I'm not one to write many reviews, and I've only had this ASUS GTX 1050 Ti card for a few hours (purchased from Amazon), but I am super pleased with this video card. I shopped several hours over several websites and dozens of the newest video cards before I took a chance on this one.
I would like to direct this review to you consumers that are similar to me. I built my desktop pc from components 6 years ago in 2011. At the time it was a decent gaming machine. Its been a decent gaming machine in all the years since. Of primary interest to this review is that back then I splurged quite a bit of money to buy two GTX 465's each with 1GB of VRAM. I ran those video cards using SLI with good results. I'm a first person shooter fan and always have been. My experience has been that if you build a pc for gaming, everything else you do with your pc will fall into place.
That's all well and good, but as time passed and newer games were released, my frame rates dropped. I could compensate by turning the game's settings back, which is fine by me. Eye candy is nice, but frame rates are the difference between life and death when playing a bleeding edge shooter. The system served me well for many years and many shooters until I bought DOOM 4. DOOM 4 is a great game, but with my aging SLI video cards setup my frame rates were terrible, almost unplayable, even at the lowest of the low settings.
My second most important criteria for the new card I chose is that it had to have two DVI connectors, since I want to run two LCD monitors. Back in the day two DVI connectors were common on video cards, but that is not the case now. This ASUS card is a rarity in that it has two DVI connectors, plus an HDMI connector, plus whatever that other connector is.
My third criteria when shopping for a card is less aggravation and faster speed of installation. I'm older now, I don't want to break my bank, I've got a growing family and much less time to fight a pc upgrade. This ASUS video card nailed it. I removed my old GTX 465's, plugged in this new GTX 1050 Ti, started the computer, and within a tiny handful of minutes Windows 7 figured out what I needed and installed it. I followed that up with a quick NVIDIA update and now this beast of a computer and video card smoothly plays DOOM4 on ultra settings. The frame rates are over the top. The computer is quieter, the power consumption dropped considerably.
I'm happy
| Memory Speed | 1392 MHz |
|---|---|
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | Geforce GTX 1050 |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 4 GB |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
