill buy RDR2 and The witcher 3(the 2 games i want to complete this summer).If it stutters ill buy the 1660 super,since is the last gpu this i5 holds without big bottleneck.
Well, as someone who owns a laptop with a i7 9750h and gtx 1660ti i can confidently say that i can run any game in 1080p without any issue. So yeah that still hold true
I have the 1660 super in my main PC and other than the fact it doesn't support Ray Tracing or DLSS it's still a great card I play most new games without issue even Stanfield runs well if u mess with the graphics settings some and u can run most settings above medium in most cases ❤😎
In Hogwarts legacy the textures that load are low/mid quality, it automatically loads those when higher quality textures fail to load in time/vram is full.
I've got the Super version of this exact model. One thing I dislike about this particular model GPU is the size of the heatsink. It is almost identical to the one inside the GTX 1050 that I used to use. Also the fan in my particular one uses ball bearings, which are noisier compared to sleeve or FDB bearings. I had to disassemble my fan and put some 3-in-1 oil inside the bearings to make it quieter. My 1660 Super comes with 1 less port than the Ti you had, and it doesn't have the 2nd HDMI shown at 8:12
How do you manage to have acceptable temperatures? I recently bought a GTX 1660 super, precisely the same model of Asus but its dissipation is very bad, the only way not to reach the Thermal Throttling is with the fans at 100%.
Asus TUF 1660 and all its variants uses the exact same PCB, and its heatsink is much bigger. If you can find just the heatsink with fans for cheap you can possibly perform a cooler swap on your Phoneix card.
I have one since 2019. Ive upgraded my cpu from 2600 to 5800x also the motherboard to b550m from 450 but still struggling with fps on cs2. Whats best for me to go? I really need some help. Is it possible me to go for new ddr5 setup without buying a new gpu for a bit
you shouldn't be having performance issues on cs2, it could be your storage/memory causing it. 5800x & 1660ti are well over enough to run most games 1080p 60, let alone esports titles like cs2, 100-400 fps.
A couple years ago i purchase an RX590 inatead of this, but the price difference was too big at the time. Wish i had gone for this one tbh, RX590 gets too hot and thottles so much
@@ProYamYamPC yeah, it still works but from 1580mhz goes down to 1340 due to thermal, cant even undervolt. I purchased new thermal paste and pads hope it works.
@@ProYamYamPC I just bought a msi rtx 2070 super gaming x trio for £130 instead , very happy with it . I just undervolted it and the performance in fortnite is way better
I've had this card for 4yrs. Its a great card for smaller PCs, and used it without any issues. Played most games at 1080p/60+fps or 1440p/30-40fps. Imo, don't buy one unless you can repaste it and get it for less than $75.
@@ProYamYamPC Not at all. That's a huge design flaw on this model. Mine was getting closer to 100 degrees C temperature on the hot spot during the OCCT testing. Luckily the ASUS TUF 1660 (all variants) uses exact same PCB, so that means its heatsink should be able to fit on this Phoenix card without issues (if you can find the heatsink with fans cheap). The heatsink on the TUF model is much beefier and has heat pipes.
I think i would always pick GTX 1660 ti/super over 1070/80 or rx 580. Maybe rx 5700 for really good price can beat it. But 1660 has lowest chance of being used for mining
My mining friend had 4 of them in his racks, they are really efficient miners. The 6gb vram and being able to run at a low wattage was for great for mining at the time. His racks were almost entirely 3070s and a handful of 3080s. Those times are past though thankfully .
I was planning to buy the rx 6600 for but because of the hype and everyone recommending it the price increased in my region, even used one too so my budget was to buy this used but found a sapphire rx 5600 xt pulse pro oc for the same price so bought that instead. lets see how it runs.
Someone should put 16gbit vram BGAs on it... it is cheap enough to do mods like this with it. .. not sure if it is possible to mod the BIOS so it can use it ..but it would be a fun project.
Anyone here for GTA ? I have a MSI 17.3 1660 ti 512ssd i7 10th gen 16GB RAM, looking to ONLY play (and maybe stream) GTA V, any recommendations for settings?
It depends. The 1660 Ti has better tech and it seems the drivers are more optimised with Turing compared to Pascal. The extra 2GB on the 1070 is a massive W though
@@JayzBeerz 10 series still getting latest drivers even the 900 series so not sure where your 16 series is still supported comes from. The 16 series is gtx nvidia moved onto rtx long ago
Still rocking my ryzen 5 2600 + 1660 ti setup since 2020. For 1080p high settings in Diablo 4 and Baldur's Gate 3, I say it's still great.
same games im playing too with it. Its a great gpu still considering.
Even before watching the video, I've said for a minute now that the 1660 Ti is the new meta for budget 1080P gaming. It's almost the same price as 1650's but with about 20-30% more power. I also love that it isn't super power hungry, so it makes it pair very well with Optiplex type builds with smaller PSU's.
