is it worth to buy power supply for RX 470/570 or get GTX 1050 TI?

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MrHardwarex

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is it worth to buy power supply for RX 470/570 ? as I have old system build with 350 walt power supply and in my country the cost of Galaxy gtx 1050 ti 4GB is 2800 currency unit
and the cost of RX 470/rx570 4GB plus seasonic S12II 520 walt power supply is 5200 currency unit which is about 46% more than the of gtx 1050 ti price alone

I know that seasonic S12II power supply will help in future build if I decide to upgrade and i know that RX 470/ 570 will give improve from 25% and up on performance over GTX 1050 TI

Also I could get Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 500W instead of Seasonic S12II 520 walt to save 400 currency unit but I will try not
 
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If you plan on moving to a new modern platform soon, then the new PSU and RX-580 would be the way to go. Even if it is ab it bottlenecked by your old Q6600 now. You can use those new components on your new future build, and won't need to add them into the next purchase price.

But if you decide to hang with the old quad core for a long time, the GTX 1050 Ti is a good match for it. I still use my old LGS 775 system occasionally. It had a Q6600, now it has a Q9550. I used to have a Q43 chipset board in the past. It handled any Nvidia card I used. Last was the GTX 1060 3GB; basically the same card/GPU as the GTX 1050 Ti. So I would not expect any problems with an Nvidia card.
Now, AMD's last couple of generations have given me...
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MrHardwarex

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Thanks clutchc for your reply
i'm little shy to say i still got core2quad Q6600 with 8 GB DDR2 ram and EP43 gigabyte motherboard and worry that my motherboard bios will not work with either gtx 1050 ti or RX 470/570 (although i got latest bios from gigabyte for my motherboard) and know it is risk but i watched people on youtube have similar old builds to mine that works with gtx 1050 ti
and also do u think getting gtx 1050 ti over gtx 1050 2gb is better for my cpu or it won't make a difference?

my original plan was to make the upgrade in 2 phase first phase is to get the video card and power supply and new harddisk than the second phase is to get motherboard and CPU and ram but the prices in my country get very very high this year around the double than last year which make me reconsider and think in gtx 1050 ti as solution as new system build will cost in my country from 10000 to 13000 or more currency unit
 
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If you plan on moving to a new modern platform soon, then the new PSU and RX-580 would be the way to go. Even if it is ab it bottlenecked by your old Q6600 now. You can use those new components on your new future build, and won't need to add them into the next purchase price.

But if you decide to hang with the old quad core for a long time, the GTX 1050 Ti is a good match for it. I still use my old LGS 775 system occasionally. It had a Q6600, now it has a Q9550. I used to have a Q43 chipset board in the past. It handled any Nvidia card I used. Last was the GTX 1060 3GB; basically the same card/GPU as the GTX 1050 Ti. So I would not expect any problems with an Nvidia card.
Now, AMD's last couple of generations have given me issues with my older Intel boards. The R7/9 cards and the newer RX cards.
 
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I would not waste money on a Cooler Master power supply. I favor spending money on what benefits me here and now, not in the future. Too much can change, so that things you buy now may not even be relevant in the future.

So, I'd get the 1050 Ti and enjoy it now. Some day you may build a new computer, when that day comes maybe you can sell the 1050 Ti and upgrade to a new videocard too.
 
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