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 needing a new power connector or a bigger case. The low profile form factor was the main thing I was looking for here.Likes:* This card fits in my small form factor case with room to spare. The bracket swap to get it into a low profile slot took maybe five minutes.* I was not expecting much from a DDR4 card at this price point, but the performance is zippy for what I'm using it for. Older titles run smooth and the desktop experience is night and day compared to integrated graphics. I can push it to a pretty snazzy resolution on my big monitor without any stuttering.* Both the HDMI and DVI-D outputs work. I have one going to my monitor and one going to a second screen and both came up right away.* The card runs cool and quiet. My case has mediocre airflow and this thing barely gets warm.No likes:* DDR4 memory instead of GDDR5 is a real limitation if you want to push anything modern. I knew this going in, but its worth saying plainly.Would I pay full price for this product: YesFinal thoughts: This card is exactly what it needs to be: a low profile, no-external-power GPU that wakes up a basic or aging machine. The form factor alone makes it stupid useful for small cases where nothing else fits.

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.

The low-profile bracket (for SFF) is included but you have to remove the existing long bracket and replace it with the short one. Also, the output(s) are HDMI and DVI + 1 so if you don't have a conversion cable to your monitor you'll need to shop around. I've used this graphics card before and while it might not be on the top of the list for gaming the 2GB DDR4 can easily handle the demands of Photoshop or a 3d program like Blender. It almost installed itself on this DELL SFF, a very easy insertion, unlike some other's I've tried. This is a very nice card, and came with plugs and covers for outputs and contacts, and is well within the limits for a graphics card that works without a separate power plug.

I have 3 of these cards in different office computers. 2 gddr5 versions and now this one. All will game better than any previous generation low budget card.I purchased this when the price was less than $80.00. Given that the Gddr5 version (the real one) retailed for almost $50.00 more, it was a good purchase for a mere 5% performance loss.. Really that is it...despite the bottleneck which is substantial in both both cards (bus width and corresponding memory bandwidth which is admittedly even worse with DDR4 version), I see little difference in the performance of the two cards and until the week of this review, the Gddr5 version was just obscenely expensive for what it is. In short, this is not a repeat of the GT 730 w/gddr3 memory instead of Gddr5 memory which was 50% worse than the "real" card. I wouldn't hesitate to get another particularly given the low power consumption.

Works as intended . Perfect for movies

Great budget graphics card, can run any indie game ive installed and a few of the triple As at low settings. It's quiet and performs excellently for its price. It comes with small or medium form factor and is super simple to just pop in. It has an HDMI port which is great since I havent updated to DP stuff yet.

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, and installed them. I thought I was good to go. However, I found that every time I shut off my monitor, the computer would crash/reboot shortly after turning the monitor back on. I never had a problem while the monitor remained on – but when I shut it down, a reboot was inevitable.After some research, I found that there are 2 branches of drivers for this card. One is the “Studio” branch (the one I started with) which is supposedly better tested and more stable, and the “Game Ready” drivers, which are more cutting edge. I was shocked to see the version of the “Studio” drivers was WAY behind the “Game Ready” driver version. Apparently, there is a known issue with the studio drivers crashing if they have problems negotiating a connection to a monitor. I have an odd setup where I am using a HDMI splitter for my computer video to pipe video to both a 25” monitor and a big screen TV. Apparently, the studio drivers weren’t happy with that setup. So, after uninstalling the “Studio” drivers and installing the “Game Ready” drivers, I’ve had no issues. Apparently that issue was fixed somewhere along the way between the “Studio” drivers and the “Game Ready” drivers. So now, everything works perfectly for me.

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 check your other options.

Works perfectly fine for a Dell 9020 for low-mid end gaming and videos.

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The quality very very good and the performance is very amazing this is valu for money product i really appreciate it

Priced right when on sale. I purchased for use on a new 32” 4K monitor to display 3840x2160. Works well at this resolution for spreadsheets and general browsing, but can’t comment on games. Easy install on Dell desktop.

I bought this for a levono PC which needed the low profile card and this was the best card to fit the PC in a very small space. I installed it very easily and this works perfectly.