gtx 970 or gtx 1050, budget 180$

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fahadssikder

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My budget is 180$
I live in Asia (Bangladesh) and the new price for gtx 1050 and a used gtx 970 is the same.

I want to play games on my Samsung 4k 40" tv.

I was thinking Gigabyte G1 gtx 970.
Am I doing the right thing or not ?
You are more than welcome to suggest me anything, maybe a different card or amd, whatever.

PC config
i5 4590
4gb ram
120gb ssd + 500gb wd
Thermaltake tr2 500W
 
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volkgren

Says the person using an A6-3650 in 2018. You have no idea what your GTX 970 can do because your CPU is such a limiting factor.

I've owned a GTX 970 Strix and I can tell you just about every GTX 970 can overclock to equal the performance of a stock GTX 980. They are quite a bargain.

Sure "proper 4K gaming" is best with a GTX 1080 or better, but you can make things happen with the GTX 970. I'm arguing against your choice of words here. According to your use of words, you can't game at 1080p with your A6-3650 on new games. an you even play Battlefield 1 multiplayer and not drop below 45fps? What about PUBG?

Btw, those benchmarks you shared were all at ultra settings. I already said you'll need to adjust...
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It wont do 4K. You will need a min of at least a GTX1080ti. The new GTX2080 and 2080ti's are also worth considering. 4K takes FOUR TIMES the gpu power so if you get 1080p at 60fps expect 15fps at 4k.

Also your quad core i5 with no HT will struggle with 4K gaming.

On the other hand you can just let the TV's up-scaling chips do some of the work and run games at 1080p and let the TV upscale it to 4K.
The GTX970 does ok at 1080p gaming.
 
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The 970 is far far better. However 4k is not something it can do at anything but low-medium settings in games from a little while ago. Also 4gb of ram is NOT ENOUGH to game. You need AT LEAST 8gb.
 
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Almost every game so far runs on my system with 4gigs. I have a old Llano with a 970 with 1080p tv's.

It will put more wear on your ssd because the system will use Virtual memory more. To reduce wear enable more virtual memory on your 500 gig WD. (My ssd's life is at about 75% or 25% has been used up and it's about 3 or 4 years old and it's a budget on sale brand too a Patriot Blast 128)
Also force bigger virtual memory so you have something like 64gigs total.

To date 1 game demo failed to run. I am playing lots of games that claim they need 6 or 8 gigs.
 
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Some of info you are pushing out is not exactly correct.

You can game at 4K with a GTX 970 and get decent frame rates in a lot of games if you have the right mix of settings. So, to say that it won't do 4K is wrong.

A quad-core i5 would game better at 4K than it would at 1080p. So you're just wrong there. At 4K he would be GPU bound, whereas 1080p can often be CPU bound. Lower performance at 4K has [mostly] everything to do with the GPU and nothing to do with the CPU. You definitely wouldn't want to go trying to game at 4K with only 4GB system RAM. 8GB minimum and 16GB recommended to keep from having RAM lower performance.

All that said, performance would be better at 1080p than 4K.
 
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Says the person using an A6-3650 in 2018. You have no idea what your GTX 970 can do because your CPU is such a limiting factor.

I've owned a GTX 970 Strix and I can tell you just about every GTX 970 can overclock to equal the performance of a stock GTX 980. They are quite a bargain.

Sure "proper 4K gaming" is best with a GTX 1080 or better, but you can make things happen with the GTX 970. I'm arguing against your choice of words here. According to your use of words, you can't game at 1080p with your A6-3650 on new games. an you even play Battlefield 1 multiplayer and not drop below 45fps? What about PUBG?

Btw, those benchmarks you shared were all at ultra settings. I already said you'll need to adjust settings to get a decent framerate.

Here's Destiny 2 with some graphics tweaks running 60fps 4K with a GTX 970. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw3lbceNk18

Here's CoD WWII 4K High settings with a GTX 970 getting 45-60fps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpAZsty1Kd0

You're arguing your point here as if he can afford a GTX 1080. If he can afford a better card I doub't he'd be looking at a GTX 970 or a GTX 1050.

A used GTX 970 is a good bargain and can even play some games at 4K with the right settings.

*Also, for "proper" PC gaming, you need a monitor and not a TV. So, according to you, you should both hang it up now and switch to console. My point being sometimes people get by with less, more evidence being you still using your A6-3650, a CPU typically not considered worthy of a modern gaming PC.
 
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