Is The GT 1030 Worth it in 2023?!?

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[@koreannom]

You could use a GT 1030 in a dedicated low power retro emulation PC But for the price you could do better.

[@MundoVCH]

​@@koreannomRETRO EMULATION??????? You're kidding me. An Intel HD Graphics 2000 can run this and you're saying that a 1030 serves for this????????

[@ViceVersaVR]

i can run gta on my 1030 at like 50fps with no stutters

[@ViceVersaVR]

gta5 btw

[@vXTotalChaosXv]

I bought a 1030 a couple years back for my kids' Optiplex to play Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, etc. and it has been great. Even paired with just a 4th gen i5, its everything they need to play their games reliably.

[@MultiTtocs]

Them Haswell CPUs can still do a mighty fine job.

[@infuse4448]

@@MultiTtocs fr

[@davidskrzypiec841]

I was looking for someone to say this I bought a pic with a i5 and a gt 1030 I’m waiting for it rn and I weren’t sure if it’s good or noy

[@astrolightingyt4531]

@@davidskrzypiec841it’s good to play your games but always gonna be low

[@clearmethod8412]

awesome

[@hartsickdisciple]

The GT 1030 makes sense for specific use cases, like upgrading older OEM PCs with weak PSUs. A lot of older PCs are a cheap SSD, a stick of RAM, and a GT 1030 away from being able to handle basic computing, web browsing, 4k youtube viewing, and some light gaming.

[@ToolofSociety]

"basic computing" you're talking about a machine that is vastly faster than what a gaming machine was decades ago and you're like "yeah it can do basic computing like check email"... LOL My secondary gaming system that I consider my portable desktop is an elite 8300 SFF HP/compaq business machine I bought off ebay many moons ago. A cheap i7-3770, 16 gb ram , a SSD and some spinners combined with the gt1030 gddr5 card allow me to play almost every game I play on my ryzen 5 3600 system (it even plays GTAV well at 1080p)... Granted with the way developers are gobbling up VRAM it's definitely obsolete for bleeding edge fancy poorly optimized games that the AAA industry likes releasing...

[@AdanSanchez5468]

@@ToolofSocietyI’m planing on getting a cheap starting pc with those specs is it good on most newer games?

[@ToolofSociety]

​@@AdanSanchez5468 I would NOT get a GT1030 today. If you're stuck in a small form factor an RX6400 isn't much more and is vastly better. Though keep in mind that the RX6400 lacks H264/5 hardware encoding. The GPU is the weakest part by far in my i7 setup. My latest frankencomputer is an older rosewill case that has a dell optiplex 7010 motherboard in it with an e3-1230 CPU both bought off ebay from different sellers for $28 total delivered. 2x 4gb and 1x 8gb sticks of ddr3 in dual channel mode (moving to 2x8gb soon), a SP A55 512GB SSD ($22 amazon). GTX660 2GB. The Frankencomputer is going to replace the SFF i7 system above as my secondary machine. The GTX660 is just so much more capable than the gt1030. There are downsides though as the dell motherboard isn't happy not having all it's connections made. I had to look online for wiring diagrams and pinouts (there are adapters on amazon). You can get it to run with just two pins but it will ask for you to press f1 on boot up. Other than that it connects to my standard corsair PSU that I bought cheap off a newegg sale +5 years ago. I had to cut the motherboard's CPU backplate to allow me to use a Coolermaster Hyper 212+ evo. The e3-1230 CPU is basically an i7-3770 rebadged in XEON speak. Under full boost the e3-1230 clocks in at 300mhz lower than the i7 version. In practice it's not noticeable outside of some specific benchmarks. If you're good at googling and following directions it's a fun project PC that has the capability to player newer games depending on the GPU used.

[@Orbert]

Those damn miners killed a great market. Right when the pandemic started, I was watching a video card, and it went from $250 all the way up to 1000 in like a week. After nearly 3 years, it’s finally coming down in price, and I’m not even sure I want the card anymore.

[@andrewlidholm5866]

Nice video! It’s always really cool to see some older hardware get a modern test.

[@RegalPixelKing]

In 2023 it's truly terrible for its value. Modern Ryzen iGPUs are about as powerful if not more powerful.

[@nyan12]

i agree

[@baroncalamityplus]

Some Ryzen igpu's are more powerful.

[@FinnLovesFP]

Sad to see we dont get the powerful RX 680M iGPU thats found on tiny PC's / laptops on desktop CPU's. those APU's blow anything regular desktop CPU's ever get. 680M seems to sit between a 1050 Ti and 1060 3gb.

