Hi folks I feel I should pin a comment. I’m in no way reviewing this card as a recommendation to go out and buy. It’s more of a what can it do if you just happened to stumble across one in the wild. Yes 3GB isn’t recommended in 2024 I know that but will it get you by? Answer yes in my opinion! It’s a better card than the 1650, 1050ti etc and will play lighter/esports titles completely fine. If you’ve got £200 please go and buy an RTX3060 and not 4 of these as door stops 😁
I retired my 8 year old R9 Fury (4GB HBM for 1440p...) 3 weeks ago for a 7800XT whilst keeping my i6700K. Yes, games were still running, it just was not pretty with an increasing problem frequency lately (e.g. fps break downs in Palia, a game not exactly known as a graphical firework).
That’s exactly the point I was trying to put across! I think most people have taken the review as a recommendation. 3GB clearly isn’t enough but perfectly good for the above 😎
If you are playing point and click games yeah sure. Have fun. Seriously anything 5 years old or older would likely play fine on it. Game developers are more interested in making a pretty picture than making a fun game anymore.
I'll give my 570 4gb to my brother. I could give him my spare 3050 8gb instead , but he only plays Valorant , and GtaV. 570 should be more than enough.
Have a look at how much it would cost to change to an i7. Haswell i7s are now pretty cheap and from experience the hyperthreading and extra cache make a big difference.
@@andystech101 It would indeed. The 970 I have is the 'Inno3D iChill GTX 970 HerculeZ X4 Air Boss Ultra'...hell of a name. The 1060 3GB I had got put in a flip because not only was it a newer card but also because the 970 just looked so cool.
@@andystech101 not everywhere bro! in greece they ask for this piece of turd almost 100euros. I bought a p106-100 and a p104-100(gtx1060 and 1070 mining equivilents with 6 and 8gb) for 20euros each. just to play alan wake 2 the p106(1060) is far better than p104(1070) because sadly p104 is limited to pciex4 within the chip while p106 isnt.
I ended up getting two gtx 970s for 40 bucks for my family members r7 1700 PC and found that even though it was slightly slower than the 1060 3gb I had, the 1 extra gigabyte made things like low end vr (roblox, HHHvr on potato, beat saber) and helldivers playable as there was simply more headroom. I legit dont miss that card
I had this exact same card but in the 6GB flavor. I generally recommend the RX 580 at this price point as it tends to perform a bit better. Either way, excellent video mate!
Cheers mate! It’s not I card id want again, sold 2 of the 4 on eBay and 1 has already failed, another died on me before shipping and got a part refund from eBay. The other 2 🤞🏼 I’ve had a dead 1070 and 1080 mini Zotac card before so maybe it’s a manufacturer fault where there cards just die after 4 years…. Gigabyte/Msi just seem to go on….
I honestly do wish i went for the 6gb version only problem is i live in canada so if i bought one it would atleast more than 140 which is bs i already had to pay atleast 120 for the 3gb one
Would probably have been a better bet. I really wasn’t recommending this card in the video it was a kind of if you have to can you make do. Thanks for the comment really appreciate it 🙏🏼
@CH1LL-BL1TZ unreal engine 5 kind of killed most of these older titles and Starfield is a good example… I still can’t see how those textures are so demanding but I guess it’s just shit development as you said.
As an owner of this card for 1080p 144hz gaming I can say this card just barely works and has aged like milk I wish I got the 6GB one and didnt cut corners several years ago
@@andystech101 well the thing is I am replacing that with either an rtx 4070 Ti or an amd sapphire rx 7900 xt (likely gonna be amd though cuz money at this price point is tight) paired with an amd ryzen 7 7800x3d for 1440p 165hz gaming, so I am not exactly target audience for this video I just happen to own the card lmao
@@andystech101 you're welcome, yea the default was/is 2GB...never used to be available till recent NVidia updates to the 1060 drivers...makes a big difference on these cards I find...cheers!
Check your local market, eBay’s prices are around £50/£60. Seen a couple locally to me recently for £50/£45 offers. There is always the odd auction bargain. Generally don’t pay any more than £40
Can you retest Fortnite and find a DMR with the 3X(?) scope? I just built a gaming PC to give a neighbor's kid with some spare parts I had lying around and an old Lenovo tower (would rather all the stuff gets used versus just turning to e-waste in my closets)- i72600 (max for this system- 4C/8T at 3.4 min seems to be ok still), 3GB 1060, 12 GB ram. The 12 GB is very close to being not enough today fyi. But what surprised me is that Fortnite played very well- except when going to and from the DMR X Scope. It causes a huge stutter! My stats showed both the GPU and CPU had some headroom (both at like 65% max with my settings on performance mode 900p). So I am curious if it's the GPU or the CPU causing those MASSIVE GAME BREAKING stutters when hard scoping. Heck, maybe it's the 12 GB of system ram? Came in #2 due to that stutter- hard to have a sniper showdown with such stutters. I did put Windows 11 on it... but that should not cause an issue afaict.
