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3.0 out of 5 starsGeforce 1660 Super is a great GPU.. be selective about the board
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2019
GPU:
Nvidia Super 1660 is the best value you can get today for a GPU. You can run every game on 1080p on the highest settings over 60 frames a second and the 6gb of ram provides ample memory, even the most graphics intensive games at most use 3 gb so this will future proof you. Also this card is faster than the 1660(which is a great GPU too) but what's great is it is nearly as fast as the 1660 TI and in a few games it actually runs faster but it costs less than the 1660 TI. The 1660 super is basically a 1660 with GDDR6 memory but the memory is even faster than what is on the TI and memory is one of the most essential features in video cards now since you if you look at GPU speeds, all cards from low to high range have around the same clock speed. The 1660/super is much better than the competition from Radeon including the new 5500. The 1550 is basically the same thing as a rx 580, in fact its slightly slower. ATI unfortunately does not offer very good competition and in terms of performance you get for what you spend, 1660 super is a great card. It's the best value on the market today.
Board/EVGA:
This is my first product from EVGA and it did not work and constantly crashed in video games and I had to return it. At first they thought the problem is only one of the fans was showing up in the software when 2 is supposed to(although both spun) but EVGA later told me this specific card you can only control both fans not each one individually. In any case EVGA did send me a new card that worked. And the good thing I suppose you can put down a deposit and they you get to keep your current card while you wait for the future one. I will say EVGA has good customer service, I had a negative opinion of this company/board but since the new card works I will say EVGA is fine and malfunctioning video card does not seem irregular.
The presentation of this card is a little ugly, normally I don't care about what a board looks like but it has tacky 'evga' imprinted all over the fans and the fans seems sort of cheap, I think they could have put more attention into it. Although the rest of the card seems solid, the heatsink looks like its in good quality. I read a review on techpowerup before I bought this and it said the evga fan is the loudest of the 1660 super card, but only by a few decibels. Honestly I have never heard the card but also I have a sound dampening case. Temperature wise it runs fine, around 70 C and temperature is relative for the type of gpu.
Aside from that, what is nice about the card is it has a displayport,HDMI and DVI-D. So if you have an older monitor you can use this card with it. Also the card is 'overclocked' by EVGA this is basically a gimmick, the boost rate of the GPU is overclocked a few megahertz and results in a frame a second faster.
Video Card Board Manufacturers
I bought all my parts for my computer on Amazon and they all worked great except.. video cards. Computer Parts generally work excellent and have a very high reliability rate. You can get a computer from the 1990s and it will still run fine. For whatever reason and I don't think it's well documented statistically, video cards have become the least stable part on a computer now and regularly have issues. So you should pay alot of attention to reviews and the brands of the card. Also you should get the most simple version of the card if you can without alot of extra 'overclocking' which your going to pay more for these cards anyway without getting much performance improvement.
In conclusion. The GPU is a 5/5 , the card is a 3.5/5. Get the 1660 Super if you can but be smart about the board that you buy.