[@hartsickdisciple]

Yes, but there's a reason the GT 1030 commands a premium versus its specs and gaming performance. These are the perfect upgrade for an older OEM pc with a weak power supply. If you buy a more powerful GPU, you also need to buy a PSU. There are a lot of PCs from the LGA 775 and AM3 eras that are just a couple GB of RAM and a GT1030 away from being capable of basic computing, web browsing, and 4k youtube video viewing in 2023. GT 1030 can be found on the used market for $40-60, so not a bad deal at those prices.

[@RegalPixelKing]

@@hartsickdisciple Even in those cases it's not a great deal because the GTX 1050 exists. For around the same price tag, maybe an extra 20-30 dollars at most, you can get a 1050 which will do everything stated, plus it will do some decent gaming, even if you might need to settle for lower settings, and sub FHD for some of the newer releases.

[@georgecivacs2593]

Hi, I've just bought the GT11030 DDR5 for 3 main reasons 1. Fanless silence 2. Low power consumption 3. I was impressed with the NVIDIA control panel for a GT610 in my other PC, for tweaking the graphics. Other maker's video cards do not seem to have this great feature. Your main criticism of it appears to be its gaming performance. Luckily, I'm not a gamer and use my PC for share trading, streaming videos, word processing, and spreadsheet work. I'm basing the purchase on my great experience with the GT610.

[@TheHammerGuy94]

a ryzen APU like an R5 5600G, and even their older models like the R5 4650g has graphics performance already exceeding the 1030. it's what I reccomend to my friends if they build a DIY PC for basic desktop use. but if you already have a desktop and you just need a video output, and don't care about gaming performance a 1030 for more than $100 is too much money 2nd hand marketplaces has endless listings of "not for gaming" GPUs for dirt cheap. one look at my local 2nd hand marketplace show GT 710s and GT1030 as cheap as 20 bucks and if you are a little on the jank side, a 9500 GT can be had for as cheap as 2 dollars!!! at those prices, you could just buy another one if they die.

[@FloatSamplesGT710]

@@TheHammerGuy94 iGPU won't be stable and shutters alot even though it gets equal performance of GT 1030, so 1030 wins in stability

[@pebble-cp1gu]

If Nvidia wants to survive in today's climate they need to bring budget cards like this back

[@ToolofSociety]

They won't because they don't care about the consumer market anymore. They are too busy trying to sell their special AI cores to big businesses. The leftovers are being sold to consumers at inflated prices because Nvidia got addicted to the extra profit per card.

[@danieldev514]

@@L1QU1DSCHW4RTZ Because it's a high end card. If you are poor you can get a low end one

[@DI324.]

@@L1QU1DSCHW4RTZdude got real quite 😂😂😂

[@unholysaint1987]

@@danieldev514 maybe instead of having a superiority complex and calling people poor, you could understand that maybe they're just aware of a things called "price to performance ratio" and "diminishing returns"

[@opticalsalt2306]

@@danieldev514Or you can budget and have your priorities, there are amd cards several hundred dollars cheaper that perform faster (unless you really like ray tracing)

[@dewrow]

I spent 7 years with 1030 as "temporary solution" thanks to damn miners. I even played some AAA titles on it which was quite pain but playable. Now I have a new 3060 and I'm happy. I'll never forget my old 1030.

[@PhoticSneezeOne]

I got a passive 1030 for 25bucks. it serves me extremely well in my HTPC for 4K videos, emulation (up to PS2 level) and older indie games. I think this is the perfect use case for this card.

[@aleksamilutinovic1463]

I play AC Unity in 30-40 fps 720p high settings, it's doing better job at this game wich was so hard to run when it came out i get 30 in large crowds while ps4 get low 20s. This game was very demanding to run whrn it came out and this GPU works ehat it needs to. Ps. game came out in 2014 i mean that's not that old for a game i mean GTA V is older

[@apt1002]

I'm surprized more commenters haven't mentioned the *passive cooling*. It's really hard to find a passively cooled discrete GPU these days. There are good reasons to want one, including silence and longevity.

[@pebble-cp1gu]

It's also best suited for upgrading older low profile machines

[@georgecivacs2593]

YEP. I also just bought it for the passive cooling to match my fanless Intel i7 PC. I just hate fan noise. This was my main reason, but the low pwer consumption is a close second. The only way I can tell that my PC is powered on and running is the screen display or audio coming from the machine. PS: I also have a virtually fanless Corsair HX1200 PSU in a Meshify case. The fan has never kicked in.

[@TheHammerGuy94]

if it's available i your region: Palit has the "kalm X" series of GPUs on their x50 cards. it's one of the biggest heatsinks you will ever see on a 1 fan card but it dosent have a fan. it's passive. the fastest card you can find it for is their GTX 1650

[@kaiden6817]

Just got a 1030 aero today, and its still very quiet, I haven’t tried overclocking yet but even then im still confident it wouldn’t be too loud

[@hugosimoes5119]

There are still some selling in my country with full passive cooling. I am going to buy one for my hp system. The problem is how the cooler performs. I wonder how hot the cooler gets while sitting on Desktop or playing some video or playing emulated games.

