What to know before the purchase of new GPU

My laptop has Intel HD integrated graphics

 

I would say get a better internet package b4

 

Every Internet company: "sorry we don't provide internet to your area"

 

Same here, max one can get is 20mb.

My friend at a "nearby" city(40km away) has 300mb... smh.

 

well.. damn.

 

The 1060 will arrive by the end of the next week. I am noticing just now that its only video outputs are either HDMI or DVI. My current monitor exclusively supports VGA. Would it be a bad idea to get an HDMI to VGA converter? Getting a new monitor with an HDMI port quite bothers me as the one I currently have still does its job very well, and apparently most HDMI monitors currently on sale are of the exact same resolution and size as mine...

 

I use one aswell, no quality difference no need to worry

 

Unluckily, only DVI-D apparently...



At this point it should not make any difference in getting either an HDMI to VGA or a DVI-D to VGA, right? I have a belief that, since I am going to lose quality through the conversion, it does not really matter which port I choose.

I also think that I am getting worried about something that I will not even notice... That's why I am reluctant in getting a new monitor with HDMI or DVI input... Would I really notice quality improvements?

 

If you think about getting one, I'm using this:
https://www.amazon.it/gp/aw/d/B00NBUTHJG?psc=1
It's the one of the few that I found working, most of them are non-working scam. Didn't find any loss of quality with this converter, it's the same quality as in a direct VGA connection (didn't try on big monitors).

 

Do you constantly need such converter to be powered? What does it mean that it has to be plugged with power-hungry devices? Can I keep it permanently powered by plugging it in any USB port of my PC?

 

Wouldnt it be cheaper just to use one of the display ports instead of DVI?

 

Apparently the bottleneck is an incredibly higher issue than I thought - the performance seems to be the exact same as before, if not worse; as if the new GPU lowered my whole system's performance. For example right now while typing, the input is lagging, as if my CPU is not able to handle the fast typing. I need to switch to the "high performance" profile of my CPU to fix this. When I used the "low performance" profile with my old GPU mounted, this issue was not present.
Regarding the DVI-D to HDMI converter, it makes the view on the monitor a bit blurry. Stuff is not as sharp as it used to be.
I think I'm just going to change everything at this point... Motherboard (if necessary), CPU and monitor... Except for the 750W power supply...

 

The drivers were automatically downloaded from the setup I ran from the CD:



Even some sort of geek personalising software was installed:



I installed a software named GeForce Experience, I am not really sure what it does, apparently it detects your installed games and changes their settings to match your specs... In other words, it screwed up every graphical setting I personalised in all the games... But it also updated my GPU driver:



Still, no change. I really am blaming mostly the CPU due to the fact that I suspect that it has some hardware issues... I am not an expert, but if a CPU is broken, does it mean that it either works / not works or it can happen that it works but worse than it used to? Is there any way to do a performance check and compare the result with an average value for this CPU?

On a side note, after standby or shutdown, fans stay spinning and leds do not turn off - perhaps I have moved some connectors on the motherboard which still supply power to fans even when the PC is shut down?

 

@Pagno iii just returned my 1060 and got a 1070 instead, you might wanna do the same. 1060's are known to have loads of issues....