Few old graphics card on sale, could be handy if you need something to throw in a nas or whatever.
https://hobbywarehouse.com.au/collections/electronic-accesso…
https://hobbywarehouse.com.au/products/colorful-igame-geforc…
https://hobbywarehouse.com.au/products/colorful-igame-geforc…
Ordered from them before with noctua deals and all delivered fine and whatnot
will this make a good door stop?
Not powerful enough. But deadly in the right hands that can make doom play on potato electricity
I can vouch that those 6GB 1060's still manage a pretty steady 60fps on most modern games at 1600×900 pretty reliably.
Not the resolution you want if you game at your desk, but totally playable if you're a couch gamer (I suppose depending on the size of your TV, haha).
I also have a 1050ti I removed the fan from, in my server for VM acceleration duties. It doesn't overheat fanless.
I have an old 22" monitor and game at 1680x1050, it's fine for me. No idea why you would game at 1600x900 as it would be a non-native resolution and look terrible.
1600x900 is extremely clearly 16x9 which is standard widescreen aspect ratio.
Your 1680x1050 is a much less common 16x10.
Don’t get me wrong, I had 1920x1200 24” for years and the extra vertical real estate is great. But 16x9 was/is vastly more common.
I know 1600x900 is 16x9, but 16x9 monitors have been 1080p for as long as I can remember. So you will be running the game at a non-native resolution, which is less than ideal.
@MrZ: Simplifying this explanation a lot here, but PC games aren't like consoles where a game runs at a given internal resolution regardless of output (monitor) resolution.
If you have a 1600x900 monitor and set the game to output at 1600x900, it renders and outputs a native, pixel perfect 1600x900 image. The same is true for your 1680x1050 monitor - set a game to output at 1680x1050 and that's what you'll get.
There is some additional nuance - mainly around bad PC ports that don't support arbitrary resolutions or aspect ratios, and the advent of widely available and implemented upscaling options like DLSS and FSR, but the above is generally true.
@tmr3: Yes but how many people still have 1600x900 monitors? Your monitor would need to be at least 15 years old. According to the Steam hardware survey, less than 1% of people have a monitor with that resolution.
@MrZ: 1600x900 = 1.77 aspect ratio
1920x1080 = 1.77 aspect ratio
You are getting caught up with the resolution instead of the aspect ratio. Yes, most people will have 1080p monitors, but that scales up (relatively) well from a 900p game resolution.
@miicah: I think what @MrZ means is, if you render a 1600x900 picture, and then show it on a monitor which isn't 1600x900, then the pixels need to be interpolated to stretch/squish the image, or you need to crop it or add black border around it. So (unless your monitor actually is 1600x900) why not just get the graphics card to render a picture that is the exact same resolution as your monitor?
This is less of an issue if the aspect ratio is the same. You don't have an asymmetric mismatch, so you don't have to stretch or cut/letterbox it more in one direction. But it's still a problem. It takes a small amount of extra computation, and reduces the quality of the image.
Note there is a technique where you deliberately render a game at a lower resolution and then scale it up (upscaling). This saves computation, and the blurring of the interpolation works as an anti-alias.
Operating systems and video games sometimes do some adjustments that only make sense if they are rendering on physical pixels, for example they can deliberately align the edges of text and boxes in the GUI so that they line up with the pixel edges, so they don't need to be blurred between them, which makes the boxes and text look crisper. So if you resize the image, especially if by a small amount (which is not a whole multiple) like 1600x900 to 1920x1080, this stuff that is aligned to the pixel grid will look blurry.
So if you have to letterbox or crop a video, you're making an artistic decision which is different to what the author of the video you're watching made. Likewise if you run the game at an aspect-ratio that the game developer hadn't considered, the layout will probably look funny and awkward. Games that aren't tailored to a console with a fixed resolution, can generally adapt to different monitor sizes, naturally, by just rendering the image at a bigger scale. But, just resizing the image to another resolution (after it's already been rendered) is making a small artistic decision, because it might have been specifically constructed to look good at that resolution.
If, when you say "running at X resolution", you mean that the video game has an upscaling feature and you're telling the video game to render the 3d scene at that resolution, and then upscale it, add on the text and GUI, and then render it at the resolution of your monitor; in other words, if the video game itself is handling the resolution upscaling; then it should look fine. But if you mean you're setting your screen to a smaller resolution, telling the video game to render at that resolution, and letting the monitor handle the upscaling, then you'll have these problems.
TV's are 16x9, which is what my (and almost all) TV's are.
Stretching an image is a lot clearer than skewing an image from 16x10 to 16x9.
At couch-distance (2m+) the pixel density of a modern panel tends to mask the native resolution issues; no way the 1060 is pushing a decent frame rate at a 4k native.
Its either non-native resolution or low framerate on modern titles. I'll take frames over resolution anyday.
These cards can also just be good if you want to run 3 monitors and/or 4k monitors.
These need external power right? Looking for a Tiny PC.