[@Obie327]

Hey Matt I have a couple of these cards and they perform just fine in low powered media/light gaming PC's. One example is my Athlon 240ge with integrated Vega 3 (Doubled the performance with the GT 1030) I also have a mini ITX build with Ryzen 5 5600 using this GPU. I do want an upgrade to a GTX 1050 ti/1650/super or future lower powered GPU with my Ryzen 5. 35 watt max usage and little heat and power is a win in my book. Older or less demanding games runs great. Triple A titles that need more oomph I can always run on my gaming rig. I'm still surprised how well this card performs. Thanks for the upload and informative review on the GT 1030. Peace!

[@amadeus999]

Up until Sept. of last year, that was my card for the last 4 years. I paired it with an FX-8300. I'm now running a Ryzen 5 5600G and GTX 1650.

[@surferbrg]

Yep I still have my GDDR5 version of GT 1030 that I salvaged from a refurbished build and still wonder if I should sell it or hang on to it a bit longer. Also I missed out on a RX 460 low profile card. Plus we also got tons of low profile options available like Nvidia T600, 800 and 1000 cards, RTX A2000 and RX 6400. So hoping to snag one of those someday. Only use I still had for that card was online titles like fallout 76, MegaMan X Dive and for older titles or games that just need 2GB of video memory.

[@XRaiderV1]

My SFF dell optiplex 3010 has a 1030 gt by zotac, and it's a champ for older/low demand games like startrek online, starwars the old republic, sims 3 and sims 4.

[@StealthMarmot_]

I'm actually going to be recommending this as a replacement video card for some out of date cards at my company where 4 monitor setups are required in a professional manner, but not high graphics processing, since if combined with the on board video card there should be 4 Display/HDMI ports available while having a relatively compatible setup with low power requirements or heat.

[@jceasar5685]

Hi, thx for the vid. I have an optiplex 7070 i7-9700 sff. Would this card be a real upgrade from the onboard intel 630? My pcie x4 slot is taken, will the 1030 still fit? Thx in advance mate

[@troytaylor1913]

GT 1030 is the best video card for a sound studio. Every single motor in a computer case makes a noise that my condenser microphone can pick up even if I can't hear it. Real silence is difficult.

[@FloatSamplesGT710]

agreed

[@classyorb]

I bought this to use in an old SFF office PC that will be a HTPC. This was one of the few low profile cards under 6.25 inches (160mm) so didn't have too many options.

[@peterwstacey]

I have put one in my retired gaming PC, which is now a HTPC. i7-4770k with a passively cooled low power graphics card, this is a big increase from the onboard Intel HD4600 graphics. For this use case, it's great!

[@leandrojavier4106]

Already upgraded cpu and gpu and mobo, but should I use a gt1030 for a ryzen 1400? Or just get a used gpu or a ryzen2400g? to keep the old mobo as home theathre

[@docrx1857]

i have this exact LP MSI model i use in an old 4th gen i5 system for ps2 emulation. its awesome for that job. and it is a completely silent card. no fans.

[@RosyKitteh]

You betcha! Especially for me since I rarely play any games that came out after 2010

[@Kanivalos80]

GT1030 is still usable for older pcs ,especially for prebuilds with anemic PSUs (30w TDP fits everywhere).I use a 7770 2GB model for my htpc(similar performance to 1030), still playing some older/indie games.For "gaming" getting a used RX580/1660s makes more sense.

[@georgecivacs2593]

"GT1030 is still usable for older pcs" HMMM ... I just bought one for my latest fanless PC build, an Intel i7! Love the fanless silence.

[@hxshi9987]

i still use my GT 1030 pared with a i5 4th gen for some older games like Left 4 dead 2, GTA 5 and some Esports titles, i have no other option than this card because i bought an old Pre build with a weird Mainboard with only 16 pins for the PSU so i only can use the manifacturers PSU with 250 watts and i dont wanne BBQ the PSU so i only stress it with 30 watts max. i have an Xbox Series S to play the newest stuff on my 1080p monitor. i Overclocked the card really good with 200mhz+ on core and 250mhz+ on memory gives me ~7-10+ fps. im a big fan of the 1030, it works really well for Esport titles and runs everything from 2018 and older just fine on lower settings off course. im happy with my PC like that for now.

