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Well 1050 ti is a super cut down 1060 chip, and the increase in cuda / ram just doesn't justify the jump in price from the regular 1050. Sure it could be better in vram dependent games like doom 4, but come on, you can just turn down two or three settings in those games and they will still look as good, and run way better, and I'm quoting this post because it's super relevant to this thread, as well as today, and you will still have a card that will outperform the 1050 ti in the rest of the games, 1050 ti is just a terrible value compared to 1060 3GB or regular 1050

I did just this, because rendering needless frames gets your card hot for no reason, I locked mine at 75, because locking in at 60 resulted in godawful tearing.

Lots of mining cards have had their bios flashed, so make sure to either re-flash or find a card with a non-flashed bios, OR to rub salt on the wound, make the guy selling it re-flash the card.

The reason why it works better with lower refresh rates is that once the fps get ABOVE the refresh rate freesync falls back to vsync, which is fucking terrible IMO

He said GOOD cards to get for ~$250

NO, 1050 ti is a joke, get the 1060 3gb

I'm hesitant to believe my PSU killed these GPUs, they both died in different ways, I was just not ruling out the option of the power supply.

Nah man DDR4 prices are through the roof. I have a friend who is selling his EVGA GTX 960, I'll just get that if I manage to get my money back from the 7850 guy.

Thing is he doesn't know the full history of the cards he gets, a friend of his sends them to him from Germany from an IT center or something On all his ads does say he accepts burn-ins, and we did sit for hours testing the first card I got, so lying is out of the question, again, he was cool enough to offer me a replacement. He may not have gotten around to testing this MSI card though he did tell me it got to him recently, but I like to believe if it didn't happen to me it would have happened to someone else, or even to himself down the line.

That's what I like to believe, too, this second MSI one has the exact symptoms of a cooked card: ok for one week, then it starts artifacting, so the PSU should be fine, I mean, it hasn't killed my r7 250

Well he did test it, we were at it for hours trying to figure out what was wrong with it. Besides, once it's dead, it's dead regardless of the power supply used innit? It's like giving a dead person a heart transplant and suddenly they're alive again.

So about a month ago I bought a Sapphire HD 7850 second hand. It ran fine until a week ago when it was crashing as if it weren't getting enough voltage: no artifacts or anything, just unstable voltage. Since then I took it to the guy I got it from and he was cool enough to replace it for me, with an MSI HD 7850, same model, but only 1gb. Fast forward to last night, not even a week after I had it replaced and it started artifacting. Now I wonder if these things were caused by the fact that my power supply killed them. No power surges or anything, and besides i have my pc plugged into a surge protector. However, my R7 250 is still alive after 3 years, and I'm thinking that either if it were the power supply killing my stuff it would have also killed the 250 or it only kills cards that have at least a 6-pin power. My power supply is a TX550M from Corsair.

I'm just saying, in case something happens to this card, it is 6 years old now, and I just had another 7850 break on me last week, good thing the guy agreed to replace it.

Well yeah, as I said, I mostly play pre-2014 games, and currently the 7850 handles them 1440p no problem, I was only worried that going forward, to a stronger card, but narrower memory bus would have an impact on my performance, because the memory bus is not as wide and could probably not carry all the info to properly render 1440p. It's kinda hard to find benchmarks for a specific graphics preset, since most of them are run at ultra, I can think of guys like RandomGamingInHD, or F2F that would run games at reasonable settings, but chances are they won't have a certain card I want to be looking at.

Recently I started gaming in 1440p and it looks amazing, can't wait for 4k to become mainstream, anyway I was wondering if having a 256-bit bus is necessary for gaming at such a resolution (not talking about modern titles here, talking about pre-2014 games), I found out my HD7850 has no trouble playing these games in 1440p, and I think it's thanks to its 256-bit bus, anyway could I still theoretically play those same games in 1440p even with a 128-bit bus on, say, an RX 560 or GTX 1050 or something?

Yes, I made it as a journal / book kind of style, so it's keeping a log of all the parts, and at the same time it also tells a story, written with some slight immersion to it.

