low powered cheap 2d gpu

[chrcoluk]

Is there such a thing aside from something released several years ago?

Getting a low end amd/nvidia card is out of the question due to the price gouging on those brands,

Want to put it in a system thats used only for unix.

 

[chroniclard]

Cant use onboard graphics?

 

[hornetstinger]

Looking at a older gen card, like ati 5450 series or nvidia 730 series. Check unix driver support.

Likewise I'm trying to find a modern card, that supports freesync but is low in power and heat <20W.

 

[chrcoluk]

Yeah I see the 710 cards are actually good priced, and is a new 1030 series now as well, so umming and arring between a 710 and 1030 now, thanks.

Amd supposedly the budget provider but nothing in that price space.

and yeah this would be an ideal situation for an onboard gpu, but the chip is an i5 750 before intel started doing onboard.

 

[chrcoluk]

Ended up with the 1030 simply incase I decide to use windows or whatever its a bit more future proof, double vram as well.

The machine previously was using a gtx 460, which I suspected was not running in idle power mode, and I was right, after I swapped the cards using FreeBSD OS, the watt usage of the machine dropped by 80 watts. Simply from swapping the GPU.

The 1030 is a 30 watt tdp card and 460 160 watts TDP. 130 watt difference, I suspect the cards idle in 3d clocks.

 

[ubersonic]

If the system is just for UNIX then I'm guessing no gaming? In which case you can get a 256mb Quadro NVS 290 for like £8. DX10 support, 21w TDP and still has current driver support for Windows/Linux (not much use for you but means the card is still being supported).