GIGABYTE GV-N1030D4-2GL NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 Low Profile D4 2G Graphics Card, Compatible with PC, HDMI, DVI-D

If you are not familiar with Amazon Vine, it is basically Amazon trading free* products for honest reviews. I do my best to make my reviews honest, real and value-oriented as if I had paid for each item I receive.* These items are not totally free as Vine members pay income tax on the items they receive. I only mention this because we Viners do have some skin in the game for each item we order.Why I ordered this item: I have an older workstation that I use for light tasks and some older games. It didn't have a discrete GPU at all, just integrated graphics, and I wanted to add one without needi

I bought this to go into an older Dell tower computer (Optiplex 9020 MT) so I could use it with my TV to stream video. I needed a basic video card which would give me HDMI output, as the Dell’s onboard video did not have such a connector. I also wanted to upgrade the graphics capabilities a bit – I’m steaming video, not playing modern video games. This card is NOT sufficient for modern video games.Installation was easy. The Dell had Windows 10 on it, and it recognized the card and installed some drivers to get me going. I went to the NVidia website and downloaded their drivers for this card, a

This is a solid deal for a non gaming video card that works perfectly displaying 1080P video and for overall productivity. It does not use a secondary power cable, and is powered just from the motherboard. Very efficient, runs quiet and cool. The drivers also self loaded for me on Win7, so setup required no effort on my part. Runs 2 monitors displaying YouTube with no issues. There is a faster GDDR5 version of this card, which can do modest gaming. I don't need it.

On one hand, this product does what it is supposed to. It installs easily, uses hardly any power (this is basically the only GPU that safely can be run with a 180 watt power supply), and is a slight improvement over older integrated graphics. With that being said, the improvement is VERY slight, I honestly think that the best thing it does is allows you to free up more RAM because the integrated graphics are no longer needed and using up RAM. This is not really usable for gaming, Minecraft or Valorant will run but it is so-so and you will need graphics on low. The fans were pretty quiet and th

I used this in a old desktop trying to upgrade it a little to be able to play sims it’s works perfectly fine the installation was pretty easy I did it myself

This works very well for a media PC. I have video on my motherboard but could never get it to work correctly. After installing this and downloading the drives from nvidia my PC has been perfect. Well worth the price!

Works as intended . Perfect for movies

I think the cooling is rather small but reasonable for the performance of this product. It's nice and slim, partly due to the aforementioned small cooling system. It runs what it can and is nothing particularly impressive with it's age, especially since there are better-performing GPUs for a slight cost difference. For gaming, it runs most games and I was able to play Spiderman Remastered at low settings with minor issues other than loading in sections. The same goes with Five Nights at Freddy's Security Breach. It's not too loud either. If this is all you can afford, go for it, but always che