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Geforce 1030 Thead
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I think that this is the sort of thread where if you have nothing positive to say, say nothing.
I think it's a laudable hobby myself, doing more with less might get someone connected that otherwise couldn't afford to do it at all.
It's interesting in the same way a game like "The Long Dark" appeals to some over a twitch shooter.
Good on you mate.
I think it's a laudable hobby myself, doing more with less might get someone connected that otherwise couldn't afford to do it at all.
It's interesting in the same way a game like "The Long Dark" appeals to some over a twitch shooter.
Good on you mate.
Overclocking high-end hardware to achieve better yields is always popular, but often I find doing the same with "lesser" hardware is equally as fun and some times even more rewarding in a sense of achievement
So there fore I'd like to adress GT 1030 owners and hear what kind of overclocks you have managed to squeeze out of your cards
My Gigabyte GT 1030 Low Profile 2GB I tried overclocking to +600MHz on the Vram and it would run fine through 3Dmark Fire Strike and games like Overwatch, Rocket League,GTA 5, but in Unigine Heaven 4.0 I would get purple flickering stars appearing randomly in the benchmark.
So I had to back down the Vram overclock to +350MHz and then all is fine. The core clock however I run at +250MHz, and haven't tried higher or played with voltages - yet
Temperature wise the card maxes out at 65°c.
Has the memory got any active cooling? That might help.
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Yes it is based of the GT 1030 - should have the same specs also
Yes, and I have applied better heat pads from Arctic on the vram under the heatsink
(had a bunch of spares from fixing laptops and swapping out new heatpads on them).
Which would be fair enough in isolation - however second hand cards such as the 750ti, 760, 950 or 7850, 260X etc all offer better performance and can be normally had for less.
Are they 30w cards?
Clearly not, but outside of the use case of dodgy oem pcs that have power limited pcie slots, can't see why that's a factor.
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Don't be put off OP - if would be nice to know if lower end cards can be overclocked since it is free performance for someone on a budget.
When I get home from work today, I am going to try to unlock the voltage control in MSI Afterburner and see if it'll be possible
Yea, and I also think it's interesting that before, pretty much every low-end budget card meant zero gaming joy because the performance simply wasn't there, not even for the lowest of low settings and resolution. Now we actually have a card than can do 720p gaming at high detail and 1080p at mix of low and medium - and only at 30watt !.
If the price would just drop a bit I am sure it would be a very popular "beginners card" into entry gaming e.g a cheap option to kids getting into PC gaming.
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All cards can be overclocked, so of course there is some free performance. If you are on a budget, unless you need a 30w card, or absolutely have to buy new, then there is no compelling reason to buy new.
The budget end of the market is fairly stagnant, and while yes the 1030 is a huge improvement on e.g. the 710/730/740 that preceded it, it's still a lot slower than a mid range card launched as far back as 2012
It positions itself between between GTX 750 and GTX 750Ti from 2013.
The pro's of this card is that you pretty much can get any cheap old OEM HP/DELL/LENOVO PC and slap it in there and start your gaming experience.
No it positions itself at the absolute bottom of the discrete graphics market, one step above integrated solutions, the fact that it happens to have performance somewhere around a low-mid range part from 2013 is still disappointing (given how much more of an increase there has been at the high end in that time)
How is that a Pro? The fact that these OEM pcs are being supported rather than them actually having proper 75w pci-e slots is surely just encouraging shady practices in the first place.
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It's not at a standstill every year you get a big performance boost and they get cheaper. E.g a 1060 is faster than a 970.
1) Yes it's a low end card - I think we all pretty much got that. But it's the first low-end card where it's actually possible to play current games on decently at low settings. Before that was pretty much a no go on any low-end card.
2) It's a pro because you can get an old little HP for something like £25~£30 and slap a GT 1030 and you will be able to play a decent range of games from 2013 and onwards. It's great if you want to get kids into gaming and don't want to cash out a lot of money.
I get that GT 1030 isn't the best value for the money - but if you have a small form factor pc, and there's no room for large graphics cards, nor do you have a beefy PSU, then the GT 1030 is your best bet for now.
Well pre 2008 we usually got around 60% performance increases from each high-end generation to the other.... and that it went down to around 40% - after 2010 it has been around 25% something, we today consider a leap, but back in 2007 we wouldn't have accepted such numbers at all.
http://digiworthy.com/2017/09/13/nvidias-performance-improvement-per-gen/
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Can we stick with oranges then, cos adding apples in is just confusing
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The main benefit to 1050 or lower cards is the small heat and power required. I did think of getting a 1050 for simplicity, it doesnt even need psu cables so people with a work pc can use it without worry. I agree on the bandwidth point, some cards are just limited in their reach and maybe overclocking the cpu would help more at the lower res. The other point about buying a big old top end card is there is a mass of tips to overclock it from old articles.
A new low end card makes you a pioneer and its upto the owner to find any interesting dynamics to it. The biggest route I can think of for impossible gains is unlocking shaders or something, possibly extremes of modded bios flashed on there but that requires a lot of knowledge to improve a very pre defined category of chips.
The very newest chips they sometimes find unknown ways to advance its performance or just driver gains, I think thats partly why oc is mostly mid to top end
A new low end card makes you a pioneer and its upto the owner to find any interesting dynamics to it. The biggest route I can think of for impossible gains is unlocking shaders or something, possibly extremes of modded bios flashed on there but that requires a lot of knowledge to improve a very pre defined category of chips.
The very newest chips they sometimes find unknown ways to advance its performance or just driver gains, I think thats partly why oc is mostly mid to top end