Should you buy a GTX 960 in 2024?
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2024
- After recently building a gaming PC for just £100 that contained an Nvidia Geforce GTX 960. I wanted to see what the card could do in 2024 when not limited by the rest of the system. Is it even worth picking up one of these now? Let’s find out!
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I have a reference design GTX 960 2GB from a dell prebuilt. For those who are into older titles, or comfortable running newer ones at low settings, it's a decent buy if you can get one cheap. I paid £30 for mine about 6 months ago to go in a backup PC.
The only real reason to buy gtx 960 nowadays is the fact, that this is the beast for retro win xp builds as it's one of the latest gpus with available xp drivers for it and there's no dx9 game demanding enough to slow it down (not counting some horribly optimized ones).
I just got into PC gaming this year my friend gave me his old parts which included a 4gb 960, it holds up pretty well for my daily but it will soon be replaced
Nice video, I till recently ran a GTX 960 4GB GPU in my back-up PC paired with an FX -8350 and a 1440p monitor, while playing most games to get a decent gaming FPS, I'd have to go 1080P at very low settings at native setting (Upgraded to an AM4 system, B550 motherboard, R5 5600X and a RX 6650 GPU) as I use the classic point of 60 FPS , system would struggle playing games, of course the FX-8350 didn't help , sold system to a neighbor who just wanted to use it for Internet, so not sure how the GTX 960 would run in the AM4 system, flip PC's and the lowest ranked GPU I use is the GTX 970, which will run most games at +60 at 1080P, I wouldn't recommend the GTX 960 as a gaming GPU.
It's a good little card tbh but shame this was a 2GB model. Did a video on the 970 we have not so long ago and that held up much better, might have been because the VRAM though.
i got the 4gb version of this card that has 2 fans, and it ran a smidgeon better with the additional vram
Perhaps worth revisiting this and other older cards in titles that now support AMD frame generation, such as Spider-Man Remastered.
It's great for Windows XP builds and also still has VGA out so you can connect it to a CRT. So yeah, worth it for some.
Does the 4GB version have a big difference?
Just built a spare parts pc to run Esports titles mainly, using the 4gb version with an i5-7500.
I wish this was a 4GB model, it was just the cheapest I could find for the super budget build I did with it. What eSports games are you into?
i have a gtx 960 since the day launch (oc version) capable of reaching 120 fps in cs2 and val (low settings) and newer games with ps4 presets (around 30-40 fps). however, the amount of stutters is just not worth giving it another year so swapping my pc this year is the best choice because i never had the budget to swap my pc before. im really excited cant wait to play tlou and alan wake 2 in my new pc
Lasted you a fair while though.
With fsr 2 in quality I can play cyberpunk in medium high settings
I got a gtx 970 for a good price on Ebay to build a system with a Ryzen 5 2600 that I will take from another system to play mainly with emulators and doing office and multimedia tasks. I am glad to see that even the 960 is still doing ok in a low end environment
Revisited the 970 not so long ago and it did hold pretty well considering what I had been told. What type of emulation games are you looking to play?
@@TechLabUK I decided to get one after watching that video :-). I'm planning to use Retrobat and play some Mame, PS2, Dreamcast and GameCube
@@mrmounts84 Sounds mega awesome tbh. you will have to keep us updated.
@@TechLabUK of course
@@mrmounts84 👍
That and the 4 GB version lasted me a good while for a 2-3 year period before I got my RX 480.
Note: You can SLI the 2GB and 4GB versions, but you're limited to 2GB VRAM config.
Nice to know thanks. If I can get another on of these I might just knock up an SLi Half-Life PC or something lol
@@TechLabUK Bonus info: GTX 960 was the last natively supported WinXP GPU from nVidia.
@@janwitkowsky8787 Thanks for that too. Discord community members have been asking me to do some retro building so this will help lol
Must admit that's the kind of card I am thinking of to use in my new PLEX Server build
It should be alright for something like that tbh.
My 960 died last year, but for the surviving copies it's still a good card.
Even if more powerful and efficient cards have come out since then.
But the advantage of this 960 is its bargain price and its performance, which is just right for gaming.
I've worn out my card with gaming and overclocking, and dust since I've had it in 2016. My model was a 960 gainward phantom 2go, very reliable and low-heating.
Im watching this on my evga gtx 960 ftw
I put a system together out of old parts for gf to play with the 950 for total setup under 100 quid and for games she plays it's actually quite capable.
