IMO the card is somewhat future proof aswell, since Turing will still recieve drivers for a good while and is fully Vulkan and DX12 compatible, contrary to Pascal.
@@TheDudeWithNoName Less about "compatible" and more "optimised", check modern game benches with DX12/Vulkan, console optimisations and the focus Nvidia has for the newer GPUs (Turing, Ampere and now Ada are all similar-ish in uArch, like Maxwell is similar to Pascal) so its more optimised For example this is how u see the 1080Ti losing to the 2070 non Super in instances nowadays
A 120w card really feels like the limit of what you can reliably cool with a simple card like that, single fan and flower style extruded heatsink. I'm glad that today, even lower power single fan cards tend to use proper finstacks instead of these
Agree, 80W for single slot, 120W for coolers like these. If you want more, the fancy heat pipe setup has to come. I'd say for a short card like that, but with a better cooler, maybe 150W, but that is stretching it.
Crappy but adequate cooling to lower the sale price: 😃 Crappy but adequate cooling to increase profit margin: 😢 Emphasis on the adequate. Inadequate cooling with either of the above goals in mind is unacceptable.
I had a single fan Asus Phoenix 1650 Super and it was loud and hot. Running MC + shaders it basically never went below 80°C (~30°C/85°F ambient). Never again...
1:01 I love to see graphics cards in their native environment, where they should be. That version of the card reproduces via rhizomes, so if you cover it lightly with some dirt, it should eventually take root.
I own a Galax GTX 1660 TI since 2019, it was the first mid range card I bought and best purchase I made. Didn't bother about RTX back then because it was new tech in video card back then, expensive and a just a fad that is still true for me. I can still play AAA Game in my 1080p Free Sync Monitor with FPS of 60 to 80 something, such lovely card. I'll keep this card until it can't played my desired games or it broke. Nice review for that little guy RGHD! Long Live 1600 Series Buddies! =D
RTX isn’t a fad, it’s a range of GPUs just like GTX. The ray tracing could be a fad (or just a new concept), but the new cards themselves are just objectively better.
@@jponz85 Unfortunately, the GTX 1070 is an old card that has gone through two mining seasons. After 7 years, he can give up at any time. GTX 1660 TI is between GTX 1070 and GTX1080 in terms of performance.
I think the GTX 1660 TI is impressive, and RT isn't common enough to justify buying a $1000+ card just to play those few games at acceptable frame rates.( and besides quake the picture quality is almost unnoticeable in most games that support it) I'm sure the people that bought overpriced cards disagree though. (I'd be looking for excuses to justify paying that much too if I fell for the marketing scam) :p
LOVE THAT u did this cover, i actually bought my 1660ti few months back granted its the smaller HP variant BUT im very pleased with it.. im able to play anything i throw at it .. its a super good card hopefully for abit longer as well
I bought a dell 1060 6gb with a broken fan for £38, then ordered a fan off ali express for £4, works perfectly. Also bought a Zotac blower 1080ti with a broken hdmi port for £120 and when I recieved and tested it the hdmi port worked lol.
i used to have a gigabyte gtx 1650 oc 2nd revision in my machine, awesome little card, even had two fans and ran quite cool without any temp problems. the card was intented for overclocking so it worked flawlessly in games like cyberpunk even without all the settings on low. these budget turing generation video cards are still installed in many prebuilt machines so i don't expect support for them to drop anytime soon especially since the new 40 series rtx cards are so unaffordable for many people.
The reason these cards are still in use is actually a reason why you should fear support for them will stop. Nvidia has been making a very harsh, hard business turn in the past few years. I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future they increasingly lock gamebreaking features like dlss 3 and in the same mindset support hardware only for a short time. They want people to buy every gen, the end game is a yearly/monthly service.
I have a evga 1660 super sc ultra 6gb & just upgraded few days ago after 3 years to a gigabyte vison 3060 12gb & tbh I only notice a slight increase in performance & quality man the 1660 really is underrated work house
soy argentino, y apenas entiendo la mitad de lo que dices, pero con subtitulos me ayudo a entender casi todo, me encanta el hardware hace mas de 6 años y este canal es muy interesante de ver 🤗
That is a pretty hot GPU! What happened if you maxed out the fan speed manually? Also thanks for doing what you do, and not adding a whole bunch of fancy editing in. It is nice watching videos like these. I like the fancy ones too, but yours are a very nice change from the "normal" video on RUclips anymore.
Just see where the optimal balance is. On my 1060 (and the 660 Ti before it) somewhere around 60% was when it is noticeable amongst the other fans, but 55% is fine. And obviously higher when playing with headphones our loud speakers. So I wouldn't say to max it out, but maybe tweak the fan curve a bit so that it runs with maybe 60-70% at around 70-75°C
@@RandomGaminginHD I'd rather have a noisy card than an overheating card (or any component, come to that). Though I'm probably biased because I've come from a world of hot running laptops, including an HP OMEN which has a completely inadequate heatsink/cooling system. (My next system will be a PC.)
@@TheSpotify95 I will rather underclock + undervolt (if supported) than having noisy or overheating card and not having to deal with any of them. The last 5-10% are never worth it for games unless you are pulling a benchmark or something as the power-efficiency gets out of proportion. That is especially true for laptops where the fans are really small and with very high pitch. That said it really depends if the temp is a problem: My 1050Ti was running at OC 1950MHz at 60C and the silicon couldn't handle more (75W single fan at 40-50%). 3080 pulls 200-220W at 1800MHz while the fans are barely moving and 400W at 2000MHz and the fans get very annoying - no thanks.
JUST picked up the 1660 Super version of one of these. It's so small it looks a lot crappier than it is, haha. My thermals are surprisingly good. Repasted with Artic MX-6 and put thermal pads on top the the vram so they contact the bottom of the heatsink (just partial contact on the fins but it helps).
@@RandomGaminginHD - You might want to try tweaking your thermal setup. A thin coat of MX-6 (spread, don't just put on a bead) and pads just high enough for the vram to touch the bottom of the heatsink and my thermals only barely get to 70c under looping stress tests in a case.
@@R3TR0J4N MX5 was also broken, you unpack MX5, a couple months later a tube of brick! I don't think MX4 is well optimised for GPU direct die; I think MX2 and MX6 can both be 2°C better in this case.
I been rocking a 1660ti since 2019. Card has never disappointed me and i never want for better graphics. maybe I'm a minimalist but you can keep your $1000+ dollar cards. they dont offer enough extras to warrant an upgrade at this point. For gaming if your rocking a 1070 or high card at 1080p you really don't need more unless your a proffessional. This is my opinion of course.
I just helped a friend to get a 1660 Super used+refurbished from a commercial source (2 months of warranty, function of the card is guaranteed) for 110€. For that money it's an excellent deal, especially since the alternative would have been a GTX 1060 6GB for 10€ less.
If you can get one of these cheap (like you did) it'd be great for undervolting and locking the spec down and using it like a mobile GPU. You'd get 95% of the performance without all the heat and electrical consumption. I'm guessing that in the Dell this come in it was effectively being restricted by the power delivery of the cheap and nasty mainboard it was plugged into so heat was never as much of an issue.
