Review: ASUS GeForce GT 1030 Silent LP (Low Profiling): Pros & Cons Buying

Review: ASUS GeForce GT 1030 Silent LP (Low Profiling): Pros & Cons Buying – We do not live in the Stone Age, but in the modern world, except that the dirty paws of capitalism and huckster interfere with normal users of computer components. For their own benefit, they are ready to do anything to get as much broth as possible.

This happened at the end of 2020 with the video card market. Then they came up with another chia coin hat, which was mined on hard drives and other volumetric drives, which also influenced their cost. Fortunately, this venture was not crowned with success and this coin was quickly blown away. What else awaits us? Probably, manufacturers of certain industries will still sponsor and come up with different ways to quickly take money from hamsters, wait and see.

Introduction

Just at the end of 2020, while there was no sign of trouble, I sold a system unit and a one-year-old Sapphire Radeon RX 570 Nitro + 4GB video card for only 8500r. Literally a couple of weeks have passed since I was left with a nose, I can’t buy a normal video card, in general, I spat and bought an AMD Athlon 3000G for a while, hoping that the situation would improve in the summer, but no, I sat there until the fall until my patience ran out because the processor did not have enough power and after my previous AMD Ryzen 5 3600 it felt a lot.

Therefore, when I had the opportunity to take a Ryzen 5 1600 from a friend at a good price, I decided not to miss this gift of fate. Only the question arose where to get a video card for displaying graphics on a monitor, I climbed on Avito there is a lot of ancient trash at inadequate prices, it is clear that the hucksters have clocked the price tag on their trash and willingly use the current situation on the video accelerator market.

I came to the conclusion that it is easier to take a new video card than to play the lottery with the old hardware. In the day, I liked the ASUS GeForce GT 1030 Silent LP for 7899r., Of course, it was a pity to give so much money for a weak video card, but thanks to the available bonuses, I was able to strangle the toad of doubt and bought it. Only now the history of obtaining a video card has acquired an adventurous character.

The store gave me a box in which the seal was opened. Opening it, I saw a video card in an antistatic bag, the edge of which was sealed with a factory seal. I ripped it off, twisted the video card in my hands, and examined everything, it is absolutely new. To celebrate, he hurried home and found at home that the box was not from this video card, and the different manufacturer on the box of video cards was made in China, and the video card itself was made in Vietnam.

I wrote in support of dns, an employee of the SC told me to go to the store and change the video card to another. The store offered to order a video card and when a new one comes to me they will change it, but as it turned out, these video cards are no longer in the entire Siberian region, and then they said that for a guarantee the box was not needed and in case of a breakdown, you could hand over the video card without packaging. On reflection, I decided that a tit in my hand is better than a crane in the sky, I took the video card and went on my way. As it turned out, I did it right, because since that moment, and more than a month has passed, this model of the video card disappeared from sale and did not appear again.

To what extent have we sunk even plugs at a horse price are in short supply)

Specifications

Main characteristics
Manufacturer: ASUS
Graphics card model: GT1030-SL-2G-BRK
GPU GPU: GeForce GT 1030
Process technology: 14 nm
GPU frequency: 1506 MHz GPU Boost, 1266 MHz
Number of shader processors: 384

Video card memory
Video memory: 2 GB
Video Memory Type: GDDR5
Video memory bus: 64-bit
Video memory frequency: 6008 Mhz

Monitor support
Maximum number of connected monitors: 2
Maximum screen resolution: 4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz when connected to HDMI

Cooling
Cooling of the video card: passive

Nutrition
Power connector: no
Power consumption: 30W

Compatibility
Length: 174mm
Interface: PCI Express 3.0 16x

Packaging and equipment

The video card is delivered in a cardboard box, inside it is wrapped in an antistatic bag covered with a seal and located in a cardboard niche, behind the video card in the compartment there are manuals and a low-profile bar.

Equipment:

• video card

• low profile bar

• manuals

Appearance

The video card is very compact, its length is only 174 mm. The entire inner surface is occupied by an aluminum radiator consisting of protruding fins.

Four screws for fastening the radiator are visible on the outer surface of the PCB, and one of them has a seal. This means that you cannot disassemble this video card during the warranty period.

The side plate contains digital connectors HDMI 2.0 and DVI-D.

Testing

Configuration for testing:

• Monitor: 25 “DELL UP2516D 2560×1440
• Корпус: A-DATA XPG Invader
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING II
• Processor: AMD Ryzen5 1600 3.2Ghz (TB 3.6Ghz) AM4
• Video card: ASUS GeForce GT 1030 Silent LP [GT1030-SL-2G-BRK]
• Память: DDR4 16Gbx2 3200MHz Crucial Ballistix RGB Black [BL2K16G32C16U4BL] CL16-18-18-36
• БП: SuperNOVA GT 650 GT (220-GT-0650-Y2) 650W
• Hard: SATA-III 5Tb TOSHIBA MD04ACA50D 7200rpm Cache 128Mb
• SSD: M.2 NVMe 970 EVO Plus 250Gb
• Cooler: ID-Cooling SE-224-XT-B
• Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

Testing utilities and games:

• GPU-Z
• 3D Mark
• FurMark
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
• MAFIA II
• World of Tanks enCore RT

For a change, I decided to compare the difference between the VEGA3 and GT1030 graphics integrated into the AMD Athlon 3000G processor.

GPU-Z

VEGA3

GT1030

3D Mark

VEGA3

GT1030

FurMark

Indoor temperature 30C. The video card was tested in a hairy donut for 1 hour and for such a long time the video accelerator warmed up to 68 ℃. The passive cooling system copes with cooling very effectively.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition

VEGA3

GT1030

MAFIA II

VEGA3

GT1030

World of Tanks enCore RT

VEGA3

GT1030

Bonus AMD Athlon 3000G+GT1030

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition

MAFIA II

World of Tanks enCore RT

Comparison table of VEGA3 and GT1030 results.

Percentage difference

The integrated graphics of VEGA 3 turned out to be significantly weaker than the discrete GT1030. In the games we tested, the minimum difference between them was 30%, and the maximum was 64.6%. Moreover, the higher the resolution of the games, the more the difference increases slightly.

If the GT1030 video card is used with Ryzen 5 1600 and AMD Athlon 3000G processors, then in the games under test, the difference in performance when tested at 1280×720 is noticeable only in World of Tanks enCore RT and is 10.5% in favor of the R5 1600 + GT1030 bundle, in other resolutions and games the difference is not tangible.

Conclusion

The tested video card turned out to be very decent; thanks to a good passive heatsink, it is quiet and well cooled. Who is faced with the choice of which GT1030 video card to buy, know that the most important selection criterion is the type of memory and you need to take it only with memory like the hero of the GDDR5 review. There are many options for the same money, built on DDR4 memory, and if you buy a video card based on this type of memory, it will be at least 50 percent worse in performance in games. Considering that this video chip is already frail, then -50% for the same money and it will be a great scam over the shoulder of inexperienced users.

Advantages – pros:

• high-quality passive cooling system
• not heated
• does not make noise
• consumes little
• memory type GDDR5
• chokes don’t squeak

Disadvantages – Minuses:

• high price
• became a deficit

PS /: Funny sticker on the video card box.

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