I purchased this card for $355 shipped the other day but wanted to check the website again to see if the price had dropped. Surprisingly it had! Enjoy Folks!
Also this is a historic low when compared with Aus part picker.
GTX 1060 6GB Windforce Gigabyte for $339 Shipped @ Shopping Express
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what's this coil whine?
Its a high pitched (and very annoying) whine that changes pitch and volume depending on the framerate and how hard the card is working. I can hear it over my speakers while gaming. There are several youtube clips of it on 10xx and 9xx nvidia cards, but it is hard to record because of the pitch.
There are several things you can do to minimise it (cap framerates and set vsync) but they don't work for everything.
Not all card have it and it can sometimes relate to your PSU, but it is pretty random if you get it or not.
I had it on my HD 7850 too. Over time it seemed to go away (or I just ran more games with sync on).
The MSI 1070 doesn't have much of it, but instead mine has electrical buzzing. It sounds different to coil whine and isn't quite as loud, but still a bit annoying.
Really? I have the MSI GTX1070 aswell and it's whisper quiet, even the fans don't turn on unless it's under load.
I thought it was after I changed my mobo, glad to know I'm not the only one!
I'm building a whole new PC in a few days. New PSU, Mobo, the works. I'll be interested to see if that affects the noise.
Having dealt with GB in the past, good luck!
There are a huge number on complaints of coil whine for this card on Amazon.
Have you tried a drop of WD40?
Seemed to have fixed a coil whine issue I had in other GPU HSFs
the RX480 is the much, much better buy!
GTX 1060 vs RX 480 | Who Wins NOW? 07/12/2016 NOT EVEN 6 months and the GTX1060 is almost losing in DX11 and the DX12 thing is just getting worse and worse as time goes on.It depends on your requirements. The 480 does get better frame rates, and probably will age better, but it is much hotter and draws alot more power.
I live in a very hot and humid place, so having a card that runs cool and quiet won out.
The difference between them is still pretty small when you average out over all games.so true.. heat should be a buying factor! small itx case = GTX 1060 for sure..
but with the latest drivers the heat has reduced heaps.. not sure what magic AMD has done but its reduced the heat of my RX470 by 10c from driver updates alone.
@vid_ghost: You guessed it, its an ITX shoebox build :)
The 470/480 had power issues with them drawing too much from the PCIE slot and not enough from the 6pin cable which they fixed with drivers. Might have been that your heat was a result of that.
I was going to get this card card from Shopping Express, but then saw the R9 Fury on sale at MSY for $345 and ended up getting that one instead. And holy crap is it a big card.
R9 Fury vs MSI Gaming X 1070 6GB? Can you tell me if the R9 is fast enough to edit videos on?
Knowing nothing about PCs I don't know what I'm looking for.
@YellowKnight: As others have said it is Gobs of ram and CPU you want for Video Editing and perhaps fast disk/SSD. onboard is probably ok depending on software you are using (some programs can take advantage of the GPU to offload processing). Still memory and CPU first, then disk then graphics.
what psu you use? R9 Fury is a huge, hot, high power consumption monster card. 750w psu offcially recommended.
As soon as my 6pin to 8pin adaptor arrives I'm going to hook my R9 Fury up to my Silverstone 600w psu, so I hope I don't need 750w.
I saw reviews that showed it used slightly less than the R9 280x, and my psu powered that perfectly fine. So I hope I'm good.
@AdosHouse: I dont trust adaptor, but you can try. If your psu can handle R9 280x, r9 fury should be fine.
@AdosHouse: > I saw reviews that showed it used slightly less than the R9 280x
You may have been looking at a 290X. The 280X is a good 30-40w below the Fury.
According to this review, http://www.anandtech.com/show/9421/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-re… , my ASUS Strix R9 Fury, in a computer that is actually a bit more power hungry than mine, had a total system power consumption of 334w doing Furmark. I would hope my 600w PSU could easily sustain that.
Interesting that the Saphire Fury pulls a full 100w more power in the same test. That is a huge difference.
Ultimate irony is that I bought a 6 to 8 pin adaptor, went to slot my Fury in, and found that it ships with a 2x6-pin to 8-pin adaptor…..damn. I didn't need to wait at all.
Most reviews that I have seen tend to put the R9 Fury and the 1060 on par, just depending on the game and if it is optimised towards AMD or Intel cards.