@@HappyBeezerStudios this. Got my 3060ti down from 200w to 150w in gaming with a 5% drop in performance which is not noticable because I'm always wayy above 60fps. What is noticable is that the fans are much quieter and my card is a good 5 degrees cooler. I don't understand why every PC owner doesn't undervolt it's the best thing ever.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Yeah, the card makers like to crank up the power pretty high to make sure their cards all hit the claimed base lines. There's always a bit of scope for efficiency tuning, more so in retail cards I'd say, it'll make the card last longer too and you can always stretch it's lifespan by turning the power up again if you need to down the line.
Bruh. If I were power consumption aware, I would not buy a desktop gpu and certainly not undervolt it if I did. Plot twist: I am power consumption aware and use a gaming laptop for this reason. I would never get a 500+ watt psu just to make a system that runs on 200w when undervolted and gutted. My mobile 3070 along with cpu bare pull 180w but deliver close to 3070 desktop. Now, I would be an idiot to pull stuff like that with a 1660 ti, on which 5-10% performance mean a lot.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it performed a bit better with an undervolt. Might be able to sustain a higher boost clock for a couple extra FPS at a lower temp.
Set it to 900mV at 1920mhz, and it will drop about 9°C. Mine is the asus model with a single fan and I run everything at the same frame rate as factory, but now it runs at 67-70 degrees Celsius with the fan at 75% and there is no performance loss. If I leave it at factory settings the performance drops and it gets hotter.
I undervolted my zotac 1660ti from 1v to 0.962 on a curve and I almost never go over 70c now I am also able to oc to an average of 1950-1970 from the 1770 boost which gives a few percent. Never hit my power limit either
I’ve only suffer stutter with old AMD FX processors, and fixed it by disabling power management in Windows, or tweaking power managements settings in BIOS, or selecting Hight Performance power scheme. Hope this helps, thanks for the great content!
i actually got duped when i bought one of these, i bought what i thought was an HP 1660 Ti, but i got a Dell 1660 Super instead surprisingly decent GPU temps after a repaste, also tossed in some thick thermal pads for the VRAM just to be safe, runs a like a charm!
You got a free upgrade. The 1660 Super is better is every way because of the GDDR6 memory upgrade. It's a better card than the 1660Ti. I bought one for $140 on ebay recently but it's a three fan copper heat pipe cooled monster Gigabyte card. It holds up fairly well today.
@@jamesg8246 i could have sworn that most 1660 Ti's were D6, with the standard 1660 being D5 instead those Gigabyte cards are very nice though, i have to agree
@@FrozenIce They were pretty much equal at release but I've seen a lot of more recent benchmarks showing the Super being very close to the 70 series cards.
I bought a Gigabyte duel-fan 1660 Ti back in early 2020. For a mid range/entry level GPU, it's pretty fantastic and surprisingly capable. I love it. Every single game I throw at it can be run on max graphics settings on 1080p, and even 1440p (such as the Resident Evil 2 and 3 Remakes, Doom Eternal, etc). And some extremely well-optimized games (like Alien Isolation) can run at 4k, max settings, and still maintain a consistent 60 frames per second. Impressive.
I'm low on space in my home so I got a mobile PC when my old desk system broke. The 1660 is more powerful than my current GPU which is more than enough.
Saw u in the comments talking about this card, glad it works. Same thing happened to my keyboard, spilled my morning milk while texting and it died, half a year or a year later, it worked after some minimal cleaning.
I have a Dell RTX 3060 and seems like they improved a lot It doesn’t get hot at all and the GEFORCE RTX name now does light up in white, looks pretty nice 😅
rtx 3060 is only 5% faster than a 2060super . worst card for the money. also rtx 4060 laptop will perform similar to 3060ti card from last year, 4080 desktop card is underpowrd to sell it as laptop 4090. just nvidia shenanigans.
2060 is super solid, IMO most people don’t really need to upgrade unless they play competitive games or VR. I’m on the VR camp myself. So as much fidelity as I can get is optimal.
I bought 3 of these pre-pandemic for about $160-170 each. Sold one in a build and another to a friend. I still have mine in a sub 4liter case. Still works great and benches fine.
Really like your videos, and find them very helpful understanding the value of components across the market spectrum , and ive noticed that the HP Z440 E5 1650 V4 are going for around 200$ in the US, and wondering how they might stack up against a Ryzen 4500 build, just a suggestion, just seemed like something you would showcase over a couple of videos.
6:41 epic view distance in fortnite is not very useful as enemies will be visible on low as the view distance does not affect that. It only affects builds which will not be visible after a certain point and items will be colored blobs. Medium view distance is a well balance as low is a bit glitchy and with medium only the builds which you won't be able to shoot will not render.
I actually considered going back to my 1660Ti since it uses nearly half the wattage of my 3060Ti, I can feel the heat coming off my PC in a well-insulated room that already gets too warm even in the winter. The 1660Ti still plays everything on the market. Yes, I can max out settings on many more games with the better GPU. Yes more I can hit the higher framerates for Gsync at 120-165hz. But the 1660Ti is still a fantastic workhorse that isn't deprecated in any way and can do 60fps 1080p gaming very well. And it doesn't suck up stupid amounts of electricity like the newer ones along with the ambient heat that comes with them.
I have a prebuilt 1660 Super on my second PC i buy used for 120 euros. It looks a bit like yours: single fan, but black PCB with no brand written on it. But i succesfully overclocked it with +130 Mhz on core clock and + 800 Mhz on memory clock. It's still a capable card these days! Thanks for this interesting video btw ;)
that card has the grey dust of aluminum oxide, often falls down from a stock cpu cooler when used in a salt spray area, the dust is conductive so it's little sprinkles get on everything looks like regular dust but is grey. the dust moves around as you move the card even had this happen to a deepcool cooler once, edges had funny white/grey dust on them, turned out to be the aluminum oxiding up from the salt spray area I lived in, left a thick line of dust on the back of the gpu, and more dust randomly sprinkled all over the bottom of the case/other parts, system would randomly not turn off, or would crash etc. a good cleaning never an issue since(I also wire brushed the cooler fins on the cpu and used mat black epoxy spray paint to stop the corrosion) if you strip the card down, wash the card gentle in hot water, soft brush being very careful, then dry it out proper(low heat hot air gun from a distance then linen cubby or hot water cubby for 6 or so days) and put back together with new paste it should work correctly forever
Reminds me of when I bought a GTX750TI off Ebay which didn't work when I plugged it in. I thought I was scammed. I changed the thermal paste after trying the heat gun method and still nothing. One last try - unplugged everything including the gpu fan and reconnected it and viola! It worked and has since. It was a first time purchase off Ebay too so I was very worried but glad it turned out well for you and for me!
I had purchased an Red Devil RX 580 8GB for $100 in 2019 and it would artifact after a couple minutes of playing, had no idea and tried different drivers, sprayed compressed air through the radiator and heard a weird sound to see a port cover was touching the radiator and touching the card and a capacitor. Removed it, changed the thermal paste, and pads and it worked like a charm for a whole year until I upgraded.
Good performance even for a 2019 entry-level gpu, for me it would be an excellent video card because I always played games on low or medium, full hd because in 2023 I still use my old hd 7850 with only 2gb of vram and that still no more new drivers...
Someone dropped one of these off for recycle in a pc with a dead power supply and motherboard. The card was perfectly fine, though, and is still living to this day in a friend's computer. It was great, if not just a little loud.
