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.
@@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
All of our favourites will become obsolete eventually, but it doesn't make them inherently bad thankfully. The 750ti will always be impressive for it's extremely long life and relevancy to gaming, and it still isn't dead yet!
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.
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
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.
@@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.
@@malcolmmacdonald3597 dont look down on any graphics card, retro styled game is a really low expectation, even gt710 can do that the 750ti can even play 3d games, forza horizon 4 at medium high at around 40fps forza horizon 5 low with at least 30fps at 1080p of course i personally tested this......
Man fsr is a real game changer huh. I honestly never thought the 750ti would be able to run modern games let alone cyberpunk at 30+ fps. I'm really impressed.
It's a hero for me. This GPU gave me hours of fun in many games. 750 Ti worked in my main PC between 2017 and 2021. In May 2021 my brother gave me his old computer with GTX 1060.
Man I wish it was a way to get around the DirectX problems with a lot of older graphics cards lots more life could be given out of some older cards if there was just some way around it
@@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.
Man the 750ti was my childhood! I remember typing in on amazon graphics card and literally buying the first one I saw which happened to be the asus version as I was still new to pc gaming at the time. The fact it's still usable in many games today is a testament to how great it was at launch!
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.
@@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.
I realize the DX12 problem when Death Stranding was release, i change mi budget recomendations and gpu's to the R7 260x, wich have similar performance and supports DX12 (12_0), it can even play ass creed vallhalla in low and at least here in Mexico even with the overprice both gpus are in the same price range , the only problem now is latest drivers for the radeon are a year old now, only the modding can help in some degree but is not perfect
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.
@@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 bought this card in 2014 at a bargain price (120€) and has been rocking my custom PC since 2015. It's impressive how well it can still handle actual games and I'm glad you are paying tribute to one of the best NVIDIA Cards. I'm planning to play Watch Dogs Legion and RDR2 soon. This was one of the best purchases of my life.
2013 ~2020 was a good time for this card but now a days every new game is coming with super high requirements and offcourse dx12 issue, anyways good things dont last forever still its one of the best card Nvidia ever created ...
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.
i have a 750 ti and it hold up well with every game i play. although sadly it is being bottle necked by my i5 750 which i desperately need to upgrade. (and yes i do have double 750s in my pc) one last thing, love your videos mate keep it up, you helped a lot when i was deciding what budget parts to get for my pc, thanks for that lol.
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.
@@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.
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.
thank you for sticking to the heart of your channel, with your channel growth you could be reviewing top end stuff but you choose to stick your roots and for that i will always root for you :)
I still have this card (Palit Version) on my living room computer used mostly for streaming to my TV. This is my first card and will never let go of it, I'll keep it in the original box if it's not usable anymore and put it on display in my room.
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
For anyone wondering regarding the DX12 support: You could always try using vkd3d, which is a compatibility layer that translates DX12 calls to Vulkan to run DX12 games.
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
Would love to see an "alternate uses for the 750ti" video so we can know what to do with them as retired . I bought a 4GB 750ti near launch and that thing was so reliable, it lasted me 4-5 years before I upgraded to a 1050ti and I gave it to a friend for their bday. It was only recently that I had them message me asking for help because a DX12 title wouldn't start. I happily tossed him my 1050ti this past xmas as I have long since upgraded :) He deserved it for making it last that long. We've got plans to add it in a FreeNAS rig to use it for Plex encoding!
There are always pieces of hardware, you can't forget but you have to let go :D The Voodoo 2 got me a long way before upgrading to a Frankenstein GeForce 4 TI 4200 on a 4600 Board. I was so happy with the GTX 560 TI that I ran two in SLI (which was mainly a waste of electricity...). Now I am stuck forever on my GTX 970. But there is no need to upgrade just now. Great video for a bit of nostalgia!
I currently own the 750Ti but I'm in the process of upgrading to an RTX 3060Ti. This little guy has served me well for the past 6 years, from relatively demanding games to heavy video editing, this card gave all it had. Nothing but respect for this legendary card!
I wished for a 3050 to replace my faithful 750Ti, but unless the prices drop significantly, I'll have to wait a bit still. I'm already stretching it, but fortunately I don't run the most demanding games around...
@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.
This one was my first gpu ever bought. It was in my pc, then in my brother's, and now it lives on in the pc for the TV as a home media pc that plays some games sometimes. I salute this smol gpu.
I had a laptop with a 940MX which shares the same chip (GM107-B) with the 750 Ti. It was the budget king GPU in laptops from 2016 (got mine for $500) and for a while it let me play modern games at 60 fps medium settings 720p, some even at 1080p. Had to say goodbye to it last year and got a gaming laptop with a 3050Ti because of similar issues. I remember the days when I would run games with the integrated graphics of a core 2 duo E7400. That's why I watch your channel, it brings me back to those days and is super interesting to see modern games running on potato hardware.