Have you download the pre streaming assets package when installing the game? It’s about 30GB and fixes most stuttering on the game. Also DX12 is better over DX11 I feel.
@@xzm996 But how? And all Windows 10 support goes away next year.. so Windows 11 will be the only option for online use soon. I use Rufus to install 11 on old hardware.
I think it’s still a great eSports card, I mean you can still buy new a GTX1630 🤦🏽 why you would as this will out perform it. It’s def getting long in the tooth now though.
@@andystech101 Right now you can find these for 50 dollars, but by spending 20-30 bucks more, you could get a 5500 XT with 8GB of VRAM and up to 40% more performance. It's simply e-Waste.
I had this for several years and just upgraded to a 4060 a few months ago! Very good bang for your buck imo, it'll struggle a bit but you can easily play new games on low graphics 1080p. dlss 3 is great and will hopefully let my 4060 last many years
Hi folks I feel I should pin a comment. I’m in no way reviewing this card as a recommendation to go out and buy. It’s more of a what can it do if you just happened to stumble across one in the wild. Yes 3GB isn’t recommended in 2024 I know that but will it get you by? Answer yes in my opinion! It’s a better card than the 1650, 1050ti etc and will play lighter/esports titles completely fine. If you’ve got £200 please go and buy an RTX3060 and not 4 of these as door stops 😁
I retired my 8 year old R9 Fury (4GB HBM for 1440p...) 3 weeks ago for a 7800XT whilst keeping my i6700K. Yes, games were still running, it just was not pretty with an increasing problem frequency lately (e.g. fps break downs in Palia, a game not exactly known as a graphical firework).
I’ve got the white sapphire 7800xt it’s a beautiful card 😎
@@andystech101Pulse. The cheapest one I could get. Extreme OC versions usually are not worth the extra charge. And I don't care for colour or (a)rgb.
Sir I have the same GTX 1060 3gb zotack but my temperature going to 80 to 82
Have you repasted the card? The only other reason would be that it’s being choked in a case. You can also undervolt the card which will help.
@@andystech101 Ok I will try Thermal paste Thanks Love from Pakistan ❤️❤️
Had one for 30€ and put on my "couch" gaming PC.
Holds older AAA and indie games Flawlessly 💪💪
That’s exactly the point I was trying to put across! I think most people have taken the review as a recommendation. 3GB clearly isn’t enough but perfectly good for the above 😎
If you are playing point and click games yeah sure. Have fun. Seriously anything 5 years old or older would likely play fine on it. Game developers are more interested in making a pretty picture than making a fun game anymore.
Yes some game developers have a lot to answer for….
I'll give my 570 4gb to my brother. I could give him my spare 3050 8gb instead , but he only plays Valorant , and GtaV. 570 should be more than enough.
I think the GT730 is the recommend GPU and the 1050ti for 144p high settings so he’ll be fine with a 570 💪🏼
I play on this gpu, it's way better than expected on most games.
My point exactly! The main grip about this card seems to be ignorance haha
Paired with a 4th gen i5 it works ok. Hell from my test there's many games where the i5 still bottleneck the 1060 anyways.
The legend that is the Haswell i5 🤩
Have a look at how much it would cost to change to an i7. Haswell i7s are now pretty cheap and from experience the hyperthreading and extra cache make a big difference.
@@adamsaint2890 yea these are my cheap flips. There's a Xeon i7 equivalent that u can grab for $20-$25 I offer people if they want to upgrade
I had a 1060 3GB and it was always within the margin of error territory compared to a GTX 970 in gaming benchmarks in regard to performance.
Would be interesting to do a comparison with the 2 cards as there both around the same price these days!
@@andystech101 It would indeed. The 970 I have is the 'Inno3D iChill GTX 970 HerculeZ X4 Air Boss Ultra'...hell of a name.
The 1060 3GB I had got put in a flip because not only was it a newer card but also because the 970 just looked so cool.
