Concerns in regards to GIGABYTE NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce OC, 6GB GDDR5, 192bit

GreatMoloh

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Hello,

I read extensive threads on the GTX 1060 cards on this wonderful forum, but I still have a few concerns since from what I see, everybody has a unique build so here is mine:

Asus sAM3+ M5A97 LE R2.0
AMD AM3+ FX-6300 - 3,50GHz BOX
SSD Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SATA-III 2.5 inch + a seagate barracuda 1tb 7200rpm
HyperX Fury Blue 8GB DDR3 1866 MHz CL10
Gigabyte PCI-E AMD R7 250 2GB which I want to replace with the GTX 1060

all the above in this case and power for which I can't find a straight up spec: RPC CPCS-ML050B2-AT01A 500W

My concerns are the following:

1)Will the processor bottleneck my graphics card?
2)Will the mother board which has pci express 2.0 and the GTX has 3.0 bottleneck or have compatibility issues?
3)Will I have issues with power? I can't find the actual performance on the power from my case...nor I am sure how much power I am using with the current build.
4)I don't have any extra fans, only the stock ones, should I get more considering the upgrade?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I found a really good price for the graphics card and want to buy it.
 

GreatMoloh

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Dec 6, 2016
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I also just took a closer look at my power supply, and all the connectors available are 2 cables with 2x 4 pins that are also plugged in the HDD and SSD. There are 2x 4 pin connectors on each cable, and I used separate cables for the SSD and HDD. Now I am thinking to use one of the 4 pin connectors from the same cable on the SSD and one on the HDD. This means that I will have 1 spare power cable on which I will have 2x 4 pins to use for the graphics card. If the card is powered by an 8 pin, can I fill the 8 pin with the 2x 4 pin power cable? or do I actually need a power supply with an 8 pin connector?
 

GreatMoloh

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Dec 6, 2016
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Just bought GTX 1050 Ti 4GB dual fan, does not require extra power cables and I got it for half the prize of 1060, going to consider the 1060 on my next build. This Thread can be closed.