Been using my 4GB model since 2016 and it holds up well - hadn't realised there was no DX12 support so I guess I was just fortunate not to play more modern games on my pc until now. Just a shame the GPU market is in a mess
A 750ti sits on my sister's computer since 2019. She is perfectly happy with it but when she upgrades I'll keep it as a quick display out and troubleshooting option since it's powered only by the motherboard.
A tiny piece of information for the man from the land of cheap nVidia. R7 260, R9 280, R7 370 etc don't have the full dx12 support either. You need the R9 285, 380 and above for that. Also, there are unofficial Nimez drivers, which do get updated (and, as I said, are unofficial - but they are great for low spec gamers from the expensive nVidia land).
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.
@@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.
Modern games dropping support for the 700 series is so disappointing. 700 series cards like the 770, 780 and 780ti still have plenty of life left in them performance wise and are being prematurely put down.
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.
@@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.
dude i just started into PC gaming with the lp version of this card last month ... and you dare to brake my heart so soon ... (still luv all of your content, much love from germany)
Been rocking one of these since 2014 and have had no issues (touch wood). Admittedly I don't play many current games, but it has been fine for Source games, driving the UI and some occasional CUDA workloads. Its lack of 4K 60Hz support is the most compelling reason to upgrade.
Don't say that! I just put one in my Ryzen 5950X PC! 🙂 I'm not planning to use it for modern games though (There's an RTX 3080 in there for that). I'm planning to use it for Windows XP era games. I am hoping to create a virtual machine and pass-through the 750ti to that virtual machine. So it can be my retro gaming system, as well as my modern gaming system.
Who else sees the face that the IO ports are making at 0:43? The HDMI ports are the eyebrows, the screws are the eyes and the slight gap that leads to underneath the plastic shield is a slightly gaped mouth
Talking about Forza Horizon 5 , I am impressed how godlike optimised it is . This game is playable on a GTX 750ti with 2 GB of VRAM , even tho it can max out my RTX 3070 and my 8 GB is not enough in some moments .
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.
There's news that hackers stole confidential data from nvidia servers, and demand from them to make their drivers open-source. Maybe if that would happen we could potentially get the community up-to-date versions of the drivers like it's with AMD's R9 cards?
I still have my 750ti in my main system. I'm having some fps dips ever since i switched to a 1080p monitor but i plan to stick with the 750ti for a few more years. After the years of faithful service this card feels like a very near and dear gaming campanion.
I bought a 750 Ti almost 4 years now refurb for 45 USD from aliexpress after watching your videos, I stopped playing PC games just at the Core 2 Duo era and Wanted to come back to Gaming, but wasn't sure if I'll stick to it or not, so I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a GPU that I may use or not. So I took a 750 Ti with a 2nd gen i5 and didn't regret it. Today I Still use it and I just bought a System containing an i5 9500 and I'll wait for gpu princes to come down in order to replace the venerable craphics card. Again thank you for all your videos, they were thé most useful to me during these years
for me the 1050Ti is my favorite card as it was cheaper and faster than the 750Ti when you think about launch prices. and if we never had the chip shortage Im sure the 1050Ti would have been a great replacement for the 750Ti.
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
As somebody who bought a 750ti last year for a budget pc, I'm still happy with it and for the games I'm playing it should still hold up. Cheap pc means cheap games so no AAA games for me!😅😅 Although upgrading will happen sooner or later and this scares me since...GPU pricing even second hand - 😢
I remember hearing the announcement for this GPU and knowing it would be something special. So many friends got through so many years on this card. We need to get back to affordable cards like this
I would be interested in trying on Linux as proton vkd3d translates dx12 calls into vulkan. May allow certain cards capable of supporting vulkan but not full dx 12 to live on
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.
Still outperforms a GT 1030. It trades blows with the standard 650ti 2GB (let alone the 1030's DDR4 version - stick with iGPU). I'm still kicking myself for killing my HD7970 - it was supposed to replace my 650ti as a spare card (but power hungry) card.
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.
I've been using a GTX860M (GTX750ti equivalent) laptop since 2015 until now, I just had the chance to upgrade for a 1660ti one. It really went down kicking and screaming and held out until the last moment. Played Forza Horizon 5 for me even on a competitive level online. Since nobody seems to want my old G551 we are planning to play FH5 on my 2 ROGs w/ my girlfriend and I'm happy that it's still useable today, but it's great that I was finally able to upgrade for a laptop that is 20 less, a G531. :) So in a nutshell these thing were a really good buy 7 years ago, though you should consider yourself lucky if your eyes can bear 30fps like mine.
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.
Back when i got into pc gaming i upgraded from a gt610 to the 750ti and instantly fell in love with the card, that was almost 10 years ago and i still have that card in my brothers build still kicking and running games.
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)
Still running a 750ti paired with an even older i7-920, even at full load they are both running a cool 50C and pair together well. They mainly get used for Eurotruck simulator 2 or Blender renders. I might upgrade with the next gen of systems but still not feeling any urgency at the moment.
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
@@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.
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.
If the 750Ti which is a budget gpu hung in there for 8 years How long do you suspect a flagship for example 6900Xt or 3090 would last? 10 yrs? Just wondering what you think about that.
