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I got an RTX 3060 a couple years ago for about $400. It's still a great card with Fallout 4, Skyrim, Tiny Tina's Wonderland, Subnautica, and Fallout 76 looking well. It pairs well with my Ryzen 3 3200 G with 16 gig 3200 ram, built in 2020. If you think my rig is old, the case is an alienware from 2005!

i really appreciate your insight to battle ewaste

that's an RTX not an atty X

The rtx 3060 is a great card, even now.

be the ball

What are you talking about, most of tech youtubers and forums recommend 12GB 3060 over 4060 lol and it's basically the same price too so no, you're not saving any money here either 😆

You're not mad, just schtuuuuupid!!!

Intel Core i3-4170: Leave me alone!!!

That 4th gen i3 was the best budget chip for a while because the amd counterparts were so bad. I remember the fx 8350 was getting beat by a i3 because of intels superior ipc

The cheap i7- will work as well. (Xeon 1265-v3 ) it has no igpu but they were my go to when the i7 was 50-80$ more back in 2015-2017

Nelly, All I see is a CPU limited experience. With a system of this vintage, You could easily drop an i7 4770/4790k for cheap and address the glaring performance issue. I've built a similar i3 with a 4150/MSI GTX 970 years ago, So I have some knowledge on how this can tarnish these bang on budget GPU's. Wouldn't mind a retest with said strong intel processor. Thanks for the video and Cheers on your new channel.

I bought my son the Gainward Ghost 3060 12GB at the start of Covid for £500! Great card but then upgraded him to a Palit 3070 GAMING PRO which blew it out of the water… he’s now rocking a Asus 4070 TUF GAMING OC which was a decent upgrade but not the difference from 3060 to 3070. For £260 ish the 3060 for 1080p is a great deal.

We dont even have to watch FAR; Hardware unboxed demonstrated the large problem of driver overhead using Ncrappier RTX gpu's with lower end processors. Basically if you have an older weaker quad core (i7 4770 say) you should be buying the rx 6600, which is faster than a 3060 in ALL situations but esp with weaker old cpu's. Whats first for laughs? "Lets find out if some of these older components can function with modern technology" .. This is a major understanding fail; the PCI-E bus and its different levels are forwards and backwards compatible with gpu cards for well over a decade. So it is not 'new tech'. The only major hiccup to this was with O.E.M. systems when nvidia compressed the vram on the 9 series cards, and without a bios update, biz chipset O.E.M. boards(particularly prone with only 8 pci-e lanes) would not run say a gtx 970 but would run an r7 2/380 no probs. (I remember this well, I spent a LOONG TIME cursing the price of a 970 and most biz boxes had no bios updates) Second for Laughs; Nelly is going to be using his "Test Bench" .. So after talking like a ten yr old mobo pci-E connect* is dinosaur tech for new entry cards he is going to use a power supply from 2006 which is 18 yrs old. (no, he doesnt have a psu load tester set up to test the test rig psu and yes the rest of us understand the probs using an 18 YEAR OLD POWER SUPPLY ffs ) Next? Oh yeah. DDR3 near him is as rare as rocking horse shit. HA HA HA HA HA. THE WORLD is swimming in it_ Gotta be fxxxxxxx kidding_ And he does not know about cas latency. Or 2 vs 4 sticks etc on that platform. How that affects cpu perf. Basically this bloke NELLY is an idiot like Reg Prescott the D.I.Y. er on the Kenny Everett show. A quick deny channel should see this plonker eradicated, bloke is WAY out of his depth. * gen 3

4060 is better because of the lower power draw and similar price.

Mmm I think just becouse there is 13 and 14 gen Intel is out there doesn't mean you get top brute force prossor power go go Xeon already and nothing is a problem anymore with my 20 core 40 treads I eat everything for breakfast and then some so doe your research and profit ;)

Honestly i3s aged pretty badly. It would still be interesting to slap an i7 4790 since they can be found for 50ish euro and you can find machines of that era sitting around as e-waste

Probably just the wrong forums. 3060 is fine if the price is fine tbh

Yeah, no. That frametime graph looks downright nasty and unplayable. such swings at 40-50 fps most people gonna struggle to ignore. In this case i would seriously consider limiting to 40 (or based on lowest fps achieved with no cap) in RTSS in attempt to smooth out the stutter.

ya can get a 4060 for under 300 so really makes no sence getting a 3060 really

Wouldn't you be better off with an amd card if you want a cheaper card with lot's of vram and a good price/performance? Unless you intend to run nvidia specific pro software or something... but for gaming.... not like either of them is going to be fast enough with ray tracing for that to matter

3060 better than 4060 for sureeee.

For 1080p@60Hz 3060 12G is more than adequate and budget solution even with max graphics settings. If you use DLSS and Frame Generation, of course. I mean it keep close to 60fps(dlss quality, FSR3 FG) in CP2077 path tracing enabled, and up to 100 fps in CitySample demo.

Me with my 6750xt that cost JUST £70 more than 3060 lmao 3060 💩☠ IDIOT!

Got mine last year 12gb , way better than 4060

The RTX 3060 12GB still is a pretty good card and pretty much the minimum requirement for a modern FullHD gaming PC if you buy new. I'd check out the RX 6700 XT ( and possibly 6750 XT ) before buying though, because those are faster and actually can provide decent 4k gaming performance for the same price or less.

A reliable little 1080p card with no vram issues. You can even run it on 1440p and have some fun. Even 4k is possible but at low framerates around 30fps.

The MSI Ventus cards are always the worst in terms of cooling and overall build quality.

Before watching the video, my answer to the question would be, "Because you don't hate yourself enough to buy a 4060" 😂

So, why did you buy an RTX 3060 in 2024?