[@RosyKitteh]

Same. This is my first dedicated gpu, and compared to the integrated graphics... Well, I've never experienced "zero lag" in a game before. Not even Minecraft. I couldn't even emulate DS games. I have the DDR4 model even, but it's perfect for all of my needs. The newest game I play is the Sims 4, so

[@windows95mlgxp]

i realy want to see some one watercooling and overclocking a 1030

[@RichardJobity]

Office use with one of these recent AMD or Intel CPUs without an integrated GPU. Pep to a system with an older CPU.

[@yetanotheruser1989]

Just picked one up to go with an i5 4th gen. Seems like it will suit my needs for emulating console games up to 6th gen, as well as playing PC games up to around 2014-2015. I'm not a modern gamer at all, so really have no need for anything much more than what I'm getting. And the card cost me £35, so no complaints.

[@Fernando-Rodriguez]

infamous? I thought GT 710 was infamous. in 2023 GT 1030 is awesome for emulation and older 2000s to early 2010s games you can have fun in Esport titles as well, as an owner of this card it gets the job done for me it runs all my games there are thousands of older games that I can run comfortably on this however if you're buying for modern gaming stay away from this one.

[@user-nn8kk2jc1f]

I own a GT 1030 2gb DDR5 and it just gets my job done as i dont game those new released high demanding games.If you want to play older AAA titles from 2007-2016 you can play those games perfectly with this.But if u want to play very demanding new games u can get a used 750ti or a 1650 for 20-40$ more

[@RosyKitteh]

Is the difference between DDR4 & 5 that big?

[@knaticsedit]

@@RosyKitteh yes maybe gddr5 is 50% powerful than the ddr4 variant

[@RosyKitteh]

@@knaticsedit hm well I have the ddr4 variant, but my computer now experiences shorts that cause it to turn off every time I unplug a USB ._. Even when I remove the GPU and use the integrated graphics, the short is still there

[@knaticsedit]

@@RosyKitteh whats your psu?

[@RosyKitteh]

@@knaticsedit ​ @knaticsedit 275 watt. I found out that it was just my wifi adapter that seemed to be causing the short. As long as I plug it into the front usb ports instead of the back, I don't seem to have any problems.

[@delancre5858]

Couple of notes and corrections there: 0:45 this was not "first crypto bubble" by any means. It was first etherium boom. There no mention of OC possibilities. Due to fact that this gpu was pretty slow as is, you could just slide OC sliders in MSI afterburner all the way to the right and get like +10-15% perf from thin air. 7:14 You said this game unplayble cause of auto upscaling, but never show us fps while it off. On my overclocked mx150 (notebook analog of 1030) I got ~65-70 fps in OW2 without scaling and probably on max settings (I don't really remember what settings I was using). So it is at least playable if you stuck with old notebook. 6:55 Genshin is also playable with fsr. A bit blurry, but you can squeeze that 60fps lock out of it. Sadly, going beyond that is not possible even with unlocked fps and low settings.

[@TomBom292]

Back in 2016 or so I got one of these as a birthday gift. It made a lot of sense for my specific use case, i was putting it in my Dell Optiplex 780 from 2008 which used a weird Dell specific form factor (wouldn't fit dual slot cards) and no PCIe power cables. It was a substantial upgrade over the AMD FirePro V5800 graphics card I was using prior. I could actually *play* many of the games I wanted with acceptable performance! Now all I have it for is a tester card, for if my RX 580 decides not to output anything and i need something to just output video to a monitor. It's just fine for that. Occasionally I might screw around and try to game on it like I used to.

[@braxtonbunner4990]

I just got one just for fun on a Lneovo Thinkcenter M58 system I got for free, running a Core2 Quad Q9650, integrated GMA graphics, and 8 gb of DDR3 RAM, running older Windows 7 era based games. It's one of the few LGA 775 boards that can support 16GB of RAM & DDR3. It's in a proprietary small case/motherboard left me no choice, no external power from PSU, and a 1030 is about the biggest I can fit in it. Just as a secondary fun rig to play with, see what can and can't run on it. My main system is a 3080 TI, 9900K build I enjoy as a daily though.

[@Tax_2000]

I got this card because the dell inspiron computer I got didnt have a gpu in it which basically made lots of the things I wanted to do impossible. And I needed a cheap graphics card to get the job done because I was on a budget. And it works. I can play a lot of older games just fine.

[@MultiTtocs]

I still use a gt 1030 for now as a place holder as my gpu died. It's plays what I need to at 1080p low and others at 720p. It's still a over priced card. But I don't agree with your comment about "visuals" if you need more fps you drop the res for an instant gain in most cases to get them frames to hit 30 or 60 fps mark which makes a lot of difference if aiming for said fps.