Oh snap, I picked up a 1660ti before the great card shortage for for 150 bucks... in the end I feel like I got a great deal all things considered. Still use it to this day and I love it - decent capabilities for a 1080p card (Zotac 1660ti)
I really like 16- series card, better value than the contemporary 2060 since it lacked RT, which is useless anyway at that performance level. Had a Ti and a Super in the past, now a regular 1660. For someone who plays at 1080p it still doesn't feel worth it to upgrade yet. It's quiet, cool, sips power and runs all my games well enough
I got this last year thinking I was going to put it into a mini-itx build. With itx cases being so accommodating, I ended up going for a larger card. This card now lives in a normal mid tower pc I built for my sister paired with an 1800x
you should get a NZXT Kraken G12 mounting kit 40$ on amazon and watercool it see how much better it performs !!! did that with my RTX 2060 OC 6gb Dell and instead of running at 80c knocked it down too 60c pushing it too the limit and performed much better..
Despite the temps of this GPU, this GPU is really capable of 1080p AAA gaming as long as your PSU has enough power Haha. Putting this inside an OEM pc case can create a neat little hotbox.
I got ROG 1660ti laptop with i7 - 10700H and I really can´t complain. Games running in 1080p are smooth on native 144hz laptop screen. Combined with 16 Gb of RAM it is still very capable combo.
Looking at this video bring me some old memories with OEM cards... Back in the days I bought, from a major pc brand, a "gaming" prebuilt, it had a gtx760 3gb (weird because the real gtx760 was 2gb or 4gb) but newbie me thought that this was a pro, I hadn't done much reserch, as I already said I was a newbie, so I went all in and bought the pc. I was surely happy by the performance, given what my previous standards were, but later I started to see that some games didn't run as well as they were supposed to, since I looked a loot of benchmark of the 760 I knew what to expect. Long story short, turns out it was a OEM version of the 760 which was more close to a 750ti then a 760, just with more vram. Given the price I paid for the pc it was pretty much a scam. (At least the pc used all standard components, no strange motherboard nor psu). Ps. If you can find a 760 3gb OEM (it was an asus one), it would be interesting to see how it performs today compered to the 750ti and a real 760 (assuming you have these cards on hands)
Not a bad card. I got one off of FB marketplace for 50$. Replaced a GTX 970 in my HTPC. Runs way better. I haven't seen it go above 70C in Furmark in a 6 hour test. I put new thermal paste on which helped a lot im sure.
86° is too hot for that card but there is not enough fan to cool it down with that dell fan. Besides MSI Armour dual fan version runs 70° on 100% load.
Good vid thanks. I have been getting around 80-84 degrees max on mine - even after installing a few new Noctua fans and a large cpu heatsink in my Dell 8940. I know now that this card just runs hot by design. Im gonna wait and try and snap up a cheap RTX when i see one as the GPU fan noise can be very annoying.- Also undervolting made very little difference to temps for me.
The card can draw more power from the PIC-e slot if necessary* Just like any other video, kinda strange you don't mention this. With bigger, more power hungry cards I get it, having been blessed with a dad that tought me IT since I was 5. My first PC he gave to me was his old (I'm still thankful to this day, a i7 3770k, AMD HD 7900 and 8GB of ram), was able to play everything I ever wanted at max settings, with a full HD monitor. Then I got a GTX 1080, then a 6900xt OC & UV, now im on a RTX 4090, I get why theres no mention with these cards for say. But smaller cards especially those to be power efficient should get a mention that the two power-sources are mainly the PSU and the MB.
The 1600 series is such amazing value and has been for a long time. Absolutely love my 1660 Super. I run it OC'd to 2ghz core, and I've had it for years, it's held up better than I thought, for sure. Would love to see how the Dell 1660 Ti fairs with 4k! For us 1600 series users, 4k is a fever dream 😂
The 1660 TI got a lot of hate when it first released but honestly.. its a pretty good card. When I bought my first gaming pc (a Lenovo T550 if I remember correctly) it did me well. I played Cold War 1080p at really good settings and framerates, especially coming from an xbox. love this guy
i have the 6gb nvidia branded 1660ti, it performs really well for most use cases. it'll play any pre 2020 game max settings 1080p@144hz, and I've never had to go below medium settings on any game I've played. i have a Ryzen 5 5800x. for the money you pay its a pretty alright deal and it's pretty future proof for online gaming, online games tend to last a few years and most people who play them don't mind using low settings so even once you do have to use low settings with my card it'll probably still be good for awhile.
Someone in my town is selling one of those for $155 Canadian, so I am watching this video. He is willing to demonstrate it working. All in all I am weary of the weak cooler and exposed backplane. I wanted to use it with a 1660 non ti in a second computer to do blender rendering in theory faster than my 3060 in my main computer.
@@user-glg20 Really apples to oranges. There is no way a 1660Ti is supposed to be anywhere near a 1080Ti as the 16xx series was meant to be a cutdown version of the 2060's.
Nice performance from that card, and I bet you could increase the settings on some of those tested games, to still reach at least 60+ FPS. That's my methodology - go for resolution (up to 1080p), then go for settings, then go for higher frame rates above 60 - and stopping (or dialling back) if the gameplay drops below 60fps at any of those stages.
I've got the same exact one that I slapped in a little Lenovo desktop I had laying around and the wife uses it for rocket league and Minecraft. works great for that kind of stuff! I think i paid 75$ on ebay a few months ago.
I think it still great card for budget from 1660Ti to Rx6600 this price range is great for entry. GTX 1660 Ti is around 100-105 us dollar in my country with one year warranty and if you want pay extra a bit 140 dollar is for Rx6600.
what I imagine happened, is your card heated up and cut off, and some small bit of solder that was bridging a connection unconnected itself, fixing the card. A bit like how people "repaired" those old xbox 360 consoles
I just recently picked up a Dell OEM 3080 that was listed as for parts or repair because it crashed after 1hr of furmark. Well as anyone who's ever used the fuzzy donut to test things can guess it was boiling alive with a hot spot of over 100c and when I took it apart there was just a big gap in the thermal paste over the GPU. Provided the lifespan hasn't been terribly shortened by the high temperatures a 300 USD 3080 is a steal I think. It's still a toasty boi mind you just less so with proper cooler contact.
@@RandomGaminginHD i have a Manli GTX 1060 F336G like this. It was "new" and it has slightly higher specs than a 1060 but it legit doesnt make a difference. I have been looking for a normal 1060 to test alongside it but eh.
I bought one of these a few months ago, and at first it looks like a piece of junk. The temperatures were horribly high, there was even a time when the driver would crash due to the temperature, so I had to limit the temperature to be able to play and of course I lost performance. But it's not all bad, as a little "maintenance" can fix things. Some time later I added Arctic-MX 4 thermal paste, and hey, things improved a lot. Even the temperatures are high compared to a brand card, but they remain at acceptable levels and the frequencies are also acceptable, the performance improved a lot compared to when I limited the temperature, I think that now they work almost like a "normal" card. I also put thermal pads on the memories, so I hope that now at least it has a little more useful life. For the price I got it it was really a bargain (and I see why that price, the temperature problems), but with a little work things could be improved.
