Why I Can't Recommend The GTX 750 Ti Anymore... 

Agreed

Ayy, nice to see you here Santi!

Indeed. Long live the GTX 750 Ti!

Pointless ewaste

You`ve got right. This card still can run a lot of newer games in 720p or 900p in good framerate. It`s nice alternative to very expensive new GPUs.

This sure did look like a good GPU back in 2015 and 2016, but not that long after that.

iGPUs nowadays perform similar to, or even better than the GTX 750 Ti. It's amazing how far GPUs have come, unfortunate it had to be ruined by the GPU shortage.

right now i'm using a 750 ti, i really want to upgrade but with the market right now i cant really find any for the under 200 mark

@@stoutscientist gtx 970/980? 2nd hand then

@@danielh9981 alright, im just trying to play modern games at least on low with 60fps. the only place i can find them for under 200$ is on like ebay but.. I've been scammed on ebay before so im a little hesitant

It’s not dead until driver support is gone. We still have driver support. It works great at 720p/30fps locked + vsync. It’s not dead yet. Close to it though.

1060 is the new 750 ti imo

well it is dead unless your playing old games.. or on a 2k monitor or tv that are cheap and big now. the games shown here are old and some of the few that still are on last gen consoles. its also a bit weird to use such a old card that is about what the cheap 2013 consoles are for power

In my opinion, an RX 570 is the new minimum if you can find it at a good price, since it is newer and can run games at 1080p with FSR just fine. However, considering the market rn, I would go for an APU like a Ryzen 3 2200G as a minimum since you can upgrade it down the line.

@@lancebermejo3319 good luck finding a 2200g for the price its worth. i was lucky to get my sons for $50 a few years ago. My girlfriend paid almost $200 for her 3400g. better off grabbing a ryzen 1/2/3600 with a used r9 280x or something around there

Agree, Im stil using it

It's great for most Indie games. Especially more retro styled games. It entirely depends on what type of games you play. My wife still uses one in her daily driver and it's fine for her.

Cringe

@@danimayb the state of AAA games in the last couple of years is ludicrous

@@tyre1337 how

@@reallyryan_ Corporate greed has helped them realise that they can put out increasingly mediocre products and get away with it. As a result the quality of an average AAA game has decreased massively over the past few years and in fact I’d say a very vast majority of AAA titles are bad. The only studio that consistently put out good AAA titles was From Software, but they completely shit the bed with Elden Ring because in its current state it’s hardly playable.

can always attempt DXVK injection, but half the time that doesnt work either.

@@KadiusFTW DXVK does not support DirectX 12 in *any* way.

It's an 8 year old card, that's slower than GPUs from 2009-2010. It's fine.

@@IK4MS That's actually not true anymore, at least on the linux side of things

@@IK4MS No, but VKD3D does and it's reasonable for people to conflate the two, especially when Proton makes use of both. People already have Elden Ring running on Windows 7 via VKD3D, albeit in offline mode only due to EAC.

The problem is that it competes with Polaris.Rx 470/570 eat the 1050 Ti for breakfast.

@@naamadossantossilva4736 Being fair, Polaris is an anomaly, just like Pascal.

@@saricubra2867 But the 1050 was Pascal.

260X was always a better GPU than 750 Ti. Too bad so few people realized this

There are some custom drivers that are helping these older AMD cards allowing newer titles to run be it with questionable performance. With the world going to shit it might save some from having to scrape by on an IGP for a while longer.

The R7 260X is still a little beast, and is a much better card especially these days. AMD in that era really future proofed their setups

Playing god of war right now on an r7 260x. 😅

@@MrKillswitch88 i still save a HD 7770 in case i sold or want to change my main pc gpu because my r7 2700x doesn't have igp, with the modded drivers the pc recognize it as a R7 250X and at least i can play emulators and old games like BF4 or connect old VGA/DVI monitors

I have a twin fan Asus 750ti and I'm still using it. The way the world is I'm using it into the foreseeable future here too. I'm not paying $1,000 to upgrade.

@@1pcfred Can't blame you there, at this rate something like the steam deck would be better value than a desktop!

@@expert2090 apu’s are decent like the 3400g or the 5600g

@@danielh9981 I'm satisfied with my 5600g. Upgraded from a Phenom II x6.

@@expert2090 I am beginning to wonder if enthusiast computing may be over with. If we haven't crossed the Rubicon and entered into a new reality. I'd like to think things will get better someday but I am not sure if they will. I'm less sure today than I was in the past. Things haven't gotten better lately either. I've heard prices have come down a little. I still can't say it's any real improvement though. Least not a meaningful one.

