Trying to squeeze more life out of an OLD system

[Homerboy]

I have an old system AMD Phenom II X2 555 (unlocked to 4 Cores with a slight OC)
Right now I have a 750Ti GPU plugged in and the only game I really play on it that's gfx intensive is Path of Exile. I was wondering if getting a 1050Ti would be bottlenecked by the CPU or of I can squeeze a little more life out of that machine
Thoughts?

 

[VirtualLarry]

GTX 1050ti's main claim to fame is not needing a 6-pin PCI-E power connector. Useful for OEM branded rig GPU upgrades, but pales in comparison to an RX 570 in terms of overall performance, and GTX 1050ti is like $180 these days. You can get RX 570 4GB new for $120 (Sapphire). Newegg also recently had some RX 580 4GB (Sapphire) cards, refurb, for $125.

That said, don't waste your money. I've got a GTX 950 2GB GDDR5 card for you if you want it. PM me.

Edit: I think that a GTX 1050ti would be bottle-necked slightly by a quad-core unlocked Phenom in high-FPS games, but I think that you would see an improvement regardless. Also with my GTX 950 card.

 

[Homerboy]

GTX 1050ti's main claim to fame is not needing a 6-pin PCI-E power connector. Useful for OEM branded rig GPU upgrades, but pales in comparison to an RX 570 in terms of overall performance, and GTX 1050ti is like $180 these days. You can get RX 570 4GB new for $120 (Sapphire). Newegg also recently had some RX 580 4GB (Sapphire) cards, refurb, for $125.

That said, don't waste your money. I've got a GTX 950 2GB GDDR5 card for you if you want it. PM me.

Edit: I think that a GTX 1050ti would be bottle-necked slightly by a quad-core unlocked Phenom in high-FPS games, but I think that you would see an improvement regardless. Also with my GTX 950 card.

That 950 wouldn't be much of an improvement to the 750Ti would it?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Honestly, I think that it would be at least 20% faster, due to higher TDP headroom, and remember, GTX 950 / 960 is Maxwell v2, 750/750ti is Maxwell v1.

Please click the green human to continue - UserBenchmark

According to userbenchmark, up to 50% faster in some things, apparently. Looks like it could be a solid upgrade for you.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Oh, I just looked at the gaming benchmarks, not just the synthetics.

Some games, up to 52% improvement, some games, not more than a few FPS. Odd. It did best in e-sports titles DOTA2 and WoT, nearly 50% better on both of those. In WoW, actually 1FPS lower than the 750ti. I don't get that at all.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

A few years ago I tried pairing a spare GTX970 with an old Athlon X3 445. Surprisingly it ran The Witcher 3 (toughest I had at the time) at 1440p/30FPS flawlessly. So you can squeeze quite a lot out of these older CPUs.

Depending on your PSU, the RX570/580 are awesome value right now. Either will take care of any GPU bottleneck, and you can keep it for a new build in the future.

 

[Homerboy]

A few years ago I tried pairing a spare GTX970 with an old Athlon X3 445. Surprisingly it ran The Witcher 3 (toughest I had at the time) at 1440p/30FPS flawlessly. So you can squeeze quite a lot out of these older CPUs.

Depending on your PSU, the RX570/580 are awesome value right now. Either will take care of any GPU bottleneck, and you can keep it for a new build in the future.

Thanks. That's some good enough and reassurance. Just picked up 950 mentioned above for a solid price. Shouldn't hurt for the price and as long as the CPU can keep up I will be happy.

 

[Spjut]

Yeah you can generally expect around 30 FPS in modern games, in many cases a superior experience to the base PS4. Main problem I had gaming on a Phenom II X4 955 and GTX Titan this year were the few titles that required SSSE4.

 

[MajinCry]

My 965 BE was at parity with my AMD HD 7850 in Fallout 4, Skyrim, and New Vegas when running an ENB. The big problem is that pre-Ryzen AMD CPUs just have horrid draw call performance. If you don't mind reducing draw distances for objects, shadows, and/or NPCs, you can jack up the GPU centric features, like shader quality, ambient occlusion, shadow filtering, anisotropic filtering, tessellation, etc.

 

[mohit9206]

I have a similar PC to yours, FX6300 and 1050Ti. Its enough to be able to run even the latest games like Control and Blair Witch although at 30fps medium settings at 1080p. So i think a cheap 1050Ti would be a good upgrade and it wont be bottlenecked much.