I bought a Dell 1660 Super specifically because it is as far as I know the only 1660 Super and the most powerful graphics card with just a single 6 pin power connector, which was all my HTPC’s power supply had. It can be flashed with an Asus BIOS to increase its power limit.
I was expecting terrible performance, honestly. Amazing what a 2019 gpu can do even today, would make for a neat little console-like pc to setup on the living room.
remember the vram in this particular model of 1660 isn't cooled. if this were my card the least i would to it to help thermals would be to put thermal pads on the memory it so it can touch the heatsink and cut the side of the shroud off where the gtx logo is so air can flow better
There is nothing to like about 120W TDP cards having a single fan, and the temperatures show that very well! I always avoid these! As a rule of thumb, you want a "normal" fan for every 75W, so here 2 fans would have been optimal. For cards over 225W, you want overdimensioned fans to cope with the higher power demand.
I had the EVGA variant of this card which just by the look of it had double the heat sink of that dell version. Temps were in the mid 60s and it would boost to about 2000mhz. Great 1080p card.
Yeah the cooler on the dell dell card looks like the bare minimum they could get away with. I have the hp oem version and it has a much better cooler with actual heatpipes, never goes above 73 degrees. stock it boosts to ~1850mhz and if I undervolt it will boost to ~2020mhz.
I have a basic msi version of this, and being a dual fan it has decent cooling, but I run it in a silverstone sg 13 case which is tight on airflow. It'll hit 85 C on a 100% fan speed curve but the clocks still boost and stay around the 1865 to 1920 MHz range which is nice given the airflow.
I'd suggest when testing a GPU on Apex to test it in the BR mode, not arenas. I only say that because a high fps is much easier to keep in arenas, but you'll see a much lower average fps in the BR, which is what most people generally play. I just don't want someone uniformed seeing an average of 174fps in Apex in this video, then buying that model card and being surprised when they're getting a much lower FPS in the BR mode. Besides that specific point, I very much enjoyed the video.
There are different variants of the OEM 16-series cards. Yours in particular is, well, a OEM Dell 1660Ti with a side 8-pin. My sample for my travel/emergency gaming PC build in a Velka 3 is a OEM HP 1660Ti with a rear 8-pin. There are different shroud and pin-in variants out there, as you can see, mostly with the same PCB size and whatnot. Not too bad of a card for what it is, at the time of buying for me, ~150$, in good condition.
If you have one of these: Remove the plastic and fan. Put a better FAN, 140mm if possible, using cable ties or whatever. Let the max fan speed you are comfortable with (usually around 50-60%), and make it go up to 80%-85% when sh1t got really hot. Now you have better thermals, and it won't thermal throttle, with almost no investiment.
Have you ever noticed when you drive around Night City, when ever you approach a traffic light, it is green even with it is changing to yellow on its way to red? It suddenly jumps to Green. Interesting, isn't it. 🤔🤔
Depending on which Dell system it was rescued from, yeah. Quite a few of them are practically unventilated hotboxes, where an old Optiplex chassis has had ginormous plastic panels added that have more than just pianted on "G" for lighting, fans aplenty, and almost all those fans butt up against solid plastic or metal on at least one side. It's required, along wiht a single stick of ram, proprietary PSU and mobo, and other awkward things. However, especially the Alienware line come stuffed to the brim with extended warranty subscriptions, ofthen hidden in a line item somewhere. and who doesn't want that?!
I bought a used 1660Ti off of Ebay for 220€ back before the 30 series came out and it serves me well, I don't feel the need to upgrade yet and I'll see how far the 1660Ti will get me once I upgrade to a 1440p 144hz display.
i had this card , the memory chips have no heat sink , i did undervolt it which improved the temps but i ran it with the fan on a constant 80 percent to keep it under 75 when it wasnt undervolted
IMO the card is somewhat future proof aswell, since Turing will still recieve drivers for a good while and is fully Vulkan and DX12 compatible, contrary to Pascal.
Wait Turing isn’t supported anymore?
@@Fusion05 The 16 series, 20 series, and Quadro RTX are all Turing. Anything past that is Ampere.
Pascal cards aren't fully compatible? any source on this as i didn't know this.
What are you talking about, pascal supports both, you can litreally find this direct from nvidia developer site, it actually goes back to maxwell.
@@TheDudeWithNoName Less about "compatible" and more "optimised", check modern game benches with DX12/Vulkan, console optimisations and the focus Nvidia has for the newer GPUs (Turing, Ampere and now Ada are all similar-ish in uArch, like Maxwell is similar to Pascal) so its more optimised
For example this is how u see the 1080Ti losing to the 2070 non Super in instances nowadays
A 120w card really feels like the limit of what you can reliably cool with a simple card like that, single fan and flower style extruded heatsink. I'm glad that today, even lower power single fan cards tend to use proper finstacks instead of these
Agree, 80W for single slot, 120W for coolers like these. If you want more, the fancy heat pipe setup has to come. I'd say for a short card like that, but with a better cooler, maybe 150W, but that is stretching it.
Yeah it is scary what companies will try to cool with what is effectivly an intel stock cooler design in order to save a couple of $$
Crappy but adequate cooling to lower the sale price: 😃
Crappy but adequate cooling to increase profit margin: 😢
Emphasis on the adequate. Inadequate cooling with either of the above goals in mind is unacceptable.
I had a single fan Asus Phoenix 1650 Super and it was loud and hot. Running MC + shaders it basically never went below 80°C (~30°C/85°F ambient). Never again...
Even the most basic AIB 1660 has at least one pipe. This card is proof of Dell being a troll in the PC market
1:01 I love to see graphics cards in their native environment, where they should be. That version of the card reproduces via rhizomes, so if you cover it lightly with some dirt, it should eventually take root.
I own a Galax GTX 1660 TI since 2019, it was the first mid range card I bought and best purchase I made. Didn't bother about RTX back then because it was new tech in video card back then, expensive and a just a fad that is still true for me. I can still play AAA Game in my 1080p Free Sync Monitor with FPS of 60 to 80 something, such lovely card. I'll keep this card until it can't played my desired games or it broke. Nice review for that little guy RGHD! Long Live 1600 Series Buddies! =D
RTX isn’t a fad, it’s a range of GPUs just like GTX. The ray tracing could be a fad (or just a new concept), but the new cards themselves are just objectively better.
Not to mention the 1660ti’s are getting cheaper on the used market!
@Kat 🏳️⚧️ I've seen multiple 1070s cheaper than the 1660ti and it's better than the 1660 anyways.
@@jponz85 Unfortunately, the GTX 1070 is an old card that has gone through two mining seasons. After 7 years, he can give up at any time. GTX 1660 TI is between GTX 1070 and GTX1080 in terms of performance.
I think the GTX 1660 TI is impressive, and RT isn't common enough to justify buying a $1000+ card just to play those few games at acceptable frame rates.( and besides quake the picture quality is almost unnoticeable in most games that support it)
I'm sure the people that bought overpriced cards disagree though. (I'd be looking for excuses to justify paying that much too if I fell for the marketing scam) :p
LOVE THAT u did this cover, i actually bought my 1660ti few months back granted its the smaller HP variant BUT im very pleased with it.. im able to play anything i throw at it .. its a super good card hopefully for abit longer as well
cool
1660Ti is a good card, it got me through the GPU Price hell.
Might want to repaste it if you didnt already, I gained 20C on mine!!
