Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050 2GB GV-N1050OC-2GD OC Graphic Cards

A quiet, capable, entry-level 10 series Nvidia. After six months of heavy use, I have to say it works very well. I use mine to drive two busy "productivity" displays with multiple workspaces on a FreeBSD system. The fans rarely kick in (and are not audible over system fans if they do). In the cool of the mid-Atlantic winter, my card has been running at 32-34C in a well-ventilated Corsair case.I picked this card for:* large number of outputs (the most of any card pictured on the Nividia site's 1050 page)* modestly higher clock speeds than the competition, out of the box* deep fan design (bigger blades can run slower and quieter)* lower price and power requirements than beefier models* plenty powerful compared to previous series entry level Nvidia (some of which were barely adequate)While my use is "productivity", that includes a tremendous number of browser tabs, many of which do leverage hardware acceleration, as well as video playback and light photo editing. This card is beefier than I strictly needed (and would likely be fine for light to medium gaming), but I was also sizing it to handle upgrading from HD to WQHD (which I've done now) and/or driving a third display (which I haven't done yet).Linux and BSD folks might be interested in the card's dmesg output. This is from FreeBSD 11.1:nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 384.90 Tue Sep 19 17:29:32 PDT 2017nvidia0: <GeForce GTX 1050> on vgapci0vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_iohdac0: <NVIDIA (0x0fb9) HDA Controller> mem 0xed080000-0xed083fff irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci1hdacc0: <NVIDIA (0x0080) HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0hdaa0: <NVIDIA (0x0080) Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0pcm0: <NVIDIA (0x0080) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> at nid 4 on hdaa0pcm1: <NVIDIA (0x0080) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> at nid 5 on hdaa0pcm2: <NVIDIA (0x0080) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> at nid 6 on hdaa0This isn't my first Gigabyte video card, and won't be my last. I'm very pleased with it. Recommended.

Review is for the 4gb 1468mhz boot clock card.I want to start with that since they're all lumped into one. The card does require one 6 pin connection from the PSU.I wasn't expecting it to perform as well as it does. I used this when building an entry level gaming PC for my daughter. The only new parts I used were the GPU, PSU, HDD, and windows of course. I purchased a mobo/ram/cpu combo used that would be considered outdated by most gamers' standards. My daughter said that she wanted to be able to play Overwatch on medium settings at 60 fps. That was the only wish she had for a new PC.She had been using an HP trash-heap laptop for the year prior and was lucky to hit 27fps on low settings using the onboard Intel HD graphics. Ok, so maybe trash-heap isn't the correct name of the model, but it's more accurate than whatever name HP gave it that included the word gaming. I will admit that even whatever outdated Quadro FX card is sitting in my 10 year old workstation probably would have been an improvement over her "gaming laptop". We were easy to impress.She had given me specs of all of her friends' rigs, all of which included cards well out of my budget for a whole system. Most were running 1080's, some 1070's, and a 1060. Some claimed that they could get as high as 70 fps on medium and some could get to 70 on high settings.I hadn't even used a PC in 10 years at the time. I figured those were decent numbers for the equipment. I chose this card assuming that she would at least be able to hit 60 fps on medium. I was blown away when she hit 157 fps on high settings. She tried ultra high and still stayed above 100 fps. We decided to cap the frame rate at 75 to avoid unnecessary wear on the components. I am very impressed with what everyone says is a budget or entry level card. Outside of 3ds Max or other 3d rendering application I can't see a need for more than this card can do. It also makes me wonder what kind of rip off "customs" her friends are buying.The card is now in an all new set up with the latest technology and performs the same. Temps are always stable even when gaming for long periods, never an overheating issue. I haven't overclocked the card or any other components and see no point in doing so. This card performs so well that I purchased a second one to use in a build for my younger daughter.Specs on the first system:Intel Core i7-4790KMSI Z77A-GD6516gb Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600Updated system:Intel Core i7-7700Asrock Z270 Extreme416gb G Skill Ripjaws DDR4 3000