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.
Great video. I have a Gigabyte GTX 750 (1 gig) , MSI Gaming X 1050 TI and AMD RX 6800 (16 gig). The old two cards I have still work nice with older PCs for webbrowsing and playing old games.
I can recommend the card, I am still using two of them on gaming machines. What I cannot recommend are the AAA games of the last decade which are generic and buggy crap that require a $70 entry fee to play what is usually just an unfinished variation of "yet another urban shooter with griefing teenagers in online play" that requires you to subscribe to additional DLC that was "conveniently" left out of the original game release but presented at additional cost to you to blackmail you to get the game finished after a further 18 months. Good riddance to AAA games, I've plenty of older and retro games to fill my gaming hours.
Maxwell (especially Maxwell 2.0) has had an incredibly long service life. Then again, Maxwell (2.0) GPU cores are still in production as part of Tegra X1 (Jetson Nano and Nintendo Switch).
I recently retired my Ryzen 1600AF and made a second build with my EVGA 750ti FTW that sat in it’s box for 2 years, and made a little pc for the side of my bed to play some lighter games while laying down comfortably and although I can definitely see this underdog aging, I cannot be more satisfied with the investment I made 8 years ago fresh out of high school and straight into college with little to no money just to play some fallout and csgo. This card, my 970, and my 1060(all retired) will go down as my absolute favorite cards ever.
@@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.
Still using the 2GB EVGA 750 Ti SC version (complete with optional extra metal backplate) in my retro build, featuring a Core 2 Quad Q9650 and a Creative Audigy SB0090, along with XP Pro 32-bit & 8.1 Pro 64-bit (with ClassicShell Start).
kinda funny that out of the 3 games you mentioned at the beginning, 2 are known to be extremely shit for pc... ive had the white screen issue on my 3080ti for example with elden and we all know the mess 2042 is. does not take away from the point of the video though which is obviously still valid.
The 750 Ti is still doing just fine in a ton of popular games like wow, lol, valorant, cs:go, overwatch, lost ark etc... Yeah I know those games don't have high requirements, but those games are also what most gamers play, so for the vast majority of people it's still fairly relevant card. If you get it at the right price I don't see any reason not to pick one. From the look of things there might be crypto crash soon, but if there isn't one this card remains a solid choice if you are playing "eSports" titles.
I have one on my old Phenom II rig. It was a good holdover till I got my current rig. It's also supported in Windows XP so if you wanted to build an XP rig for compatibility with older games that just don't work on Vista and newer, this thing absolutely shreds while sipping power.
I am a old Computer Kid now, so i learned to love every buck i saved in my live for pc. Now i look at you and your fan´s who make the same like me, but way cooler. I think with showing what is possible with low spec´s you make a lot of young moneyless people happy. Thank you for your good work and greets to your grandparents who support you like mine me at your age.
got mine for $30 a couple years ago and it still works well for csgo, fortnite, and rocket league. sad that it stops halo infinite from booting but maybe ill upgrade in a couple years
I think reasonably priced used gpus would help a lot of people to keep going in this insane market till everything get back to normal again. NIS is such a terrific feature that can boost performance significantly in many graphically demanding games. I just wish people don't make scalpers take advantage of them and translate those complaints about gpu prices into actions like refusing to pay exorbitant prices and boycott those who keep the prices sky-high. For everyone who is desperate to upgrade his/her gpu I say don't lose hope with your aging gpus ,because fsr and nis got the capability to uplift gaming performance up to 20-40% without drastic loss of visual quality.
I considered the 750ti but got the GTX 1050ti back in 2021. Glad I made the right choice considering my situation. I hope i can use it for many years to come.
Today, I just purchased the replacement to my old PC, which was a budget 750ti gaming build I got for my 16th birthday. Buying and building this one myself, with a radeon 6600xt and room to upgrade to a 6900xt (or next generation's equivalent) when the GPU market isn't insane. I can thank the 750ti for years of fun playing LoL, GTA V, Overwatch, and other great time-sinks with friends. It even managed to run Horizon: Zero Dawn, to my surprise. And I'm glad it held out for so long. It deserves all the respect it gets.
NIS is underated imo. I modded skyrim (a bit too much even for my 2080 super) and I decided to give it a go, managed to get my 60fps back with Barely any noticeable blur
the hell you mean goodbye? you can still play a lot of games with it at good fps, not all AAA games ofcourse which is not what everyone is looking to play so if you want to play indie games or older games it's excellent
2:02 hell, I see the exact same performance in CP2077 on my GTX 960M! No wonder, it's the same GPU :D 38fps at 1080p is surprisingly good for that game on such an old budget card!
I use a low profile variant in my media PC, underclocked. Perfect for 4K video, quiet, sips power and has enough grunt for emulation, even Dolphin. Always loved the card. There’s plenty of use cases for this thing, at least until Nvidia turn off the driver support.
Magic Borderless is also a form of FSR and NIS. If you want best picture quality. Use magic Borderless first to get a sharp picture. Then use Lossless Scaling to throw fsr on it to get the best HD quality possible on poor PC.