[@MacrobioticsFreak]

My perception (and use) of 1030 was always "The user needs 3+ monitors on their system". Being low power, passive, and sometimes low profile was usually an upside in these systems. I think someone already mentioned it here but Vega 7/8 in Ryzen 2000G/3000G should be on par with this GPU, so instead of going with dGPU, one could spend a bit more money on something like 4600G or 5600G for a budget gaming PC,have the same or better performance with lower power consumption and less "hassle" of using a quite old used card.

[@unholysaint1987]

my son has an i5 7500 with a 1030, and my wife has a 3400g with the vega 11... they are about dead even except her amd supports up to 2933 and his only goes with 2400 ram

[@halistinejenkins5289]

could you do a similar video with the 1630? is there a gimped version of it with ddr4?

[@Klorishon]

i have an acer aspire xc 885, i cannot change the power supply unit and there is no space for a better gpu so i am deciding to get this graphics card since it fits what i need, cheap, only needs 250 watts and pretty small. Please tell me if there is anything else i could get that fits my needs.

[@cookieboy5300]

Recently got a great deal on an ACER XC-830-UW91 with a Celeron J4125, 4GB and 250GB SSD (laptop parts in a desktop form factor) with a 65W laptop power supply. It has a PCIE slot for Video upgrade so I tried my GT 1030 in it = no work. Then I ordered a 90W power supply to see if that would help and let me install the GT 1030 = still no work. If I had the ACER XC-830 version with the Pentium Silver J5005 the GT 1030 and even a GTX 1050 Ti would have worked but not with the Celeron J4125. Unfortunately I had to settle on a GT 730 I had on hand, not what I hoped for but the GT 730 is better than the integrated.... Used as an HTPC system for the most part but had hoped for some low end gaming too.

[@orleiv]

I would assume the reason is, passive cooling and silent, would be close to the max that you would use in a home serve for low power draw >35w and combined that with a SBC like Zimmablade, possible Pi supports zimmaboards anything low power then combained with a N100 node and proxmox you can have virtual systems with half decent GPU with proxmox 8.0 enabling IMMO support, also would be interested and worth mentioning that people might be able to virtualise Retro gaming/ emulation anywhere cross plate form it opens all possibilities and I can see it getting better imagine POE ++ powering a low powered intel N100 and 1030OC ( for this reason I got a Mini pc from Ali-express as a node >30W idle is like 7w and then with a m.2 converter or SBC PCIE draw you wouldn’t need external device for power… Hope this explains one use case of why as 1050 is unplayable in most chips so 1030 fits a nice top end of power, performance, and passive

[@L3nny666]

Just got this for an Office pc for my parents, because the onboard graphics only had one port for the Monitor and they wanted to connect two monitors.

[@scottesyr69]

I am wondering if this card would be perfect for someone designing a retro game console. Maybe running Batocera or Launchbox.

[@zoleeboy]

I want to play ith a sff passive cooled 1030gt but i am concerned about the temps can you tell me how okay the temps are in sff with this card is it good for playing few hours? Because in sff there are no front fans and i am worried. Thanks

[@FortniteBotz]

I have passive cooled one and it will definitely thermal throttle. I added a cheap fan to cool it. Janky but it works.

[@blacksquaregamingpc]

I was contemplating getting a DDR4 GT 1030 4GB for light gaming because of it's low power draw of only 30 watts but found that it lacks a video encoder and I'd like to do some content creation. Opting for an RX 550 4gb which only draws 50 watts instead.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

good choice. The DDR4 version is half the speed of the GDDR5 version so it sucks at gaming, too. There's no rationale for the DDR4 version to exist, it's just a dumb product that nVidia quietly foisted upon the market for no good reason.

[@blacksquaregamingpc]

@@SeeJayPlayGames Actually I now don't have to get the RX 550 at all. I have an RTX A2000 but it's too wide to fit into the PCI-e x16 slot. So I slotted it into the PCI-e x4 slot instead. There's only a slight difference in performance and it definitely out performs an RX 550. Surprised it worked at all since I'm using it in an Optiplex 7050 SFF with a i7-6700 and 16GB DDR4 RAM that only has a 180 watt PSU. It's running with no problems though.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@blacksquaregamingpc maybe you could get it to the x16 slot by way of a riser, if there's room to relocate the card in the case? How much performance do you reckon you're giving up by having it on x4? I would imagine not too much as long as you're staying within VRAM but if you have to push a lot across the bus then probably a bit.

[@getbluespheres3k]

nowadays gt 1030 is only useful in office case situations or if integrated HDMI isnt an option, you can find many GPU's for the same past price of what the 1030 was (although you can find 1030's for overwhelmingly cheap now), plus if i remember correctly it's been replaced in favor of the GTX 1630

[@petraguy78]

should i upgrade from gt 1030 to rx 580 but aisurix brand which is 2048sp?