With overclocking/undervolting + DLSS/FSR you'll have a card that'll last for a while.
@@TheWolfteamGamerN00b oh yes lol first thing i id , i always re apply Artic silver on ever gpu i buy
I bought a dell 1060 6gb with a broken fan for £38, then ordered a fan off ali express for £4, works perfectly. Also bought a Zotac blower 1080ti with a broken hdmi port for £120 and when I recieved and tested it the hdmi port worked lol.
next gen. gambling
My dell 1660ti only cost me 50$ because the humidity didn't work i plugged it in and it worked
i used to have a gigabyte gtx 1650 oc 2nd revision in my machine, awesome little card, even had two fans and ran quite cool without any temp problems. the card was intented for overclocking so it worked flawlessly in games like cyberpunk even without all the settings on low. these budget turing generation video cards are still installed in many prebuilt machines so i don't expect support for them to drop anytime soon especially since the new 40 series rtx cards are so unaffordable for many people.
The reason these cards are still in use is actually a reason why you should fear support for them will stop. Nvidia has been making a very harsh, hard business turn in the past few years. I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future they increasingly lock gamebreaking features like dlss 3 and in the same mindset support hardware only for a short time. They want people to buy every gen, the end game is a yearly/monthly service.
Car companies are testing waters outrageous monthly subscription services. It won’t be long and everything will be
I have a evga 1660 super sc ultra 6gb & just upgraded few days ago after 3 years to a gigabyte vison 3060 12gb & tbh I only notice a slight increase in performance & quality man the 1660 really is underrated work house
soy argentino, y apenas entiendo la mitad de lo que dices, pero con subtitulos me ayudo a entender casi todo, me encanta el hardware hace mas de 6 años y este canal es muy interesante de ver 🤗
Muchas gracias muchacho amigo.
no me había percatado que tenía subtítulos, ahora puedo entender un poco mejor. saludos desde uruguay
@@thenunix 👍👍👍
That is a pretty hot GPU! What happened if you maxed out the fan speed manually?
Also thanks for doing what you do, and not adding a whole bunch of fancy editing in. It is nice watching videos like these. I like the fancy ones too, but yours are a very nice change from the "normal" video on RUclips anymore.
Thanks :) maxing the fan curve would help but it’ll be noisy!
Lol maxing the fan speed is what I had to do to run Sildur's shaders on Minecraft. Even then I was regular hitting 76 - 78 degrees.
Just see where the optimal balance is. On my 1060 (and the 660 Ti before it) somewhere around 60% was when it is noticeable amongst the other fans, but 55% is fine. And obviously higher when playing with headphones our loud speakers.
So I wouldn't say to max it out, but maybe tweak the fan curve a bit so that it runs with maybe 60-70% at around 70-75°C
@@RandomGaminginHD I'd rather have a noisy card than an overheating card (or any component, come to that). Though I'm probably biased because I've come from a world of hot running laptops, including an HP OMEN which has a completely inadequate heatsink/cooling system.
(My next system will be a PC.)
@@TheSpotify95 I will rather underclock + undervolt (if supported) than having noisy or overheating card and not having to deal with any of them. The last 5-10% are never worth it for games unless you are pulling a benchmark or something as the power-efficiency gets out of proportion. That is especially true for laptops where the fans are really small and with very high pitch.
That said it really depends if the temp is a problem: My 1050Ti was running at OC 1950MHz at 60C and the silicon couldn't handle more (75W single fan at 40-50%). 3080 pulls 200-220W at 1800MHz while the fans are barely moving and 400W at 2000MHz and the fans get very annoying - no thanks.
JUST picked up the 1660 Super version of one of these. It's so small it looks a lot crappier than it is, haha. My thermals are surprisingly good. Repasted with Artic MX-6 and put thermal pads on top the the vram so they contact the bottom of the heatsink (just partial contact on the fins but it helps).
That’s good to hear. All the 1660 series are still great
MX-5 was -1c diff or its the MX-4 to MX5 that's -1*c diff
@@RandomGaminginHD - You might want to try tweaking your thermal setup. A thin coat of MX-6 (spread, don't just put on a bead) and pads just high enough for the vram to touch the bottom of the heatsink and my thermals only barely get to 70c under looping stress tests in a case.
@@R3TR0J4N - No idea, haha. I usually just get whatever has a good rep and is on sale.
@@R3TR0J4N MX5 was also broken, you unpack MX5, a couple months later a tube of brick!
I don't think MX4 is well optimised for GPU direct die; I think MX2 and MX6 can both be 2°C better in this case.
I been rocking a 1660ti since 2019. Card has never disappointed me and i never want for better graphics. maybe I'm a minimalist but you can keep your $1000+ dollar cards. they dont offer enough extras to warrant an upgrade at this point. For gaming if your rocking a 1070 or high card at 1080p you really don't need more unless your a proffessional.
This is my opinion of course.
I just helped a friend to get a 1660 Super used+refurbished from a commercial source (2 months of warranty, function of the card is guaranteed) for 110€. For that money it's an excellent deal, especially since the alternative would have been a GTX 1060 6GB for 10€ less.
Yeah great deal :)
If you can get one of these cheap (like you did) it'd be great for undervolting and locking the spec down and using it like a mobile GPU. You'd get 95% of the performance without all the heat and electrical consumption. I'm guessing that in the Dell this come in it was effectively being restricted by the power delivery of the cheap and nasty mainboard it was plugged into so heat was never as much of an issue.
Not just with OEM cards, but retail cards as well. giving up maybe 5-10% performance to reduce power consumption easily by 30% and more.
@@HappyBeezerStudios this. Got my 3060ti down from 200w to 150w in gaming with a 5% drop in performance which is not noticable because I'm always wayy above 60fps. What is noticable is that the fans are much quieter and my card is a good 5 degrees cooler. I don't understand why every PC owner doesn't undervolt it's the best thing ever.
@@HappyBeezerStudios
Yeah, the card makers like to crank up the power pretty high to make sure their cards all hit the claimed base lines. There's always a bit of scope for efficiency tuning, more so in retail cards I'd say, it'll make the card last longer too and you can always stretch it's lifespan by turning the power up again if you need to down the line.
Bruh. If I were power consumption aware, I would not buy a desktop gpu and certainly not undervolt it if I did.
Plot twist: I am power consumption aware and use a gaming laptop for this reason. I would never get a 500+ watt psu just to make a system that runs on 200w when undervolted and gutted. My mobile 3070 along with cpu bare pull 180w but deliver close to 3070 desktop. Now, I would be an idiot to pull stuff like that with a 1660 ti, on which 5-10% performance mean a lot.
@@teleman07
Horses for courses mate, I prefer a desk top because I don't need portability.
Would love to see an undervolted comparison both in terms of temps and performance with this one
I think it would make a big difference to those temps and with that cooler a must I think 😅
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it performed a bit better with an undervolt. Might be able to sustain a higher boost clock for a couple extra FPS at a lower temp.
Set it to 900mV at 1920mhz, and it will drop about 9°C. Mine is the asus model with a single fan and I run everything at the same frame rate as factory, but now it runs at 67-70 degrees Celsius with the fan at 75% and there is no performance loss. If I leave it at factory settings the performance drops and it gets hotter.
