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Seen some news regarding this, a low power GPU that requires no external power with 8gb of memory.
Currently we have the 3050 6gb that uses 75w of PCIe lane power, from what I read the AMD 7400 uses less power but seems to state a 450w PSU requirement unlike the 300w limit of the 3050, but it never had any sort of gaming status from memory, I can't actually remember any sort of budget gaming CPU like the 1050ti days that anyone recomemnded as a budget gaming choice.
Not sure how this will compare to current integrated GPU's, but it did remind me of the old budget 1080p gaming days where you could actually get an enjoyable game out of the likes of a GTX 1050ti on some quite mediocre hardware. I remember playing with the 1050ti myself for a couple of my kids builds, I'm sure I used the G3258 Pentium Dual core aniversary chip, then later an i3 as they ventured into the world of cheap garish keyboards. It may even have been on an old E8600 before the 4 core or 2 core plus two thread requirement I seem to think happened in Battlefield days, that could be my head getting mixed up.
I ended up using those old 1050ti's in low power builds for playing with stuff like Ubuntu, both are still running on old Q9550 systems with 350w/450w PSU's that I keep making excuses to keep.
Seeing the RX-7400 did make me wonder if there was a chance of a new budget gaming limit that could be set with modern hardware much like we had with the old 1050ti, but am I just reminiscing here and are those days long gone? It was rather fun to get the cheapest PC you could build to play online games, even if it did just end up being relegated to an old box you occasionally tried Linux on.
Currently we have the 3050 6gb that uses 75w of PCIe lane power, from what I read the AMD 7400 uses less power but seems to state a 450w PSU requirement unlike the 300w limit of the 3050, but it never had any sort of gaming status from memory, I can't actually remember any sort of budget gaming CPU like the 1050ti days that anyone recomemnded as a budget gaming choice.
Not sure how this will compare to current integrated GPU's, but it did remind me of the old budget 1080p gaming days where you could actually get an enjoyable game out of the likes of a GTX 1050ti on some quite mediocre hardware. I remember playing with the 1050ti myself for a couple of my kids builds, I'm sure I used the G3258 Pentium Dual core aniversary chip, then later an i3 as they ventured into the world of cheap garish keyboards. It may even have been on an old E8600 before the 4 core or 2 core plus two thread requirement I seem to think happened in Battlefield days, that could be my head getting mixed up.
I ended up using those old 1050ti's in low power builds for playing with stuff like Ubuntu, both are still running on old Q9550 systems with 350w/450w PSU's that I keep making excuses to keep.
Seeing the RX-7400 did make me wonder if there was a chance of a new budget gaming limit that could be set with modern hardware much like we had with the old 1050ti, but am I just reminiscing here and are those days long gone? It was rather fun to get the cheapest PC you could build to play online games, even if it did just end up being relegated to an old box you occasionally tried Linux on.