I know *exactly* how you feel. I just retired no less than five Radeon HD 7750s that I bought a decade ago. I owned and actively used five desktops back in the early 2010s and I thought to give them all an upgrade instead of getting one big $500 gaming card for my main rig. They breathed new life into my entire setup and each one could game pretty darn well for a while. I eventually got a better GPU for my main rig, but the 7750s still served as decent backup cards. Unfortunately, driver support was just ended for them, which means they can't be used with Windows 11. For the curious, the 7750s were made by Gigabyte, 1 gig GDDR5 version, slight factory OC.
At the end of last year I got my 750ti, its the most powerful gpu I've had, and although the dx12 issues, it makes me really happy to finally have one. And I got it for like 45 usd and it can play switch games so its quite nice still:]
why not lower your res from 1080p and get a non widescreen monitor (4:3/5:4) to continue using the card at 1024p or even native 720p with scaling. the image will be sharp and these monitors can be had for free or u have one lying around somewhere and they're usually 75hz too.
One of my favorite card to date, the drivers were legendary and it did alot for me for many years. I was always glad to see your video's of this card every year. But i guess all good things come to an end. Thanks 750ti for being there for many budget gamers :).
I used to have some rare highly overclocked two fans variant of GTX 750 Ti from Gigabyte that, unlike regular 750 Ti, required additional 6-pin PCIe connector. It worked OK for me until the end of October, when it decided to go on forever rest. And it was the worst possible time to do so, since GPU supplies here in Czechia were scarce and prices really bad. Eventually, I was able to get new Inno3D 1050 Ti for CZK 5500 (about € 215, USD 240). Not the best deal, but it was new card with three years warranty and considering the situation, I took it. It's not the best card, but it works for what I need from it and I intend to keep it until this insane situation is over and I could finally afford something better.
I usually go with the R9 270 (or HD 7850) as a minimum for budget systems these days. DX11_1 feature support means almost all DX12 games will run and AMD NimeZ drivers make it still very usuable even in newer titles. However, if you're on an ultra budget, try finding an HD 7790 (same card as R7 260X, but usually cheaper) in its 2GB variant. It has no drivers support anymore either, but will usually outperform the GTX 750 Ti AND has full DX12_0 feature support.
@@opuzlife Custom drivers work just fine. I'm sure bugs can occur - but generally speaking drivers aren't magic. If your card supports a certain feature set, drivers implement how your card reacts to DirectX12 API calls and the games just call the API. Unless some game dev does something very special and specific, those bugs really *shouldn't* happen. It's been rare and more of a general AMD driver issue - that's why updating the kernel (AMD NimeZ drivers) has usually solved those issues.
genuinely surprised its lasted as long as it has. im staring at a spare gtx 960 2gig wondering how long that will last. i hope you can find 1 to test, or better yet 2 because it's capable of SLI (remember that?)
1)Open Task Manager 2)Go to Options 3) Select Always On Top. This should allow you to open (Ctrl+Alt+Del, choose Task Manager) and use Task Manager to close the game (End Task) that has locked the graphics drivers from rest of the system. You should no longer need to logout and login or restart the computer.
The 750ti sc was my first self bought GPU. I got it for it's value and performance and it served well until I got my 1080 TI. Sad to see it has to go for real this time.
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
You are STILL the only one who talks realistically about things. I have no interest in TH-cam publishers who get sent an rtx490ti super + and review games, and neither does anyone else 🙂
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Legendary GPU, forever in my heart!
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.
It hung in there with the best budget GPUs of all time, but all good things must come to an end.
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
All of our favourites will become obsolete eventually, but it doesn't make them inherently bad thankfully.
The 750ti will always be impressive for it's extremely long life and relevancy to gaming, and it still isn't dead yet!
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
750 ti is quite old now but it served alot of happy users.
Respect
Agree, Im stil using it
I don't really play modern AAA games, so I'd still be able to get by with a 750 ti.
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.
@@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.
@@malcolmmacdonald3597 dont look down on any graphics card, retro styled game is a really low expectation, even gt710 can do that
the 750ti can even play 3d games, forza horizon 4 at medium high at around 40fps
forza horizon 5 low with at least 30fps
at 1080p of course
i personally tested this......
Man fsr is a real game changer huh. I honestly never thought the 750ti would be able to run modern games let alone cyberpunk at 30+ fps. I'm really impressed.
It's a hero for me. This GPU gave me hours of fun in many games. 750 Ti worked in my main PC between 2017 and 2021. In May 2021 my brother gave me his old computer with GTX 1060.
Man I wish it was a way to get around the DirectX problems with a lot of older graphics cards lots more life could be given out of some older cards if there was just some way around it
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.
Man the 750ti was my childhood! I remember typing in on amazon graphics card and literally buying the first one I saw which happened to be the asus version as I was still new to pc gaming at the time. The fact it's still usable in many games today is a testament to how great it was at launch!
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.
