Best monitor options for 1050 ti?

[mangomagic]

Will be using GTX 1050 Ti 4GB paired with a i7-8700 cpu. I'll mainly be doing music production with some gaming (only playing DOTA 2). I want to run a dual monitor setup and was wondering what the best bang for my buck would be. 144hz? 1080p?

[AskTJ]

The 1050ti isn't powerful enough for the 8700k. It would be a bottleneck. Upgrade to a 1060 6GB at the LEAST.

 

With the 1060, a 1080P monitor at 120Hz will be fine.

[Jurrunio]

1080p 144Hz is fine for playing Dota with this system, though dont expect much for more demanding games.

[mangomagic]

2 minutes ago, tj_420 said:

The 1050ti isn't powerful enough for the 8700k. It would be a bottleneck. Upgrade to a 1060 6GB at the LEAST.

 

With the 1060, a 1080P monitor at 120Hz will be fine.

Thanks for the advice. I'll look into upgrading.

[mangomagic]

6 minutes ago, tj_420 said:

The 1050ti isn't powerful enough for the 8700k. It would be a bottleneck. Upgrade to a 1060 6GB at the LEAST.

 

With the 1060, a 1080P monitor at 120Hz will be fine.

Thanks!

[IAnthonyFX]

3 minutes ago, mangomagic said:

Thanks for the advice. I'll look into upgrading.

if you play dota 1080 144hz, if you want to play other things you can still game pretty fine at 1080p 60hz -high settings sometimes. other than that a 1060 will do you better, but if your thing is dota then 1050ti is more than enough

[Blebekblebek]

What kind of demanding games today that won't run on 1050ti perfectly?
I'm running 1050ti and few 1050 no problem running almost everything on 1080p med/high settings 60fps

sure there's dips, but still within reasonable limit

With dota2 and other source games you will get 100+ fps easily.

 

People underestimate 1050/1050Ti too often, most comparison even setting it at high/veryhigh/ultra to make it more distinguishable.

 

[IAnthonyFX]

1 minute ago, Blebekblebek said:

What kind of demanding games today that won't run on 1050ti perfectly?
I'm running 1050ti and few 1050 no problem running almost everything on 1080p med/high settings 60fps

sure there's dips, but still within reasonable limit

With dota2 and other source games you will get 100+ fps easily.

 

People underestimate 1050/1050Ti too often, most comparison even setting it at high/veryhigh/ultra to make it more distinguishable.

 

Agree with this guy. my laptop has a 1050ti and it is quite impressive I even hit 1440p 70hz at high details in fornite. Runs dark souls just fine 1080p, etc etc. 

[i_build_nanosuits]

3 hours ago, mangomagic said:

Will be using GTX 1050 Ti 4GB paired with a i7-8700 cpu. I'll mainly be doing music production with some gaming (only playing DOTA 2). I want to run a dual monitor setup and was wondering what the best bang for my buck would be. 144hz? 1080p?

i would get the cheapest 1080p monitor that is 24'' 60hz for secondary display and the cheapest 1080p 24'' 120hz+ Gsync monitor for primary.

in US right now this would look like this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Monitor: AOC - G2460PG 24.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor  ($299.89 @ OutletPC)
Monitor: Dell - SE2417HG 23.6" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor  ($99.95 @ B&H)
Total: $399.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-05 01:00 EDT-0400

[vinodthvr46]

try searching for acer gaming monitors, i bet you will find a nice deal..