1050Ti vs 560Ti

[Urban Reflex]

Hi folks, I'm looking for a bit of help regarding an upgrade that may seem rather odd, but bear with me...

I'd like to upgrade my 2GB GTX 560 Ti for a fanless 4GB GTX 1050 Ti - but given the age of my PC (2.83Ghz Core 2 Quad, 8GB RAM, motherboard only supports PCIE2.0) would I run the risk of seeing a performance decrease?

Due to circumstance, I now have to basically sit on top of my PC when gaming. Because my graphics card runs so loud, I struggle to hear what's going on in the game sometimes (quiet scenes, footsteps of baddies sneaking up on me, etc).

The most taxing games I own are probably Far Cry 4, Metro 2033 and Last Light (not Redux), No Man's Sky, Tomb Raider (2013), Firewatch. I don't play any new games, and the newer ones I do own I'm happy to play at 1280x720.

Cheers guys

 

[subbytna]

Give your pc/card a clean? See if the fans quieten down

 

[Armageus]

As above, try cleaning the graphics card with compressed air and probably worth removing the cooler and applying fresh thermal paste.

With regards to the 1050ti, pcie 2.0 will make zero difference. A core 2 quad will likely bottleneck the card, especially at that resolution, but regardless it should still be noticeably faster.

Only other thing that someone else may be able to confirm, but not sure if there are issues with using newer GPUs (designed with uefi in mind) with older legacy bios motherboards.

 

[ExoMale]

the 560ti should still be pretty decent for its age, i had a superclocked 1gb version once when i owned an i3 running fallout 4 rather well, its better than what i have paired to my core2quad now lol, maybe give the whole system good clean as suggested?


might be worth finding a cheap 760 rather than buy the 1050ti.

 

[Ben Cole]

I went 560ti to 970 on an older board with an i7-860.

Massive improvement.

 

[Urban Reflex]

Hey guys, thanks for the replies

I've tried cleaning it out, and even redoing the thermal paste. I've also played around with MSI Afterburner, but it doesn't seem to make much difference. I think the main problem is now that I don't have much room, the PC is kinda wedged into a corner so there isn't really anywhere for the air to go.