[@PinkTophatGD]

Definitely could make sense for certain situations, but it depends what you are doing with it.

[@irfandizdarevic1655]

I have a GT 1030 GPU,i want to upgrade my pc and i have 2 options in my mind: 1. To buy i3 12100f and use GT 1030 till i buy another GPU. 2. To buy Ryzen 5 5600g and use his iGPU and later buy another GPU. Which options is better for the future,i mostly play esports titles(CS GO,Valorant...)

[@dirtmike6258]

i'm glad he mentioned the performance difference between the ddr4 vs ddr5 versions... disgusting how these tech companies put lower components in their products and screw over their customers who expect a better product

[@peterdarr383]

They were selling all the DDR5 chips to the Miners !!

[@dgorry]

A quadro k620 is also SFF friendly and often cheaper. Performs similar.

[@KabukeeJo]

A great little card for a streaming and media PC

[@mr.dingleberry4882]

It does not support hardware encoding :/

[@KabukeeJo]

​@@mr.dingleberry4882 Only if by streaming, you mean live streaming to Twitch or some other site. Not needed if you are just watching Netflix or KZbin.

[@mr.dingleberry4882]

@@KabukeeJo I meant streaming from a home media server with the 1030 to any device in the house. There would be no hardware acceleration because the Nvidia encoder (NVENC) is not present on the 1030. Therefore you are dependent on software encoding if you want to do any media streaming. Needless to say this also includes live streaming on platforms like Twitch

[@FloatSamplesGT710]

@@KabukeeJo it can play games too, like GTA 5, watch dogs 2 at 30-60 FPS

[@pr1vv.008]

i had a 660gtx and this was local in my area i picked it up for £40 worth it?

[@MasticinaAkicta]

They still make perfectly fit DISPLAY ADAPTERS. And silent models are great for movie watching. It supports enough codecs after all for hardware decoding. And that is about it...IF you kick down settings low enough yes it will play games. SOME games.

[@HardWhereHero]

The bit you showed with the card being put into a SFF build, that is the ONLY use case for this card. Like you said. When using a MT or full sized PC with a half decent PSU, you can find the RX 470/480 around the same price which is about 5 GT 1030's plus 2 730's in performance.

[@Laphoot]

How does it compare to ARC A380 LowProfile?

[@ooliedagoat]

what gpu should i get with a 250 psu

[@6miller85]

I made my own system about 4 years ago when the you crisis was very bad. For what I used the pc for this card worked just fine (also for my budget it was a good idea) but now I want to upgrade but idk if I need to make a whole new pc…

[@jayrosgameboymodz5438]

For transcoding tasks in Plex/Jellyfin, it's perfectly fine in 2023/2024.

[@FloatSamplesGT710]

agreed

[@Yassy1337]

I bought a 1030 back in 2019. Honestly it was much better than my old 630 that i had been using since 2013 when i got my first PC. I got a gtx 970 as a gift this January and honestly it's miles ahead of the poor 1030. It served me well but for the rare cases where i wanted to play something more intense (Cyberpunk for example) on the lowest settings with 720 (on a 1080p monitor) it still only got around 17 FPS. Right now on the 970 i can play with a mix of low/mid and high settings on 1080p with no real drops in FPS. So for lighter games sure it's good but for newer games it just sucks.

[@Erikcleric]

Why did you get a GTX 970? Budget reasons? Was it used or new? It's really quite old now. That's the card i had in my previous old desktop, i got that rig back in 2014. 😲

[@Yassy1337]

@@Erikcleric it was a gift from a friend. Dude used it until he got a 2070 so now I am using the 970 and used haha

[@Yassy1337]

@@ExtractedSamplesG210 As i said , it's not the worst out there. for the money i got it for it did well. But it's mostly a indie / e-sports type of card , not AAA.

[@204pjfaherty]

Is the Nvidia GT 1030 fine for using in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier Pro?

[@seaayareteeeearezedejayohe1401]

It have experience using low end GPU for photo editing and some small video editing, even used cheap laptop card like the GT 630M, it is not fancy but was enough for me, if you have no other choice take one with Fan instead of a passive cooler so it doesn't slow down due to overheating

[@heyitszim6359]

There's a niche group of people who quit gaming at certain time periods but is still playing oldies like the original Doom and Command & Conquer: Generals, to name a few. I'm still able to sell old AM2 and LGA 775 potato rigs to such individuals due to their extremely low gaming requirements, besides basic web surfing and office type works. At some point when an abundance of second hand/refurb AM4 and LGA 1200 rigs are the only options left in the market, who knows that such systems paired with a GT1030 might be the preferred option for people who decide to stop following new games but settle themselves to particular era in gaming.

