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First post, by smullyoz

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OR would something like GTX 680 be more compatible. I know the 1060 is a faster card, but wondering about game compatibility.
This would be on a Windows 7 64bit machine with a first gen I7.

Reply 1 of 14, by RetroGamer4Ever

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smullyoz wrote on 2023-02-04, 15:20:

OR would something like GTX 680 be more compatible. I know the 1060 is a faster card, but wondering about game compatibility.
This would be on a Windows 7 64bit machine with a first gen I7.

I use the 6GB version - which is the gaming version of that particular GPU - and it's great with those games, but you have to be sure your PSU can handle it. Otherwise, you may want to try a 4GB 1050 TI, instead of the 3GB 1060.

Reply 3 of 14, by RandomStranger

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Is your 1st gen i7 is LGA1366 or 1156?

Anyway, for Windows 7 I guess the GTX1060 is alright, I'd choose that over a TOP Thermi GPU.
I don't think there are any major differences regarding compatibility aside of the older cards also work with XP which you don't plan to use. XP has native support for EAX though and later Windows(es?) only through wrappers. The GPUs themselves all have issues with early era bump mapping for example.

As for performance, if you keep the resolution period correct (1600×1200 and/or 1680×1050) then a GTX660 is about as fast as you really need which is about half as fast as the 1060.

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Reply 4 of 14, by smullyoz

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Great thanks guys. I do have a GTX 480 sitting at home, and could get a GTX 1060 3gb for $60 CAD.
There's also a GRTX 770 for $50.
And GTX 760 for $40.
and GTX 660 for $30.

CPU is 1156

Maybe ill just save my cash and see if this 480 works ok. Id like to use it for 3D vision as well as i have the glasses and 120hz monitor.

Reply 5 of 14, by pentiumspeed

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Oh no, not good idea. GTX 480 is even less powerful than 580. GTX 770 or 1060 is good for that.

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Reply 6 of 14, by mastergamma12

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I'm using a GTX 480 in my XP/7 rig and while it runs everything I have on here fine, it's far from an ideal solution (I've been contemplating putting my OG Titan in there) and any of those other cards would be a better solution.

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Reply 7 of 14, by feda

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The 1060 is an excellent card. Can't go wrong with it. It's still the number two most popular card on Steam. Good for DX9 and even most recent DX11-12 games. Although I think it might be overkill if you're only planning to play older stuff.

Reply 8 of 14, by Gmlb256

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Go for the GeForce GTX 1060, it is faster than the GTX 680 and much more efficient than the GTX 480. On a less relevant note, it has feature level 12_1 for D3D which is something that nearly all the tech press glossed over because of the low-level API hype.

DX11 superseded DX10 for all purposes and the API is very similar outside of features like tessellation and DirectCompute.

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Reply 9 of 14, by The Serpent Rider

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GeForce 1060 has to decent Vulkan support, which can fix some issues with older games via DXVK.

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Reply 11 of 14, by SPBHM

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the older cards with XP drivers I guess could have some advantages like, from the top of my mind, without modding Far Cry has wrong water reflections on anything newer than windows xp and it is a dx9 game.

Reply 12 of 14, by candle_86

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I'm using a GTX 960 4gb for my win7 rig it does fine at 1680x1050 and they are stupid cheap right now, I paid $40 for mine from the local Facebook marketplace.

Reply 13 of 14, by pentiumspeed

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GTX 960 is excellent for this on XP. But for current games on Steam, not so much. My father recently (Jan 2023) got on a War of God and it is kicking the poor GTX 960, I had to drop to medium or low IIRC.

Cheers,

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Reply 14 of 14, by SPBHM

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pentiumspeed wrote on 2023-02-06, 00:22:

GTX 960 is excellent for this on XP. But for current games on Steam, not so much. My father recently (Jan 2023) got on a War of God and it is kicking the poor GTX 960, I had to drop to medium or low IIRC.

Cheers,

there have been some driver issues with the 900 series I think, I saw that on Halo infinite the performance is horrible on latest drivers but fine on versions from a year ago...
othe than that, those cards are pretty awesome, DX12 FL 12.1 support AND windows XP drivers;
something like the 980 is also way faster than the 960 but with the same compatibility;