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Hey guys! I am using my old pc as a living room pc hooked up to my Sony Bravia 4K TV. But its GPU can only show max 1920x1200 through HDMI @60Hz. So, I am buying a new GPU for it that can push 4k @ 60Hz over HDMI at medium-high settings with 60 fps. The current specs are:
Intel Core i5 2500k @4.8 GHz
Corsair H100 Water Cooler
16 GB (4x4GB)Crucial DDR3-1600
ASUS P8P67 Motherboard
Sapphire Radeon HD 6930 2 GB GD5 @0.75 GHz
2x Noctua Case fans
Deepcool Tesseract Mid-ATX Bf Case
I was thinking of something like a GTX 1060 or an RX480. The RX480 supports crossfire which can be good for upgrading later on while the GTX 1060 has way better optimization and drivers. Any recommendations would be great! My budget is max 350 dollars for the GPU.
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Abhi
 
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Yes thats a far better choice. You can likely get 60fps at 4k with medium settings on that on most anything.
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I would go for the RX 480 8GB personally for the reason you provided. However, i would not expect Medium/High in 4K 60 FPS to be overly achievable in many scenarios for either of them, especially paired with an older i5. Unsure what you mean by "way better optimization and drivers on the 1060" i beg to differ from my experience in the last 2 years since Radeon has really lifted the game with drivers/software with the new Crimson suite. But anyway either the RX 480/1060 will suit you "okay" and support 4K 60Hz, but i would try grab a GTX 1070 if you can save a bit more it would be much more capable of Medium/High in a few games even with a minor CPU bottleneck however. Hope this helps :)

*Edit* Your Power Supply would be plenty for either card.
 
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Neither the GTX 1060 or RX 480 can guarantee you 4k/60fps with medium settings. The RX 480 in crossfire maybe can, but I think you need to downgrade your expectations with both of these GPUs.

Or save a bit more money and get a GTX 1070, its not over your budget by much.
 
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Yes thats a far better choice. You can likely get 60fps at 4k with medium settings on that on most anything.
 
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To be fair i think a GTX 1080/1080 Ti is the sort of GPU for this kind of work (4K 60 FPS above Medium settings) but a GTX 1070 would be well worth going $25 over your budget for as it should be as close as you'll get to your target without getting a GTX 1080, should be very achievable in games that are well optimized/not too hard to run. As mentioned, Crossfire 480's aren't half bad in 4K but scaling in a lot of games is terrible anyway...
 
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