Ok so I'm going to be asking for a new gpu for Christmas since I think mine is starting to struggle with some games. Is there anything that would be a decent upgrade for under $300? Here is my current build from 4 years ago. I haven't upgraded anything since I built it.

- Windows 7 64bit
- Asrock Extreme 4 Z77 Motherboard
- Intel I5 3470 CPU
- EVGA GTX670 GPU
- DDR3 1866 G-SKILL Sniper 8GB RAM
- Samsung 840 Series 256GB SSD
- Western Digital 500GB HDD
- Seasonic 620Watt Modular PSU

1060 3gb/6gb is about that range.
ideally you want the 6gb model

2nd this. 6gb if plan on not replacing anything for the same amount of time or longer

+1 for the 1060 6gb, if you can shoot for the Strix (asus), or ftw (evga) editions. Binned chips so will have better overclock potential as well as better factory overclock, and generally better cooling as well due to that.

6gb also has more shaders. Essentially, the 1060 3gb should have been the 1050 ti but nvidia are jews and wanted to pass off a weaker card as the same card sans vram so they could charge more for it.

This post was edited by DCSS on Nov 22 2017 05:57am

1060 3gb actually performs much closer to the 6 gb variant than a 1050 ti. It has ALMOST as many shaders (within 10% iirc), and still the same clock speeds. If anything it should have been1060 (3gb) and 1060 ti (6gb).
The 1050 and 1050 ti are meant to be extremely low power variants for people on a budget, essentially something you can use as an add in card on an existing pre-builds. They don't require any external power; they are powered solely by the PCI slot.

i think ya missed my point
if the 1060 3gb wasn't fraudulently marketed as being the same as its bigger brother, it'd be a 1050 ti, and the 1050 ti would be the 1050, etc. I mean giving people less for more is what nvidia specializes in after all so it's not a huge surprise, the only reason we ended up with the original Titan is they realized amd didn't have shit on Kepler, so they just moved every chip up a segment, the 680 became the titan, which cut down became the 680, 660 became the 670, etc. and consumers got a huge steamy turd in their mouth.

There was once a day where '80' of any series got you the flagship chip, even if it was cut down. Those days are long gone. Greed + AMD being trash. Prices only going to go up on the mid-range from now on, they're already much higher.

I really think the false advertising here crosses the line though, the 970 was believable as a failure to communicate internally on their part, but calling a card something it isn't? Just preying on dumb consumers and as we know most are very dumb.

It's fortunate almost all the demanding games coming out now are total trash so buying from such a greedy company in 2k17+ is quite avoidable.

This post was edited by DCSS on Nov 22 2017 07:24am