Budget graphic card upgrade/replacement

sonicyouth · Sep 4, 2017

I'm planning on replacing my gtx 670 because it finally went bad. I'm looking for a temporary budget gpu that can run high end games at medium quality. My current build is from 2012, uses amd 8350 16gb ram but has a 700w psu. What card should I get until I'm willing to spend a chunk of cash for a nice new pc build? I'm debating on getting the 1050 ti or 1060 ti for right now or is there a better option that'll give me good performance at a budget?

Kasper Jorgensen · Sep 4, 2017

Get the GTX 1050 TI as your CPU would probably bottleneck anything higher. Obviously the GTX 1060 would be better for decent settings, but i just think you are not able to use it fully with that CPU, and as it is only temporary you shouldn't spend to much on it.

unikinqay · Sep 4, 2017

GTX 1050 TI is a superb card for the money. I have it in my secondary rig q9650 (4 Ghz OC) and I can easily play every AAA game on very high/ultra settings hitting 40-60 fps.

sonicyouth · Sep 4, 2017

Kasper Jorgensen :

unikinqay :

Assuming my PC can handle it, would spending $50-60 more for the 1060 ti be worth it for the performance difference? Here's the two on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Support-Graphics-04G-P4-6253-KR/dp/B01MF7EQJZ/ref=sr_1_9?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1504556482&sr=1-9&keywords=gtx+1060+3gb
https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Support-Graphics-03G-P4-6162-KR/dp/B01KU2CIIY/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1504556482&sr=1-1&keywords=gtx+1060+3gb

Kasper Jorgensen · Sep 4, 2017

There is no such GPU as a GTX 1060 TI, only a GTX 1060. And in your case, if you are going to replace it soon anyway it is not worth the extra money. Also with your CPU I'm not sure if it is worth the extra money.

unikinqay · Sep 4, 2017

sonicyouth :

AMD FX-8350 is somewhere in the line with Pentium G4560 performance wise, so it will bottleneck GTX 1060 performance. I don't think it's worth it, unless you are planning to reuse GTX 1060 in your future build. You need i5 7400 to see no bottlenecking with gtx 1060 according to benchmarks. Even gtx 1050 ti will be bottlenecked when combined with AMD FX-8350 in some titles.

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