Graphics Card + Motherboard Support

[Aaron McCotton]

Greetings people of the internet.

 

I have a question.

I have an MSI A78M-E35 V2 motherboard. Currently, I'm using AMD APU A8-7600 and running on onboard graphics.

But, I decided to buy Zotac GTX 1050ti 4GB OC dual-fan or Galax GTX 1050ti 4gb EXOC. I still don't know which one to choose. Do you have any recommendation or suggestion to which is the best graphics card? I'm playing 1080p games, and preferably racing simulation such as F1, Dirt, etc and First Person Shooting games.

Also, does either Zotac or Galax graphics card will fit in my motherboard?

 

Your answers will be much appreciated, thank you.

[tom_w141]

@Aaron McCotton

 

Yes it will be fine with your motherboard

They are both the same GPU just different manufacturers adding their own coolers, buy whatever is cheaper

[Aaron McCotton]

@tom_w141 So it won't interfere with other PCI lane?

[imluvian]

The two cards have the similar performance.

PS: I guess you should double check your power supply that whether it is enough to power a dedicated GPU, since most systems run on on-boad GPUs have crappy PSUs.

[tom_w141]

2 minutes ago, Aaron McCotton said:

@tom_w141 So it won't interfere with other PCI lane?

It will use 16 lanes to the CPU (all of them), though it would work fine with 8 and will split the lanes with other devices if it needs to. What else do you have running on pcie that concerns you?

[Aaron McCotton]

@imluvian

 

I'm using Corsair VS450 by the way

[Aaron McCotton]

1 minute ago, tom_w141 said:

It will use 16 lanes to the CPU (all of them). What else do you have running on pcie that concerns you?

I have a wifi-card right underneath the pciex16. the height that really worries me