I still haven’t replaced my gt 1030 after all these years
I still havent replaced my gt 1030 after all these years
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Recently replaced my original 1030 DDR4 with a GDDR5 variant. Shit's cash.
The GDDR5 variant really is a good card. I have the passive ASUS version and it worked great under Ubuntu and Win10 LTSB. When I build a new PC I'm going to get an APU with faster native graphics and keep the 1030 for VM passthrough.
>low-power card
>has a fan
disgusting
planned obsolescence at its finest. they want to make sure that card will be useless in a few years, after that dinky fan chews up its bearings.
There a plenty of heatsink-only variants although most of those are two-slot designs.
I'm happy to make it two-slot in exchange for being passive. now if only they made AMD cards like that, too.
Even the cheapest RX 6400 and RX 6500 XT from PowerColor are semi-passive, bro.
semi-passive isn't passive. There's still a fan, they just claim it stops, sometimes, possibly, under some loosely-defined circumstances. I've never seen a tiny 50-ish mm GPU fan like that that's lasted more than a year or two before it ate its bearings and started making annoying grinding noises. Even when those fans are working properly, they make a high-pitched and very noticeable whining sound when they're turning. They're difficult to replace once they die. A true passive card - no fan at all - puts paid to all those problems.
Well, you're being way too harsh. If there's no noticeable 3D load then the fan will not start at all. I've had multiple of such products over the past decade and most of them have been resting at 0 RPM for like 85% of their life.
is that true if ambient temperature in my room is above 35C for more or less the whole summer? My experience is that "semi-fanless" components are actually quite eager to power up their fans.
Well your ambient temperature is definitely a thing to consider here that's for sure.
Better-quality PSUs are rated for 40 or even 50C intake/ambient temps. Why shouldn't a video card be?
Well, most of the semi-passive cards also launch their fans at around 55C. You can find some precise numbers for a particular model you might be interested in. Of course, I don't know what it actually translates to when your ambient temperature is at 35C.
i get the passive ones and either blow my my cpu cooler at the card or glue a fan directly to the passive cooler
You can just replace the heatsink and fan yourself, with something more modern.
I literally just bought this card for an HTPC. I need a longer 4pin cpu cable.
You can just unplug the fan really. Unless you are using the card at 100% it never exceeds 70c. .
>a 10 cent fan beats this guy in maintenance battles
man that is pathetic, why not just go back?
Thanks for your poverty update.
Just upgraded from the 3090 Ti to the 4090, shit was so cash.
Thanks for the free 3090ti.
>shit was so cash
shouldnt you be vaping?
that card came out in 2017, it hasn't been that long
Nothing wrong with that if it's all you need or want. Personally my 1060 is doing me just fine and most of the time a 1030 would be fine too.
> can't replace a fan that a 5 year old can
The absolute state of LULZ
>shitty novideo discrete card instead of integrated graphics
Here's a protip. Passive cooled ones can be OC'd a lot and will run cooler if you point a fan at them. You end up with something that runs better and makes less noise than the actively cooled ones with puny heatsinks.
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that's my darling 1030 all the way
Even Vega graphics from Ryzen 5 4600g does a much better job than a GT 1030.
i just bought a rx 480 for 50usd couple weeks ago
my monitor goes black and the DC when i full screen in mpv on windows but otherwise it works well enough for hogwarts legacy
the garbage 5600G cant even let me play hogwarts legacy without lag.
Yeah Hogwards pretty much needs at least 4gb of vram. Vega APU's can't have more than 2gb of vram allocated to them. Tha'ts probably the bigggest reason for the lag.
Except being a backup card what is the use over a IGP?
Nothing unless you have an old ass CPU which has a horrible iGPU. But something like Vega graphics easily beats this.
my cpu is based it has no IGPU
That too but if you are buying a gt 1030 as a gpu you should not have bought a modern cpu without an iGPU. Again vega graphics (with fast ddr4 ram) is almost 1050 2gb levels.
i got plenty of ddr4 is there any good igpu to fit in an am3+ socket?
Don't all AM3+ boards use DDR3? Also I think AMD only used FM sockets for APU's at that time. So you don't really have any APU options with AM3+. I know because I used one up until last year.
my bad i think i got a am4 my board is supposedly ryzen ready
Well depends on the budget. A used Ryzen 5 2400g is a pretty cheap APU usually costing 45 bucks on ebay. But it's basically a ryzen 3 with an igpu so don't expect wonders from it. Then there's a used 3400g a little bit better but it's 65 bucks used and still pretty poor performer.
Really Ryzen 5 4600g should be the minimun and it costs just 100 bucks new. It's igpu with fast enough ram (your ram speed has a big impact on the igpu's performance) is about RX 460 levels. In some games even 1050 2gb levels. 4600g is basically a 4500 with Vega 7 graphics. Now the 4500 got shat on when it released because it was overpriced but now it's prices have dropped it's not that bad. In gaming it's below a i3 12100 but in productivity it beats it.
Now above it is the 5600g. It's gpu performance is same as the 4600g but all and all it's cpu performance is better. However it costs 140 dollars though I think I once saw it at 120 bucks. The 5600g is basically a 5500 with vega 7. In gaming and productivity it's almost as good as the i5 12400f but it falls just below it. It also has some modern features that ryzen 5 4600g is missing.
Then at the top is the Ryzen 7 5700g. But it costs 200 bucks. It's igpu is vega 8 so it has better gpu performance than Ryzen 5 4600g or 5600g. It's pretty much at 1050 2gb levels. But you should only get this if you want to use it as a stop gap and later put a proper gpu in while also having an 8 core CPU.
Not having an iGPU, or needing more monitors. In my case is both, I don't have an iGPU, but I need something to drive two extra displays, and my current GPU can drive only 4, but I use one display out for VR and two other for one monitor.
Like anons said these cards are mostly meant for display out, but back when GT lineups were more common, you'd see them a lot as cheap ass "gaming" cards, or simply as weak hardware accelerators in OEM systems, just to have a tiny bit of CUDA and shit. Even a 1030 GDDR5 can help a little for some lighter video work and whatnot, even if it won't be doing miracles.
Why bother with these when iGPUs are amazing now ?
It's your old tech that never died ?
just get a job
Honestly i am waiting for this gen equivalent of that card.
Which is probably the unobtainable arc310