Yes, games were probably playable from 2014-to-2020, but I would have thought the prime-time was 2014-2016. In 2016, I went for the 1060 3 GB. I had a GT 640 from 2014-2016.

With the new consoles sporting some serious hardware for the cost, the fact that their hardware is worth double to almost triple the actual asking price, only shows how games are gonna be in the future: fucking hefty to run since modern consoles are the basis, and the modern consoles i.e. the Series X and PS5, are seriously powerful....well...that's the expectation, price of PC components not considered.

If you are lucky enough to find an x79 or an x99 board you can use a cheap xeon which is a big boost over that 750 by country miles plus they are dirt cheap vs almost everything else.

@@MrKillswitch88 thanks for the tip I will be sure to keep an eye out for one

@@theduckmeister6291 The boards can be a bit expensive time to time but the xeons are dirt cheap and bough one earlier today for $25. They can use both the sever grade ecc as well generic desktop ram so that helps out a lot. Just be sure to avoid the E7 line as that is a different socket from all the rest.

take a look around in your local facebook marketplace for some CPU motherboard combos also, I've seen xeon combos pop up every now and then on fb

I'd recommend this: Ryzen 5 1400, B450 motherboard, and 16GB 3200MHz for a total of $250. The cool thing is that you have more room for upgradability and less CPU bottlenecks.

Alte spiele kannst du damit ja spielen^^

Often times it is the power supply that makes pc components die. I oced my HD 6850 1gb withan aging generic 500w psu and it caught fire resulting in the gpu, motherboard, hdd, and ram died. I am still pissed off until this day lol (it has been almost a decade, but still). Now I only buy certified psu like Seasonic. Other components can be the cheapest option, but the psu must be of quality.

@@main_tak_becus6689 having a good rated PSU is very important. Nearly killed my brand new RX5600 XT OCing it in my first gaming PC in 2020... It was a RGB thermaltake psu with no 80+ rating at all

You should opt for a 6600, if you want a GPU rn.

@@thenotsookayguy Not yet. Too overpriced still.

@AUGH I actually could get my hands on an excellent 3050; it overclocks like a beast. 2.1 gHz stable without a sweat (roughly 20% over stock); you can push it to 2.2 for benchmarks. Very happy, and the 8gb VRAM is a must nowadays.

@AUGH I know. Dont know if they overclock as well though. Must consume more power also. And they dont raytrace, and are likely to be supported much less longer. But they are less expensive, thats the benefit.

(However we will agree that raytracing on a 3050 is gimmicky at best. Good for picture mode... Or slideshows).

Good for you! O what card do you have now?

@@DearLittleSable upgraded from the 1050ti to a 1660ti and now have a 2080 Super! Started from the bottom now I'm here 😂

I agree, this level of card used to get the "Don't worry about spending extra for the extra VRAM" comment every where, but FSR & NIS means this level of performance is still viable so now that extra 2GB can help increase 1% Lows in many newly released games where even 1080p Low is now over 2GB Usage

It fixes some 0.1% lows and slight +5% fps boost

it does support dx12 but not fully thats it, only like 1 game i got an issue and i dont mind its vahala

May I ask a year later If u remember how does it run gta and roblox?

Had an fx 4300 from 2015-2017 before I upgraded to an i5-6600k, even back then the difference was huge

@@ineligible2267 it felt like i went 20 years into the future and i only have a ryzen 4800 and laptop 2060

AMD GCN 2.0 and later cards have native DX12. Here are some GCN 2.0 cards that have native DX12 - R7 260(X), R7 360, R9 290(X), R9 390(X), HD 7990. Source: Techpowerup

@@raulsouza71 hm, 260 and 360 really do state 12_0 support. That said, 7990 is only 11_1, so is 7870, 7970, r9 270(x), 280(x), R7 370. Same goes for R5 250, not that it matters much. You did surprise me with the 260 though.

@@youzernejm I have an R7 260X and I looked for this information, because I was a little confused on this question too, that's why I thought I'd give you this information. GCN 1.0 really only supports Dx 11.1 and some newer games won't work unfortunately.

@@raulsouza71 at this time and still crazy prices, that is actually useful to know. How happy are you with it?

@@youzernejm Really, prices are chaotic and I don't see when this will end. Lately I've seen some video cards with prices going down, but nothing very significant. Anyway, I'm trying to adapt to all this.

Oh man, thanks for this comment, I was just about to give up on the idea of the 750 for a 1050 because of that DX12 comment, but I'm getting it to use on Linux, so I might still be perfectly fine with it. Mainly want it for the very low standard/non-OC power consumption.

