Compatibility Problem MSI 760gma-p34

[erviandante]

Greetings everyone,
I have a pc, I paid it 1300 euros 5 years ago, that give me a lot of problems: freeze continiuosly my games, crash my monitor ecc.. I brought it to a pc center where they told me the problem is my Graphic Card ( AMD Radeon R9 200 series). It s an amd card and this can give a lot of problems with games, is not the best choice for a gaming pc, so I decided to change it.
The Problem is: can I with my Mother Board (MSI 760gma-p34) use a graphic card made by nVidia? Does it gave any problems? I thinked something like an nVidia Msi GTX 1050 Ti Gaming X 4G. Do you think it could work?

 

[ragnar-gd]

If you have the budget, yes, the 1050 Ti 4G is a very good choice in its own right.
It will work with your motherboard.
Still i have some questions for a final verdict:
- Which CPU do you use?
- Which model is your old AMD card exactly? (to be able to tell you how much faster a 1050ti will be)

Going to a shop is a good idea, if they usually repair PCS, and if the shop says, it is broken, then, yes, exchange it.
But, normally, a R9 is not necessarily a bad card for gaming, and the R9 290 is definitely faster than the 1050 Ti.
What did they say exactly was the problem with the card?

 

[erviandante]

The cpu is AMD Athlon 64. Unfortunately if i check the name of graphic card with Gpu-Z or with the prompt dxdiag the name is not specified more than "AMD Radeon R9 200 series". The problem for the cp center was in the graphic card: they tried different solution but nothing seems to tell us what the precise problem is. The conclusion for them is to change the whole card, maybe is a manufacturing problem or maybe it s that specific model of graphic card installed that it s not optimized for gaming, they couldn t say me more. I don't want even to retry another repair (to much tries and i simply want to change it to eliminate the whole problem). Do you think the cpu can give problems with a nvidia card?

 

[ragnar-gd]

Ok, let's assume the shop is right.
The board you have looks ok by its spec, it's an AM3+ board, and not too old.
The price of your rig was mainly influenced by the R9 (most probably a R9 290), which was the flagship gaming card of AMD at that time.
The 1050 Ti is a good card, and with an AM3+ board it is a good combo, for playing at FullHD at medium details.

On your board runs anything from an venerable Athlon II X2, (or even a Sempron), up to a (quite more capable) AMD FX 8370.
To not throttle your 1050Ti, it should be an AMD FX 6300 at least, maybe an AMD FX 8300, or, this requires a good top-down cooler, the AMD FX 8350.

The problem is here, i still don't know which CPU you have... AMD Athlon 64 is a very generic name. Can you use CPU-Z on this?

 

[erviandante]

I just used cpu-z again to check what you asked. The cpu is AMD FX 8350 8-core processor. Can you sugguest an equivalent nvidia card, if you think the 1050 ti its not comparable?

 

[ragnar-gd]

Just saying "OK" to your CPU.
For comparison, see this on Tom's Hardware:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

You'll already see, R9 is within a wide range, so you have to find the exact type. The range is from 1050, to 1060, and any shade inbetween.
At the moment, anything beyond 1050ti does not have a good price-performance relationship, while the 1060 is in fact the desired strength for FullHD at max details.