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Help with 1050ti

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Siv8

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Hi can someone please tell me if its worth it to pay a little more for the zotac oc edition over the mini version and would this card manage 75fps on a 75hz monitor at 720p? how long would this card last me at 720p thanks I'll mainly be playing new games
 
@720p it will be great, if it were me id get the cheapest one, unless cooling is a concern for you. It would last years @720p

Keep in mind, some 1050ti do & some dont have power plugs... if u want to overclock you'll wanna get one with plugs
 
Siv8 said:
Hi can someone please tell me if its worth it to pay a little more for the zotac oc edition over the mini version and would this card manage 75fps on a 75hz monitor at 720p? how long would this card last me at 720p thanks I'll mainly be playing new games
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That really depends on which games you choose and what image quality settings.
Generally speaking, what you're hoping for is already out of reach in some of the more popular games - let alone titles that will be released in coming years.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_1050_Ti_Gaming_X/

But sure, if you can live with "medium" settings, it should be fine in many titles.

Anyway, why Zotac in the first place? It's not a brand famous for great factory OC, silence or features. They specialize in small cards - often compromising other aspects. If you're not limited by size, there are quite a few better alternatives (like the MSI Gaming one).

Keep in mind quite a lot of 10-series cards offer fanless operation in idle / low load, which is IMO one of the best things we got in GPU world lately. Zotac cards you've mentioned don't offer this feature.
 
Zotac in recent years makes some really high end models...

@720p a 1050ti will do fine, i have a 750ti and it runs 1080 & 720even better. iirc 200fps in csgo]

full HD . as you can see it is just about the same as a 960...it will be great @ 720p.ofc some select titles may be more demanding, but if it runs BF4 @ 60+ in 1080p it will run more taxing titles fine especially when running at half the res
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Personally i wouldnt bother. If your PSU can handle it i would spend the same money and get GTX 970
 
jboydgolfer said:
Zotac in recent years makes some really high end models...
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Depends on the model. AMP! variants - as Zotac's flagships - are pretty good, feature-wise similar to best from ASUS and MSI. It's not that great in the low-end part of the lineup.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
Personally i wouldnt bother. If your PSU can handle it i would spend the same money and get GTX 970
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Almost impossible to buy locally in many countries, but still available e.g. on Amazon.
 
For cards in that price/performance bracket I would not bother with anything other that the cheapest version you can get , they will all clock the same. The power limit is locked as far as I know whether it has extra power plugs or not.

For 720p it will be enough , no way to tell for how long though.
 
@ OP , for best fps, I do hope you have at least a 4 core intel CPU though..
 
@Siv8
2 years ago i was in a similar situation as you are in now. I needed to purchase a capable video card that would fit in my nephews tiny Dell OptiPlex SFF, and required no additional power other than what is provided through the PCI-E x16 Lane. So I was narrow down to having to choose a low profile, very small, no power requiring gpu( for under $120). All of those limitations and it had to play all the modern video games since my nephew at the time was 13. I narrowed it down to two choices, one of which was the 750TI LP from MSI. I was worried that it wouldn't handle games at playable frames, in FHD, it turned out my worries were totally unjustified. Here we are two years later and he still plays call of duty, battlefield, counterstrike global offensive, world of war chicken, & whatever else he plays all just fine, and for more hours than i like. If I had to place a bet I would say that regardless of which model you choose because as mentioned above it won't make much of a difference from the cheapest of the most expensive you'll be happy for years to come with your choice if you do go with one of the 1050ti's.

Personally I would've been skeptical myself before I was an owner of one, but now that I've had one ,they really do perform extremely well for what they are ...which is very small & very low power video cards ,with essentially the same performance as a GTX 960 but with 4gb's of GDDR5

also, as mentioned above, Your really goingto want to have a 4 thread CPU. either a newer pentium with 2 cores & hyperthreading, or a i3 with 2 cores & HT'ing, or a physical 4 core or better. my 750 is paired with a i5 3570 and its great
 
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75 fps with a 1050ti at 720p.... depends on the titles and settings. BF4 is a few years old and id expect a budget offering to hit 75 fps in that title. ROTR at ultra....i doubt it. CsGO, shouldnt be part of the conversation (unless the OP plays it). We can all pull out old titles or ones that dont stress a gpy to show it would be ok. Modern titles and ultra settings....different story. 720p needs gobs of AA to remove jaggies, remember. :)

The thing here, even with a low end card, is having a fast enough cpu, with 4 cores/threads, as 720p is pretty cpu limited.
 