GTX≠GT,GT is office series card used usually for videos,office work etc,GTX is a gaming series card,GTX 750 is old so it doesn't support DX12,but GT1030 does because it's much younger,GTX 750 is requiring more power then GT1030.Both are/were amazing for their price and intended use.

Also 750Ti is better in some games not all,where GT1030 is better.

I upgraded from a 750 ti to a 1050 ti around a month ago, I don't play any tipple aaa titles so its fine for me. Im gonna upgrade to a 1660 super sometime soon though

@@emmettdaster yeah for me I upgraded from an office pc with an A4 apu to my current build which is getting old itself.

Get an R7 260X instead. It's as fast or faster and has better DirectX support (Feature Level 12_0). It also costs the same or cheaper. Even has continued driver support (via NimeZ drivers)

@@dyslectische And yet, it is not. It's DirectX12, Feature Level 11_0.

Yeah it’s incredibly optimised. I’ve thrown some awful hardware at it and it’s run well every time haha

The 8GB VRAM is why I went for a second hand 2080ti over an RTX 3070 . Coming from a Vega 64 it's scary how well the old Vega does running Forza - at 3200x1800 with a mix of high/ultra and one or two extreme options.

Creds just for mentioning ETS2, sim games being a genre which receives little attention by most techtubers. FYI when I built a gaming PC for someone a year ago, a 1060 6GB was enough to run ETS2 at 1080p locked 60Hz with all settings maxed except one AA setting which was one position below max. As I'm sure you know, frame rate consistency is more important for sim games. I did compare to an RX 580 but, specifically for ETS2 (it'll be different for other games), I found the 1060 to be 12% faster. The rest of the system was a Ryzen 3600, MSI B450M Mortar Max and 512GB NVMe. Nothing overclocked, the system ran silent. The i7 920 was a great chip, though I waited a while before picking up a Nehalem for oc'ing, namely an i7 950 (though before that an X5570 which was cheap). Irony being I've ended up with a number of others aswell, but not had time to bench them yet (inluding a 990X and a 975). Btw, a cheap 6c upgrade should you ever want one is a XEON, which can also be oc'd, though support depends on the mbd (Gigabyte is good, ditto Asrock, whereas ASUS tends have fewer supported XEONs for its X58 range). OTOH the XEONs won't serve so well for games which are more clock/IPC dependent. Btw, a 780 Ti would double your CUDA render speed. I built an AE system for someone which has two, prior to that a PC for the Learn Engineering channel which has 2x GTX 980s which are somewhat similar for CUDA. However, hard to beat the 750 Ti for getting the job done without heating up the room or chewing the power bill. :D I have one still in my HTPC, still does the job just fine after many years.

@@mapesdhs597 ETS2 is a great game, perfect for unwinding at the end of the day with a quick delivery. The Xeons would be a good upgrade as would the cards but given how long this system has lasted I think I will just get a full system upgrade that should last me for another 10-15 years :D

You can get a Ryzen 5 1400 + B450 motherboard + 16GB 3200MHz build for $250 if you plan on upgrading 😁

@@lancebermejo3319 thanks, but with how far we are through this generation I will hold out for the next now, advancements seem to be getting more incremental and I will probably wait until prices settle and then get a system to last me for another decade (or more). Also, latest games aside, the i7-920 and 750ti (with an SSD and 16GB ram) is still genuinely a very usable system, a fact I very much enjoy given that the CPU is 13 years old and the GPU is 8. My Thunderbird before this lasted 3-4 years which also impressed me as before that I was getting a new computer every single year.

While power wise they are still decent GPU's, their low VRAM and mediocre DX12 support (with only DX11_0 feature level availability) coupled with Nvidia dropping Kepler from their drivers makes 600 and 700 series not very viable for today's games unfortunely. Hawaii seemed to have aged a lot better in that regard but then AMD decided to drop driver support for GCN2 as well.

750 and 750ti are Maxwell, same as the 900 series cards., newer than those other 700 series Kepler cards.

@@bills6093 Those two are only Maxwell 1 though which means they are still stuck with DX11_0 feature level just like Kepler (Maxwell 2 is DX12_1 in comparison so they are not exactly the same). They still have driver support of course, but the fact they were low end back when they came out, only sport a max of 4GB of VRAM and have subpar DX12 support means that much of the things I talked about in my original post still apply to the 750's even though they are not Kepler based cards like the rest of the 700 series.