I realize the DX12 problem when Death Stranding was release, i change mi budget recomendations and gpu's to the R7 260x, wich have similar performance and supports DX12 (12_0), it can even play ass creed vallhalla in low and at least here in Mexico even with the overprice both gpus are in the same price range , the only problem now is latest drivers for the radeon are a year old now, only the modding can help in some degree but is not perfect
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 bought this card in 2014 at a bargain price (120€) and has been rocking my custom PC since 2015. It's impressive how well it can still handle actual games and I'm glad you are paying tribute to one of the best NVIDIA Cards. I'm planning to play Watch Dogs Legion and RDR2 soon. This was one of the best purchases of my life.
2013 ~2020 was a good time for this card but now a days every new game is coming with super high requirements and offcourse dx12 issue, anyways good things dont last forever still its one of the best card Nvidia ever created ...
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.
The 1050ti is starting to hold up as long as the 750ti and it still gets 30+fps in 1080p with any game on medium settings or better!
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.
i have a 750 ti and it hold up well with every game i play. although sadly it is being bottle necked by my i5 750 which i desperately need to upgrade. (and yes i do have double 750s in my pc) one last thing, love your videos mate keep it up, you helped a lot when i was deciding what budget parts to get for my pc, thanks for that lol.
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.
thank you for sticking to the heart of your channel, with your channel growth you could be reviewing top end stuff but you choose to stick your roots and for that i will always root for you :)
I still have this card (Palit Version) on my living room computer used mostly for streaming to my TV. This is my first card and will never let go of it, I'll keep it in the original box if it's not usable anymore and put it on display in my room.
This card boosted my 2011 PC and lasted me until 2019. Played The Witcher 3, GTA 5, Rise of the Tomb Raider happily on it. RIP
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
For anyone wondering regarding the DX12 support:
You could always try using vkd3d, which is a compatibility layer that translates DX12 calls to Vulkan to run DX12 games.
It's interesting to see what the 4gb model can do
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
Would love to see an "alternate uses for the 750ti" video so we can know what to do with them as retired .
I bought a 4GB 750ti near launch and that thing was so reliable, it lasted me 4-5 years before I upgraded to a 1050ti and I gave it to a friend for their bday. It was only recently that I had them message me asking for help because a DX12 title wouldn't start. I happily tossed him my 1050ti this past xmas as I have long since upgraded :) He deserved it for making it last that long. We've got plans to add it in a FreeNAS rig to use it for Plex encoding!
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 😂
There are always pieces of hardware, you can't forget but you have to let go :D The Voodoo 2 got me a long way before upgrading to a Frankenstein GeForce 4 TI 4200 on a 4600 Board. I was so happy with the GTX 560 TI that I ran two in SLI (which was mainly a waste of electricity...). Now I am stuck forever on my GTX 970. But there is no need to upgrade just now. Great video for a bit of nostalgia!
I currently own the 750Ti but I'm in the process of upgrading to an RTX 3060Ti. This little guy has served me well for the past 6 years, from relatively demanding games to heavy video editing, this card gave all it had. Nothing but respect for this legendary card!
May I ask a year later If u remember how does it run gta and roblox?
I wished for a 3050 to replace my faithful 750Ti, but unless the prices drop significantly, I'll have to wait a bit still. I'm already stretching it, but fortunately I don't run the most demanding games around...
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).
This one was my first gpu ever bought. It was in my pc, then in my brother's, and now it lives on in the pc for the TV as a home media pc that plays some games sometimes. I salute this smol gpu.
RIP this former beast, it served us well for many years
I had a laptop with a 940MX which shares the same chip (GM107-B) with the 750 Ti. It was the budget king GPU in laptops from 2016 (got mine for $500) and for a while it let me play modern games at 60 fps medium settings 720p, some even at 1080p. Had to say goodbye to it last year and got a gaming laptop with a 3050Ti because of similar issues. I remember the days when I would run games with the integrated graphics of a core 2 duo E7400. That's why I watch your channel, it brings me back to those days and is super interesting to see modern games running on potato hardware.
Been using my 4GB model since 2016 and it holds up well - hadn't realised there was no DX12 support so I guess I was just fortunate not to play more modern games on my pc until now. Just a shame the GPU market is in a mess
it does support dx12 but not fully thats it, only like 1 game i got an issue and i dont mind its vahala
I'm actually still using one, it brought me so much joy throughout the years. Now I hope to buy a 6600 or 6600xt at a reasonable price.
A 750ti sits on my sister's computer since 2019. She is perfectly happy with it but when she upgrades I'll keep it as a quick display out and troubleshooting option since it's powered only by the motherboard.
i can't believe it finally kicked the bucket
A tiny piece of information for the man from the land of cheap nVidia. R7 260,
R9 280, R7 370 etc don't have the full dx12 support either. You need the R9 285, 380 and above for that. Also, there are unofficial Nimez drivers, which do get updated (and, as I said, are unofficial - but they are great for low spec gamers from the expensive nVidia land).
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.
Modern games dropping support for the 700 series is so disappointing. 700 series cards like the 770, 780 and 780ti still have plenty of life left in them performance wise and are being prematurely put down.