[@MultiTtocs]

I'm the same. Went through a bad patch and dropped all competitive and new AAA titles. Love playing oldies, MMOs, emulation to name a few.

[@RosyKitteh]

I have a GT 1030 and strictly play games 2014 and older. The oldest game I play is from 2002. From the benchmarks I've seen, this card can play some modern games with little difficulty, but that's not a concern for me at all. If anything, it's nice knowing that if I mod the heck out of a game, it'll still be playable.

[@Erikcleric]

Doom sure, i ran alot of GZDoom on a old rig, OG Skyrim too. Then the PC died so i replaced that retro rig with a HP Z420. As long as they stay away from the super detailed mega wads like Blade of Agony the GT 1030 will do fine. 😊

[@RosyKitteh]

You know, I've never actually played Doom, but I've played Star Wars: Dark Forces and Duke 3D. 😁💦

[@jaydeebow6431]

Yea unfortunately 😕 😪 this is what I'm using in my optiplex 3020 till I save up for 1650 low profile 4gb gpu then ill be set but man they are so pricey 😢but love your content as im learning to build my pc as I go 👍

[@radradR0bot]

I wish there were more passive cooled cards on the market

[@georgecivacs2593]

AGREE 100%!

[@brianpeter7139]

The best and most realistic use case is for a HTPC with an older CPU that doesn't have a modern integrated GPU. For that you need a fanless card to remain silent, but still enough horsepower to decode HEVC H265 on the card. This does it. It's not a gaming card and was never really intended to be, it's a HTPC card.

[@MrOnepiece14]

THANK YOU. Your video saved me from accidentally getting the DDR4 version!

[@marxmaiale9981]

The most important aspects of this relate to be able to use in used slim line office pcs. No Power connector and Low Profile. There are not many decent cards that meet those 2 aspects outside of high priced workstation cards. Current best being the rx 6400. I also have this MSI passively cooled model. It worked quite well and has since been replaced by an a380. More vram helps.

[@dgorry]

I run a GT 1030 in my daughter's PC. Good for OEM SFF / first PC. A GT 3030 would be sweet - 4gb. Compete against the RX 6400

[@suiken3149]

They already did witg 1630 and its priced horribly for its performance

[@zabylurt]

Im a fan of the gt 1030 it does the job in watching youtube videos and general desktop stuff 😅 my wife doesnt mind it

[@joecool369]

Thanks for the video! I have a noob question: is the GT 1030 better than the igpu on the ryzen 7000/zen4 series cpus?

[@Sandflowgames]

Would it be a good value for a fell OptiPlex 9020 sff?

[@ToolofSociety]

You'd be better off with the rx6400 SFF cards as they are over double the performance based on my own testing of both cards. The only downside is the lack of hardware encoding which might be a problem for you.

[@JeremyLeePotocki]

For any PC with a 275W or under PSU I would tell people to go get a RX6400 300W (or above) then a used 1050ti, 1650, or RTX A2000 (whichever best suits your budget.) If your building a Steam Machine with HoloISO then stick with the AMD equivalents (RX470/RX570) SFF PC will have to be RX550, RX560 4GB, and RX6400 LP models to bad they never made a LP RX570. I say Steam Machines due to MS has stopped making new keys for Win 10, and Win 11 will not work on these old PCs (and a lot newer ones too.)

[@eddiew.4650]

The price of the A2000 has skyrocketed too. It's no point in buying one when you can build an entire used PC for the same price.

[@JeremyLeePotocki]

@@eddiew.4650 yeah that comment was from a month ago so yeah the price has gotten worse since then.

[@LukijanoX]

I have it, and yes it can play minecraft, roblox and fortnite. But thats about it. It can also play some steam games that arent graphics intensive too much, like unturned. All of these games run at about 60fps on high settings, except on fortnite. On performance mode and view distance medium its about 60fps in br and 100-140gps in creative.

[@mortrek]

It's the cheapest card (got it for $30 shipped) that can easily decode vp9 and h265. I paired it with an old i7-2700 and it can play 4k vp9 60fps now. The person using it does not game, but they watch a lot of KZbin.

[@pyrophobia133]

the newer sff optiplexes doesn't let you cram 1050 ti in 16x slot

[@knightsun2920]

For me despite the ddr 4 version performance problem, cost and power draw of the GT 1030 made a great card dedicated for X-Split Broadcaster. It fixed the stuttering problem of a RTX 3050 and nearly useless recorded captured game play video.

[@Blazerows]

I had a old optiplex 755 and the thing with it was the only graphics cards I could install were single slot and short. So I bought a gt 1030 for it. When I eventually upgraded I couldn't find a graphics card. (I didn't want to go used) I stick with the gt 1030 until my most recent upgrade. It isn't the worst. But Holy hell did it suck. My current build is an i3 10100f 32gb ram (upgraded from 16) and a radeon 6600 xt.

