Review on GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 Ti OC 6G 🖥️ GDDR6 DisplayPort HDMI Windforce 2X Graphic Card - Gv-N166TOC-6GD by Rick Gondoras

Installing this card was a brutal process and resulted in 6 blue screen of death crashes in 5 days! I installed this card and Windows was able to run it at 1920x1080. Not great, but good enough to install the driver. The CD seemed to have a driver, but it was just an installer. Okay, ok, he'll get me a driver from the internet. Well he downloaded 113MB of "something" but it wasn't a driver. No, it was a program that insisted I create an account to get the driver. Oh, and there was a captcha too. It was bad enough, but it gets worse: 1. It was downloading this 113MB at 20KB per second. I'll do the math for you: that's over 1.5 HOURS. (By the way, I have a cable modem, which is usually 1000x faster. 2. As I thought it was the driver, I didn't realize it was the driver until I exited the installer and tried adjusting the resolution. . had to start over and wait another 1.5 hours to reinstall the same useless program.I've been spending about 4 hours now getting the card working and giving me the full 2560x1600 resolution.Created an account (why should I do that? to get a driver? WHY?) and downloaded the real driver: 200+ MB this time, but at least it loaded at full speed: about 15 seconds.. After installing the actual driver I was able to select full res and start a second monitor put all my icons back in place etc everything looked fine despite the pain of the process then a blue screen crashes I have a photo of made to one of them to prove I didn't invent it. It happens about once a day and they were completely random. Sometimes I did nothing: no programs were started except the operating system, no mouse or keyboard was input; I just sit there and bam - blue screen. Other times I've done real work that's been lost. I ordered a Quatro P2000 as a replacement. The experience with Quatro was just the opposite: seamless installation, no additional software, Windows could run it at 2560x1600 without its driver (I went in anyway because that's what you do with graphics cards). Getting a driver was just as easy: no nonsense like setting up an account or checking captcha - absolutely no hassle. Now he works 2 weeks in a row and doesn't even hiccup. Needless to say, I sent this lemon product back. Was it a card? Was it the driver? I don't know and I don't care. This will be my last gigabyte card, that's for sure.