Spec
Is xono quad core with 8 threads
20 GB ddr3 1600mhz( old workstation pc I got for 30 quid from eBay)
500gb SSD (came with pc)
500gb HDD ( I had laying around)
Gtx 950(had laying around estimated value 20 quid )
900p monitor used (tener eBay)
Cheep mechanical keyboard and mouse (AliExpress) £15
And cheep AliExpress speakers and headset had these kicking around say estamed used value of a tenner if that lol
Sounds like an awesome build. I haven't used a 950 yet tbh, I might look for one. What kind of games is your GF playing with it?
I had a 2GB 960 during the scalpocalypse. Paid way too much for it. But it wasn’t as bad as I feared. The Strix version was very cool and silent.
To be fair this one gave me no issues, a little warm here and there but wasn't loud at all.
Wonder what a "modern" equivalent would be? Maybe an RX 570?
Not 100% sure but do have an RX 470 4GB loaded into the testing rig now so maybe I will find out. Will keep you posted.
I liked these evga itx cards easy to fit in pre built systems. The GTX 960 has fallen off the usable list for me these days!
Yeah, seems to have it's place in the retro category now and a lot of people commenting are using them for that and emulation. What do you think is the bare minimum now instead?
I have a GTX 960 4gb on hand. Using it on my Windows XP retro PC.
Sounds awesome. What kind of games do you play on that system?
@@TechLabUK nowadays I rarely play games but FEAR is my fav XP game. I'm quite addicted on building an "ultimate one". Currently using an Ivy Bridge as this is the last generation that have full support for XP but Haswell has some compatibility too so I'm planning to upgrade to Haswell. I also have a HD 7970 as my ultimate Radeon GPU on my XP rig. I just swap them depending on what I need.
I had this card in 2016 and even back then it was barely keeping up, who’s gonna buy this brand new in 2024??
I doubt you would find one brand new today.
I did actually buy exactly that one in 2023 for my WinXP Retro PC.
EDIT: Overall I‘m very positively surprised with the performance of the 960 in 2024. From today’s perspective it is crazy how much performance you got for the buck then.
Noice! How's it been so far?
@@TechLabUK I must admit I haven’t tested it very much yet. I aimed for a variety of WinXP era cards in order to have the right cards for all games. Therefore I have a Gigabyte 8800GT (with a rather loud Zalman fan), an EVGA GTX550ti an this EVGA GTX960.
One of my friends really only plays Minecraft, so they've had the same gtx 960 2gb since it came out.
Would be great for Minecraft to be fair.
Oh I remember those
Have you used one before? not sure if I have seen you feature one on the channel yet?
As you also said a logical person back then would had bought the GTX 960 4GB or R9 380 4GB. It was waste of money to buy the 2GB version.
Not for anymore than £20 tbh but it still has its place I guess in 2024
Fun to throw in something for older games tbh, just at it's limits in modern stuff.
an Emulation build with this card would be a decent i guess
Yeah, could be pretty cool tbh.
I have gigabyte gtx 960 2gb 🤣
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fsr has ruined reviews...or maybe it's the reviewers fault
What do you mean?
@@TechLabUK fsr makes 1080p look so bad :( if you can't play 720p-900p native the game is not playable on that gpu, gta 3 native 900p at high settings looks better
@@damasterpiece08 FSR behaves differently depending on the game and GPU. It's not really designed for lower resolutions but it is useful to bump an old GPU to playable performance and it doesn't always look that bad. Depends on the FSR quality setting tbh
@@TechLabUK i wonder if it looks better on a 17" crt screen upscaled from 720p to 1080p :)
@@damasterpiece08 I suspect it will as the upscaling should effectively produce a "better" quality 720p image really and the smaller the screen the less issues you see. like with the handhelds.
Question should be: If GTX960 ware lying on the ground when you walked by... Would you bother picking it up or not. And you shouldn't because its e waste.
If your as poor as I am, finding a 960 on the ground would be more like finding eGOLD to me! 😆🤣 I actually found a complete old system dumped on my front lawn back in 2020 with a GTX 780 ti mounted on an ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard. The system was in sorry shape but I fixed it up and still use it nearly every day now and it runs great. It had a gen one i7 920 which I upgraded to a Xeon 5670 six core 12 thread. It has a Corsair 800 watt PSU that definitely needs replacement soon though, as the voltages are not always stable on it. Like they say about one man's junk being another's treasure.....👍👍
Gtx 950 enough?
Better than GTX 750ti, so yeah@@airmicrobe
Disagree, my kids run fortnite, medium settings perfectly fine on my overclocked gtx 960 :-)
Sure if you play latest AAA games
then this card is bad (i dont care about latest AAA games)