Thanks for the input. From what I am reading in my research the Quadros are not really meant so much for gaming...not much knowledge on the subject of recent APU's, so please correct me if I am wrong.
What I'm looking for is the best card I can put into the build, keeping in mind that my power supply is limited at 350W and I must consider heat buildup in the Aria case. Low profile is practically a must for air flow.
The previously discussed GT 1030 seems like a great option...but I also noticed that the more powerful GTX 1050-ti requires a 300W psu according to the Nvidia website...think that is too much card for this machine? Any other recommendations for APU's?
Thanks so much for all of your help!
I think a 1050ti would be a great fit if they were not so darn expensive.
Supposedly maybe we are getting new low end cards from AMD and Nvidia, the current lower end GPUs are quite old. The 3050 just made its way to laptops and honestly that or the AMD equivalent is going to be a huge jump over the 1030.
If you could use the 4670 to validate your build you could watch for new tech or a worthwhile deal.
From what I can tell, the Quadros are historically not a great gaming solution mostly because of their value. Here is what I have noticed though - right now that’s not always true at all.
First, they are typically close to desktop enthusiast GPU cards. The GPUs themselves are so similar in the past you could “soft mod” with a bios or a hard mod a card with a little soldering. So physically they aren’t that different.
Next, they are run at lower clock speeds than their enthusiast brethren. I think they may in fact be run at more same speeds for their power consumption. In any case, this seems to keep them durable over a very long time.
Next, they tend to come with a lot more memory than their contemporary desktop cards. That’s become more important as 2GB+ has become the low end standard.
Finally, the weird market and buying pressures has, some times, made faster Quadros cheaper than their desktop equivalents. For example, the Quadro K4000 is a 3GB 192-memory card where the GPU is similar to a GTX 650 Ti Boost, yet it is routinely cheaper (and better in many ways) than the 2GB 128 bit memory version of that card.
The GTX 950 is faster than the 1030, the recent Anandtech articles on the Xe GPU in the latest Intel processors shows it routinely faster than the 1030 and that 2GB card and 4GB M2000 Quadro equivalent are often very close in price on eBay too, and again I think the higher frame buffer/lower power solution would be a reasonable solution for you.
The last Quadro stigma is the drivers, apparently they release fewer driver updates with hot fixes for games. I guess there is that, but the driver releases are very polished for Quadros and if you are on this end of the spectrum it’s unlikely you’ll need updates for the latest games. The 1030/950 are old enough their architectures tend to simply work and they are not a big optimization target.
I am simply not a big fan of investing in a 1030, it’s a very basic cut down card. A 1050, especially a 4GB variant is much more worthy of your money but when you start laying out that much money it’s good to know the other options.
That’s all
. GL!
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