I undervolted my zotac 1660ti from 1v to 0.962 on a curve and I almost never go over 70c now I am also able to oc to an average of 1950-1970 from the 1770 boost which gives a few percent. Never hit my power limit either
I’ve only suffer stutter with old AMD FX processors, and fixed it by disabling power management in Windows, or tweaking power managements settings in BIOS, or selecting Hight Performance power scheme. Hope this helps, thanks for the great content!
i actually got duped when i bought one of these, i bought what i thought was an HP 1660 Ti, but i got a Dell 1660 Super instead
surprisingly decent GPU temps after a repaste, also tossed in some thick thermal pads for the VRAM just to be safe, runs a like a charm!
You got a free upgrade. The 1660 Super is better is every way because of the GDDR6 memory upgrade. It's a better card than the 1660Ti. I bought one for $140 on ebay recently but it's a three fan copper heat pipe cooled monster Gigabyte card. It holds up fairly well today.
@@jamesg8246 i could have sworn that most 1660 Ti's were D6, with the standard 1660 being D5 instead
those Gigabyte cards are very nice though, i have to agree
@@FrozenIce The Super has faster core clocks, boost clocks and faster D6 memory.
@@jamesg8246 ah, gotcha
makes me feel better about my first GPU being a Super instead of the more expensive Ti then
@@FrozenIce They were pretty much equal at release but I've seen a lot of more recent benchmarks showing the Super being very close to the 70 series cards.
I bought a Gigabyte duel-fan 1660 Ti back in early 2020. For a mid range/entry level GPU, it's pretty fantastic and surprisingly capable. I love it. Every single game I throw at it can be run on max graphics settings on 1080p, and even 1440p (such as the Resident Evil 2 and 3 Remakes, Doom Eternal, etc). And some extremely well-optimized games (like Alien Isolation) can run at 4k, max settings, and still maintain a consistent 60 frames per second. Impressive.
i got the same card i have been running it on a triple monitor setup 2 monitors are 1080 and my main is 1440 and i run all the games i play at 100 fps
I'm low on space in my home so I got a mobile PC when my old desk system broke. The 1660 is more powerful than my current GPU which is more than enough.
Saw u in the comments talking about this card, glad it works. Same thing happened to my keyboard, spilled my morning milk while texting and it died, half a year or a year later, it worked after some minimal cleaning.
I have a Dell RTX 3060 and seems like they improved a lot
It doesn’t get hot at all and the GEFORCE RTX name now does light up in white, looks pretty nice 😅
Awesome! Would love to find one of those they look great
Me too I have an rtx 3060ti dell OEam version 😂
rtx 3060 is only 5% faster than a 2060super . worst card for the money. also rtx 4060 laptop will perform similar to 3060ti card from last year, 4080 desktop card is underpowrd to sell it as laptop 4090. just nvidia shenanigans.
@@vmafarah9473 yeah, it's retail price is crazy but I pulled it from a Dell prebuilt so it was pretty cheap
I’m keeping hold of my 2060 atm. Gpu prices are obscene for anything equivalent or higher. Love the performance of this 1660ti.
gpu prices are normal rn and the 2060 is a much better card than the 1660
2060 is super solid, IMO most people don’t really need to upgrade unless they play competitive games or VR. I’m on the VR camp myself. So as much fidelity as I can get is optimal.
I bought 3 of these pre-pandemic for about $160-170 each. Sold one in a build and another to a friend. I still have mine in a sub 4liter case. Still works great and benches fine.
For those interested the build is an itx x99 w/ an E5 1660v3 & the GTX1660 ti on a 400W PSU in a K39 chassis.
Really like your videos, and find them very helpful understanding the value of components across the market spectrum , and ive noticed that the HP Z440 E5 1650 V4 are going for around 200$ in the US, and wondering how they might stack up against a Ryzen 4500 build, just a suggestion, just seemed like something you would showcase over a couple of videos.
Good thing it worked, I just didn't expected that the performance of that single fan is almost similar to a dual fan 1650 super.
6:41 epic view distance in fortnite is not very useful as enemies will be visible on low as the view distance does not affect that. It only affects builds which will not be visible after a certain point and items will be colored blobs. Medium view distance is a well balance as low is a bit glitchy and with medium only the builds which you won't be able to shoot will not render.
I actually considered going back to my 1660Ti since it uses nearly half the wattage of my 3060Ti, I can feel the heat coming off my PC in a well-insulated room that already gets too warm even in the winter. The 1660Ti still plays everything on the market. Yes, I can max out settings on many more games with the better GPU. Yes more I can hit the higher framerates for Gsync at 120-165hz. But the 1660Ti is still a fantastic workhorse that isn't deprecated in any way and can do 60fps 1080p gaming very well. And it doesn't suck up stupid amounts of electricity like the newer ones along with the ambient heat that comes with them.
My undervolted 3060 uses around 125w, at 60-64c, and fan speed is not even that high, on automatic
@@1GTX1 Undervolted and more prone to crashes.....
@@jasonking1284 Strange.. Maybe it can only do with a small undervolt, but still worth it, there is no reason why it would crash.
Without watching the whole video, I just want to say I love the 1660ti and 1650 oc.
Carry on. :)
I have a prebuilt 1660 Super on my second PC i buy used for 120 euros. It looks a bit like yours: single fan, but black PCB with no brand written on it. But i succesfully overclocked it with +130 Mhz on core clock and + 800 Mhz on memory clock.
It's still a capable card these days!
Thanks for this interesting video btw ;)
that card has the grey dust of aluminum oxide, often falls down from a stock cpu cooler when used in a salt spray area, the dust is conductive so it's little sprinkles get on everything looks like regular dust but is grey.
the dust moves around as you move the card
even had this happen to a deepcool cooler once, edges had funny white/grey dust on them, turned out to be the aluminum oxiding up from the salt spray area I lived in, left a thick line of dust on the back of the gpu, and more dust randomly sprinkled all over the bottom of the case/other parts, system would randomly not turn off, or would crash etc.
a good cleaning never an issue since(I also wire brushed the cooler fins on the cpu and used mat black epoxy spray paint to stop the corrosion)
if you strip the card down, wash the card gentle in hot water, soft brush being very careful, then dry it out proper(low heat hot air gun from a distance then linen cubby or hot water cubby for 6 or so days) and put back together with new paste it should work correctly forever
@enriqueamaya3883 im ashamed of your comment
Good video !
Thanks for sharing this experience
Glad you enjoyed it!
Reminds me of when I bought a GTX750TI off Ebay which didn't work when I plugged it in. I thought I was scammed. I changed the thermal paste after trying the heat gun method and still nothing. One last try - unplugged everything including the gpu fan and reconnected it and viola! It worked and has since.
It was a first time purchase off Ebay too so I was very worried but glad it turned out well for you and for me!
I had purchased an Red Devil RX 580 8GB for $100 in 2019 and it would artifact after a couple minutes of playing, had no idea and tried different drivers, sprayed compressed air through the radiator and heard a weird sound to see a port cover was touching the radiator and touching the card and a capacitor. Removed it, changed the thermal paste, and pads and it worked like a charm for a whole year until I upgraded.
Good performance even for a 2019 entry-level gpu, for me it would be an excellent video card because I always played games on low or medium, full hd because in 2023 I still use my old hd 7850 with only 2gb of vram and that still no more new drivers...
