Looking to upgrade system, currently get 25-30fps on ground at various airports, 80+ in air, ground can be a little slow to load at times depending on area. Fly mainly in Europe. Running aerosft airbus, GSX, orbx vector, orbx global, orbx Europe, PROATCX, active sky, REX, ultimate traffic live. 

 

Looking upgrade graphics to the nvidia gtx 1050 4GB msi, anyone have one of these or can recommend?

 

thanks in advance, Paul 

 

Current specs
Intel Core i5 6600K Skylake Processor 3.50 GHz (Overclocked to up to 4.4GHz)    
Chillblast Centurion Direct Contact CPU Cooler    
8GB Corsair/Crucial DDR4 2133MHz Memory (2 x 4GB sticks) - Skylake CPU only    
Aerocool Premium Grade 600W PSU    
Windows 10 Home 64-bit    
Chillblast NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Graphics Car    

 

I tend to doubt that going from an Nvidia 950 to a 1050 would be much of an upgrade.  Yes, you will get more VRAM, but not much beyond that.  Upgrading to a 1080 would be a good upgrade, but that would put you right at the limits of your PSU and with a healthy overclock on your system, the PSU might not be sufficient.

@garlicbread11

Hi

I understand that you usually fly FSX SE.

First of all, today FSX or FSX SE only needs a low power GPU, for example: GTX750, GTX750Ti, GTX950, GTX1050Ti are enough to make fsx work decently, therefore, a GTX1050Ti 4GB is enough for FSX SE.

However, I would recommend that instead of buying a GTX1050TI 4GB you will buy a GTX1650 or a GTX1660 6GB.

if you upgrade from GTX950 to GTX1050Ti you will only gain a little bit of performance, besides the GTX1050Ti is already an old gpu with a little more money you can get the GTX1650 and get a bigger performance jump because the GTX1650 works like a GTX1060 3GB.

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare/GeForce-GTX-1650-vs-GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-vs-GeForce-GTX-950/4078vs3595vs3295

On the other hand, I would mostly recommend a GTX1660 6GB because it is the queen of the mid-range and 1080p, it yields a little bit more than the gtx1060 6GB and in the future your PC will be better prepared and you will be able to use other games.

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare/GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-vs-GeForce-GTX-950-vs-GeForce-GTX-1660/3595vs3295vs4062

With a GTX1650 or GTX1660 6GB you don't need a new PSU.

Here you have custom models:

GTX1650:https://videocardz.com/nvidia/geforce-16/geforce-gtx-1650

GTX1660: https://videocardz.com/nvidia/geforce-16/geforce-gtx-1660

In short, for almost the same money it is better to get a GTX1650 and if you can stretch a little more a GTX1660.

Regards

I would advise against a GTX1050, a 1060 is the bare minimum for it to be worth upgrading and ideally a 1080 if you're looking to move to P3D, Xplane or play other games. As an alternative, the GTX 1660 Ti mentioned by E69 is a good choice for those on a budget and doesn't need much power.

@ckyliu

Of course, a GTX1060 6GB is also recommended, my gpu is a gtx1060 6Gb and I can run FSX SE, P3DV4, XP11 and DCS decently, but at this time perhaps 1060 stock is very low and therefore is better to get a GTX1660 that has similar performance, by the way, I told about GTX1660 not GTX1660Ti, because I think Garlicbread prefer a ''good price GPU''.

However the GTX1660Ti is very good GPU, similar to GTX1070 but is a little bit expensive that is way I don't recommend it to Garlicbread.

Regards

Thanks the the advice. The1660Ti looks to be within budget, Will this be a noticeable improvement regarding loading textures and FPS?

@garlicbread11

I have my doubts about this, if I remember correctly the amount of fps depends on the cpu, but the speed with which the textures are loaded I don't know if it depends on the ram memory or the memory of the graphics card.

Without a doubt, if you bet on a gtx1660ti you will get high filters and the quality of the image will be very clear.

wait for the opinion of other people in the forum.

Regards