Top 10 Questions Asked on Amazon Before Buying – Geforce GTX 1060
Question 1: Does thus graphics card need to be connected to power supply? If so does it include the cable to do so?
Answer: Yes, it needs a 6 pin connector (2×3). Mine didn’t come with an adapter but my power supply has several of the 6 pin connectors. You can get an adapter that’ll convert a 4 pin molex connector to a 2×3 6 pin connector.
Question 2: What are the differences between each version of the card?
Answer: There are differences between the 3GB having 1152 CUDA Cores, while the 6GB has the full 1280 CUDA Cores on the chip. The 6 GB is between 5-10 % more powerful under heavy gaming. I’ve had both versions and they are both very fast and efficient for the price.
Question: 3: Will this bottleneck with a core i3 6100?
Answer: The core i3 6100 will not bottleneck this card in any modern games other than a very select few such as Ashes of The Singularity. The I3 6100 is fastest to keep up with this card for at least another few years.
Question 4: What is the exact size of this graphics card?
Answer: The cards dimensions are 10.9 x 5.5 x 1.5 in or 277 x 140 x 39 mm
Question 5: Why are all the 1060’s unavailable from every seller?
Answers: Cryptocurrency miners has been purchasing a lot of cards given the profitability in recent times. Don’t buy at these prices, it’s a $330 card ma
Question 6: Is 3gb of video card ram on a card like this enough to run games like overwatch and cod at 1080p?
Answer: Yes, its more than enough, 6gbs is for more gpu intensive games like crisis and fallout. Because it needs more power to render alot of space in a short amount of time.
Question 8: Is there much of a difference between 6gb gddr5 and 8gb gddr5?
Answer: Not a huge difference, but the purpose of the ram is for rendering graphics intensive scenes, and more RAM = better fps in most cases
Question 9: Will this be great with Intel-i5-8600K? And can the card run 4k gaming?
Answer: We are don’t know , We only use it for mining cryptocurrency
Question 10: Does this graphics card fit on this mb?
Answer: Yes it will. This card fits into a PCIE slot which that motherboard has. Whether the slot is 2.0 or 3.0 does not matter, just so long as it has those slots which it does.
