Upgrading from an ancient 2012 model GTX 650. For those that don't know, these are ancient and I'm pretty sure my iPhone has better graphics...
Old school AMD quad processor, 4.1ghz
8GB RAM
Win 7
^^ Not high end specs by ANY means. Very ancient in terms of gaming power.
I play everything on low, lower, lowest.
Bought this card, had to tell my BIOS to only talk to one PCI E slot (not sure why since it was the same one from the GTX 650) and install some drivers.
I mainly play WoW these days. Everything literally set to 1 (lowest, with most options disabled)
Rebooted, WoW was immediately on High with some options in particle rendering set to Very High. I fiddled with it and managed to get almost everything to Very High with disabling things I don't care for too much like sunshaft quality, shadow quality, etc., and am still running around idling with a 95-100 FPS. In 25man raids it drops to about 80. Mind you, this is with an ancient cpu and very low ram.
As far as the card itself is concerned, besides being a massive upgrade, it doesn't have any pin connectors or anything, you just slot it home and that's it. Its silent, has a fan/heatsync combo, and stays nice and cool after hours of raiding. It has the option for overclocking, but I just don't need it with WoW. And WoW is also known to be rather demanding when you crank the settings all the way up. I also play Dreadnaught at max settings across the board.
Amazing little card that can breath fresh life into a 6 y.o rig!
| Max Screen Resolution | 4096 x 2160 |
|---|---|
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Memory Speed | 6008 MHz |
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | Integrated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 2 GB |
