ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 Graphics Card (PCIe 2.0, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, Low Profile Design, 0dB Silent Passive Cooling)

This card replaces the GT720 2GB DDR3 that the 5+ year-old Acer computer came with, so I can watch HDR content on the large screen 4K smart TV. Good performance, ultra quiet, occasionally buggy startup (erratic visual glitches) causing constant rebooting - turned out the latest driver was the culprit - problem resolved after reverting to the older Aug 2024 driver.

For the money, it's hard to beat; granted, you're not going to get much from it if you're planning to game on it, but if you only need to run 2/3/4 monitors for work-related content, then this card is perfect. I'm running 2 screens, for audio editing, and the screens (top-end Dell) are crisp and will replay HD content very well.

Easy install if you remove the old software and your current driver from device manager beforehand. The default NVIDIA setting for colours are a bit washed out so I went into the Change Resolution section and changed the 'Output dynamic range' to Full and the Brightness and Contrast to 45%, also set it to Full in the advanced section of the 'Video colour settings'. Looks great now with nice dark blacks and a better colour range. Works very well in less demanding titles like the indie games or ones that are a few years old, runs very quiet even during gaming. You can get an RX 570 or GTX 1060 3GB for about the same price atm, but I would need a new PSU and could not even find an adapter for my proprietary mobo power sockets, so opted for the GTX 1050 Ti. Tried an ASRock RX560 at first but it stuttered on all games and video and I found the AMD software a bit 'glitchy' to use i.e. not responding when first opened to Gaming section and found the update always told me I needed to update to the same version of Crimson. Also when I did update it corrupted the software and I had to install it from the new download file. Considering the GTX 1660 6GB is about twice as powerful and can be bought for around £200 then £150 for the 1050 Ti seems a bit much. But if you have limited power (in my case just 200W) then the 1050 Ti is a good option, but now the GTX 1650 is a better 75W PCIe only card and costs about the same price atm. Update 16.05.2020 Having done more research it seems I could have gone for the RX570 (120W) or the 1060 (120W) I mentioned. A 200W PSU will be ok with these cards in my OEM system. A system like mine would draw about 185W from the wall with a GTX 1060, so at the PSU after its 20% loss in efficiency it would be about 150W. Just to be sure the GTX 1650 Super (100W) would be a great buy atm. Of course you would need a 6 pin connector from the PSU, my PC has a socket on the MOBO for this purpose.

This is the card to get if you need a fanless card for normal desktop work on 4k type screens with decent UEFI support. A lot of fanless cards can't even display 4k let alone manage decent performance like this card. It only over heats and throttles if you try and use it for computation flat out for too long and don't directly cool it. I tried it's video encoding and it spent most of it's time throttled down. The card is also small enough to not need a slot support and will easily fit in a compact case (e.g. a 2U rackmount). I didn't actually buy it for a silent build but in order to have a less cramped build when using multiple graphics cards while passing through a high powered graphics card to a windows VM. This high powered card has a similar db to a jet engine under load when it gets too hot and wasn't going well cramped in with a super high speed NIC, high core CPU and silly fast NVME drive. This card solved the problem and has hugely reduced temperatures without me adding any fans. So .. buy this if you need high res. and minimal 3D. It's great for any 3D desktop effects your into, and You can certainly play older games and some simpler modern games with this card, but you may need a fan / open case with low ambient temp. to prevent throttling. If you have such a retro CPU you need it for video decoding you probably can run a decent looking dekstop at a decent resolution anyway and would be better paired with a cheaper card. It pays to use the propietary drivers under linux if you want a slick high res fancy desktop like kde and gnome with loads of effects .. but as they aren't open source they aren't well integrated and can cause no end of problems .. e.g. required more work than I could be bothered with to integrate with my monitoring software (libre) .. the only hardware I have in a large stack like that, doesn't like wayland at all, required hacks to allow DDC (which I used for switching displays when doing VM passthrough) .. oh yeah .. and required fixes to work with the recent kernel I was using. I or someone like me would have patched all them of course .. but it's not open source .. so .. you're really better off with AMD for linux or if you can bear it .. using the open source drivers (they're not that bad .. but personally I get tweaked out by clunky mouse pointers or 2 bit colour 4k res desktops). As far as I can tell .. there is no extra pain under windows vs other graphics cards so do not hesitate if you're going for main use in windows.

Needed three large monitors. I removed the limited output gpu in my HP pavillion i7 and simply plugged this in its place. The Asus graphics card has a shortened connector that fits in the end of the PCi express motherboard socket. No other power leads or connectors are needed. I then plugged in two HDMI monitors and an older large monitor with an HDMI to VGA adaptor and turned on. Went to Asus on the Internet and downloaded the latest ASUS graphics driver for Windows 10. Lastly i set the screen order and resolution in settings. The Asus Software has plenty of settings for gamma correction etc. It works superbly and the definition (or clarity) seems better than before. I don't play games on this PC, it is used for office applications and development and I still can add another monitor if i really wanted too. It has the power for multiple instances of Adobe creative suite graphics programs, CAD and live 3d rendering, all without any issue or stutterring at all. I cannot reccomend this solution higher, it's one of the best plug and play devices I have purchased and so much easier to install than the older graphics hardware.

Ran an Asus GTX750Ti OC since 2016, it was time to upgrade. If you had upgraded to one of these say pre-lockdown it would of been a good card. For some reason this version has no 6/8-pin connection, even my 750 did. This is okay but this time of year in this humid weather in the UK, the card was causing my mainboard to get pretty hot, and after an hour the card itself overheats (especially with sim racing or real time things like flight sims, train sims etc). So you r gaming and suddenly these annoying stutters start happening. I thought it was my CPU overheating, it wasnt it was the card. Confirmed this week when I swapped it out for a 3060. Very good budget card, no way near as good as the 750Ti for reliability though, not for serious gamers/sim-racers etc. But will run the Re-Engine games on medium at 40fps quite happy. It managed to get Black OPS II running near to 60fps at 4K on Ultra though (DSR) which aint bad for a little card like this. 2K 1440p gaming is possible at 30-40fps. But if you want to use a mouse you will need 1080p due to input latency at high resolutions. 7/10. Not bad.

I have used the GT1030 in a number of older PCs to give them a bit of a boost over the iGPU, these cards offer a significant boost to these systems and only take up a meagre 30W on average. Beware though; some PCIe slots will only provide 25-30W of power so this card may be a touch too much for those systems, I suggest checking the specs for your system board power ratings. However, some manufacturers don't provide them so you may have to do a bit of digging around the internet to see if anyone else has the answers you require. Overall, this is a great card for the money and used in the right places it can lift a flagging system to new heights. It is never going to be a direct competitor for full-on gaming cards, but in some games, it does pretty well, and for the most part, will allow you to play most games on low/med settings and in office applications and general use it gives a significant boost over onboard graphics on older devices.

Needed an upgrade for improving graphics on an older pc, not for gaming. Works well arch and hyprland and am happy with my purchase.