Another GTX 1060 deal, for a compact card it's one of the cheapest I've seen. (Although yet to hit the £200 price mark for the 1060 cards) Just bought one because it's ideal for my small pc case. Can't find a lot of reviews on this one unfortunately.
Recommended PSU: 350W
Scan/Overclockers selling same card for £239.99
Free 4-6 day delivery
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satchef1
16 Feb 17#13
Not at all. Look up some reviews of top-end parts and take a peek at the system power consumption benchmarks. For example, Anandtech's GTX1080 review; Intel i7 4960X @ 4.2GHz, GTX1080 Founders Edition, 32GB RAM, 335W draw under load playing Crysis 3. Powering that system with a 350W PSU would be inadvisable, but it would work. A mid-range system with a GTX1060 would be absolutely fine.
Looking at Anandtech's GTX1060 review, the same system with a 1060 FE draws 264W. But it's unlikely anyone is going to run that card with an overclocked 130W i7 and 32GB of RAM. An actual mid-range system will draw a chunk less (certainly <250W at load).
This is just as true of the RX480 BTW. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't draw that much more power.
The 480 is superb, but this compact 1060 is aiming for a different market. There is no compact 480 as far as I'm aware.
Uncommon.Sense
16 Feb 17#11
Have to agree, I've built one of these mini style cards into a compact ITX chassis, with a low profile 1U style 250w PSU, and and i7-6700T, 16GB RAM etc, and the power draw from the wall under full load during stress testing was less than 170w, very power efficient cards.
However if you've got the PSU to support it, the RX 480 8GB at £189 might be the better buy, but there's literally only a few percent difference in most games or applications. :smiley:
Rich44
16 Feb 17#9
Is the Rx480 8gb not the slightly better value at £189?
phenooo to Rich44
16 Feb 17#10
I'd say yes, but in the end it all boils down to the user's preference
hugekebab
16 Feb 17#8
definitely wise to get the 6gb version - it's more future proof than the 3gb, as 3gb isn't an insane amount of vram even currently.
slayermatt
16 Feb 171#7
The always overstate the requirements, more to protect themselves. Lets say hypothetically the lowest you could go was "300w". First of all a cheap no brand 300w PSU would probably blow trying to keep that (such as those in prebuilds) and also, a user with significantly more power reqs than the average user (overclocked i7 at higher voltages, loads of add on cards etc) would also not succeed. There's no way manufacturers can gauge the wide array of combinations so they go with an absolute worst case scenario.
MadeInBeats
16 Feb 17#6
Loads of tests on YouTube about cards and system power consumption... they are usually always overblown requirements.
I've an R9270X on a 430Watt PSU and it's ran just fine for well over a year now. I imagine my 2013 AMD card requires twice as much power as this Pascal card.
True, but I think I'd still go for a bit more than 350W - that's going to be close to the lower limit and that doesn't leave much room for future expansion. A 50W drop from reference to production cards seems a hell of a lot!
MadeInBeats
16 Feb 17#3
What's this brand like? Build quality looks pretty bad from the few eastern European and Russian review videos I could find on it.
Marekj
16 Feb 17#2
That's for the reference design. Board partners are free to tweak to lower power usage to make then smaller/quieter.
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Recommended PSU: 350W
Scan/Overclockers selling same card for £239.99
Free 4-6 day delivery
14 comments
Looking at Anandtech's GTX1060 review, the same system with a 1060 FE draws 264W. But it's unlikely anyone is going to run that card with an overclocked 130W i7 and 32GB of RAM. An actual mid-range system will draw a chunk less (certainly <250W at load).
This is just as true of the RX480 BTW. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't draw that much more power.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/xfx-radeon-rx-480-8gb-189-98-ballicom-free-delivery-2619137
However if you've got the PSU to support it, the RX 480 8GB at £189 might be the better buy, but there's literally only a few percent difference in most games or applications. :smiley:
I've an R9270X on a 430Watt PSU and it's ran just fine for well over a year now. I imagine my 2013 AMD card requires twice as much power as this Pascal card.
Nvidia recommends 400W with a GTX 1060
See: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1060/ and click on the "view full specs" link.