GeForce GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 64-bit PCIe 3.0 DirectX 12 HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card ZT-P10300A-10L

This is a solid buy for any system that needs a dependable, low-power, high quality, and diminutive GPU. It takes up very little space, it runs cool, it runs quiet, and of course brings with it the excellent functionality of the NVIDIA control panel. It won't be rendering demanding games at high frame rates, but for basic gaming it absolutely gets the job done. It also draws all power from the motherboard, with no additional connectors required. If you're looking for a proper gaming card, you'd be better served by stepping up to a GTX 1050 ti, but if you just want to give a cheap older machine a little oomph, need a nice solution to a build without integrated graphics, or just want to fuss around with light gaming, this is your pick. You also cannot go wrong with Zotac. They are hands down my current favorite GPU manufacturer, and I go with them for every one of my purchases. One thing to keep in mind is that this card does not support NVIDIA ShadowPlay, so I ended up having to return mine once I'd realized that. Outside of that one problem, it suited all of my needs.

If you're considering this, most likely your case is similar to mine: You have a prebuilt PC with a proprietary 200W PSU which can't be easily upgraded, and any discrete GPU would be a big upgrade to the integrated graphics. Yes, this card should work, but I strongly recommend using a program like Open Hardware Monitor to confirm your system's power usage leaves enough wiggle room. In my case, the max power usage was around 120W so it could handle this card's 30W. That said, I still feel a bit nervous about cutting it close. Can you game on it? If you have modest standards, actually yes. It ran most games I tried at a stable 60 fps on 720p low settings, and even more demanding titles like Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade at a stable 30 fps (even though this card is technically beneath the minimum requirements). I'm pleasantly surprised that even Nintendo Switch emulation works on this card, depending on the game of course (Super Mario Odyssey was a mostly stable 60 fps, Fire Emblem: Three Houses was a mostly stable 30 fps, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was a mostly stable 60 fps except when it loaded new shaders). As for overclocking, +100 MHz core clock and +100 MHz memory clock with MSI Afterburner seemed to be safe and it could probably be pushed further, but I returned to default since I didn't want to take any unnecessary risks. Overall, this card's performance exceeded my expectations; however I feel it is overpriced. Looking at the price history, it fluctuates between $149.99 and $99.99 on Amazon (I got it at $99.99), and I would not recommend it when it's over $100.

My HP ProDesk has a good video on the mother board but I chose to install this to improve upon that. 2 GB of DDR5 should be better than DDR3 dedicated to a few MB. I bought this for the expected performance and low cost. So far I am happy, I may never tax this video card as I don't play high end games. Please note, I believe this is as good of a video card as my computer deserves. Putting a $200 dollar video card in this computer would be a waste.

Okay, so this graphics card is wonderful and actually capable of playing new games at medium 4k settings or high hd settings. Here's the problem. If you're a person like me who likes to use large screen tv;s as computer monitors then you might find some issues with using this card with a 4k tv. Some 4k televisions support 4k at 60hz when it comes to things like streaming media players and blu-ray but not when it comes to pc's. The reason for this issue is not the graphics card or the tv, it is just an issue of the difference between tv and a computer monitor and is wh large screen computer monitors are so expensive. The only way I know of around this issue is to set the fps to 30 Hz at 4k or at 50 Hz at 1080p or possibly 30 Hz at 1080p. If you are using an hd tv and not a 4k tv then you should have no issue with this card at all and should be able to use the highest graphics settings on any game(only at 1080p of course) Personally I consider this as an acceptable trade off for screen size but either way it has nothing to do with the graphics card itself. Also for those who would like to know, this card is compatible with any Linux system and uses the noveu driver if you prefer not to use the proprietary one. All in all I am very happy with this card. I would much prefer an ATI but an ATI equivalent to this card with gddr5 ram would cost at least $150 more, if one even exist.

This is not a high powered video card. So most systems should be able to use it. I play mostly older less demanding games in 1920 by 1080. The games I have tried on this video card so far. Euro Truck simulator 2 a lot of settings are either high or medium at 100% scaling. I got a steady 60fps. The next game I fired up was Grim Dawn. Medium to low on some things to get a 60frames per second. The video card is not powerful but it does a good job of keeping playable frame rates in my games. I think for more modern games that are graphics heavy it might have trouble getting 60fps unless you drop the resolution to 720. The card is very silent or at least mine was. So if your looking for a card that can play games at playable frame rates then this is a good choice. I tried using my onboard graphics card to play games. Its a Intel HD530. This is a much better choice. Grim Dawn with everything set at low or off 20 fps with the Intel HD530. So I downloaded the over clocking software from Zotac website. I then fired up Forza 7. I did have to set the resolution to 720 and I got a steady 45fps everything set to low. So this video card will play Forza 7. This video is like owning a gtx 750. So far its been a solid buy.

hello!! heres a review going over some things people looking for a budget gaming rig may wanna hear. im a teenager with very little knowledge on specs and all that, so this is from a very simplified perspective. DOES IT GAME WELL? : in my opinion, yes! ive played games like apex legends and fortnite comfortably! EASY TO INSTALL? : sort of. if you don’t have a SFF computer, yes! if you do have a SFF computer like me, then it’s not as easy, but doable!! you have to replace the little backplate thingy with a smaller one (which was included, for me at least! i bought a used one). all i needed was a small screwdriver and one of those nut magnet things i dont even know what its called my dad just gave it to me WORTH IT? : hell yes. i upgraded an old office pc i bought off of amazon with this graphics card alone and im playing games that wouldve normally made my pc explode lol thanks for reading!! again, im just a teenager building an insanely budget gaming pc (this is my main one, too. im not using any other pcs)

Really good card for the money. It should be obvious that you're not going to be gaming with this card in 4k or playing the newest AAA titles at 60 fps with max setting, but it gets the job done for many other games. It plays games like rocket league and paladins at 60fps easily if you lower the setting a little bit, and fortnite more closely to 45 fps. My numbers may not be too accurate mostly due to the GPU being bottlenecked by my old core 2 duo e8400. With a faster processor it should push even higher. Lastly if you're looking to set up a home theater PC then this is a fantastic option. It will easily play 4k video and fits nicely in a low profile pc. Does not require addition power from the PSU, it runs comfortably and quietly straight from the pcie x16 slot.

