Asus GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Phoenix Fan Edition DVI-D HDMI DP 1.4 Gaming Graphics Card

I have been told (and have learned from experience) that ASUS is a very good brand. I purchased this for my father's computer as an upgrade from an EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 SUPERCLOCKED (3GB GDDR5). He is now able to play God of War 4 on his PC (albeit with the lowest graphics settings). The computer cannot handle a better GPU which would result in bottlenecking, but the game seems to run sufficiently well. The computer now meets the minimum system requirements of the game and meets nearly all of the recommended system requirements excluding the CPU, which is an AMD FX-8300 (8 core 3.3 GHz). A Ryzen 5 2400G (4 core 3.6 GHz) is recommended, but the socket on the motherboard is AM3+ (Ryzen is AM4).Easy to install.

make sure you unplug external audio devices (speakers). I had a pair of Amazon speakers plugged in, which somehow crashed Nvidia's sound device update during driver install. unplugging and reinstalling did the trick. 80 bucks for the performance I get from this compared to the intel uhd 700 series in my inspiron 3020 is well worth the money.

Built a new computer for my home office. I don't do any heavy gaming but I want speed and reliability from all my components. I chose ASUS because of my past experience and I am using an ASUS motherboard and know there won't by any compatibility problems using a GTX 1050 Ti ASUS card. I was afraid that at this low price I was going to get a dog of a graphics card even though I don't need a fast GPU for my home computer.This card does a fantastic job for the price. I ran some GPU performance tests and very surprised how well this card ran. Buy it before they realize they have it priced too low.UPDATE - Purchased this card two years ago. It has worked perfectly and doesn't even break a sweat and is super quiet. I paid $154 and the price is now $350. I thought the price was unbelievably low when I purchased it. Seems I was right. I would pay the $350 for it now. It's a great graphics card for the lite user.

Let me start by saying I am not a gamer, Play Station games on PCSX2 emulator is the most demanding I play. I was suprised to see that games even an old game like Sly2 would play at all with integrated graphics; it has slow choppy parts; however using the 1050ti GPU speeds up the slow down spots and makes great game play: better than it was 18 years ago. The 1050 came out more than 6 years ago so you may think it outdated in 2022; I ASUS thinks so: the driver was updated in July 2022 and I think they would have wasted the resources on Updates for outdated hardware. When I built my pc a few years ago the price of graphics cards was through the roof, I planned to upgrade later, I was so happy to find such a well manufactured card at such a low price!The only negative is the card card came in a box with just a two page manual, no CD, no posters, nothing else; but that is all I needed, I would have visited the website to download the latest driver anyway, and as for the books and ads who looks at those anyway?