Dawn of the GeForce 1660 Ti

AH, THE LONG-AWAITED arrival of the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. We’ve been waiting for this for a while, and it’s great to see it finally here. A mainstream GPU that strikes the perfect balance between price and power, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is Nvidia’s new mid-range graphics card, capable of delivering top-notch 1080p gaming while wisely dropping superfluities such as ray-tracing support to keep the cost at a very affordable level. And now that it’s arrived, we’re itching to get it into a new build.

We’re going with the slightly pricier MSI Gaming X GTX 1660 Ti for this build, netting us better performance – but the regular 1660 will work just fine, too, if you’re trying to make small savings. The mission was simple: Assemble a fierce 1080p gaming machine for a thousand dollars. Pushing it to higher resolutions isn’t important here; frame rate and general performance are the name of the game. Because of this, we were able to go for slightly more conservative pickings for the processor, motherboard, and RAM – as is often the case, the GPU is the champion of this build.

And what a champion it is. The 1660