Someone dropped one of these off for recycle in a pc with a dead power supply and motherboard. The card was perfectly fine, though, and is still living to this day in a friend's computer. It was great, if not just a little loud.
If that's reaching 87C on a OPEN test bench then I dread to think how hot it gets inside a Dell case! 🥵
You could try undervolting it for lower temps.
Yeah I believe 87C is where the 1660ti starts to thermal throttle, bet thats what killed it.
Oh snap, I picked up a 1660ti before the great card shortage for for 150 bucks... in the end I feel like I got a great deal all things considered. Still use it to this day and I love it - decent capabilities for a 1080p card (Zotac 1660ti)
I really like 16- series card, better value than the contemporary 2060 since it lacked RT, which is useless anyway at that performance level.
Had a Ti and a Super in the past, now a regular 1660. For someone who plays at 1080p it still doesn't feel worth it to upgrade yet.
It's quiet, cool, sips power and runs all my games well enough
My first desktop GPU! I bought one used in 2019 for just over $200 USD only a few months after release. It has a special place in my heart.
I watch you since you had 50k+ subs. Back then you were doing great and now even better. Keep it going
Thanks for sticking around :)
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I got this last year thinking I was going to put it into a mini-itx build. With itx cases being so accommodating, I ended up going for a larger card. This card now lives in a normal mid tower pc I built for my sister paired with an 1800x
you should get a NZXT Kraken G12 mounting kit 40$ on amazon and watercool it see how much better it performs !!! did that with my RTX 2060 OC 6gb Dell and instead of running at 80c knocked it down too 60c pushing it too the limit and performed much better..
Despite the temps of this GPU, this GPU is really capable of 1080p AAA gaming as long as your PSU has enough power Haha. Putting this inside an OEM pc case can create a neat little hotbox.
Its very hot i just replaced mine with a rx6600 in my g5 5000 and the temps inside the pc have dropped by 15-20c.
4:07 you really let us down, the door was RIGHT THERE!
My first GPU for my first gaming PC. Bought 1660 Ti from Gigabyte last year. Love to see that it's a really capable 1080p for AAA in 2023
I got ROG 1660ti laptop with i7 - 10700H and I really can´t complain. Games running in 1080p are smooth on native 144hz laptop screen. Combined with 16 Gb of RAM it is still very capable combo.
Looking at this video bring me some old memories with OEM cards...
Back in the days I bought, from a major pc brand, a "gaming" prebuilt, it had a gtx760 3gb (weird because the real gtx760 was 2gb or 4gb) but newbie me thought that this was a pro, I hadn't done much reserch, as I already said I was a newbie, so I went all in and bought the pc. I was surely happy by the performance, given what my previous standards were, but later I started to see that some games didn't run as well as they were supposed to, since I looked a loot of benchmark of the 760 I knew what to expect. Long story short, turns out it was a OEM version of the 760 which was more close to a 750ti then a 760, just with more vram. Given the price I paid for the pc it was pretty much a scam. (At least the pc used all standard components, no strange motherboard nor psu).
Ps. If you can find a 760 3gb OEM (it was an asus one), it would be interesting to see how it performs today compered to the 750ti and a real 760 (assuming you have these cards on hands)
It’s crazy how hot that runs my old gtx 480 didn’t run that hot and those were notorious for running hot
Not a bad card. I got one off of FB marketplace for 50$. Replaced a GTX 970 in my HTPC. Runs way better. I haven't seen it go above 70C in Furmark in a 6 hour test. I put new thermal paste on which helped a lot im sure.
86° is too hot for that card but there is not enough fan to cool it down with that dell fan. Besides MSI Armour dual fan version runs 70° on 100% load.
4:07 nice
My friend also bought it late last year and is happy with it.
I bought Dell RTX 3080 OEM couple months ago, it is quite nice, temperatures are fine.
have an PNY 1660ti, runs all games well in 1080p and lots in 1440p at medium/high with some overclocking, great card
Good vid thanks. I have been getting around 80-84 degrees max on mine - even after installing a few new Noctua fans and a large cpu heatsink in my Dell 8940. I know now that this card just runs hot by design. Im gonna wait and try and snap up a cheap RTX when i see one as the GPU fan noise can be very annoying.- Also undervolting made very little difference to temps for me.
The card can draw more power from the PIC-e slot if necessary* Just like any other video, kinda strange you don't mention this. With bigger, more power hungry cards I get it, having been blessed with a dad that tought me IT since I was 5. My first PC he gave to me was his old (I'm still thankful to this day, a i7 3770k, AMD HD 7900 and 8GB of ram), was able to play everything I ever wanted at max settings, with a full HD monitor. Then I got a GTX 1080, then a 6900xt OC & UV, now im on a RTX 4090, I get why theres no mention with these cards for say. But smaller cards especially those to be power efficient should get a mention that the two power-sources are mainly the PSU and the MB.
great video running 1660ti here aswell with 2100mhz boost and 7500mhz vram
The 1600 series is such amazing value and has been for a long time. Absolutely love my 1660 Super. I run it OC'd to 2ghz core, and I've had it for years, it's held up better than I thought, for sure. Would love to see how the Dell 1660 Ti fairs with 4k! For us 1600 series users, 4k is a fever dream 😂
The 1660 TI got a lot of hate when it first released but honestly.. its a pretty good card.
When I bought my first gaming pc (a Lenovo T550 if I remember correctly) it did me well.
I played Cold War 1080p at really good settings and framerates, especially coming from an xbox. love this guy
especially when you compare the size and power draw to my current 3080 12gb...
the hate wasn't because of the performance but because of the price compared to the 1660 super I think
I snagged one of these dell 1660ti's a couple months ago for 130, great value and was a solid upgrade for my friend who had an RX 570
i have the 6gb nvidia branded 1660ti, it performs really well for most use cases. it'll play any pre 2020 game max settings 1080p@144hz, and I've never had to go below medium settings on any game I've played. i have a Ryzen 5 5800x.
for the money you pay its a pretty alright deal and it's pretty future proof for online gaming, online games tend to last a few years and most people who play them don't mind using low settings so even once you do have to use low settings with my card it'll probably still be good for awhile.
Someone in my town is selling one of those for $155 Canadian, so I am watching this video. He is willing to demonstrate it working. All in all I am weary of the weak cooler and exposed backplane. I wanted to use it with a 1660 non ti in a second computer to do blender rendering in theory faster than my 3060 in my main computer.
My first thought is how it will perform with undervolting. It'd be a great follow-up video, can you do that RGinHD?
It's amazing how much gaming power is still in such old cards!
And remember that GTX 1660Ti is still much weaker than much older GTX 1080ti (released in 2016) :)
@@user-glg20 Really apples to oranges. There is no way a 1660Ti is supposed to be anywhere near a 1080Ti as the 16xx series was meant to be a cutdown version of the 2060's.
Nice performance from that card, and I bet you could increase the settings on some of those tested games, to still reach at least 60+ FPS. That's my methodology - go for resolution (up to 1080p), then go for settings, then go for higher frame rates above 60 - and stopping (or dialling back) if the gameplay drops below 60fps at any of those stages.
I've got the same exact one that I slapped in a little Lenovo desktop I had laying around and the wife uses it for rocket league and Minecraft. works great for that kind of stuff! I think i paid 75$ on ebay a few months ago.
