{"id":6329,"date":"2024-06-25T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/?p=6329"},"modified":"2026-11-09T23:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:53:28","slug":"testing-and-reviewing-a-1100-yen-gtx-1050-ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/en\/games\/testing-and-reviewing-a-1100-yen-gtx-1050-ti-6329\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing and Reviewing a 1,100-Yen GTX 1050 Ti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I connected and tested a GTX 1050 Ti that I picked up at Hard Off for just 1,100 yen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Due to the positional relationship of the riser card, it only fits in the slot. Since it has a thickness of 2 slots, there was a cover where the lower parallel port is mounted, but when I removed it, the video ID part sticking out into the 2nd slot happened to fit right in there, so I installed it here. Well, I either need to move the riser card slot position up by one, or modify the main unit by cutting out the parallel port section so that the port can face outward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It felt like I managed to secure it somehow because the screw hole positions coincidentally aligned. The riser card cover cannot be attached. When I eventually mount a full-size video board, it might interfere with the RJ45 port on the right or the USB port below it. This requires the task of removing this slot on the motherboard side. Also, that strange keyboard and mouse input port next to it\u2014I definitely don't need this\u2014maybe I should relocate it around here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here's where a problem occurred: when I plugged in the graphics card, no video output came from the card. When the card was plugged in, there was no video output from the motherboard side either. My heart skipped a beat, wondering if I got a broken graphics card. Anyway, I went to NVIDIA's webpage, downloaded and installed the drivers, but booting up with the graphics card plugged in still didn't work. By the way, the cable I used was the same DVI-to-HDMI conversion cable I used with the motherboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was getting a bit despairing, and since it was already late, I decided to give up for the day and check the cleaning, memory, and various other things the next day. However, as a first try, I connected the graphics card's HDMI output directly to the TV using an HDMI cable (one I happened to have on hand), and the display came on! The Fujitsu logo was tiny, which seems to mean the resolution is high. Yay! Lucky me, I got a graphics card for 1100 yen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As for the cause, I had actually researched it beforehand: I learned that high-resolution DVI won't output unless it's a dual-link specification. When I got home and immediately checked the cable, right in the middle of this cable\u2014where there are missing pins\u2014dual-link cables have pins here, but with this one, it means it can't output at high resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose the TV is ultra-high-resolution and the graphics card can also output ultra-high-resolution, so it tried to output at a high resolution, but since the cable couldn't support it, nothing was displayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It didn't work when I checked it at Hard Off either, but I wonder if the cable was the cause there too. Although the display at the store probably wasn't that nice of a monitor. Well, I learned a big lesson from this. Next time I find one at Hard Off, I'll be able to evaluate it properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I ran the Final Fantasy XIV benchmark that everyone loves to do. It ran comfortably! Previously, without a graphics card, it ran like a slideshow or frame-by-frame animation, but now it feels like I can play games without any issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And when I played my favorite game, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, using PPSSPP, it ran comfortably without any problems. Thus, I was able to confirm that the graphics card is working properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, I forgot to take a picture, but I wanted to play Monster Hunter 4G on the 3DS emulator Citra, and it ran well enough to play smoothly. However, the visuals weren't as clean as PSP's Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. It seemed like it was designed for the 3DS's 3D display, so the original image looked blurry and dirty. Well, that's its limit. And with that, Objective 1 is achieved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I connected and tested a GTX 1050 Ti that I picked up at Hard Off for just 1,100 yen. Due to the positional relationship of the riser card, it only fits in the slot. Since it has a thickness of 2 slots, there was a cover where the lower parallel port is mounted, but when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/175.41.248.22\/?p=4958","_lightning_design_setting":{"layout":"default"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[371],"tags":[835],"class_list":["post-6329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-gaming","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6330,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions\/6330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}