1050ti with a kind of old motherboard

[SwaggyLukas]

Hey,
Im thinking of upgrading to a MSI GTX1050 TI 4GT OC (white, dual fan) and just wanted to make sure, if my motherboard is compatible either with the new architecture or the wattage. My motherboard is: MSI H61M-P22 (B3). Also was wondering if any of you know if that exact white dual fan oc card requires an external power connector, because i cant find any information.
Thanks!

 

[BadAsAl]

The board has a PCI-e X16 so will take that card. Wattage will be determined by your PSU, but that card has a low requirement of only 300W so I would guess you are already meeting that.
The MSI specs on that GTX 1050 ti do not list a power connection so it does not need an external power connection. If you lookup one of the 1080 cards on the MSI site it lists power connections for those.

 

[SwaggyLukas]

The board has a PCI-e X16 so will take that card. Wattage will be determined by your PSU, but that card has a low requirement of only 300W so I would guess you are already meeting that.
The MSI specs on that GTX 1050 ti do not list a power connection so it does not need an external power connection. If you lookup one of the 1080 cards on the MSI site it lists power connections for those.

thank you so much for replying so qucikly lol, could you link me the page of the exact gpu, because i cant find it for some reason.

 

[BadAsAl]

Here is the link to the specifications page: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-4GT-OC.html#hero-specification

 

[BadAsAl]

Not seeing a white MSI one though, only ASUS... do you have a link to a sale that we can look at?

 

[SwaggyLukas]

Here is the link to the specifications page: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-4GT-OC.html#hero-specification

but it doesnt say anywhere that it doesnt require external power, and also its pcie 3.0, is it backwards compatible to 2.0?

 

[BadAsAl]

It doesn't list it as needing external power like they do on the 1080 cards which means it doesn't need it. Also no pics I found show the connections, which are almost always on the top or rear of the card. Yes, it is a pcie 3.0 card but it is backwards compatible to pci 2.0.