Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6G

Reasonably good card for gaming, as long as your expectations from it are reasonable. I have used it to play Halo MCC on 34" 1440p ultrawide and enjoyed 130+ FPS in the non-remastered games and 60-80FPS in the remastered ones. However, it must be noted that these decade(s) old games which were made for consoles... it is not impressive that a low-end card can run them.Despite my results, I would say that this is only a card for 1080p and for low to moderate detail settings. It would be a perfect card for E-Sports gaming, and non-AAA titles unless you are happy to drop settings to keep your frametime fast. (Frametime > Details any day of the week)This could be unique to my card but the fans... have a mind of their own. When set to the "Zero RPM" mode in the Gigabyte utility the fans seem to rev quickly from zero, turn off, rev again, turn off again repeating forever until I turned the ZeroRPM off... it sounds like a car engine being revved. The fans are also a tad noisy in standard mode when they are running all the time, and I found them to be intolerable so I removed the shroud and fans, added a pair of 80mm Noctua Redux fans with some cable ties and wired them to my Commander Pro using the temperature sensor of the 1660 as the control input. Now the card is silent when idle or low loads, and the noise is acceptable when gaming. Can't really knock a star off for any of this... like I said, go in with reasonable expectations and you won't be disappointed.If you can afford a bit more for a 2060 (don't buy one now though... you know why) I would say it is worth it. If you are really strapped for money this card can get you further than you might expect for the price.The ultimate "is it for me" test is to look up benchmark tests for the card you are considering, and decide if you would be happy with the performance shown.

The value for money is 4/5 instead of 5/5 because every single GPU right now is dumpster trash in terms of value for money, but this one is a little bit less dumpster trash in value for money than the rest of them so therefore it's 4/5.It tripled my FPS in Forza Horizon 5 from my homeless setup Nvidia 1030 GPU from 20 on the lowest settings to 55-60 FPS on high settings, and now I actually want to play video games with it because my eyes aren't offended by them anymore - highly recommended if you earn less than $60,000 a year but still don't want your eyes to be offended by bad video game graphics and prepubescent numbers of FPS.It's as easy to install as carefully throwing it at your motherboard and letting the GeForce Experience app implant your PC with the highest educated and most attractive donor drivers so that your 1660 can grow up to be a valuable and respected member of your PC setup.

I was very surprised with this card, it's very quiet while maintaining good temps. Under a good load, the speed stays under 60% and keeps the temp under 50^c and it quieter than my case fans.Good value for what it is, and runs most things - You won't be able to max out the graphics on some of the newer games, but on a budget or not wanting to spend too much, games look really nice with 60+ frames.

I combined this with a Gigabyte X470 MB and a Ryzen 7 2700X CPU and its pretty fast. I'm not much of a gamer but I downloaded the free version of Resident Evil from the Microsoft store and I was impressed by the flowing detail of the game with this card.One thing that you may find helpful.If like me you buy a CPU without onboard graphics support, you will need to buy a graphics card. And if you want to disable CSM support in the BIOS, then you will need a monitor/TV with a DP connector. With CSM support disabled graphics cards only output from 1 port while in BIOS or pre-operating system mode. On this card it is DP 1.I only have a TV with HDMI and so had to buy a DP to HDMI converter cable, £6 from Amazon, which does the job.

Cheapest 1660 Oc review...Styling:Not the prettiest graphics card, it's very basic and does not state which card it is on the side. It looks OK when mounted in a nice case. No RGB or LED effects here.Cooling:Perfect. Fans do not spin at all when not under load. When under load they spin moderately and do not make much noise. My GPU hasn't gone above 60 degrees on full load when playing games.Performance:Best and cheapest 1080p card you can hope for. Will play all the latest games in 1080p on max settings at 60+ fps. On games like rocket league, DBZ Kakarot, Mordhau I've been getting 100+fps on max settings.All in all a brilliant card for the price, shame about the styling, which is why I'm going to give this 4/5.

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Gigabyte’s Windforce 3X delivers practical benefits in the GeForce GTX 1660 Gaming OC 6G, facilitating lower operating temperatures, slower-spinning fans, and more aggressive clock rates than competing cards. While we’re typically not proponents of spending more money than necessary on mainstream GPUs, this is one model worth its modest premium.FORWindforce 3X cooler is great for low temps without much noiseSlight factory overclockRGB lightingFair price compared to base-level 1660sAGAINSTOverclock doesn’t do much for real-world performanceExtra-long heat sink takes up more room in your chassis

The GTX 1660 was a gpu that was built for low to mid tier builds at the time. Compared to the 10th series GTX cards, I should of personally waited as they were built different (In a powerful way). The 1660 however did make it possible to play a lot of modern games at the time at a decent FPS as the onboard ram helped to prop up any heavy loads.