Went ahead and pulled the trigger on a new GPU (sort of)...spare 1060 3GB coming up for sale soon...

[1Sascha]

...because I'm not about to dish out €600 for the 3060 Ti that I want. Silly prices just aren't coming down it seems..

 

 

A buddy of mine just upgraded his PC and was offering me his two year old 2070 Super for a very good price. Couldn't say no and now I'll risk my PSU, I suppose. Power calculator gives me a recommended PSU of around 560W for my system with the 2070 Super added, and my Seasonic FX+ is a 550W. ?

 

Hope I won't fry that thing, but seeing the power draw from my CPU in games, I seriously doubt it. I'm not about to run Prime95 all day, so I guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed. It's not even the additional cost that I mind the most, but the prospect of having to re-do all the cable-management after just a month and a half or so.

 

My "new" card should be in the mail tomorrow and here by mid-week. So if anyone (preferably from Germany to keep shipping cost down) is interested in a hardly used MSI Aero ITX 1060 3GB (small form-factor, single fan card), let me know. I bought the thing in 2018 or so (still have the receipt), but never used it or even took it out of its box until I put it into this new rig at the end of March 2022. So, nearly new old stock, I guess.

 

The card does run IL-2 in 1440p rather well with only a few bells and whistles turned off and preset on "High". I'm getting 70 to 100 FPS with my settings, depending on the mission. I ran it on the "Ultra"-preset before and even then and with things like clouds on high or max and 2x to 4x FSAA, FPS never dropped below 60. I did post my results with this card in the benchmark-thread in this forum a few weeks ago.

 

 

S.

 

 

Edited May 16, 2022 by 1Sascha

[1Sascha]

Well.. looks like the GPU market over here is still pretty hot. Just sold the card on ebay for 96 € + shipping. Which is about what I hoped for since it's basically brand new, but I can't say I was expecting it to go that high. Still... for a 4 year old GPU with only 3GB of memory, that's still a pretty decent price. Some might even say it's a bit ludicrous to pay this much for an entry level card that's about to be three generations out of date, but I'm not complaining.

 

 

S.

Edited June 2, 2022 by 1Sascha