ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Phoenix Fan Edition DVI-D HDMI DP 1.4 Gaming Graphics Card (PH-GTX1050TI-4G)

I bought this to replace an ATI era hd 4850 video card. Yes the video card from the year 2008 if I remember correctly. Anyway I knew even buying a budget card would be a massive improvement. After all the ATI 4850 only came out with 512MB of ram! Yes thats right MB not GB. Moving forward after looking online for a new video card I was sticker shocked. I guess something called bitcoin mining has made the demand for video cards crazy high right now. the Date is 4/5/2018 at the time I'm writing this. However I needed a video card and I didn't want to sell my soul for one. So after realizing the 1060 was just too much I settled for the 1050 ti over the 1050. The reason.... I wanted 4gb of ram.... not the 2gb that comes with non Ti version. I have been burned by not buying enough ram but never by buying too much. So I did a search and it seemed that the 1050 ti series seems to be higher in price over their MSRP due to this mining stuff going on. However this card seemed to be the best bang for the buck and I have heard of ASUS before since I have owned many of their motherboards and knew they made quality products. So with limited stock and the prices seeming to be going up every day I placed my order at the 216 price and a few days later it arrived. I installed the card with little issue and loved the fact I didn't have to use an external power cord for the video card like the ATI Radeon 4850 used. Amazing isn't it that a card with almost 4 times the ram and many many times the computing power over my old card didn't even need the amount of power my old 2008 4850 card needed. Good job Nvidia! Anyway now I can play (WOT) World of Tanks at over 100fps using almost the highest settings. The new maps in Patch 1.0 look amazing with this card. I plan on loading more games once I find my Steam password again. However I am pleased even though this is not a barn burner video card it plays many games perfectly fine even though you might not be able to play them at maximum video settings. I hope this holds out until the prices of video cards come down. its sad what is happening right now in the video card world! I just checked and the cheapest I can get this card seems to be 267 dollars. :( the price has just gone up that much in about 1 week. Anyway time will tell if this card holds up but I am fine with it even though a little piffed that I had to pay a higher price than they would be going for if this mining stuff wasn't going on. Take care and hope this helps!

Well, I just fell in love with a certain new city builder game, and out of curiosity I ran the famous Speccy utility after hearing a lot of fan noise coming out of my computer while I played the game. It turned out that the graphics card that came with my Dell 8900 back in 2016 was running at almost 200 degrees Fahrenheit, and in the red zone. Not good.So, I did a lot of research and found this card that totally solved the problem easier than I could imagine. My Dell came with a GeForce GTX 745, and this card was able to run off the computer's power supply just like the OEM card, and it was able to read my display configuration and configure itself immediately. All I had to do was sit and wait for the card to figure everything out, which took a minute or two and caused a couple of monitor flickers.Now, I'm playing the game that originally caused the problem, and the temperature sits at about 120 degrees, and if I go out of my way to use the graphic functions a lot (which I typically don't) then the card temperature peaks in the low 140's, and still within the safety zone.This is likely a "low end" card by today's gaming standards, but I gave my six year old computer a new lease on life for the games I like to play.

I purchased a pre-assembled gaming computer in 2011 that featured an AMD PowerColor 6670 1GB GPU, paired with a 2500k i5 [Sandy Bridge] Intel Processor, on an Asus Intel H61 Motherboard. While that setup got me through the years, it was starting to show its age on modern 3D applications, especially with the OpenGL being out of date.Before pulling the trigger on the GPU upgrade, I was concerned that the GTX 1050 Ti wouldn't function with my CPU which is only "rated" to support PCI-E 2.0, and not 3.0, as many forums claimed. I was happy to do further research, and learn that they do in fact cooperate just fine! The only down side is that I may never see the full potential of this card until I upgrade my GPU, as my current one could act as a bottle-neck under high load (which I will never experience, since I play mostly older games anyways.)The conclusion is that I am extremely happy with this upgrade, and I don't think I could have made a better choice given my current setup.* For the record, I have also upgraded my power supply from a 400W to a 600W, switched to SSD primary drive, went from 4GB to 8GB of DDR3 system RAM., and added 2 large fans.

Great low cost gpu, glad I got it at 120 bucks, it can really punch above its weight if you tune it right but now that gpu prices are stable you are better off buying a 20 or 30 series.

If you are upgrading your current GPU card then this budget card is the one to get. Keep in mind that you should check your motherboard or GPU specs and see if it supports PCIe 16, x16 or dual x8. Since this 1050 Ti is PCIe 3 it still works fine in a PCIe 2.0 slot.My Specs:OS - Windows 10 Pro 64-bitMOBO - ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (Socket 942)CPU - AMD FX-8350 Vishera 32nm TechnologyGPU - 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 TiRAM - GSkill 32.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 802MHz (11-11-11-28)Drive - Samsung SSD 870 QVO 2TB (SATA (SSD)The MOBO is a few years old but you have no worries if your current setup supports PCI-E X16 slot.Suggestion is to run a GPU test on it with NovaBench and/or Unigine Heaven Benchmark apps. Another suggestion is to remove all of of your old graphic drivers before you install this new GPU card and then install the new drivers for this card and do a fresh install.I achieved up to 150 fps during bench marking with no hiccups. Great card - glad I got it. Cheers!