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.
Rest in peace, forever miss :(
dude i just started into PC gaming with the lp version of this card last month ... and you dare to brake my heart so soon ... (still luv all of your content, much love from germany)
Alte spiele kannst du damit ja spielen^^
Have you considered using Linux, with Wine/Proton all of the Direct X calls would be converted to OpenGL/Vulkan?
Been rocking one of these since 2014 and have had no issues (touch wood). Admittedly I don't play many current games, but it has been fine for Source games, driving the UI and some occasional CUDA workloads. Its lack of 4K 60Hz support is the most compelling reason to upgrade.
Don't say that! I just put one in my Ryzen 5950X PC! 🙂 I'm not planning to use it for modern games though (There's an RTX 3080 in there for that). I'm planning to use it for Windows XP era games. I am hoping to create a virtual machine and pass-through the 750ti to that virtual machine. So it can be my retro gaming system, as well as my modern gaming system.
Who else sees the face that the IO ports are making at 0:43?
The HDMI ports are the eyebrows, the screws are the eyes and the slight gap that leads to underneath the plastic shield is a slightly gaped mouth
Talking about Forza Horizon 5 , I am impressed how godlike optimised it is . This game is playable on a GTX 750ti with 2 GB of VRAM , even tho it can max out my RTX 3070 and my 8 GB is not enough in some moments .
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.
There's news that hackers stole confidential data from nvidia servers, and demand from them to make their drivers open-source. Maybe if that would happen we could potentially get the community up-to-date versions of the drivers like it's with AMD's R9 cards?
I still have my 750ti in my main system. I'm having some fps dips ever since i switched to a 1080p monitor but i plan to stick with the 750ti for a few more years. After the years of faithful service this card feels like a very near and dear gaming campanion.
It's safe to say "they don't make them like this anymore" because there's literally no new
Still using this for retro emulation (GC, Wii, PS2) and streaming (NVENC). Works great for 1080p.
I bought a 750 Ti almost 4 years now refurb for 45 USD from aliexpress after watching your videos, I stopped playing PC games just at the Core 2 Duo era and Wanted to come back to Gaming, but wasn't sure if I'll stick to it or not, so I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a GPU that I may use or not. So I took a 750 Ti with a 2nd gen i5 and didn't regret it.
Today I Still use it and I just bought a System containing an i5 9500 and I'll wait for gpu princes to come down in order to replace the venerable craphics card.
Again thank you for all your videos, they were thé most useful to me during these years
for me the 1050Ti is my favorite card as it was cheaper and faster than the 750Ti when you think about launch prices. and if we never had the chip shortage Im sure the 1050Ti would have been a great replacement for the 750Ti.
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.
As somebody who bought a 750ti last year for a budget pc, I'm still happy with it and for the games I'm playing it should still hold up. Cheap pc means cheap games so no AAA games for me!😅😅
Although upgrading will happen sooner or later and this scares me since...GPU pricing even second hand - 😢
Still one of the best GPUs ever - its combination of value and performance to watt ratio is unmatchable.
I remember hearing the announcement for this GPU and knowing it would be something special. So many friends got through so many years on this card. We need to get back to affordable cards like this
I would be interested in trying on Linux as proton vkd3d translates dx12 calls into vulkan. May allow certain cards capable of supporting vulkan but not full dx 12 to live on
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.
It was this card that got me into PC gaming. It will always hold a special place in my heart.
Still outperforms a GT 1030. It trades blows with the standard 650ti 2GB (let alone the 1030's DDR4 version - stick with iGPU).
I'm still kicking myself for killing my HD7970 - it was supposed to replace my 650ti as a spare card (but power hungry) card.
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 had this and an fx 4100 from 2015 to 2021 when I finally upgraded to a lenovo legion 5 laptop last year, the difference was massive
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
I've been using a GTX860M (GTX750ti equivalent) laptop since 2015 until now, I just had the chance to upgrade for a 1660ti one. It really went down kicking and screaming and held out until the last moment. Played Forza Horizon 5 for me even on a competitive level online.
Since nobody seems to want my old G551 we are planning to play FH5 on my 2 ROGs w/ my girlfriend and I'm happy that it's still useable today, but it's great that I was finally able to upgrade for a laptop that is 20 less, a G531. :)
So in a nutshell these thing were a really good buy 7 years ago, though you should consider yourself lucky if your eyes can bear 30fps like mine.
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.
Back when i got into pc gaming i upgraded from a gt610 to the 750ti and instantly fell in love with the card, that was almost 10 years ago and i still have that card in my brothers build still kicking and running games.
damn, its an era gone by
I got a gt 710 and planning to upgrade to GTX 750 Ti hopefully I can still play some games with decent FPS.
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.
Still running a 750ti paired with an even older i7-920, even at full load they are both running a cool 50C and pair together well. They mainly get used for Eurotruck simulator 2 or Blender renders. I might upgrade with the next gen of systems but still not feeling any urgency at the moment.
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.
There is actually a workaround for some games like Elden Ring to work on GTX 750 Ti and for 720p/Low at 30-50fps I'd say it's still playable.