My 9-year old daughter recently got into PC gaming like her older brother and wanted daddy to build her a computer for her birthday. Well....daddy is a sucker when it comes to his baby girl. I was fortunate enough to come across this GPU just before the things got real bad in terms of supply and demand. Paid a little more than I should have, but it wasn't outrageous. Popped this in her teal FD case surrounded by 5 pink LED fans and it runs perfectly fine. She currently only plays Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft so the 1030 does just fine paired with her i5-8400 and 16GB DDR4. Fortnite was running 100+fps on high settings, Minecraft was running well above 150fps, and I never really checked Roblox but no hiccups at all there either. She asked me the other day if I would buy here a RTX 3090. I about stroked out and explained that daddy only has 1030 money, maybe 1060 money. We're not RTX-rich!! If you're looking for a good budget GPU for entry-level gaming or for emulation gaming, this is defintely a good choice. Don't expect to play newer AAA titles at blazing fps with this.

Nvidia created this entry level graphics card for reasons stated below. This card is meant to revive older PC's like mine, I have a 7 yr old Dell 660 desktop(regular version not the slim) and I installed this easily with the help of a youtube tutorial. My specs are 8GB(1600 MHz DDR3) of ram and also an i5 Intel 3300 4 core processor. Games I tested are GTA V, DOOM 2016, both games ran really well, 40+ fps set on med-high settings. As for most PC games you do have to play with the graphics settings to suit your needs. GTA V FPS ran better in 720P mode with higher graphics enabled, for 1080p I lowered the specs a bit, but the game still looks great and plays great on on this setting as well. DOOM ran fine with overall graphics on Medium with display on 1080p, 720p mode didn't look very good at all so I switched it back, I was also enabling the Vulkin API in DOOM, it was a bit buggy and froze a couple times but that was when it was set in 720p, adjusting it back to 1080p did the trick. As I mentioned I had adjusted the overall graphics to Medium level in DOOM while in 1080p, which gave me higher FPS, and the game still looks really good even on Med. level. So overall. This is definitely worth your money, why throw away or donate a PC that is like this one or similar, just because it's old doesn't mean you can't upgrade it, or at least do the research to see if it is capable of an upgrade. For $135.00 with tax and shipping included, I just saved a perfectly good computer and made it very capable of playing Triple A titles. I'm definitely impressed with this card and highly recommend.

GT 1030 is an affordable choice for multimedia/OTT HTPC. Supports HTCP 2.2, needed for 4k/8k playback. SUpports AVC/H264/H265/HEVC/VP9 hardware decoding at 4k/8k. VLC, SMPlayer/MPV and WMP/Media Player can decode 4k/8k HEVC/VP9 files/network streams easily at hardware level. I can easily stream 4k YouTube videos without any flickr or lags, in all major web browsers on Win10. Unfortunately, HEVC/VP9 4k hardware decoding is not working on Linux Browsers (Chrome/Firefox), these browsers don't yet support Nvidia's NVDEC library on Linux platform. Prime Video doesn't show full HD option on Linux browers. Linux's SMPlayer/MPV/VLC can play 4k/8k HEVC/VP9 smoothly using Nvidia's NVDEC hardware decoding. Web browsers run faster and crisper overall. With this card, Windows10/11 supports HDR desktop, HDR images and HDR video playback, if your monitor also supports HDR. However, Amazon Prime and Disney Hotstar don't support 4k, nor HDR on Windows/Linux PC (in browsers or Native Apps) at the time of this writing. Hotstar shows upto 1080p. Prime Video also plays at 1080p max (no HDR). Also, no OTT platform, except YouTube , streams 1440p (2k) resolution. Hopefully at least 4k support will be added to windows by these platforms, there is no fault on Nvidia's side, their card is perfectly capable of 4k/8k and HDR content and HEVC/VP9 hardware decode. Note that AV1 hardware decode is not supported.

J'ai acheté cette carte Zotac GT 1030 GDDR 5 pour transformer un PC bureautique DELL acheté d'occasion à 80 euros, en "PC gamer", qui certes, ne fera peut-être pas tourner Cyberpunk en 4K / 60 FPS ( c'est pas "peut-être" d'ailleurs, c'est "sûr", en fait. ) Mais pour faire tourner les Sims 4 par exemple, ou des jeux de 2014, en 1080P et 30 FPS, c'est nikel. Elle ne consomme que 30 watts, et elle chauffe à 82 degrés mais pas plus. Excellent produit !

La GT 1030 e 2 GB di GDDR5, è una scheda grafica entry-level ideale per PC compatti come il preassemblato in cui è stata inserita. Perfetta per attività quotidiane e gaming leggero come (lol, rocket league). Silenziosa ed efficiente, con un buon rapporto qualità-prezzo per chi cerca prestazioni basilari senza esagerare.

As described - all Ok, ta