I switched to the GTX 960 for 7 days

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I swapped my own GPU for a GTX 960 for 7 days to see how it holds up and how usable it is today...

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[therealsmileyyt]

as an overclocker, my heart dropped when you turned all the sliders up

[michakrzyzanowski]

I used a gtx 770 for so long. It could run most games even doom 2016 in 40-60 fps range.

[mtcoiner]

I've got an old 960 SSC 4gb on the shelf. I remember overclocking that thing to the moon. Awesome old card. They don't make em like they used to.

[TTURKI]

I used to run 635m for so long; i’m so happy that I thrown it

[Lexicon-ffor]

I remember the 960. I got mine around the launch of the Witcher 3, good times.

[khalilveronessi]

I had that exact same card the 4gb version, overclocked the hell of it! it was cold as ice! never got up over 51C, what an awesome card it was!.

[aminbagheri]

the reason you see lower temp even on overclock is that you are vram limited on 960 with shaders and textures so your gpu usage is lower you can clearly see that the TDP is lower on 5 fps minecraft anyway good video .

[AsusDeskYT]

The reason why temps dropped under load after oc is because of power usage. You weren’t drawing more than 105w usually. I own a 960 that can do up to 175 but rarely reaches that. The cooler and how much power it draws will never make it touch 70c on the cooler. At most I saw my 960 do like 66c while gaming at most. It was almost always chilling at 57c tho

[PojebanyWladyslaw]

yo man i run that EXACT card but its 4gb instead of the usual 2gb model and it manages to pull its own weight today, i dont play any AAA new releases so it does its job perfectly fine for what its worth, good card!

[auchrism]

Currently running a 4gb 960 daily, I used afterburner to get max clock speeds without crashes and it never goes above 50 degrees

[vjnobody]

Cool experiment, but what you didn't know about overclocking a lot of video cards, is they go into a high temperature throttling mode when overstressed. You have to sneak up on the OC. Try something less?

[christiaanventer]

Ah yes my Galax 960 4gb is the card I got a rare steam achievement on EVGA precision X1: temp under 10°C.

[josearmandosalgueiro]

Had that precise model for a few years .. yeah is pretty cool by default, low TDP, plus a beefy msi cooler .. it will never overheat ... the only bad part was .. that i had the 2gb model and also .. maxwell sucks at dx12 and vulkan ... pretty nice experiment buddy, nice vid ....

[bjarne]

Temperature in the 60s is perfectly normal for that card. Two fans is kind of overkill for this little gpu. Now try and find a gtx 960 with blower style cooling, THEN you will see different temps lol (up to 80)…

My last gtx 960 overclocked +150 on core and +550 on memory :-)

[EBMproductions]

*Love the GTX 960 i have owned every 900 card and i still feel their great plus these cards support Windows XP so their beast Retro cards* 😎

[kristheredpanda]

i'm still rocking a gtx 660, hoping to upgrade soon once i can get a new computer

[Loki_Trickster]

What you failed to take into account is Nvidia, was pushing for card looks parody in the 900 series. So many of the makes just threw on higher end coolers on the lower cards. The the 960 archetecture Maxwell 206 was one of the better per watt cards of its time outside of the 750ti.

[LexyDaShmexxy]

if you wanna get a graphics card to at least 70c, take my 7600xt, it gets up to 90c on the hotspot temps when playing minecraft shaders

[GustavOrtigoza]

i got 2 spares of GTXs and let me say they run better than my RTX at time, my GTX 980ti hybrid and GTX1080ti

[flayingkil]

i have a geforce 960 and it runs fortnite in the 80 120 fps, idk what is the issue with your pc but probably bottleneck on some way?