I would imagine that the 1070 would rule over the R9 Fury.
Lies the 1060 bearly beats the rx480 in dx11/OpenGL and is slower in dx12. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-review…
A R9 Fury would murder a 1060 based card.
But yes the 1070 would be faster for gaming in all but the most AMD optimised games.
Really good deal on the Fury, sucks that it's over.
damn, I want this one, it should be the cheapest dual fans 1066 atm. My mini 1066 only has single fan, usually 69c max while gaming in winter, but summer is coming!
can this support minecraft?
yes. and smashed solitaire
but will I get the high framerates in minesweeper?
May support Minecraft, but can it run Crysis?
Did this help with video editing? Something about CUDA?
Do a search on Cuda OpenCL. 10 years ago Cuda was a help when encoding, until cpu's got faster. The cuda result was never as good and could only tweaked so far, but thing will have chamged. It might have been only single pass?
Editing programs use different systems to use the GPU for calculations.
Here is one guy's comparison - didn't read much so might be a load of crap.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1894349
Does anyone know how it takes for shipping to Brisbane?
Cheaper here
https://www.computeralliance.com.au/gigabyte-gtx1060-3gb-g1-…EDIT: CRAP., 3GB, IGNORE ME.
Damn, I also bought this a week ago for $355…on the plus side, no coil whine sound.
I have an i5 2320, 24gb ram, 10tb sata drives, 550w be queit PSU, brand new white NZXT elite case with all silent fans, and an 6870//// would it be worth upgrading the GPU to this or just binning the lot and starting again ?
its just a middle class gpu atm, but surely much much better than 6870. your pc should be fine to handle it.
It'll be fine. You'll most likely see more than double the framerate in games.
I'd say upgrade unless money is no object. I just upgraded my gpu from a 7950 to the msi 1060 and I'm basically VR ready, just need to upgrade the cpu.
just curious, what about shipping fee, free charge? I never shop via Shopping Express before.
There is a clue in the title.
I grabbed one of these when they were $355, been using it for a month now and it's been fantastic. I wasn't aware of the coil whine issues until this thread.
I got the 1060 3gb version of this card and it does not have any coil sound. I am not sure if my version is even affected but just letting people know.
Save your coin and get a 1070, better investment
been looking for a new card, still running a 7970HD 3gb, actually bought it from shopping express a few years ago too.
reckon this is a good get, still running a 15 2500k, planning to overclock it soon to extend my pc's life a bit
I recently bought this card and I highly recommend it. It currently smashes out anything I play, which is mostly current gen games. Also handles any graphical work I've thrown at it. Albeit this is only minor video editing, can't say anything about its ability in a professional editing scenario.
Got a 1060 6GB G1, No coil whine issues to report
If you can stretch to the OC edition, I believe the wattage limit was removed\modified.
Otherwise you have a hard time pushing extreme overclocks with these.EDIT: Oh, that IS the OC edition…. OK I might need to buy this….
I have had this card since august (paid 499 from mwave) and its a beast, i run BF1 on ultra 1080 and hardly get a drop below 60 ever.
i have had a tiny issue with coil whine, i did a little at the start but i just used the Nvidia tool to limit fps to my refresh rate and haven't heard it since. It was only audiable above 300 fps in menus etc. I would easily recommend this card. Mine cools passively till 60c, which playing WoW and BF1 on ultra doesn't hit it often so the card is pretty much silent for me.
Caved in and bought this. What nvidia tool did you use to limit the fps?
Standard driver control panel does it.
Great timing since my ageing 6850 died last night. RIP
I am currently a LG freesync monitor. Will it be better to buy a AMD graphic card like rx480, R9 or go for this deal
stay with freesync :)
I bought the Shopping Express GTX 1060 6GB Windforce Gigabyte card on Sunday and used a $20 welcome code so paid about the same as this deal. Installed and it is whisper quiet without coil whine haha. Anyway I'm stoked with the card. Not much time to test yet but it's beautifully running Forza Horizon 3 at locked 60fps on high settings at 2560x1440. Fan hardly spins up as it runs so cool. Highly recommend buying this card at this price.
Will this fit in a silverstone SG13 mini itx case?
The coil whine problems is only on the G1 version, not this one.
back to $345.00 now.
Great card, but can have issues with coil whine (bit of a lottery apparently). I am currently working with gigabyte support to see what they will do about it, but it is a slow and agonising process.