Agreed that is a cool card 😎
@@andystech101 not everywhere bro! in greece they ask for this piece of turd almost 100euros. I bought a p106-100 and a p104-100(gtx1060 and 1070 mining equivilents with 6 and 8gb) for 20euros each. just to play alan wake 2 the p106(1060) is far better than p104(1070) because sadly p104 is limited to pciex4 within the chip while p106 isnt.
Great content. I subscribed. The video is perfect without the game audio, please never include ingame audio.
Awesome and thank you so much I really appreciate it 👌🏼
Im still using this trooper and it runs all of the latest games at medium settings with upscaling tech 🍻
💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I loved my little 1060. I could fit that thing in any case cuz it was so small.
Great little card 😎
I have this card but it’s 6GB. Only thing still working after my Mb and PSU both died.
Bad time with the MB and PSU
The entire lower end of the stack had anaemic VRAM counts in retrospect. I'm glad that they figured out the 1060 6GB and higher, though
Yes Nvidia have always been a bit stingy on vram but then they want you to buy another card in 2/3years time!
I ended up getting two gtx 970s for 40 bucks for my family members r7 1700 PC and found that even though it was slightly slower than the 1060 3gb I had, the 1 extra gigabyte made things like low end vr (roblox, HHHvr on potato, beat saber) and helldivers playable as there was simply more headroom. I legit dont miss that card
We will have to take a look again at the 970! Got a couple lying around the place!
@andystech101 I look forward to it, love your vids dawg!!🤠🤠
My R9 280X had 3GB of vram back in 2013. 😆😁😂
Loved my R9 280x
I almost got one when the 3GB version was released, but ended up with an used 780 Ti instead.
Haven’t got my hands on a 780ti yet.
I had this exact same card but in the 6GB flavor. I generally recommend the RX 580 at this price point as it tends to perform a bit better. Either way, excellent video mate!
Cheers mate! It’s not I card id want again, sold 2 of the 4 on eBay and 1 has already failed, another died on me before shipping and got a part refund from eBay. The other 2 🤞🏼 I’ve had a dead 1070 and 1080 mini Zotac card before so maybe it’s a manufacturer fault where there cards just die after 4 years…. Gigabyte/Msi just seem to go on….
@@andystech101 the MSI cards from this era are bulletproof. I’ve owned the MSI Gaming X 1070, 1080, RX 470. All were solid cards
I honestly do wish i went for the 6gb version only problem is i live in canada so if i bought one it would atleast more than 140 which is bs i already had to pay atleast 120 for the 3gb one
Would probably have been a better bet. I really wasn’t recommending this card in the video it was a kind of if you have to can you make do. Thanks for the comment really appreciate it 🙏🏼
@@andystech101 but honestly imo its the people who develop the game's fault they arent optimizing it properly like hunt showdown and re4 for example
@CH1LL-BL1TZ unreal engine 5 kind of killed most of these older titles and Starfield is a good example… I still can’t see how those textures are so demanding but I guess it’s just shit development as you said.
As an owner of this card for 1080p 144hz gaming I can say this card just barely works and has aged like milk I wish I got the 6GB one and didnt cut corners several years ago
Ahh it’s still ok for eSports but yes, depends what you call playable we are a budget gaming channel and its lowest settings or go home 😁
@@andystech101 well the thing is I am replacing that with either an rtx 4070 Ti or an amd sapphire rx 7900 xt (likely gonna be amd though cuz money at this price point is tight) paired with an amd ryzen 7 7800x3d for 1440p 165hz gaming, so I am not exactly target audience for this video I just happen to own the card lmao
my rx 6400 4gb uses 3,8 gigabytes of vram in any modern video game at 1080p, having 3gb is 100% not sufivient vram
Weird heaven benchmark, on my gtx 1060 3gb i get 123 fps in full
Hd with stock settings
I use High with moderate tessellation and 8x AA. it does make it more demanding but fully stresses the gpu! 123 sounds about right for a default run.
@@andystech101 makes sense, ill probably try that one of these days
Cool vid ❤
Cheers really appreciated
Not a bad little gpu! Definetly wouldn't pay more than £40 tho
No agreed not when you can pick up a 580 for £50/£60 at the moment
We have RandomGaminginHD at home.
Love Steve’s channel 😎
512 mb ram and 128 vram is fire for gta streaming etc
I’ve seen a few people running gta on stupid low vram.
me: *using gtx 750 2gb just to play minecraft bedrock with my boys
Nothing wrong with that at all 😎
Hey Andy change the shader cache from default to 5gb or 10GB, makes a big difference loading textures etc....
