Overclockers UK Titan Neutron Micro-ATX Gaming PC (w/ GTX 1060)

This brings us to the celebrity guest at the party – the Gainward GeForce GTX 1060 Dual. This is a two-slot variant of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, with two large fans on hand to keep the graphics card cool. You can read our full review of the Nvidia GTX 1060 Founders Edition card over HERE.

It's a sensible choice, as the big news with the GTX 1060 compared to previous mid-range options like the GTX 960 is that it has a whopping 6GB of GDDR5 memory, so shouldn't have trouble running the textures required for 4K, although the GPU itself might not be quite up to scratch for intensive games.

The 1060 uses NVIDIA's Pascal generation, like the 1080 and 1070, and sports 1,280 CUDA cores, which makes it broadly equivalent to some GTX 960 models, but below the GTX 970. However, the core clock is significantly higher than either, with a 1,506MHz core clock and 1,709MHz Boost Clock, which is close to 50 per cent faster.

Memory runs at 2,002MHz, but is quad pumped for 8,008MHz effective bandwidth, making it faster than the 970's 7GHz, although it uses the same 192-bit memory path as the 960.

The card has plenty of potential to provide GTX 970-like performance for less outlay, and our first standalone review of the new GPU has already shown its potential well beyond 1,920 x 1,080. It supports DirectX 12.0, OpenGL 4.5, OpenCL 1.2, CUDA 6.1 and Shader Model 5.

The dual-slot back plate sports a wide variety of options for multi-screen setups, with three DisplayPort connections, HDMI, and even legacy DVI, although the latter is DVI-D rather than DVI-I so analog VGA has been banished once and for all. At 120W TDP, this is a frugal card, but note that SLI is not supported with the 1060, although there's no second slot for this in the Titan Neutron anyway.

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