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Which is the most sensible Nvidia to buy for me?

darael said:
I currently have a Gainward GTX 660 GS that I am looking to upgrade. At first the GTX 1050 TI looked like a sensible upgrade as I don't really play much and the GTX 600 does what I want right now. What appealed about the 1050 Ti to me was a drop in power consumuption - from 140W to 75W.

Now I've spotted that there are GT 1030 out there in the wild, with a power consumption of only 30W. But I'm wondering if this is will end up being a performance drop.

I am prepared to spend about £150 and the GTX 1050 Ti seems slot nicely into this price range. GT 1030 are about £60 online.

I'd be grateful for any opinions please.
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If you did this to save power only its a tad misguided - I have had the GTX660,GTX960,RX470 and GTX1080 in recent years and most of these cards when idling don't draw much power.

But the thing is both the GTX660 and GTX960 were lucky to push power consumption more than 200W at the wall and that was during 3DMark with gaming power draw being typically less.

The thing is if you don't play games that much anyway,any power drop to a GTX1050TI won't be noticed for a couple of years in terms of savings,and if anything if you have a crap power supply with very low efficiency under 20% load and don't bother to switch it off,that is going to cost more in power consumption!
 
@danny77 @Disco_P

The op stated he was prepared to spend about £150 , if he mentioned upto £150 then im sure something else would have been recommended.

Appreciate the about term could wildly range from person to person, but for me the extra £70 is totally worth spending when the deal was on.
 
Well it turns out the item I ordered was the last one in stock and Overclockers can't find it in the warehouse - as a result, it wasn't dispatched last night like it should have been. :( I had to place my order over the phone as OcUK price-matched a competitor for me, so I wasn't able to check the status of the order online.

If the warehouse manager can't find my order today, I am considering the EVGA GeForce GTX 1050Ti Gaming 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card.
 
Disco_P said:
I like low power draw cause there is less heat to dissipate and therefore less noise.
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Indeed! First valid point anyone's been able to make to me in regards to power draw for me and a significant reason to favour lower power draw. The electricity thing is too minimal to be factor in my opinion.
 
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