ASUSASUS GeForce GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 low profile graphics card for HTPC build (with I/O port brackets)

I needed a PCI x4 GPU for a server build and this worked perfect. Slim single slot design and only needs a x4 PCI. Gets warm but not hot and is passively cooled.Great card for the price.

Needed three large monitors. I removed the limited output gpu in my HP pavillion i7 and simply plugged this in its place. The Asus graphics card has a shortened connector that fits in the end of the PCi express motherboard socket. No other power leads or connectors are needed. I then plugged in two HDMI monitors and an older large monitor with an HDMI to VGA adaptor and turned on. Went to Asus on the Internet and downloaded the latest ASUS graphics driver for Windows 10. Lastly i set the screen order and resolution in settings. The Asus Software has plenty of settings for gamma correction etc. It works superbly and the definition (or clarity) seems better than before. I don't play games on this PC, it is used for office applications and development and I still can add another monitor if i really wanted too. It has the power for multiple instances of Adobe creative suite graphics programs, CAD and live 3d rendering, all without any issue or stutterring at all. I cannot reccomend this solution higher, it's one of the best plug and play devices I have purchased and so much easier to install than the older graphics hardware.

Easy install if you remove the old software and your current driver from device manager beforehand. The default NVIDIA setting for colours are a bit washed out so I went into the Change Resolution section and changed the 'Output dynamic range' to Full and the Brightness and Contrast to 45%, also set it to Full in the advanced section of the 'Video colour settings'. Looks great now with nice dark blacks and a better colour range. Works very well in less demanding titles like the indie games or ones that are a few years old, runs very quiet even during gaming.You can get an RX 570 or GTX 1060 3GB for about the same price atm, but I would need a new PSU and could not even find an adapter for my proprietary mobo power sockets, so opted for the GTX 1050 Ti. Tried an ASRock RX560 at first but it stuttered on all games and video and I found the AMD software a bit 'glitchy' to use i.e. not responding when first opened to Gaming section and found the update always told me I needed to update to the same version of Crimson. Also when I did update it corrupted the software and I had to install it from the new download file.Considering the GTX 1660 6GB is about twice as powerful and can be bought for around £200 then £150 for the 1050 Ti seems a bit much. But if you have limited power (in my case just 200W) then the 1050 Ti is a good option, but now the GTX 1650 is a better 75W PCIe only card and costs about the same price atm.Update 16.05.2020Having done more research it seems I could have gone for the RX570 (120W) or the 1060 (120W) I mentioned. A 200W PSU will be ok with these cards in my OEM system. A system like mine would draw about 185W from the wall with a GTX 1060, so at the PSU after its 20% loss in efficiency it would be about 150W. Just to be sure the GTX 1650 Super (100W) would be a great buy atm. Of course you would need a 6 pin connector from the PSU, my PC has a socket on the MOBO for this purpose.

Bought this specifically as I needed a GPU for an AM4 MaTX mobo where the 16x slot was in use by something else critical to the build, and the only remaining slot was PCI-E x 1. Using an APU was out of the question as they don't support ECC RAM which was also critical to the build.So this was literally a lifesaver for my project. They seem to be rarer than hens teeth.Performance wise, I don't know or care. All I know is that it runs cool, silent and works completely fine for desktop functions. This will be something great for the kitbag in future too.Couldn't be happier with this

Ran an Asus GTX750Ti OC since 2016, it was time to upgrade.If you had upgraded to one of these say pre-lockdown it would of been a good card.For some reason this version has no 6/8-pin connection, even my 750 did.This is okay but this time of year in this humid weather in the UK, the card was causing my mainboard to get pretty hot, and after an hour the card itself overheats (especially with sim racing or real time things like flight sims, train sims etc). So you r gaming and suddenly these annoying stutters start happening. I thought it was my CPU overheating, it wasnt it was the card. Confirmed this week when I swapped it out for a 3060.Very good budget card, no way near as good as the 750Ti for reliability though, not for serious gamers/sim-racers etc. But will run the Re-Engine games on medium at 40fps quite happy.It managed to get Black OPS II running near to 60fps at 4K on Ultra though (DSR) which aint bad for a little card like this. 2K 1440p gaming is possible at 30-40fps. But if you want to use a mouse you will need 1080p due to input latency at high resolutions.7/10. Not bad.

I have an old Core i7-860 PC (no iGPU, that old!) which used an ATI Radeon card (HD 5770). A recent update from Win 10 bricked the PC, and I found by trial and error that the ancient AMD Catalyst driver was at fault. I had pulled out the card and ran the PC headless using RDP but was agonisingly slow to update the screen. I fitted this easily (10s, into the now vacant PCI-e 16 2.0 slot) and this has brought life back into the old PC.I don't game, so not sure how fast or slow it is in 3D. However it is blissfully silent, which I really value, and the fastest passively cooled discrete GPU card I could find with current (actively updated) Win 10 drivers. It is fast enough in 2D compositing that screen updates via RDP is instantaneous.Is the card worth £90? No; articles on established hardware sites have the card at around $60 in the past but as the only card I could find whilst passively cooled and not something from 20 years ago (ATI Rage Pro!), will have to do.I would make sure you get the GDDR5 version, rather than the DDR4 version which is reported to be markedly slower.