I have a similar story. Had a laptop with a 940MX GDDR5 with the GM107-B chip (750 Ti). Got a Legion 5 with a 3050 Ti last year, but I'm a bit spoiled now and I can't play games below 60FPS, since I've played some at 100fps+. There was a time when I was fine playing Shadow of the tomb raider at 25fps+ 720p minimum settings.

I'm using my ASUS TUF laptop from 2019 that has a 1650, 16GB and 3550H still and I have a good bit of cash on hand right now to splurge on a new gaming laptop. I was aiming for something with a 3060 but I suppose if you held onto a GTX860M laptop since 2015 until this year I can hold onto my 1650 laptop a little longer. At least until some better sub 1200$ gaming laptops come out.

@@edb2720 That's also a nice upgrade, congrats for it! I think if you can go back for a while, you can get used to it. Like how I played everything with 60fps with my old laptop and then Forza Horizon 3 came and the only option was 720p 30fps for years.

@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams That is still a decent system you can be proud of. Well I think the average lifespan of a mid tier gaming laptop is around 4-5 years. It gets obsolete earlier than it breaks. Maybe even later if you don't plan to play newer games or if you can bear things like 1080p 30fps on minimum settings. I think the 3060 is a bit overkill (it would have been 1,5 the price), but the laptop 3050ti would've been a bit weak for me for an upgrade after 7 years. That's why I went with a used 1660ti laptop, strictly with at least 6 cores for future proofing, because my old laptop had a Dual Core i5-4200H and I was heavily CPU limited more often and often.

Yeah I recently discovered lossless scaling. Looks awesome

No it ain't

@@dallesamllhals9161 tell me more please, to my knowledge it is, but could be wrong.

@@vitorluis_freerider Gtx 780ti most power. Gtx 960 newest. Both > Gtx 750ti.

@@dallesamllhals9161 Damn I should have kept my 960. They're hard to come by around my side of the world. I wanna make a nice little XP build as a secondary PC just for fun.

ATi mach32 VLB < Cirrus Logic CL-GD5420 < SiS 6326 < TNT2 m64 < Radeon DDR < GeForce3 Ti200 < GeForce4 Ti4200 < GeForceFX 5950 Ultra < Radeon 9800 < GeForce 6800 < GeForce 9800 GTX+ < GeForce 650 < GeForce 760 < 980 < 1070 < 1080 < market sadness It's a shame the journey has to end here.

7900GT (2007) - 8800GT (2008 , 7900 died) - GT 630 (I stopped playing games and I needed a display out , my CPU didn't have an IGPU , 2014) - RX 580 8GB (started again in 2019) - Vega 64 (2021 , RX 580 worth lots to miners) - RTX 2080 Ti (2022 - upgraded to 4k dual monitor setup + Vega 64 worth lots to miners).

@@IntegerOfDoom I'm sure something will pop up which you can upgrade to in the next gen and I feel those Pascal cards are going to start to become very dated soon , with games focussing on DX12 and async compute , not to mention lacking DLSS.

750 Ti 2GB < 960 4GB < GTX 1070 Ti 8GB My VRAM was multiplying by 2 each upgrade, lol. Currently using a GTX 1650 laptop after I sold my PC with the 1070 Ti. It was paired with the i5 7500 and 8x2 2400MHZ RAM. If I build a new PC again I guess I gotta go with a new card that's got 16GB of VRAM. Hehe.

@@IntegerOfDoom Going by recent events, it's definitely not gonna end, it's only delayed. Depends on how the end of 2022, early 2023 in the industry looks like.

Same

Depends on how graphics evolve and how much tech goes on. If its anything like the 2000s and their yearly releases of gpus, it would not last 10years. Also you could check out 780ti if you want some kind of data to compare

@@ajaakola2 I've done a lot of 780 Ti testing; it isn't too bad but of course the 3GB VRAM has likewise become an issue in some cases. In that regard the original Titan can likely hold up better with its 6GB, but they tend to cost silly money. Long term though there's just no way to tell, could be the base nature of what drives the tech changes in some significant manner, outmoding older products in ways right now we can't think of. Looking back, the GTX 580 didn't last 10 years, while these days people rarely ever mention the 680. Just maybe the one exception which could hold out a bit like the 750 Ti has managed is the 1080 Ti; time will tell.

On average about 3-5 years is normal, but last gen was exceptionally long lasting.

I had the 2GB model of that one! Solid little card. It was the card that got me back into PC gaming proper after nearly 15 years of being a console gamer

😏

@Narkomancers Not really all over the place, I was simply relating to the OP's emotion regarding his video card.

@Narkomancers ... and you sound like a troll.