[@halloweyeser]

Get a i5-10400f! The 16GB ram upgrade was unneccesary unless you use workstation loads.

[@RosyKitteh]

What games do you play, though?

[@istvancsap3513]

Because it supports all the MSI Afterburner features (undervolt, overclocking, memory tweaks, power limit tweaks, rewriting vgabios and all that crap) and it is basically a 30 watt little beast :D:D i love this card in 2024 even.

[@BenKlassen1]

It's 2x as good as the iGPU of my 14700K. My GPU is on back order. I had it in my home theater PC (HTPC) due to its fanless design.

[@datswhuuuuuttt9301]

Idk why everyon r like 50-70 for gt1030 cuz i bought it for 130 plus i think it might be cuz the one i bought was gt1030 4gb ddr5 but i still dont know….

[@dave-games]

I used the 750ti for like 5 years 😂

[@tvb4755]

Now do a vid on the 1630

[@joshuaclark4662]

Just got one for $30 just for an emulation box up to ps2 and gamecube, wii etc

[@boykitsune]

during 2020 I needed a gpu and without knowing anything about Pc's I ended up getting the DDR4 one from best buy . . . the worst part is that I got it for $158 ;-; ;-; ;-;

[@RosyKitteh]

Ouch. I just got one off Amazon for $108. I guess I don't push my gpu as much as the rest of the people in the comments and reviews do because I have yet to see any lag in any of the games I've played. Everything's smooth sailing

[@lazycarper]

very good for a movie build it decodes all the files

[@YourAverageSoftmodder]

isnt it weird that this is an UPGRADE from my igpu, if it runs source fast idrk.

[@radfaraf]

Just bought it today because found it for $40 refurbished on newegg and don't game, just needed support for 3440x1440 for an older pc.

[@ugzz]

its crazy we have apus that are even exceeding the gtx 1050!

[@salty4592]

I picked one up because I had no knowledge with pc part at the time (the only knowledge I had before was that it was GDDR5 and I thought it was good) , but I am now glad to have sold it with half of what I spent (18 months ago) and upgraded to an rx 580. totally worth the upgrade.

[@missedshotz-_-9141]

watching this vid on it rn

[@denko69]

Depends on the price. If it's lower than 50$ bucks it can be a good choice for some gamers. It gets around 200-300fps on CSGO and Valorant with a good cpu.

[@tyaty]

It is worth $20- 30 at best.

[@denko69]

@@tyaty Depends also on the country

[@tyaty]

@@denko69 No. Regardless where do you live 1030 is bottom end of the usable graphics cards for gaming , that you can buy for new. Getting a 1030 for gaming is a waste of money. It is a waste of money regardless of your local prices. If your local prices are unfair, buy the card with the best price/performance instead of getting scammed on low-end card.

[@denko69]

@@tyaty Rx 570 is a very good price to performance GPU. It's cheaper used than a new GT 1030

[@tyaty]

@@denko69 Used cards are generally better choice if you would want to go with a card weaker than RX 6600 . RX 6400 is niche option if really need low profile card.

[@rustedniddleslinger9475]

You'd save more from the reduction in your electricity bill

[@Twintania]

I found one at best buy for $300 today

[@yassymazing]

GT1030 is good if it is 4gb gddr4 , I have GT1030 4gb now but my game is smooth thou. It’s still worth it if you have higher vram

[@NickABQQm]

I got it for 40USD with 1 year warranty left in January 2020 just before the lock down, my gtx660 didn't last as long as its friend I7 2600 that I bought together. So 3 years later the price doesn't drop at all?🤣

[@roythunderplump]

If these were commonly new for about 50 quid. 80 plus quid seems far too high.

[@sthitapragnya9818]

A legend

[@gyoofyloowkin]

just bought it yesterday; i love it and dont regret it. edit: i accidentally got the ddr4 version, i fucking hate it now.

[@marioloncar2169]

I need GPU with low tdp for solar systems in weekend house

[@T_Burd_75]

I'd love to see what a GT 1030 could do if it had 4 GB or more.

[@HellTantrumbull]

Probably a slight speed and visual increase but the card would still be limited in features.

[@deathstroke7316]

Ask LTT to solder vram onto gt1030.. This will be interesting

[@FloatSamplesGT710]

sadly there is 4GB varient of GT 1030 but that sucks because its a GDDR4 which has half a cores and clock speeds of GDDR5 varient

[@isaacfooster]

modern igpus are better but I got a half heaight system with a pentium g630 and I'll probably buy a gt1030 just because I want a clone hero only computer.