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CsGO, shouldnt be part of the conversation
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It's part of my post because it's part of my experience. Obviously I'm not gonna only mention games he's interested in as mainly I have no idea, one can only guess.& fwiw, that 71fps was in 1080p not 720p

Obviously I'm not advocating that it's the most powerful video card in the world but for people to simply act like if you don't buy a 1060 and above you're wasting your money is absurd. And I'm not gonna answer questions the OP didn't ask so I'm just going to operate in the realms of the question he posed and he wanted to know about 1050 TI's so I'm helping him as to the best of my experience.
 
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The thing here, even with a low end card, is having a fast enough cpu, with 4 cores/threads, as 720p is pretty cpu limited.
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It doesn't really work like that or rather I am not sure what you meant. A CPU is fast enough to deliver a fixed amount of frames to be drawn , that limit is the same regardless of the resolution or how powerful the GPU is. When you run at higher resolution it takes more time for GPU to draw them hence the CPU doesn't have to deliver as many frames , but potentially it can still deliver just as many. That being said if he can't get 75fps at that resolution there is nothing he can do. But I'm not sure that's a problem because even a current gen overlcloked i5 wont give you 75fps at all times in any game maxed out.
 
Low res = less stress on gpu, more on cpu to push fps... even with a 1050ti.

jboydgolfer said:
It's part of my post because it's part of my experience. Obviously I'm not gonna only mention games he's interested in as mainly I have no idea, one can only guess.& fwiw, that 71fps was in 1080p not 720p

Obviously I'm not advocating that it's the most powerful video card in the world but for people to simply act like if you don't buy a 1060 and above you're wasting your money is absurd. And I'm not gonna answer questions the OP didn't ask so I'm just going to operate in the realms of the question he posed and he wanted to know about 1050 TI's so I'm helping him as to the best of my experience.
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i hear you... but that single sample getting 200 fps paints an unrealistic picture (unless he plays the game). True we do not know what he plays so its tough to tell...

I think in terms of modern titles at vhigh/ultra settings...a worst case as any other comparison, would only be better. :)

Im sure it's ok, for now, in many titles, but i worry about his cpu and the future. :)
 
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but that single sample getting 200 fps paints an unrealistic picture
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it would be misleading if mentioned on its own, but it wasnt.....i mentioned a few other titles too...i mentioned it because it is one of the games i most see him playing when i walk into his room, so i posted it. Ill leave it to the OP to be able to realize that CSGO was released 15 years ago, or there about. I just recalled what games He plays, and posted my experiences , via memory
 
All 'weak on the gpu' 'old' titles.

Together, we are each painting a part of the canvas to give the OP a great big picture look. :)

Im just worried about modern titles and vhigh+ settings. :)
 
EarthDog said:
Im just worried about modern titles and vhigh+ settings
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I don't really game so tell me a few titles that would be considered modern. Would grand theft auto five count or is that too old?

I found this video that has what i think would show the perf adequately. The uploader is a strange guy, & is long winded, but if you FF to the bench results i think you'd have to agree the results are pretty good for a $130 gpu (jump to 4:15) i hate utubers like this...its basically a Ad with some related content..:shadedshu: i think he covers 6 or 7 games.

 
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1280x1024, my card runs 75 vsync fine. So your 1050 is of course able to
 
@720p you should be set for years to come whether you go mini or ti. I personally own a 1050 mini with 2gb and can play most stuff on 1080 very smoothly. Demanding titles can get around 30fps, but when a game gets choppy, I switch to 1600x900 and watch the frame rate skyrocket. With a ti, you will get even more.

As many people are saying, you can get something better for the same amount of money. I always like to think future. You never know if you are going to upgrade to 1080p or 2k in a few years and be face with the decision of whether the 1050ti was worth the money or if you should have gone with something bigger. Depending on the games you play, I would recommend getting as much memory on the card as possible. It really isn't necessary for 720, but if you do decide to upgrade your monitor down the line or even plug your pc into that 4k or 1080 television in the living room, you are going to want the extra texture mapping power.
 
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