I see the GTX 1050 on Amazon for $310 and up — sometimes way up, depending on configuration. The thing I’ve noticed on some of the other models is they’ve started substituting GDDR4 for GDDR5 to keep the price down. Most but not all of the new GT 1030s are like that. People say there is a definite performance hit, as much as 50% for certain specific operations.
Yeah kts been Whi,e since 8 looked at cards, I woild have thought the 1050 would drop more, but maybe I paid $400 or more, I can’t recall now. A 50% hit is pretty significant, UT I was using a 9800 not too long ago and it played a lot of games ok, but some it woild just choke on. I think,the 1050 is a significant upgrade over that card, and woild thi k the 1030 shou,d be sig ificznt upgrade too to the 9800, Nd should handle al..the Sims pretty well. There are a few newer games that make most rigs choke, but I avoided those games anyways
I remember when games were only a few dozen megabytes lol, and thinking I woild never need over 250 mb hard drive- now I am running out of room on a 1 terabyte drive and I remember downloading games on 56k dialup and it would take hours and hours,praying that nothing g disrupted the phone connection. 😆. We’ve come a long way since those days