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GeForce GT1030

I originally ordered the EVGA passive, swapped to the fan one when the stock was delayed, then late and late again. I'm happy with it - it's barely audible and the boost clocks hold up very well. Typically doesn't shift from 1713MHz even in an SFF case.
 
MagicBoy said:
I originally ordered the EVGA passive, swapped to the fan one when the stock was delayed, then late and late again. I'm happy with it - it's barely audible and the boost clocks hold up very well. Typically doesn't shift from 1713MHz even in an SFF case.
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Thanks for that. Don't suppose you have a picture of it installed? If in a windowed case of course. :)
 
hohum said:
Random comment but just happened to spot this thread and noticed your username, we were both in the same quake 3 clan all those years ago I'm guessing. Think I stopped playing around 2004/5, everyone was playing threewave and I just got burnt out with it. Fun times for the most part though :)
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Ironic. That was more or less when I got burnt out with Quake 3. I was always playing Quake 3 Fortress. Then never touched Quake again until @BuffetSlayer gave me a code for Quake Champions back in April/May last year. Then started playing it a lot from the end of June. It was great up until the December patch when they made the health bubbles spawn time to 30 seconds. Which everyone runs around hurt mostly, unable to find health and dying quickly.

@ScBHavoK are you getting back into Quake 3 or rather Quake Live?
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I would get one with a small fan - IIRC,I remember seeing a review and the passive one could throttle compared to the active one under heavy load.
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Yeah, agreed. I've seen reviews of passive cards that seemed to throttle clocks to 1450-1500MHz (from memory). In my Dell the EVGA with fan holds boosts to 1743MHz for a couple minutes then drops back to 1713MHz where it holds at ~70C temps on the stock fan profile.
 
MagicBoy said:
If only, it's in a Dell Optiplex! I'll grab one later.
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Ok thanks.

TheVoice said:
Does it have to be low profile? I can see on the store page there are options with better coolers for the same price.
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No doesn’t have to be low profile it’s going in a Phanteks p300 case with a full atx mobo.

V F said:
Ironic. That was more or less when I got burnt out with Quake 3. I was always playing Quake 3 Fortress. Then never touched Quake again until @BuffetSlayer gave me a code for Quake Champions back in April/May last year. Then started playing it a lot from the end of June. It was great up until the December patch when they made the health bubbles spawn time to 30 seconds. Which everyone runs around hurt mostly, unable to find health and dying quickly.

@ScBHavoK are you getting back into Quake 3 or rather Quake Live?
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Prob Q3 first to get the hang of it again then quake live
 
It's in a Dell OptiPlex 790, upgraded with an i5-2500K. HTPC mainly, does a bit of light gaming.

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I was slightly mistaken, it's holding 1733MHz at 70C. Starts at 1759MHz, then drops back.

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I have this card https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N1030D5-2GL#kf in our small htpc. Went from a passive MSI GT710 2GB to this card ! hughe difference in performance. The passive GT 710 card reached around 86°c in the case untill I mounted a little 40mm fan in front the temperatures fell drastically to the 60's. I wouldn't recommend a passive cooled card in a very small enclosure if you want to game a bit.
I have overclocked it +250MHz on the the core and +375MHz on the Vram, and it maxes out at around 69°c, and it's still so silent !. I play a lot of games on our TV in the living room :) All weekend I've been playing Fornite high settings in 1360x768, CoD MW 2 MP in max settings, Ridge Racer Unbound in max settings, Team Fortress 2 in high settings, Overwatch in medium settings, L4D2 in high settings. It's a superb entry level gaming card.
 
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10/10 for not reading the thread! Out of the 1030s I'd take the EVGA just so I wouldn't have to deal with Asus support. Plus it doesn't need that comedy large cooler for a <30W GPU...
 
MagicBoy said:
10/10 for not reading the thread! Out of the 1030s I'd take the EVGA just so I wouldn't have to deal with Asus support. Plus it doesn't need that comedy large cooler for a <30W GPU...
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Rather have a big heatsink than a smaller one. I'm using my quiet CPU passively, no fan. Because it has a large tower heatsink. If it was a smaller one I'd need a fan.

Idle temps of my 1030 is about 35 degrees.
 
Not an option in my case - see the pictures above...

Temps are well under control with a fan cooled low-profile card and it's hardly audible over the system fan.
 
Went for the evga 1030gt sc. Comes today so hopefully get the chance to install it later :D

Should i just let windows install drivers?
 
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