Try something with addicting gameplay like Warframe (free) or maybe Rocket League.

Warframe and its good too :) might also be because it receives a lot of updates tho

@UssjTrunks: Governments are already regulating it and thats not a bad thing. The New York agreement for example helped ******** get to where it is now. And most regulation is due to criminal activities and tax fraud. But they can't regulate everything, they can't freeze your account, they can't stop people from using it. Yea theres tons of coins, just like the internet bubble, they are not all competing with Bitcoin but rather offering different busisness solution with Blockchains behind it, which opens up a wider gap in the possibilities. Theres tons that will just die out eventually, but the strong ones will survive like Google, Amazon etc. You have to look at Bitcoin as an early access / Alpha game, the scale it has right now is too big for where the technology is (the mining is already big enough tho) and it will take its time. Bitcoin can't just try out new technologies like that without risking the whole network, thats why its nice to have something like litecoin that does it up front to test it and thats why bitcoin is slowly migrating to segwit and lightning network which will make it a lot faster and cheaper. Its the wallets that are slowing it down and most of them are on Fiat Gateways or Exchanges and they also have additional risk factors when upgrading to take into account, but like they say in games, they'll release it when its done.

Yea I guess it sucks for NA atm. Now that I think about it, when segwit and lightning are adopted mining might get less profitable, so that could reduce the miners.

I've honestly been hooked to cryptocurrencies since i looked into it almost a year ago. Not just because of the profits but because it has the potential to change so much for the better. If I would have mined instead of buying the coins I would've made way less money and probably even lose some if i used my 1080 to mine. But its also probably due to higher electricity cost in my country. I see that my online retailers still have plenty in stocks but it says they only sell a maximum of 2 cards per person / company because of mining. Prices haven't gone up here (switzerland), but they also haven't droped (my 1080 costs the same as almost 2 years ago). The market is not over in 6 months, bitcoin is just correcting itself for now after that way too massive of a bullrun.

@vfighter Mining is a proof of work in cryptocurrency. Not all cryptocurrencies use it but some of the biggest like bitcoins do because it has kept the network safe so far.

Its pretty complicated if you go into the technical details, but to answer your question in simple terms:

When someone does a transaction of Bitcoins from point A to B it gets encoded in a mathematical way with other transactions together inside a block.

Miners (GPU or ASIC) have to solve that code with their hashing power (its pretty much a guessing game like typing passwords until it gets the right one). CPU's are too slow for this type of problem solving but there are cryptocurrencies made for cpu as mining aswell. Usually a stronger card for gaming is also better at mining bitcoin, but not always, before the gtx 10 series it was pretty much only AMD Cards that had a good Performance per Buck. The power consumption also place a role since these cards run at 100% 24 hours a day. The one who solves the block first gets rewarded with Bitcoins (right now 12.5 Bitcoins, drops 50% every 4 years). The difficulty of the code tries to match the Hashrate of all mining power so each 10mins a block gets mined. This can vary because of increasing or decreasing hashrate and the network takes time to change difficulty. There are many Pools so the reward gets distributed. This is all done so nobody can cheat the network. It hasn't been hacked since it started 9 years ago and is pretty much the strongest Network of Computers in the World. You need like 500 of the best supercomputers in the world times 10'000 to match the Hashrate of Bitcoins Network (probably a lot more now). And in order to manipulate anything in the Network you need 51% of the Network Power. There are currently almost 17 millions bitcoins circulating and the maximum there ever will be is 21million. Lost Bitcoins are forever lost and can't be recovered.

As soon as the Problem is solved, the lets say 1 Bitcoin you sent from A to B is now at B and recorded in the public ledger. So the network knows wallet A is now -1 Bitcoin and Wallet B is +1 Bitcoin. This prevents double spending which is also a problem in banking since it went digital but thats a easier problem to fix there since they are a centralized entity. Bitcoin is trying to cut out that middleman who in the end has too much power.

I urge people to look into more closely before calling this just a hype. When looking at the negatives of Cryptocurrencies look at the negatives we have right now. Bitcoin consumes a lot of Power? How much Power do all banks in the world consume and still get hacked? Cryptocurrencies are upgradeable, Banks are at their Limits.

Ofcourse it sucks right now if you wanna buy a graphics card but Its solving a way bigger problem we have right now. And who knows what the future holds maybe someday you'll be mining while you're playing.

If anyone wants to look more into it, i can recommend this Documentary:

Payed a ton for a Raedon 9600 Pro, thought i could handle any game no problem, but was still experiencing framedips here and there while cheaper nvidia cards run everything better. I never went back to ATI / AMD since then.

1050 ti, i also had that choice when buying a laptop. basically all the 900series cards are overpriced right now and in most countries the 1050ti is the best price/performance card right now. the 1060 also has a good price ratio but if your budget is limited the 1050ti will be very fine. As its close to gtx970 performance.

I actually did a lecture on my last year in apprenticeship (no idea how you would call it in the us etc. its a german / swiss thing) and so did a friend of mine. We both got the highest grade for it and basically to sum it up:

Games are good for your Brain, my Friend described how his leading capabilities got trained because of being a raid leader in WoW and now hes leading an IT team (everything felt so familiar and easy to him). Games are not like watching TV because they are not passive. Theres lots of games that make the players to start thinking for themselves to get most out of it and people actually start making excel sheets and doing math.

But Games can be bad for physical health if you don't look after yourself. For my part i have a physical job and gaming in my free time is a good balance. Others who work mostly on the chair should look to get some physical activities during their free time aswell. I've had some wrist problem when i played to much clicking games, but kinda solved it by buying this mousepads with the silicone wristholder in them. Also I try to use the gamepad more often in games depending on what i play. Its also possible that playing infront of monitor or tv made me wear glasses but that could be because i overgamed a bit when i was younger, not everybody has that. Im not sure about the fatigue part, i do feel tired often but i don't always sleep as much as i should, its nothing bad tho, a coffee usually works. Mostly after doing a bit sports it helps a lot with that, so i think this has more to do with not moving around in general.

A gamer to me is somebody who regularely playes video games, just like other hobbies.

All in all you need to find a good balance.

Also I'd like to point out, theres lots of people "escaping" into the gamers world because of things happening in real life, so a lot of blames for their negative behauvior is given to gaming in general, while the source of this evil comes from society, same as drugs.

if this is not a troll: pc exclusives are like billion more than that ;-)

@OP Its hard to say, depends on what kind of games you like. Also what monitor do you have? because with your system you could easily go higher than 60fps in most games. which makes them look a lot smoother. Made a huge difference for me in Rocket League.

Theres no "best brand" for graphics card. It depends on the model, price, local support of the brand and it might also depend to which cards you have access to. I usually go for the card that has the best cooling solution according to reviews (and doesn't cost a fortune compared to the others).

I like the direction they're going :D. Just hope the gameplay won't be all the same old ubisoft thingy.