[QUOTE=" . A 1060 is definitely more card than that cpu needs.
This statement is often heard on forums where upgrading is common place and upgrading without reason as well.
This CPU is deserving of a videocard like a 1060. We are not talking about a
Pentium D
here, we are talking about a 6 core CPU that blew the socks off of INTEL some years ago.
The whole concept of a video card being too good for someones system is absurd and only justified by the same people who make themselves feel better by upgrading every 2 years.[/QUOTE]
No...
Dude, from one AMD fanboy to another, you need to tone it down. The "concept of a video card being too good for someone's system" is NOT absurd. The truth of the matter is often not super simple. Bottlenecks are often not hard, in that a given CPU won't necessarily limit gpus to some exact performance limit, but rather, there will be a relative bottleneck, diminishing returns. A gtx 1060 might still run better on an 1100T (or similar) AMD cpu, than other, slower video cards, but the relative difference between a 1060 and a slower card like the 1050ti, is going to be a lot smaller than on a system with a newer and faster CPU, and the value of a 1060 paired with a 1100T is suspect, although I'm sure that some applications will benefit from it more than others, and a 1060 might still be worth it depending on what exactly someone is running... but probably not worth it for most people!
I am an owner of a 960T which unlocked to 6 cores and which overclocks super well, but sadly, cpus like this really are quite far behind modern cpus. Even though DX 12 does, in general, reduce bottlenecking issues for CPU's, it looks like these old phenom X2's don't work very well with it. Furthermore, these cpus really are quite slow compared to new intel or amd ryzen cpus, even though the core count and frequency is about the same or even better than many of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew4A5fYyKv4