If you have 1080 ti , no reason to get this one as it's more or less the same performance. with less power draw. Get at least a 6800XT/7800XT/7900 GRE or 3080/4070.

The 3060 12GB (Specifically) is an amazing 1080p-1440p *NATIVE* Medium-Ultra Esports and well optimized AAA card. You can still play anything under the sun demanding or just plain not well optimized with balanced or quality DLSS. I am not a fan of DLSS and prefer native resolution and lower settings before using it, but it does work.

I got MSI 3060 12GB with i5 13600k ... Absolutely loving it!

The processor alone is worth £150. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

In fact, the r5 5600g is ~ 40% more powerful in all core work, 10% faster in gaming and costs £115. And has onboard graphics that can play many old titles like bioshock or fallout3 just fine. Oh. it gets better; he bought his wife a new pc from C.E.X.

This bloke's channel is a bit like "RandomgamingHD " except this bloke knows jack sh1t. Can you imagine any fxck1ng tech tuber opening a box from an O.E.M. like acer and telling the planet they bought their wife a retail pc box? This guy knows so little he doesnt realise if he keeps this up he is going to become a meme.

I dunno. Why did you buy a 40 month old weak at launch 1080p card for 280 quid when today I can buy an rx 6750 xt xfx qick from ebuyer for £300? The 6750 xt is 41% faster in Rasterisation (pick yr spelling) also has 12Gb vram and the chops to use it in 1440p AAA higher settings gaming. The 3060 'doesnt'. The 3060 was so poor ncr4ppier put 12Gb on it but only 8gb on the 3060 t.i. which is 28% faster. Everybody saw thru this price hiking ruse on the 3060 sh1t show. Generations ago card vendors used to add more ram to crap gpu's but no longer allowed even if possible. So, what else we got? Some utter b0ll0x about the fan blades being curved and higher static pressure? Like they arent on every s.k.u. graphics card? SERIOUSLY? The difference in same price tier gpu cards re noise and temps is minimal, this is not a new field of physics f.f.s. IF you dont know this create a channel about something else. (mowing lawns?) Oh, you want perhaps to help all those people move from a gtx 1650 to an rtx 3060 for 1440p (most of those '50 cards are in o.e.m. boxes) Well, that is going to require a power supply upgrade and once you move off the O.E.M. crap PSU that a 1650 will run on THEY will be spending £55 ish for a reliable gaming quality psu.. ALL. DAY. LONG. (quick look on part picker) Say, 550w for your sh1t heap 3060 card ( but once you get into 550 Watts GAMING quality unit, prices vary less . The cheapest 550 watt unit I trust today is the be quiet sys power 10 550w at £52..(trust long term open / hi flow case) But the be quiet! System Power 10 650 W bronze for £58.. so suddenly a card that needs 650w PSU doesnt look like a deal breaker. You move on to equate graphics card performance to vram, this is a real noob mistake. A 4 Gb rx 4/570 / 80 (and 1060 3Gb if tweaked settings carefully)) will p1ss all over a 4Gb rx 4/ 560, gtx 1050 ti / 1650 in mmo's. And old AAA games @ 1080p. Basically there are a dozen known popular tech tubers who are absolute experts at this AND YOU SIR ARE NOT ONE OF THEM.

Should have either bought a rx7600 in this price range, it slaughters the 3060 and 4060 OR paid the $100 price difference and picked up a 4060ti.

I just upgraded from 3060 to 4070Ti because Gray Zone warfare was not performing well with 3060.

Got one of these aswell and I'm impressed absolutely.

I got a 3060 12GB and its a great value card, its even better value for us that got it years ago. 👍 A thing about steam hardware survey is that its optional and doesnt include all steam accounts while some accounts are using the same computers respectively. So its not a representative metric of the pc gaming world.

I have a friend that bougght a 3060 because he needed something with low power draw as well as a GPU that would run WoW at 4k well and didn't have a completely gimped memory bus and lane count when it came to running with a ryzen 3600 which is pcie 3.0. He bought it in 2024 because there was pretty much nothing else except the 4070 which is more power than he wanted to draw as well as about twice as expensive for 90% more performance which means it's a bit less cost efficient for the performance. No good options for him...

The 3060 has the same amount of shaders as the flagship from 2011 , namely 3584 , and since its memory is half the buswidth , 192 , but twice the speed , it performs about the same as the 1080ti. How can it be a bad card. On the other side , the 1080ti is already 13 years old. But for 1080p gaming , rendering and video editing it is a great low budget choice.

I'm very happy with my 3060. My upgrade was from a GTX 970. It runs smoothly, games look, and play great. For a 12gen CPU, 32GB Ram, and a Samsung 230Hz 1080p monitor, it's all I need right now.

well the 4060/4070 are crap and anything above that is good but its expencive so if we take the 30 series the 3060(12gb) ain't the best out of the 30 series casue the 3080/90 are outperforming it however they are again more expencive and if u are gonna drop that amount of $$$ better add few more $$$ and buy a 4080

I have the exact same card and model for the past 25 months. It's more of a 1080p card in 2024. Even then, newer games like avatar, alan wake 2, starfield etc require upscaling to get 60fps at 1080p. I also have really bad frame drops in helldivers 2 to 15-20fps so im worried I'll be needing a faster card if i hope to play newer games.

He keeps saying 4k gaming. This is NOT a 4k gaming card. That is why he is not testing it in 4k.

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i got a 2hand 3080 for the same price as you payed for that nice 3060, just saying there's some great bargain's on the second hand market. thanks great vid mate.

Folks, don't use Steam hardware survey to buy GPUs.