Cheers appreciate the tip 👌🏼
@@andystech101 you're welcome, yea the default was/is 2GB...never used to be available till recent NVidia updates to the 1060 drivers...makes a big difference on these cards I find...cheers!
5gb is the bare minimum
Aren’t Quadros the only 5GB cards you can buy?
Hi Andy, its the new 750ti, where is fallout 4 lol
Hi mate hope your doing well? Where it should be not installed on my computer 😎💪
@@andystech101 Ha ha i suppose there is no room if you have 76 installed, just waiting and waiting for one day when it becomes playable.
Can’t see them for sale for £40
Check your local market, eBay’s prices are around £50/£60. Seen a couple locally to me recently for £50/£45 offers. There is always the odd auction bargain. Generally don’t pay any more than £40
Can it play Star Citizen HeHeHe
Youre 10 years late with such titles and videos my dude.
Dam my bad 🤦🏽 back to GT610 videos it is then
Dude, what is that cpu cooler you have there? that's very cool.
It’s a Thermalright off Amazon about £22 in the UK. amzn.eu/d/02pUYi93
Can you retest Fortnite and find a DMR with the 3X(?) scope? I just built a gaming PC to give a neighbor's kid with some spare parts I had lying around and an old Lenovo tower (would rather all the stuff gets used versus just turning to e-waste in my closets)- i72600 (max for this system- 4C/8T at 3.4 min seems to be ok still), 3GB 1060, 12 GB ram. The 12 GB is very close to being not enough today fyi. But what surprised me is that Fortnite played very well- except when going to and from the DMR X Scope. It causes a huge stutter! My stats showed both the GPU and CPU had some headroom (both at like 65% max with my settings on performance mode 900p). So I am curious if it's the GPU or the CPU causing those MASSIVE GAME BREAKING stutters when hard scoping. Heck, maybe it's the 12 GB of system ram? Came in #2 due to that stutter- hard to have a sniper showdown with such stutters. I did put Windows 11 on it... but that should not cause an issue afaict.
Have you download the pre streaming assets package when installing the game? It’s about 30GB and fixes most stuttering on the game. Also DX12 is better over DX11 I feel.
i believe that windows 11 does mess it up. For more compatibility use a normal winSetup of win10 home
@@xzm996 But how? And all Windows 10 support goes away next year.. so Windows 11 will be the only option for online use soon. I use Rufus to install 11 on old hardware.
sure the card is fine when your looking at low settings which is Hexen / Doom2 quality graphics of the 1990s
Haha 💪🏼 I don’t mind low tbh just depends what your used too, I don’t think COD, Cyberpunk etc look that bad though some games look terrible.
I love ASRock
Same! They make some beautiful low end boards at the moment 🤩
I hate'em. I love evga
Had a laptop with gtx 1060 3gb in 2016 and it was a beast at games. Today not so much of course. Good times, played everything back then no issues.
I think it’s still a great eSports card, I mean you can still buy new a GTX1630 🤦🏽 why you would as this will out perform it. It’s def getting long in the tooth now though.
No
Didn’t do too bad I thought tbh
But it better than 1650 4gb
Yes will best the GDDR5 1650 and it’s about the same as the GDDR6 card.
i can’t wait to overclock the 3GB.
People still want over $60US for these 😢
Ouch! To be fair I sold 2 out of the 4 I had for £69.95 on eBay so that’s £85 US 😅
3GB isnt enough for anything, 4GB is the bare minimum.
Beg to differ unless you want high settings remember this is a budget gaming channel and I think it put up a good fight tbh 🤩
@@andystech101 Right now you can find these for 50 dollars, but by spending 20-30 bucks more, you could get a 5500 XT with 8GB of VRAM and up to 40% more performance. It's simply e-Waste.
But what if you don’t have $30 🤩
@@andystech101 I'm sorry, who tf doesnt have 30 extra dollars? Literally, that's half of a day's work on minimum wage.
@RobloxianX obviously you didnt watch the video. Go to sleep
I had this for several years and just upgraded to a 4060 a few months ago! Very good bang for your buck imo, it'll struggle a bit but you can easily play new games on low graphics 1080p. dlss 3 is great and will hopefully let my 4060 last many years
I do like the 4060 despite its bad reviews.
NO. It was not enough when it release,definetly not enough now. Unless you play like LoL,dota,cs, or any other competitive game, maybe it still enough
I used this card for gaming for years and it was enough ...
I think so it defo surprised me and passed my expectations
@@andystech101 good video by the way