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jrosario7877
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Hi All,

 

I recently upgraded my desktop to a Ryzen 7 2700x,  MSI x570-A pro board,  G-Skill DDR4 32GB 3600, but, I kept my old GPU an  Nvidia GTX 1050ti.

I am no computer expert so I rely on reviews and the geeks at Best Buy for my parts since I am limited on place to shop for parts physically rather than the internet...

(online stores)  at the time of purchased the tech told me this would not be a big deal. (keeping my GPU)  

 

He said, that although it was an older card it should be compatible.   After some issues getting the system to boot..(which I got help from one of you guys out there).

I finally got it working.

 

BUT....   Now the screen flashes on and off specially when using abobe or watching videos.  I want to upgrade my GPU but with sooooo many options I don't

know which one I should get,  my budget is between $300 to $500 dollars. I am not a hardcore gamer,  I emulate some of the older stuff... and I enjoy driving

games... such as gran turismo and midnight club...  that's about all the gaming I do...   I also use a drafting program for work,  but it is a web base program and

I am not relying on my local resource - since I work of the company server - I mainly rely on the internet connection.  

 

I'd love to hear some suggestions...

 

Sincerely...

JR

 

 

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Well first suggestion is to NEVER EVER trust the Best buy "geeks", unless you will get super lucky and a guy will be a pc enthusiast who is actually there to help. 32Gb was way OP taking into account what you use your pc for. As for games you mentioned, both are console, so if you don't game on PC at all, don't see any reason to upgrade from 1050ti. If it satisfies the needs, safe cash and buy something when you actually need it :) As for screen flashing, is it the monitor going on off? (maybe the cable, power outlet issue?) Watching videos is a simple task, so GPU should not be the problem. What is ur PSU, as you did not mention the upgrade of it?

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11 minutes ago, jrosario7877 said:

my budget is between $300 to $500 dollars.

 

Then I suggest a 5700/XT Sapphire nitro+/pulse, Power color red devil or Gigabyte gaming OC although BestBuy has none of them... 

They do have the 2060S EVGA XC but it's the same price for less performance at 440 and 460$ and founder edition at 400$.

And there is the 2070S founder edition at 500$.

 

Edit : the 1660ti at 320€.

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18 minutes ago, jrosario7877 said:

Ryzen 7 2700x,  MSI x570-A pro board,  G-Skill DDR4 32GB 3600,

Zen + doesn't like 3600mhz memory at all, even if it did 3600mhz memory is not a sweet spot, I suspect you're running at 2133mhz JEDEC.

 

You bought a X570 for a Zen + CPU.

 

You bought the second WORST X570 motherboard there is, a terrible value where lots of B450 cheaper are superior.

 

R7 2700X doesn't make sense any more when a R5 3600 is faster for the same price on almost everything.

 

Best suggestion I can make is return everything and next time ask for help before purchasing things.

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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2 minutes ago, Envit0 said:

Well first suggestion is to NEVER EVER trust the Best buy "geeks", unless you will get super lucky and a guy will be a pc enthusiast who is actually there to help. 32Gb was way OP taking into account what you use your pc for. As for games you mentioned, both are console, so if you don't game on PC at all, don't see any reason to upgrade from 1050ti. If it satisfies the needs, safe cash and buy something when you actually need it :) As for screen flashing, is it the monitor going on off? (maybe the cable, power outlet issue?) Watching videos is a simple task, so GPU should not be the problem. What is ur PSU, as you did not mention the upgrade of it?

 

Yeah indeed they suggested a 2700x with a x570 motherboard and not even a good one...

 

And I agree about the monitor part even though a GPU upgrade would be nice with that CPU.

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Dear Envit0,

 

Thank you for your response,   my PSU is  a corsair RM850x.   The monitor does not go off,  it is more like it blanks out - sort of searching for input,  and it does it more out of the display port side  - ( I am using 2 LG32 in Monitors) 1 on the display port and 1 on HDMI...  although the one on the display port does it more often,  they both cycle periodically and it only seems to happen when using adobe or watching online videos You Tube, netflixs... so on.

 

JR

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