We started logging our builds, and this is my take on it. I'm sharing this because I think it turned out as a pretty interesting "started from the rock bottom" kind of story For context, the computer I upgraded from in 2015 had: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz Nvidia Quadro FX 3450 3GB DDR2 RAM Comments are enabled so you can comment there if you so wish. [link]

That's the exact definition of a CPU bottleneck: two of your cores are pegged at 100% while the others sit there and do nothing, there's nothing you can do about it, except a CPU with better single core performance.

Who knows? All in all Im kinda glad the other one broke down because now I feel I unlocked the true potential of this card.

I second this, I've heard lots of rumours about bad backwards compatibility with nvidia drivers.

Can a badly flashed bios affect the performance and/or thermals of a card? Here's some back story About a month ago I bought a Sapphire HD 7850 second hand, and it had great performance, but lacking in other games (such as SS3 Fusion or Borderlands 2) I didn't think much of it, I thought it was a CPU bottleneck doing that, but recently it got some power delivery issues, and the guy was kind enough to give me an MSI as replacement (same model), only 1GB in memory though, but it runs much cooler, by about 10-15 degrees, and it performs much better to my surprise: where I couldn't really play SS3 or Borderlands in 1080p above 45FPS average, now I can play both of those in 1440p60+ (same exact settings) no problem. The day I took the card back is when I found out the Sapphire had been flashed poorly by somebody else.

OK yes, that I understand, but was the bad performance an issue with the bios? Can a bad bios cause terrible performance?

Make sure to read everything, there's some questions at the end About a month ago I went ahead and got a HD 7850 2GB from Sapphire, second hand, I was looking to upgrade my R7 250. All was well and good, it was running a bit hot, but I didn't pay much attention to it (wouldn't exceed 76-77 degrees, but I had to undervolt to keep it from becoming a jet engine), performance was good too, superior to the 250's, but I thought it had had its bios re-flashed, because the picture on the bios database had a different cooler than mine, while I did later learn pictures there aren't 100% representative of what the card actually looks like, it did have its bios re-flashed, but I'm getting ahead of myself. And so, performance in some games was kinda poor, games like Borderlands 2, still playable, but absolutely abysmal frame times and wouldn't get past 45-50fps max, same story with Serious Sam 3: Fusion, while others did run well, I didn't know how poor they ran until I got a replacement, but I'm getting ahead of myself again. Fast forward to 3 days ago, when I was getting seemingly power delivery issues. The card looked good both idle and in-game, no artifacts, however under stress the driver would crash leaving behind lines of the same looking gradient repeated, something I know is caused by not enough voltage, because I had an unstable undervolt that behaved just like that. Anyway, yesterday I took the card back to the guy I got it from, and he was friendly enough to help me figure out the issue. I was hoping it was my power supply that had the problem, because it's still in warranty, but it did the same "unstable undervolt" crash on him, too. We tried re-flashing the bios, thinking this is what may have been causing it, and THIS is where I learned the card had had its bios re-flashed by somebody else, and really badly at that too because it couldn't be re-flashed again, not even showing anything in atiflash. Meanwhile, I left that card at the guy and he was kind enough to give me another HD 7850 he had, this time from MSI, but only 1GB in size, I took it kinda reluctantly thinking it would impact my performance because it had half the buffer, but when I got home I was pleasantly surprised that not only did it run 10 degrees cooler than the Sapphire, with a slower fan profile, too, but it was also running so much better, now I'm able to get 70+fps (can't tell exactly how much above that, I've locked the framerate) in both Borderlands 2, and Serious Sam 3: Fusion. Now there are also some questions to be had after all this. 1. Are old Sapphire cards, from about that time really bad? Are they still this bad? My R7 250 is a Sapphire and I haven't had any issues with it in the past 3 years. 2. Could the poor performance in the Sapphire card have been caused by the poorly flashed bios? TL;DR: I bought a sapphire HD 7850 that went bad shortly after, got it replaced with a 1GB version from MSI which somehow performs vastly better.

I've seen Inno3D going as far back as the early 2000s

Well fine then, let's call the weaker 1050 a 1040. Or better yet, let's have the 4GB version only