I fully agree with you. This thing is kind of a meta card right now, and I Imagine it’s good for flips
@@ProYamYamPCit good even for another 2 year maybe 3
True, i paired it with Optiplex 3050 SFF on I7 7700 with 1660 Ti EVGA. althrough i need to Upgrade my PSU to 450w and use an Adaptor so it could support Dell Motherboard and remove my side panel, Overal the specs and performance is really good. easy 100+ on 1080p Med or sometimes High settings.
I am running a 350W PSU with this card and a ryzen 7 5800x.. works so far. It is a be quiet bulk which has 20 amps on 12v1 and 16 amps on v2.. combined less than that, But it works (not yet tested with cpu and gpu at max at the same time..😅
I stuck a 1660 super in my old i7-4790k system to replace a gtx 980. Decent upgrade for £100
I have the 1660ti in a Fighting game and retro titles build and also stream remotely a lot...this card ticks all boxes for me at a great price.
Got two 1660 Ti cards and a 1080 ready for some flips...need to make some time for the builds as work is keeping my busy + the market is so competitive here
ive an i5 4460 paired with an gtx 960 4gb,i upgraded to 16 gb ram from 8 and 1tb ssd from 500 gb hdd...i play R6S,battlefield,souls etc 1080 medium 60 solid fps.Ill buy RDR2 and The witcher 3(the 2 games i want to complete this summer).If it stutters ill buy the 1660 super,since is the last gpu this i5 holds without big bottleneck.
This card is closer in performance to rtx 3060 than rtx 3060 to rtx 3060 ti.
stretching it there bud
no its close to a 2060 super
@@scarfaceReapermore like 3050
@@ALFMix2000The GTX 1660 TI and RTX 2060 SUPER are both better than RTX 3050
Well, as someone who owns a laptop with a i7 9750h and gtx 1660ti i can confidently say that i can run any game in 1080p without any issue. So yeah that still hold true
I have the 1660 super in my main PC and other than the fact it doesn't support Ray Tracing or DLSS it's still a great card I play most new games without issue even Stanfield runs well if u mess with the graphics settings some and u can run most settings above medium in most cases ❤😎
Being a AAA gamer sucks. I had to get a 3080 if I wanted the frame rates I desired at 1440p in most AAA games.
I imagine if you tinker with the settings Starfield could look a lot nicer. Still, I'm glad you're enjoying your 1660!
I dunno.. In my area, gtx 2060's are now selling used for $100, So.. Your mileage may vary.
Good video.
In Hogwarts legacy the textures that load are low/mid quality, it automatically loads those when higher quality textures fail to load in time/vram is full.
I never knew that, that's actually a very clever way of handling VRAM issues. It's certainly better than muddy textures/stuttering
I've got the Super version of this exact model. One thing I dislike about this particular model GPU is the size of the heatsink. It is almost identical to the one inside the GTX 1050 that I used to use. Also the fan in my particular one uses ball bearings, which are noisier compared to sleeve or FDB bearings. I had to disassemble my fan and put some 3-in-1 oil inside the bearings to make it quieter. My 1660 Super comes with 1 less port than the Ti you had, and it doesn't have the 2nd HDMI shown at 8:12
How do you manage to have acceptable temperatures?
I recently bought a GTX 1660 super, precisely the same model of Asus but its dissipation is very bad, the only way not to reach the Thermal Throttling is with the fans at 100%.
It's a very poor model in all fairness. But I changed the thermal paste before I did my testing. That will help your situation
Asus TUF 1660 and all its variants uses the exact same PCB, and its heatsink is much bigger. If you can find just the heatsink with fans for cheap you can possibly perform a cooler swap on your Phoneix card.
@@harddrive7316 thanks You so much for the information
I'm going to get a 1660 ti for between Christmas and New Year to play around with. I'm wavering between the Asus Strix and the MSI Gaming X.
Arc a580
*about 140 dollars in sales*
Rx 5600 xt
And the non xt
Rtx 2060 *about 100 dollars*
All of these are better in a similar price .
I have one since 2019. Ive upgraded my cpu from 2600 to 5800x also the motherboard to b550m from 450 but still struggling with fps on cs2. Whats best for me to go? I really need some help. Is it possible me to go for new ddr5 setup without buying a new gpu for a bit
Or whats best to buy next to 7800x3d thats also cheap
you shouldn't be having performance issues on cs2, it could be your storage/memory causing it. 5800x & 1660ti are well over enough to run most games 1080p 60, let alone esports titles like cs2, 100-400 fps.
A couple years ago i purchase an RX590 inatead of this, but the price difference was too big at the time.
Wish i had gone for this one tbh, RX590 gets too hot and thottles so much
I hear a lot of RX 590s suffered from thermal issues. Wishing you get an upgrade soon bro!
@@ProYamYamPC yeah, it still works but from 1580mhz goes down to 1340 due to thermal, cant even undervolt.
I purchased new thermal paste and pads hope it works.
I recently saw a 1660 super for £90 , is it a good deal ?
