Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti compatibility with 780G chipset

RadiantPlasma · Feb 21, 2017

Hello everyone,

I'm looking to upgrade an older PC with a newer graphics card (Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti), but I'm not sure it's compatible with the PC's current motherboard slots. It's a 780G chipset, and the expansion section says it has these slots:

(1/1) PCI-E x16
(1/1) PCI-E x1
(1/2) PCI

Would this work with the graphics card I had in mind?

These are the other specs of the PC:

Phenom X4 9100e (1.8 GHz)
4 GB (Upgraded to 8 GB) DDR2 640 GB HDD
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
ATI Radeon HD 3200
(The power supply has also already been upgraded to the level that the 1050 would need)

Thanks so much for your help!

Hamperking68 · Feb 21, 2017

There would be such a bottleneck even with a 1050.

I would recommend upgrading the CPU/RAM/MOBO first.

Then upgrade the GPU.

RadiantPlasma · Feb 21, 2017

Hamperking68 :

Thanks, any recommendations on upgrades? And wouldn't 8 GB RAM be good enough for most gaming?

p.s. Thanks for the fast reply

Hamperking68 · Feb 22, 2017

No problem.

I would recommend 16GB if possible.

Games like GTA V and BF1 can take up around 10gb or so of RAM.

dontlistentome · Feb 22, 2017

I'd feel it's safer to get an AMD RX 460, since newer Nvidia cards can have issues with non UEFI motherboards. However, your CPU is a 1.8ghz Phenom II, so even though it's a quad core it's going to be slow and hold back game performance. So keep your expectations reasonable. Games like Battlefield 1 and GTA V won't run well no matter how much ram you have. Focus on playing games that don't need much CPU power. Games made for dual cores or less would be ideal.

RadiantPlasma · Feb 22, 2017

Hamperking68 :

I don't really plan on playing anything more demanding than Overwatch or Rust, would a RAM/CPU/MOBO upgrade really be absolutely necessary for titles like those? Of course I can upgrade my hardware if I want to play games like BF1 or GTA, but Overwatch, Rust, and CS:GO, and Skyrim are what I'm into at the moment.

Hamperking68 · Feb 23, 2017

I would still recommend it.

You won't have enough RAM to push up the texturing etc in game

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