I recently finished building my first-ever gaming rig, and this ended up being my choice for the GPU. After testing a few games out over the past month, I can safely say this is a great choice, especially for the price. Installing the drivers took a bit of throwing myself at it ever since Chrome stopped Java support a few years back, but once I got over that hurdle, I've had no issues.
All of my games so far, including semi-new games at the time of writing this such as Dark Souls III, have no trouble running at maximum settings without dropping framerate. Things can get a little hot during gameplay, but as you can see in the picture, the card does have two fans which will greatly help, and you could always install a custom loop cooling system to further mitigate any heat problems. I was able to get this a tiny bit cheaper on Cyber Monday, but even at the current price it's a steal.
Don't buy into the hype of the 1080 - right now it simply isn't worth the price point unless you absolutely have a ton of cash to throw left and right. It will be next year's budget card anyways when Nvidia reveals whatever is next, and the 1060 can last you a good few years if you take care of your rig. The only thing this card will likely struggle at is 4K gaming, which wasn't an issue for me since I don't even have a 4K monitor, but the 6GB version might alleviate that issue, plus you could just get more than one.
| Max Screen Resolution | 8k |
|---|---|
| RAM | 3 GB |
| Memory Speed | 8008 MHz |
| Graphics Coprocessor | gddr5 |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | GeForce GTX 1060 3GB |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 3072 MB |
