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jodu1408a

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I'm planning on getting PCI-E ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 Strix, 6GB DDR5. Will this card be compatible with the rest of my hardware? Motherboard - Z97X Gaming 3, PSU - Antec VP600P. Is there anything else I shopuld pay attention to aside from those two components?
 
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jodu1408a

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I know this isn't the question from before but I might as well ask. I was told by the retail guy that if I wanted to get a 1070 or higher, I would need more than the 600W that my present PSU provides. Is this actually true?
Also, should I pay attention to anything in particular when trying to figure out if the GPU would fit in my casing. My current Radeon R9 270 fits fine I think, but I read that even the way the ports are placed on the card can cause issues when fitting it in.
 
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You could run a 1080 on 600W, so no problem with 1070. The retail guy is trying to upsell you.
A typical 1070 is a fair bit longer and wider than R9 270. Your best bet would be the zotac 1070 mini which is just a couple mm longer and wider.
 
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Your PSU having 30A on each 12V rail should provide more than enough power to run a GTX 1070 which has a TDP of 150W.
Even a card such as the Strix GTX 1070 with a beefy power delivery will run fine on a great quality 500W power supply.
The best way to figure out if the GPU fits your case is by measuring the space available in your case and comparing it to the card dimensions.

 
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on your rig make sure the mb bios is up to date so there no bios issue with the new part. there two sizes on a gpu you have to watch out for. one is the length of the gpu. on some cases that have fixed hard drive bays some gpu can hit it do to how long they are. the next issue is how thick is the gpu cooler. some gpu now are 2 to 3 pci slot wide. the photo images should show if it a two slot pci card. the front plate of the new video card have two pci screw mounts on top. when i get a new gpu i pull the old one out and do a dry fit with the new gpu. check that card lines up with the video pci slot and it not going to hit or cover sata or power plugs. the last issue on power supply size is the power load of the gpu and cpu. most gpu vendor now dont want people to burn out there gpu so they give a min wattage now. also with power supplys is how good the unit is. there are more then one tier of power supplys. you can have a 750w low tier power supply that can reboot in games or you can have a 600w high end seasonic that never haves issues. if your going to game use a good tier one or good high end unit.
 
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jodu1408a

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Can anyone else confirm that not updating BIOS can cause serious issues. I'm really hesitant about even touching it cause I'm pretty sure that messing up there is pretty bad, and I don't trust myself not to mes up. If the issues caused by not updating drivers aren't that bad, I can live with it.
 
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Well... from experience when changing your GPU, a bios update is not mandatory. I had for a while my 1070 on a Z77 platform and I can confirm that it had an older BIOS (I was switching to am4 soon so... laziness kicked in:ange:).
From my perspective it's pretty certain that the new gpu will work on your system without changing anything.
When changing the processor for example a BIOS update is usually necessary.
 
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