The 1050Ti shouldn't, but this model does…. I wonder if it has any sense on those pins, or they're a 'just in case' the slot can't provide the full 75W….
6gbs sold out fyi
Also some cheap old 640w psus available
1060 6g sold out already
oos damn it!
Good for handhelds? Chuck in an egpu enclosure
Just so sad that Gtx is gonna be a thing of the past soon really sad 🥺🥺
Not sad given where graphics is heading, but to others please realise that NVIDIA will no longer provide driver updates for this series in a month or two.
There will be security and possibly major bug updates for a approximately couple of years yet, then that will be that.
Placing a neg on the deal so people are aware of that major caveat.
I grew up at the Gtx range, it's just very nostalgic to me.
A lot of people don't even realise that they're 750 TI still has updates to this day unfortunately you are correct after 58x drivers, there no longer will be support. Even now games are demanding RT core graphics cards.
Rip the mighty 1080ti 🙏🏽
Yeah I've got a GTX 560 sitting in my parent's PC that I still maintain for them, they function but they will eventually hit big walls with modern games, RT being one aspect.
On the bright side, Nouveau should continue to support it for the forseeable future.
Thanks jasswolf for swooping in with neg to protect us all
Thanks sarcastic tech nerd for not understanding the average consumer
Out of curiosity, is your username a reference to the mudcrab with 10000 gold in Morrowind?
@Dan24: "How dry I am… how dry I am… nobody knows… how dry I am….' SHAY! Hi. There. Lesh make a deal. I got… stuff. Lots."
@Mudcrab Merchant: Knew it, thanks for confirming :) I always preferred the scamp in Caldera because of its proximity to the mages guild. Nothing a mark spell can't fix I suppose. When I was playing Morrowind as a kid, I thought the best way to earn money was going to each house in every town and killing everyone one at a time and selling their stuff. I promise I have grown to be a well adjusted adult who realises that isn't the best way to make money.
Now I go the St Olms Canton and kill the people in the shrine in the underworks. Since they are uber geared. Just a bit rough pre level 10 I think
@Dan24: Ahh f'lah, the crazy things we did as kids. Still occasionally binge play Open MW with 100s of mods. For gold when I'm feeling lazy ~ player.additem 0000000f 10000 Works for Oblivion and Skyrim too.
100% .. the 1 was left out of the prices… Pricing error :) example -
$49.00 Regular price RRP $299.00
should be
$149.00 Regular price RRP $299.00
Not for something this old :)
if you look at the used market the prices check out… YES its crazy but $149 for a RTX1060 is still a thing today and its because AMD and Nvidia exited the low end market leaving only these older models as options
No way in hell i would pay that much …
@Krondorf: I'm just pointing out what they cost! so i guess people are willing to pay these prices otherwise they would be much cheaper on Ebay and other used parts websites.. NEW cards in the low end are still GT710's and GT1030's RX550, RX580 selling for $50 to $150
RX6400 and RX6500 ( the last and final release of NEW low end cards) are around $200… its just crazy how bad the low end market is.
8GB Isn't Enough for Gaming in 2025
1060 3GB @ $39… you have my attention!
Hahahha bought for shits and giggles
dang it, in the market for one right now! Would've been perfect :(
Good find though.
and here i am in 2025 rocking my GTX 1080's with no problem…. yes plural, in the one machine (SLI)
My old 1080s been passed down to my younger brother, who then passed it down to my much younger brother, still chugging along, though one fan has given up.
Are these cards new or 2nd hand?
Dang too slow..1060 6gb would be an upgrade for my 750ti lol
Anyone need a 650W power supply from 2008?
https://hobbywarehouse.com.au/products/thermaltake-toughpowe…
How do you know it's from 2008? Is it new or 2nd hand?
https://www.techpowerup.com/46651/thermaltake-power-express-…
This article was written Dec 11th, 2007
Wow, what an antique! These aren't even 'full' power supplies, they're designed to be used alongside a system PSU with this one just powering the GPU(s).
Sounds like something I "need" if I'm ever going to invest in a GPU for a 10th Gen Core i7 Office PC I scored from work.
Definitely worth as a backup troubleshooting card.
Still possible to play games on these older cards. I played through Silent Hill 2 on a 1080 with FSR at 2k/60.
Much simpler games would be fine.
https://hobbywarehouse.com.au/products/noctua-nh-u14s-dx-364… can the fan be removed from this and used as case fans?
Yea, just be warned the frame is just weird sized so can be a bit of a squeeze, using core v21 got 2 in front and 1 in back, cant use em on the side rails though
Still running my 4gb gtx980, maybe should update. Only play D2R and the odd indie game though.
dammit, would have a been a good upgrade for my kids PC (gtx950)
The deal that is so good even the great marshmallow can't complain
Happy to get one as a backup gpu in case my main one gets issue. For others, I think an integrated cpu should be less power consumption over time.
The century deal that submerges me