My first somewhat proper GPU, though I upgraded it pretty quickly to an RX580.
Went sort of like this 750ti
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.
I upgraded my 750ti to 1060 6gb two weeks ago after 7 years, what a coincidence
If the 750Ti which is a budget gpu hung in there for 8 years How long do you suspect a flagship for example 6900Xt or 3090 would last? 10 yrs?
Just wondering what you think about that.
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.
Great video. I have a Gigabyte GTX 750 (1 gig) , MSI Gaming X 1050 TI and AMD RX 6800 (16 gig). The old two cards I have still work nice with older PCs for webbrowsing and playing old games.
I can recommend the card, I am still using two of them on gaming machines. What I cannot recommend are the AAA games of the last decade which are generic and buggy crap that require a $70 entry fee to play what is usually just an unfinished variation of "yet another urban shooter with griefing teenagers in online play" that requires you to subscribe to additional DLC that was "conveniently" left out of the original game release but presented at additional cost to you to blackmail you to get the game finished after a further 18 months.
Good riddance to AAA games, I've plenty of older and retro games to fill my gaming hours.
Maxwell (especially Maxwell 2.0) has had an incredibly long service life. Then again, Maxwell (2.0) GPU cores are still in production as part of Tegra X1 (Jetson Nano and Nintendo Switch).
I'm gonna keep using mine until it burns in a blaze of glory. Unfortunately i can't afford anything better.
Same
I recently retired my Ryzen 1600AF and made a second build with my EVGA 750ti FTW that sat in it’s box for 2 years, and made a little pc for the side of my bed to play some lighter games while laying down comfortably and although I can definitely see this underdog aging, I cannot be more satisfied with the investment I made 8 years ago fresh out of high school and straight into college with little to no money just to play some fallout and csgo. This card, my 970, and my 1060(all retired) will go down as my absolute favorite cards ever.
this card is a bit sought after because is the fastest card with support for a retro system Windows XP based.
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.
Still using the 2GB EVGA 750 Ti SC version (complete with optional extra metal backplate) in my retro build, featuring a Core 2 Quad Q9650 and a Creative Audigy SB0090, along with XP Pro 32-bit & 8.1 Pro 64-bit (with ClassicShell Start).
kinda funny that out of the 3 games you mentioned at the beginning, 2 are known to be extremely shit for pc... ive had the white screen issue on my 3080ti for example with elden and we all know the mess 2042 is. does not take away from the point of the video though which is obviously still valid.
you can get elden ring to work with a patch. i did it for my friends gtx 770 and it works. 750 ti can still get a playable experience for elden ring
The 750 Ti is still doing just fine in a ton of popular games like wow, lol, valorant, cs:go, overwatch, lost ark etc...
Yeah I know those games don't have high requirements, but those games are also what most gamers play, so for the vast majority of people it's still fairly relevant card. If you get it at the right price I don't see any reason not to pick one.
From the look of things there might be crypto crash soon, but if there isn't one this card remains a solid choice if you are playing "eSports" titles.
I have one on my old Phenom II rig. It was a good holdover till I got my current rig.
It's also supported in Windows XP so if you wanted to build an XP rig for compatibility with older games that just don't work on Vista and newer, this thing absolutely shreds while sipping power.
NOOOOO!
I am a old Computer Kid now, so i learned to love every buck i saved in my live for pc. Now i look at you and your fan´s who make the same like me, but way cooler. I think with showing what is possible with low spec´s you make a lot of young moneyless people happy. Thank you for your good work and greets to your grandparents who support you like mine me at your age.
Why is it so small?! (What she said )
😏
I'm still gonna buy one for a circa 2015 build when prices come down some.
got mine for $30 a couple years ago and it still works well for csgo, fortnite, and rocket league. sad that it stops halo infinite from booting but maybe ill upgrade in a couple years
I think reasonably priced used gpus would help a lot of people to keep going in this insane market till everything get back to normal again. NIS is such a terrific feature that can boost performance significantly in many graphically demanding games. I just wish people don't make scalpers take advantage of them and translate those complaints about gpu prices into actions like refusing to pay exorbitant prices and boycott those who keep the prices sky-high. For everyone who is desperate to upgrade his/her gpu I say don't lose hope with your aging gpus ,because fsr and nis got the capability to uplift gaming performance up to 20-40% without drastic loss of visual quality.
I considered the 750ti but got the GTX 1050ti back in 2021. Glad I made the right choice considering my situation. I hope i can use it for many years to come.
Why not an RX 570?
Today, I just purchased the replacement to my old PC, which was a budget 750ti gaming build I got for my 16th birthday. Buying and building this one myself, with a radeon 6600xt and room to upgrade to a 6900xt (or next generation's equivalent) when the GPU market isn't insane. I can thank the 750ti for years of fun playing LoL, GTA V, Overwatch, and other great time-sinks with friends. It even managed to run Horizon: Zero Dawn, to my surprise. And I'm glad it held out for so long. It deserves all the respect it gets.
