This is a very competitive price for a 6GB GTX 1060 - same as a 3GB in fact.
Go to the Laptops Direct site and sign up for a trial membership of Which for £1.00. You will receive an email with a £20.00 discount code within one hour. I used it to purchase this card but it should work with all purchases over £200 on their website.
You'll need to cancel your trial within one month unless you want to continue the subscription and be charged monthly.
4 day postage is £4.95 and a 1.5% surcharge on all credit cards.
- toaster
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Aretak
11 Oct 163#6
My recommendation would be the Gigabyte ITX OC model. I bought one to replace my faulty EVGA SC and it's the better card. The same form factor, yet runs a good 9 degrees cooler, is just as quiet and overclocks to 2.1GHz+ like just about all 1060s. With this code it'd be £204.97 plus whatever postage is, which is a fantastic price.
Good spot Orig; I thought there may be others. I opted for the MSI as I like their three year warranty - plus I've had one before! Also, the Asus is out of stock and delivery shows 1st November.
noiren
10 Oct 16#4
It's a cover for the other side of the card to protect it from scratches, heat and provide more support, well that's the reasoning but it's mostly for aesthetics.
neik
10 Oct 16#5
Thanks!
Aretak
11 Oct 163#6
My recommendation would be the Gigabyte ITX OC model. I bought one to replace my faulty EVGA SC and it's the better card. The same form factor, yet runs a good 9 degrees cooler, is just as quiet and overclocks to 2.1GHz+ like just about all 1060s. With this code it'd be £204.97 plus whatever postage is, which is a fantastic price.
what was faulty about your evga card? i was thinking of getting the same one
that gigabyte card for that price is a bit of a steal, its good to see that these 1060's are going down a bit in price
madscientis to Aretak
11 Oct 16#9
Only one fan. Not recommended i you can buy it http://m.pcnation.co.uk/product.aspx?id=27708&aff=12 . 200 Ghz Overclock if you change settings. I prefer 2 fans in case of dust or overclocking. Msi and Palit JetStream use similar cooling solution. They are really quiet.
basergorkobal
11 Oct 16#8
Those miniature cards look amazing. And for the price it's a steal. I'm thinking of selling my gtx970 for one of them
Aretak
11 Oct 161#10
It just stopped booting out of the blue. Black screen, no display output at all. No idea what happened with it. First card I've ever had to die so abruptly. I might have gotten a replacement, but the place I bought it from had no stock, so I just took a refund.
Utterly irrelevant. The 1060 uses so little power that a small, single-fan cooler is more than enough. I ran my EVGA SC overclocked at 2.1GHz stable and am now doing the same with my Gigabyte ITX OC. As for dust, I don't see how the number of fans has any relevance to that at all. For a start it shouldn't be an issue with a decent, filtered case, but even if you don't have one, an extra fan isn't going to prevent dust build-up. You'll just have two dusty fans instead of one, plus a larger heatsink to clean.
The huge, overbuilt 1060s are snake oil. For a power hungry top end card, yes, larger coolers offer benefits. But for a 120W mid-range card where overclocking has been standardised by Nvidia that puts out very little heat? Nah. I'm somebody very sensitive to noise, and have returned many cards in the past just for being too loud, but both single fan 1060s I've had have been inaudible. The better temperatures on the Gigabyte over the EVGA are nice bonus on top of that.
FlyingCheez
11 Oct 161#11
I am somebody that is sensitive to heat than noise. but even so 2 fans is better than 1 as you can run both fans at lower rpm to create lower noise level with good cooling than a single fan.
I generally wouldn't recommend gigabyte. they are known to use cheap quality pcb components.
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Go to the Laptops Direct site and sign up for a trial membership of Which for £1.00. You will receive an email with a £20.00 discount code within one hour. I used it to purchase this card but it should work with all purchases over £200 on their website.
You'll need to cancel your trial within one month unless you want to continue the subscription and be charged monthly.
4 day postage is £4.95 and a 1.5% surcharge on all credit cards.
- toaster
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that gigabyte card for that price is a bit of a steal, its good to see that these 1060's are going down a bit in price
Utterly irrelevant. The 1060 uses so little power that a small, single-fan cooler is more than enough. I ran my EVGA SC overclocked at 2.1GHz stable and am now doing the same with my Gigabyte ITX OC. As for dust, I don't see how the number of fans has any relevance to that at all. For a start it shouldn't be an issue with a decent, filtered case, but even if you don't have one, an extra fan isn't going to prevent dust build-up. You'll just have two dusty fans instead of one, plus a larger heatsink to clean.
The huge, overbuilt 1060s are snake oil. For a power hungry top end card, yes, larger coolers offer benefits. But for a 120W mid-range card where overclocking has been standardised by Nvidia that puts out very little heat? Nah. I'm somebody very sensitive to noise, and have returned many cards in the past just for being too loud, but both single fan 1060s I've had have been inaudible. The better temperatures on the Gigabyte over the EVGA are nice bonus on top of that.
I generally wouldn't recommend gigabyte. they are known to use cheap quality pcb components.