ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Phoenix Fan Edition DVI-D HDMI DP 1.4 Gaming Graphics Card (PH-GTX1050TI-4G) Graphic Cards

I bought this to replace an ATI era hd 4850 video card. Yes the video card from the year 2008 if I remember correctly. Anyway I knew even buying a budget card would be a massive improvement. After all the ATI 4850 only came out with 512MB of ram! Yes thats right MB not GB. Moving forward after looking online for a new video card I was sticker shocked. I guess something called bitcoin mining has made the demand for video cards crazy high right now. the Date is 4/5/2018 at the time I'm writing this. However I needed a video card and I didn't want to sell my soul for one. So after realizing the 1060 was just too much I settled for the 1050 ti over the 1050. The reason.... I wanted 4gb of ram.... not the 2gb that comes with non Ti version. I have been burned by not buying enough ram but never by buying too much. So I did a search and it seemed that the 1050 ti series seems to be higher in price over their MSRP due to this mining stuff going on. However this card seemed to be the best bang for the buck and I have heard of ASUS before since I have owned many of their motherboards and knew they made quality products. So with limited stock and the prices seeming to be going up every day I placed my order at the 216 price and a few days later it arrived. I installed the card with little issue and loved the fact I didn't have to use an external power cord for the video card like the ATI Radeon 4850 used. Amazing isn't it that a card with almost 4 times the ram and many many times the computing power over my old card didn't even need the amount of power my old 2008 4850 card needed. Good job Nvidia! Anyway now I can play (WOT) World of Tanks at over 100fps using almost the highest settings. The new maps in Patch 1.0 look amazing with this card. I plan on loading more games once I find my Steam password again. However I am pleased even though this is not a barn burner video card it plays many games perfectly fine even though you might not be able to play them at maximum video settings. I hope this holds out until the prices of video cards come down. its sad what is happening right now in the video card world! I just checked and the cheapest I can get this card seems to be 267 dollars. :( the price has just gone up that much in about 1 week. Anyway time will tell if this card holds up but I am fine with it even though a little piffed that I had to pay a higher price than they would be going for if this mining stuff wasn't going on. Take care and hope this helps!

If you are upgrading your current GPU card then this budget card is the one to get. Keep in mind that you should check your motherboard or GPU specs and see if it supports PCIe 16, x16 or dual x8. Since this 1050 Ti is PCIe 3 it still works fine in a PCIe 2.0 slot. My Specs: OS - Windows 10 Pro 64-bit MOBO - ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (Socket 942)CPU - AMD FX-8350 Vishera 32nm Technology GPU - 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti RAM - GSkill 32.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 802MHz (11-11-11-28) Drive - Samsung SSD 870 QVO 2TB (SATA (SSD) The MOBO is a few years old but you have no worries if your current setup supports PCI-E X16 slot. Suggestion is to run a GPU test on it with NovaBench and/or Unigine Heaven Benchmark apps. Another suggestion is to remove all of of your old graphic drivers before you install this new GPU card and then install the new drivers for this card and do a fresh install. I achieved up to 150 fps during bench marking with no hiccups. Great card - glad I got it. Cheers!

Built a new computer for my home office. I don't do any heavy gaming but I want speed and reliability from all my components. I chose ASUS because of my past experience and I am using an ASUS motherboard and know there won't by any compatibility problems using a GTX 1050 Ti ASUS card. I was afraid that at this low price I was going to get a dog of a graphics card even though I don't need a fast GPU for my home computer. This card does a fantastic job for the price. I ran some GPU performance tests and very surprised how well this card ran. Buy it before they realize they have it priced too low. UPDATE - Purchased this card two years ago. It has worked perfectly and doesn't even break a sweat and is super quiet. I paid $154 and the price is now $350. I thought the price was unbelievably low when I purchased it. Seems I was right. I would pay the $350 for it now. It's a great graphics card for the lite user.

Let me start by saying I am not a gamer, Play Station games on PCSX2 emulator is the most demanding I play. I was suprised to see that games even an old game like Sly2 would play at all with integrated graphics; it has slow choppy parts; however using the 1050ti GPU speeds up the slow down spots and makes great game play: better than it was 18 years ago. The 1050 came out more than 6 years ago so you may think it outdated in 2022; I ASUS thinks so: the driver was updated in July 2022 and I think they would have wasted the resources on Updates for outdated hardware. When I built my pc a few years ago the price of graphics cards was through the roof, I planned to upgrade later, I was so happy to find such a well manufactured card at such a low price! The only negative is the card card came in a box with just a two page manual, no CD, no posters, nothing else; but that is all I needed, I would have visited the website to download the latest driver anyway, and as for the books and ads who looks at those anyway?

When the card was newly installed in the beginning of December it worked great. But as time went by it began acting up, everything I'd do on photoshop was getting slower and slower. It would take sometimes two minutes or so to open images on a simple printing program. Finally today (March 3, 2020) it crashed and there was no recovery. I should have returned it when I suspected something was going awry but I thought maybe there was something wrong with the computer. Now I'm out of luck. Installed my old card and everything works as it should. --- UPDATE: After a few months of waiting I had heard there was an update to this graphics card so I decided to reinstall it and give it a try. After installing the new update the card has worked flawlessly ever since. It would crash every 20 hours or so before but now it has not crashed once. Hopefully the update removed the problems my card was experiencing and I can trust it while doing photoshop projects. Originally a one star rating, I would have gone lower if I could have, I bumped the star rating up to four stars. Four stars only because I want to wait several more months to see if the problems have been permanently fixed. --- UPDATE: Bumped my rating to five star. Since the update the card has never crashed, and is working perfectly and faster than ever.

I have been told (and have learned from experience) that ASUS is a very good brand. I purchased this for my father's computer as an upgrade from an EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 SUPERCLOCKED (3GB GDDR5). He is now able to play God of War 4 on his PC (albeit with the lowest graphics settings). The computer cannot handle a better GPU which would result in bottlenecking, but the game seems to run sufficiently well. The computer now meets the minimum system requirements of the game and meets nearly all of the recommended system requirements excluding the CPU, which is an AMD FX-8300 (8 core 3.3 GHz). A Ryzen 5 2400G (4 core 3.6 GHz) is recommended, but the socket on the motherboard is AM3+ (Ryzen is AM4). Easy to install.

I've had some crappy experiences with Amazon's delivery but this is the one part that I've bought from Amazon that was okay it was on time and it worked beautifully

Well, I just fell in love with a certain new city builder game, and out of curiosity I ran the famous Speccy utility after hearing a lot of fan noise coming out of my computer while I played the game. It turned out that the graphics card that came with my Dell 8900 back in 2016 was running at almost 200 degrees Fahrenheit, and in the red zone. Not good. So, I did a lot of research and found this card that totally solved the problem easier than I could imagine. My Dell came with a GeForce GTX 745, and this card was able to run off the computer's power supply just like the OEM card, and it was able to read my display configuration and configure itself immediately. All I had to do was sit and wait for the card to figure everything out, which took a minute or two and caused a couple of monitor flickers. Now, I'm playing the game that originally caused the problem, and the temperature sits at about 120 degrees, and if I go out of my way to use the graphic functions a lot (which I typically don't) then the card temperature peaks in the low 140's, and still within the safety zone. This is likely a "low end" card by today's gaming standards, but I gave my six year old computer a new lease on life for the games I like to play.