I'm here with a GT 730, I barely play pc much at all, but I watch all these vids they're so interesting
got 750ti paired with a E8600@4.5ghz in one of my two XP build, absolutly amazing card for that purpose.
NIS is underated imo. I modded skyrim (a bit too much even for my 2080 super) and I decided to give it a go, managed to get my 60fps back with Barely any noticeable blur
the hell you mean goodbye? you can still play a lot of games with it at good fps, not all AAA games ofcourse which is not what everyone is looking to play so if you want to play indie games or older games it's excellent
2:02 hell, I see the exact same performance in CP2077 on my GTX 960M! No wonder, it's the same GPU :D
38fps at 1080p is surprisingly good for that game on such an old budget card!
I use a low profile variant in my media PC, underclocked. Perfect for 4K video, quiet, sips power and has enough grunt for emulation, even Dolphin. Always loved the card. There’s plenty of use cases for this thing, at least until Nvidia turn off the driver support.
Magic Borderless is also a form of FSR and NIS. If you want best picture quality. Use magic Borderless first to get a sharp picture. Then use Lossless Scaling to throw fsr on it to get the best HD quality possible on poor PC.
I know *exactly* how you feel. I just retired no less than five Radeon HD 7750s that I bought a decade ago. I owned and actively used five desktops back in the early 2010s and I thought to give them all an upgrade instead of getting one big $500 gaming card for my main rig. They breathed new life into my entire setup and each one could game pretty darn well for a while. I eventually got a better GPU for my main rig, but the 7750s still served as decent backup cards. Unfortunately, driver support was just ended for them, which means they can't be used with Windows 11.
For the curious, the 7750s were made by Gigabyte, 1 gig GDDR5 version, slight factory OC.
Bro FSR 2.0 is coming up to give new lease of life to this card.
At the end of last year I got my 750ti, its the most powerful gpu I've had, and although the dx12 issues, it makes me really happy to finally have one.
And I got it for like 45 usd and it can play switch games so its quite nice still:]
why not lower your res from 1080p and get a non widescreen monitor (4:3/5:4) to continue using the card at 1024p or even native 720p with scaling. the image will be sharp and these monitors can be had for free or u have one lying around somewhere and they're usually 75hz too.
One of my favorite card to date, the drivers were legendary and it did alot for me for many years. I was always glad to see your video's of this card every year. But i guess all good things come to an end. Thanks 750ti for being there for many budget gamers :).
I used to have some rare highly overclocked two fans variant of GTX 750 Ti from Gigabyte that, unlike regular 750 Ti, required additional 6-pin PCIe connector. It worked OK for me until the end of October, when it decided to go on forever rest. And it was the worst possible time to do so, since GPU supplies here in Czechia were scarce and prices really bad. Eventually, I was able to get new Inno3D 1050 Ti for CZK 5500 (about € 215, USD 240). Not the best deal, but it was new card with three years warranty and considering the situation, I took it. It's not the best card, but it works for what I need from it and I intend to keep it until this insane situation is over and I could finally afford something better.
I usually go with the R9 270 (or HD 7850) as a minimum for budget systems these days. DX11_1 feature support means almost all DX12 games will run and AMD NimeZ drivers make it still very usuable even in newer titles. However, if you're on an ultra budget, try finding an HD 7790 (same card as R7 260X, but usually cheaper) in its 2GB variant. It has no drivers support anymore either, but will usually outperform the GTX 750 Ti AND has full DX12_0 feature support.
Unfortunately AMD discontinued Driver Support for them. So it’s just a matter of time until bugs will occur in new games
@@opuzlife Custom drivers work just fine. I'm sure bugs can occur - but generally speaking drivers aren't magic. If your card supports a certain feature set, drivers implement how your card reacts to DirectX12 API calls and the games just call the API. Unless some game dev does something very special and specific, those bugs really *shouldn't* happen. It's been rare and more of a general AMD driver issue - that's why updating the kernel (AMD NimeZ drivers) has usually solved those issues.
@@b0ne91 oh, I didn’t know that. I might need to look into it. Still running an R9 290x
genuinely surprised its lasted as long as it has.
im staring at a spare gtx 960 2gig wondering how long that will last. i hope you can find 1 to test, or better yet 2 because it's capable of SLI (remember that?)
1)Open Task Manager
2)Go to Options
3) Select Always On Top.
This should allow you to open (Ctrl+Alt+Del, choose Task Manager) and use Task Manager to close the game (End Task) that has locked the graphics drivers from rest of the system.
You should no longer need to logout and login or restart the computer.
The 750ti sc was my first self bought GPU.
I got it for it's value and performance and it served well until I got my 1080 TI.
Sad to see it has to go for real this time.
6:29 There is also the gigabyte windforce 2x OC 4GB varient of the 750ti which does have support for dx12.
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
You are STILL the only one who talks realistically about things. I have no interest in TH-cam publishers who get sent an rtx490ti super + and review games, and neither does anyone else 🙂
It’s funny how GTA 5 runs better than the trilogy, despite looking way better imo.