It's a bit of a tricky one. I have seen them go for less than that here. I'd say 80 quid is a good price point
@@ProYamYamPC I just bought a msi rtx 2070 super gaming x trio for £130 instead , very happy with it .
I just undervolted it and the performance in fortnite is way better
I've had this card for 4yrs. Its a great card for smaller PCs, and used it without any issues. Played most games at 1080p/60+fps or 1440p/30-40fps. Imo, don't buy one unless you can repaste it and get it for less than $75.
Since the heatsink is small, does yours overheat at all?
It was getting close in my testing. Asus certainly didn't strap a good cooler to this GPU🤣
@@ProYamYamPC Not at all. That's a huge design flaw on this model. Mine was getting closer to 100 degrees C temperature on the hot spot during the OCCT testing. Luckily the ASUS TUF 1660 (all variants) uses exact same PCB, so that means its heatsink should be able to fit on this Phoenix card without issues (if you can find the heatsink with fans cheap). The heatsink on the TUF model is much beefier and has heat pipes.
At this point saying ''it lacks dlss and ray tracing'' is pointless since amd doesn't have dlss and it can use fsr 3 so amd really helps massively.
Fair point, to some people it is a big downside though
I only was just using this a month ago, 1660ti is definitely still a good card
The current PC games are setting their required system requirements equivalent to the latest generation of game consoles specifications.
I think i would always pick GTX 1660 ti/super over 1070/80 or rx 580. Maybe rx 5700 for really good price can beat it. But 1660 has lowest chance of being used for mining
My mining friend had 4 of them in his racks, they are really efficient miners. The 6gb vram and being able to run at a low wattage was for great for mining at the time. His racks were almost entirely 3070s and a handful of 3080s. Those times are past though thankfully .
Put this in a optiplex that has a I8500 or something and you got your self a ultra budget pc that will do just fine.
a gtx 10 series vs 16 series vs rx 400, vega, fury and rx 5000 video would be nice
I recently buy used rx6700 10g for 115eur super happy with it....
Solid deal🙏
3050 without dlss and rtx
But with FSR, middle - high with FSR at 1080p
Friend of mine has this one.
I was planning to buy the rx 6600 for but because of the hype and everyone recommending it the price increased in my region, even used one too so my budget was to buy this used but found a sapphire rx 5600 xt pulse pro oc for the same price so bought that instead. lets see how it runs.
Hi how is it
@@rohit2405_ it's good. I just had to change the thermal paste and change the fan curve. I even Undervolt it so temps are also low.
I hoping there will some good deals around $220 surrounding Amazon Prime Day.
I wouldn’t recommend buying one of these new. For $220 you can get an RX 6650 XT
Someone should put 16gbit vram BGAs on it... it is cheap enough to do mods like this with it. .. not sure if it is possible to mod the BIOS so it can use it ..but it would be a fun project.
It would be pretty cheap if I had the skillset and tools to do it. I'd love to do a 20GB mod to my 3080 if that was a possibility
1080ti with nzxt aio mod for £95 was my best score
Absolutely solid deal
@@ProYamYamPC doesn't fit in my case so may need to get a smaller aio 😂
@@thomasg1513 or a bigger case🤣
i got a 1660 ti recently and i have been using dlss is it not supposed to have it?
That's impossible, DLSS won't work on a 1660 Ti
@@ProYamYamPC it works
Anyone here for GTA ? I have a MSI 17.3 1660 ti 512ssd i7 10th gen 16GB RAM, looking to ONLY play (and maybe stream) GTA V, any recommendations for settings?
Nevermind uploading, you should be watching the Austrian GP 😂
I turned it off half way through, not realising the chaos I was going to miss🤣🤣
Literally playing Cyberpunk with a 1660 Ti., on high and ultra settings.45 to 65 fps allday. No ray tracing though. That's like 10 FPS. Lmfao
Mm
Doesn't matter what it can do now. Everyone wants to play GTAVI when it releases and this GPU won't cut it.
GTA VI’s PC port is years off yet mate
As has been pointed out, by that time you will be buying the 40 50 series as the budget cards.
I would say the 1070 is a better option, cheaper with similar performance and that 2gb extra vram which is important these days
10 series is dead while the 16 series is still supported.
It depends. The 1660 Ti has better tech and it seems the drivers are more optimised with Turing compared to Pascal. The extra 2GB on the 1070 is a massive W though
@@JayzBeerz 10 series still getting latest drivers even the 900 series so not sure where your 16 series is still supported comes from. The 16 series is gtx nvidia moved onto rtx long ago
@@ProYamYamPC Yeah it is mostly the extra 2gb vram if your game needs more than 6 you will feel it with a 6gb card
or just download more fps i.e. lossless scaling
Main issue is 6Gb vram
How About RX 590 in 2024
If I find a good deal on one, I’d love to test it
@@ProYamYamPC excellent ❤️ love your videos man 🔥 keep it up 🫡
5600XT is probably better IMO
5600xt
In my area, I'm struggling to find them for less than £100 GBP