What GPU upgrade would be best for the system?

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Built a new PC recently (after hours of fumbling around), however I have noticed my GPU is being pushed to the limit while playing games but the CPU has a lot of room to spare, I was wondering if I have enough power to upgrade and what card will suit me best, thanks in advance!

CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: 1050 ti
PSU: 650W GQ EVGA
 
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Thats typically how it is, most games use the GPU and not too much of the CPU. There are exception but you typically want more utilization of the GPU.

You could upgrade to pretty much any card you wanted, but depending on what kind of frame rate and resolution you are aiming for then it would depend. Not much use buying a 1080ti and running 1080P at 60 or even 144 fps.
Thats typically how it is, most games use the GPU and not too much of the CPU. There are exception but you typically want more utilization of the GPU.

You could upgrade to pretty much any card you wanted, but depending on what kind of frame rate and resolution you are aiming for then it would depend. Not much use buying a 1080ti and running 1080P at 60 or even 144 fps.
 
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After doing some research, your explanation seems on the dot, due to budget constraints I was gonna go with this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-NVIDIA-GeForce-GAMING-Graphics/dp/B01INGT6W0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529453510&sr=8-1&keywords=ASUS+ROG+STRIX+1060+6gb

As far as I can see the card seems compatible, although there is apparently clearance issues, but my case is roomy (NZXT 340 Elite) so I shouldn't have to worry. Thanks!
 

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just like the user above sated. It's entirely up to you as to what performance you want in the long run and how much you are willing to spend. I would say the best middle ground option for higher level graphic settings in the long run and guaranteed performance fps wise at those settings would be a 1070. assuming you are playing at 1080p 60fps. I personally have a 1070 and plan on keeping it in the long run so that future games that come out will play smoothly at 60fps with high/max graphics. especially since a lot of games coming out now with bangarang graphics are being better optimized and built from the ground up to properly support DX12 and Vulcan and they end up requiring less horsepower to run more beautiful graphics. Hopefully this trend will stay for a while. But in the end it's entirely up to you. are you satisfied with the performance of your 1050ti when it comes to the graphic settings you have to use to maintain a desired framerate along with your resolution? if so, then no need to upgrade right now. but if you want more, then get beefier. as for how much beefier will depend yet again on your desired results. keep in mind though, that unless you are overclocking that CPU to it's fullest, if you go to high on the GPU side of things, and push the graphics to the max, it will bottleneck the maximum performance of the GPU, and if the maximum performance of the GPU is exactly where you desire to be because it hits the mark on what you have the ability to take advantage of then yeah, you'll need to overclock. but long rant short, if you are satisfied at current with what you have then don't bother wasting money on a pointless upgrade, otherwise, I would recommend the 1070 for getting leaps better performance but not going as high as a 1080 or 1080ti and breaking the bank.
 

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another statement I will make is this. If you have a 1050ti that has a PCIe power connector for it then make sure you are overclocking it. Use MSI Afterburner to do the overclocks, and be sure to go into the settings and enable voltage unlock and then put the voltage slider all the way up, then proceed with the overclocking until you reach max stable overclock. it will boost your 1050ti pretty far and get you a lot more performance in your games depending on what games you are playing. I used to have a 1050ti and when just simply upping the clock speeds I wasn't getting much of an overclock until I unlocked the voltage slider and pushed it all the way up. then I saw much bigger gains in clock speed. and don't worry about that slider killing your GPU since the card itself is limited to a specific amount of voltage you won't ever go beyond the safe point, so push it all the way up to max it out and get the most from it.