Stupid pc gaming. I found that forza motorsport 6 apex is a free download on pc. that will do i thought to myself. then i try to go onto MS store to download it and get the "in built account cant open a browser, because we are MS and we are wankers" message.

So i fix that, go to the MS store and get a new error. Your not running the fall update of win 10. Fuck sake now need to update Win 10.

Theres a reason i prefer console gaming and thats becuase i just put the disk in and away you go.

Dinostar77 wrote:

Right, i have a gtx 950 not a gtx 960. I have £140 in cex vouchers and would get £60 in vouchers for my gtx 950. That would give me £200 in vouchers. if i was to upgrade my card, would i be better off with a 1060 gtx 3gb or 6gb? the 1060 gtx 6gb would cost me £125 cash onto of my vouchers. i was thinking a 1060 due to its sweet spot of price/performance. https://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/best-graphics-cards-1291458

Yeah a 1060 should do you pretty well, aim for £200-£220 for the 3GB model, and £250 for the 6GB I guess. The card has been out for a while now though, so I wouldn't like to recommend spending a whole lot for it. You'll inevitably be getting a little ripped off though due to the jacked up prices.

I would like to be able to recommend an AMD card as another alternative, but as they are a bit more proficient at mining they're even more of a ripoff.

A 1060 should net you Xbox One X level graphical performance anywho, which should be the standard now for a few years until the next console gen.

Gurt, thanks for the graphics card advise.

Updated to win10 fall edition, went to MS store to download forza 6 apex and its blocked by company policy (im on a standalone machine). feck they dont make it easy do they?

The speed of your internet connection has become one of the biggest bottlenecks when using any kind of computer these days it seems.

Ha ha ha what? That's insane.

The 1060 is lovely, of course I have the slightly less good laptop variant but there's nothing I've had so far that its struggled with, as long as you're not looking for ultra on every single game.

Fucking Microsoft sons of bitches. The fall creator update has hosed my machine. Runs like a dog. Sigh. I fucking hate win 10 with a passion. I do not want to spend my weekend fixing my pc. cunts.

Oh yeah, I feel I should point out that the 3GB variant of the 1060 is actually a bit cut down from the 6GB one (fewer CUDA cores and stuff I think), so apart from the lesser VRAM buffer, it will perform just a little worse generally. Not awful by any means, just worth considering when weighing up the prices.

It's a dumb thing really, Nvidia should have differentiated them in the naming somehow.

At the moment I have an EVGA card which I understand to be the/one of the best manufacturers. Is this actually the case and if so are there others at the same level?

Not sure but I have to have Geforce cards for the render software I am using.
I would assume any card would work for mining.

Ah well, I'll hold off until it all crashes, which shouldn't be too long hopefully.

I hope this currency crashes

I’d go with the 6gb as well because it’s the slightly faster card and has more memory. I mentioned games using more than 3gb for 1080 and yesterday I updated Kingdom Come Deliverance. It now has a high texture pack which is for cards with 6gb or more.

Not essential but something I can’t take advantage of.

Crypto’s on another big downturn at the mo, if it keeps going then mining profits are gonna diminish significantly you’d think. Coupled with a next gen of card from Nvidia then things could look a bit brighter come summer.

Oh.