I think it still great card for budget from 1660Ti to Rx6600 this price range is great for entry. GTX 1660 Ti is around 100-105 us dollar in my country with one year warranty and if you want pay extra a bit 140 dollar is for Rx6600.
what I imagine happened, is your card heated up and cut off, and some small bit of solder that was bridging a connection unconnected itself, fixing the card. A bit like how people "repaired" those old xbox 360 consoles
I am from the UK. Love your videos as always! But where do you get your sunshine? I am in Wales but still.. Where do you get your sunshine? 🤔
I just recently picked up a Dell OEM 3080 that was listed as for parts or repair because it crashed after 1hr of furmark. Well as anyone who's ever used the fuzzy donut to test things can guess it was boiling alive with a hot spot of over 100c and when I took it apart there was just a big gap in the thermal paste over the GPU. Provided the lifespan hasn't been terribly shortened by the high temperatures a 300 USD 3080 is a steal I think.
It's still a toasty boi mind you just less so with proper cooler contact.
Weird how some hardware ‘magically’ starts working, but good for you!
Yeah it’s really weird. Thought this was dead for sure
@@RandomGaminginHD maybe its the vbios
@@RandomGaminginHD i have a Manli GTX 1060 F336G like this. It was "new" and it has slightly higher specs than a 1060 but it legit doesnt make a difference. I have been looking for a normal 1060 to test alongside it but eh.
This guy just made history! Iv'e never seen gamers in sunlight
I bought one of these a few months ago, and at first it looks like a piece of junk. The temperatures were horribly high, there was even a time when the driver would crash due to the temperature, so I had to limit the temperature to be able to play and of course I lost performance. But it's not all bad, as a little "maintenance" can fix things. Some time later I added Arctic-MX 4 thermal paste, and hey, things improved a lot. Even the temperatures are high compared to a brand card, but they remain at acceptable levels and the frequencies are also acceptable, the performance improved a lot compared to when I limited the temperature, I think that now they work almost like a "normal" card. I also put thermal pads on the memories, so I hope that now at least it has a little more useful life. For the price I got it it was really a bargain (and I see why that price, the temperature problems), but with a little work things could be improved.
I bought a Dell 1660 Super specifically because it is as far as I know the only 1660 Super and the most powerful graphics card with just a single 6 pin power connector, which was all my HTPC’s power supply had. It can be flashed with an Asus BIOS to increase its power limit.
Isn't that the model that lacked thermal pads in a couple of memory modules? Yeah with a heatsink this flimsy bad temps are unavoidable
I was expecting terrible performance, honestly. Amazing what a 2019 gpu can do even today, would make for a neat little console-like pc to setup on the living room.
I have a GTX 1660 super OC card. It runs great on Linux Mint 21.1. My CPU is Core i5 11500. No problems with graphics.
Really impressive! Card is still a beast
remember the vram in this particular model of 1660 isn't cooled. if this were my card the least i would to it to help thermals would be to put thermal pads on the memory it so it can touch the heatsink and cut the side of the shroud off where the gtx logo is so air can flow better
Hey Steve Great Video, once again.
A recommendation I would is to test the HUB optimized settings in RDR2.
There is nothing to like about 120W TDP cards having a single fan, and the temperatures show that very well! I always avoid these!
As a rule of thumb, you want a "normal" fan for every 75W, so here 2 fans would have been optimal.
For cards over 225W, you want overdimensioned fans to cope with the higher power demand.
I had the EVGA variant of this card which just by the look of it had double the heat sink of that dell version. Temps were in the mid 60s and it would boost to about 2000mhz. Great 1080p card.
Yeah the cooler on the dell dell card looks like the bare minimum they could get away with. I have the hp oem version and it has a much better cooler with actual heatpipes, never goes above 73 degrees. stock it boosts to ~1850mhz and if I undervolt it will boost to ~2020mhz.
I have a basic msi version of this, and being a dual fan it has decent cooling, but I run it in a silverstone sg 13 case which is tight on airflow. It'll hit 85 C on a 100% fan speed curve but the clocks still boost and stay around the 1865 to 1920 MHz range which is nice given the airflow.
In fairness to Dell, these would have likely been bunged into relatively plain, windowless cases so RGB wasn't ever going to be a consideration.
I'd suggest when testing a GPU on Apex to test it in the BR mode, not arenas. I only say that because a high fps is much easier to keep in arenas, but you'll see a much lower average fps in the BR, which is what most people generally play. I just don't want someone uniformed seeing an average of 174fps in Apex in this video, then buying that model card and being surprised when they're getting a much lower FPS in the BR mode. Besides that specific point, I very much enjoyed the video.
Cool to have a capable card with DVI, probably the next secondary card I use to drive my side monitors when the 10 series is phased out
Sound of your voice makes me calm :)
Thanks :)
The 1660 Ti is going for under 200 USD for open box cards on eBay right now. So it is a great budget option now.
0:02: WHAT IS THAT! In all my years with GPUs...
Do like some of their screens...bloody DELL
There are different variants of the OEM 16-series cards. Yours in particular is, well, a OEM Dell 1660Ti with a side 8-pin. My sample for my travel/emergency gaming PC build in a Velka 3 is a OEM HP 1660Ti with a rear 8-pin. There are different shroud and pin-in variants out there, as you can see, mostly with the same PCB size and whatnot. Not too bad of a card for what it is, at the time of buying for me, ~150$, in good condition.
I put the 1660 super version of this dell card in my fiance's PC, and it worked well for such a little card
Thermal paste affects the performance maybe? 83° is fine? Awesome videos.
If you have one of these:
Remove the plastic and fan. Put a better FAN, 140mm if possible, using cable ties or whatever. Let the max fan speed you are comfortable with (usually around 50-60%), and make it go up to 80%-85% when sh1t got really hot.
Now you have better thermals, and it won't thermal throttle, with almost no investiment.
Have you ever noticed when you drive around Night City, when ever you approach a traffic light, it is green even with it is changing to yellow on its way to red? It suddenly jumps to Green.
Interesting, isn't it. 🤔🤔
Depending on which Dell system it was rescued from, yeah. Quite a few of them are practically unventilated hotboxes, where an old Optiplex chassis has had ginormous plastic panels added that have more than just pianted on "G" for lighting, fans aplenty, and almost all those fans butt up against solid plastic or metal on at least one side. It's required, along wiht a single stick of ram, proprietary PSU and mobo, and other awkward things. However, especially the Alienware line come stuffed to the brim with extended warranty subscriptions, ofthen hidden in a line item somewhere. and who doesn't want that?!
I bought a used 1660Ti off of Ebay for 220€ back before the 30 series came out and it serves me well, I don't feel the need to upgrade yet and I'll see how far the 1660Ti will get me once I upgrade to a 1440p 144hz display.
Been using a cheap zotac GTX 1660 ti for 4 years now, solid workhorse.
i had this card , the memory chips have no heat sink , i did undervolt it which improved the temps but i ran it with the fan on a constant 80 percent to keep it under 75 when it wasnt undervolted
Man every time I watch you play Elden Ring I always shake my head
I had this card with a 2560x1080 uw monitor. Fantastic performance. It wasn't as good at 1440p. I've since upgraded to a 3060 ti.