EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GDDR5 SC Gaming Graphics Card with ACX 2.0 Single Fan Cooling - DX12 Support, Overclocking (Model 03G-P4-6162-KR) - Perfect for 1080p Gaming, VR & Video Editing

I ordered this card for two main reasons. One, I wanted a upgrade from my GTX-960 that would be in my budget range and two, if I upgraded my card I wanted a memory upgrade too. Since my old GTX-960 had 4 gigs of GDDR5 RAM then I wanted at least a 2 gig step up to 6 gigs. I also liked the short single fan cards as they fit in my case better without having to move stuff all around. (I like the case I have even though it's not the roomiest I've seen.) When I read about the GTX-1060 SC which was like my GTX-960 as far as shape was concerned. And then I found out it came in a 6 gig GDDR5 RAM set up. And to top this off it's specs showed it gave a GTX-980 a run for the money and then there was the price at $259 and that's when I ordered it on 7/19/16 when they came out. (I've noted a bit of an up ward direction of the price in the days after it came out.) It came in today and it looked to be just what I wanted. When I got it in, I noted it was about the same size as the 960 was. I noted it wasn't quite as heavy as the 960. but I noted that the heat sink looked very solid and had copper cooling pipes on it. It came with an adapter for using a old style molex type power plug to power the card.(I didn't need this as my PS had the correct cable and plugs to fit. The one thing I did note (and I was prepared for) was that the DVI output was the DVI-D type and no VGA output nor a DVI-I (which has a VGA output on the side.) So if your thinking of getting this card and you have standard VGA, you'll need an active DVI-D to VGA adapter or use the HIMI slots. I had gotten an adapter as that's what I read when I was considering this card. Installation when fairly smoothly. I first uninstalled the 960 by deleted the card from the device manager and then shutting down the system to do the hardware install. (Since this card uses the same drivers as the 960, I've been a bit lucky in that I've been able to delete the card in the device manager and then shut down and install the new card and boot back up and each time I've used this approach, Windows has always loaded the driver and identified the new card. (BTW: This wouldn't work if I changed brands.) This time was no different. Windows booted up and a couple of seconds later I was notified to reboot so the drivers could be installed and when I did the card was up and running with the latest drivers. I had no problems after the reboot and the card seemed very solid so far. I decided to fool around with a couple of things just to see how it ran. First I loaded up "Remember Me" just for a little play time. It ran great. I didn't experience any problems running the game. I did note that the game seemed to render somewhat better than I remember and backgrounds looked better. I ran Kingdom of Amalur and it looked much better. (I didn't note quite as many background scenes sore of change around as you got closer to them or looked at them from a different view.) I also noted the colors seemed a bit more vivid to me, but this might just be me liking the game which I do. I experienced no lags to speak of and the game just ran great. I did note a few things I did like. The fan on it was very quite to me, and I liked that it was on all the time. I've had a video card and a power supply burn up when the fan wasn't running even if it wasn't supposed to be and I like the fan running. (I noted the card ran cooler than my 960 at 35c when in idle.....nice.) I also noted that it was very fast when loading up images at least for me. It seemed well able to handle what I threw at it and I tend to be a rough at times. So far, I'm very happy with my new card. I'll need to see how well it holds up to use and that will really tell the tale. So far a very nice card for the money.