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DragonDaddyBear wrote:Are they're any major gains from a hardware decode by upgrading?
DragonDaddyBear wrote:Are they're any major gains from a hardware decode by upgrading?
Arclight wrote:Starting with version 1.0, all x16 slots are supposed to provide 75w through the slot alone. A stock 1030 is rated 30w (very impressive), so even an OC model should have lots of headroom on just the slot.There is also the issue of the motherboard having only gen 2.0 PCI-E slots....
The Egg wrote:Arclight wrote:Starting with version 1.0, all x16 slots are supposed to provide 75w through the slot alone. A stock 1030 is rated 30w (very impressive), so even an OC model should have lots of headroom on just the slot.There is also the issue of the motherboard having only gen 2.0 PCI-E slots....
Arclight wrote:There is also the issue of the motherboard having only gen 2.0 PCI-E slots,
synthtel2 wrote:Arclight wrote:There is also the issue of the motherboard having only gen 2.0 PCI-E slots,
Hold that thought, the 1030 also only has four lanes of PCIe. Normally x4 or 2.0 wouldn't be a notable issue at this performance level, but both at the same time might start to more seriously get in the way.
(I agree that the 1050 or 1050 Ti are hugely overkill.)
Arclight wrote:My concern with getting a GTX 1050 (Ti) is that they are overkill for this aging PC and will be outdated by the time I rebuild it. There is also the issue of the motherboard having only gen 2.0 PCI-E slots, I assume the physical dimensions are the same with these cards but I seem to recall that the new standard offers more power from the slot itself. If I get a GTX 1050 for example, because it doesn't have an additional 6 pin connector, would it throttle due to the older slot? Would it BSOD due to the driver thinking the motherboard is defective? The PSU is 500 W and the card is way easier to power than the GTX 560 Ti, if it had an external plug, from the motherboard slot, I'm not sure it will work fine.
Chrispy_ wrote:PCIe bandwidth only matters to high end cards running at low resolutions where the framerate is very high and there are loads of frames to render. This does not sound like a scenario for an entry level card running in an old Phenom.
Even if you were to get a GTX 1080 and run it a PCIe 2.0 x4 over an old motherboard, you'd be getting ~90% of the 1080's performance anyway:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVI ... ng/24.html
Chrispy_ wrote:It's easy to overthink this stuff, but in the end, someone, somewhere will have tested it and posted it on the web so that you don't have to think about it.
JustAnEngineer wrote:I appear to be the only one that believes that the GeForce GT1030 is a waste of money for gaming. Performance of this graphics card in any modern game is going to be unsatisfactory.
JustAnEngineer wrote:I appear to be the only one that believes that the GeForce GT1030 is a waste of money for gaming. Performance of this graphics card in any modern game is going to be unsatisfactory.
JustAnEngineer wrote:I appear to be the only one that believes that the GeForce GT1030 is a waste of money for gaming. Performance of this graphics card in any modern game is going to be unsatisfactory.