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why the devil will be reviewing this uh YouTube says we have a Content Gap it's

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the GT 1030. yeah people keep searching for reviews they keep asking for it you

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guys actually want us to talk about the GT 1030

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you know it came out over five years ago right

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well do you asked for it I never wanted to talk about this card because we

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recommend against entry-level gpus to the point where we call them

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manufactured E-Waste but all right maybe I was prejudiced this

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time the truth is I've never gamed on one or even really looked up performance

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benchmarks but you can get these bad boys for about 50 bucks on eBay or about

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a hundred dollars brand new and with the prices of graphics cards these days

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along with how great the economy is doing right now that's a slash S to be

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clear it makes sense that you don't have to go too far down the steam Hardware

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survey to find the star of today's show but is it any good is it even as good as

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GPU for the hand-me-down optiplexer kids picked up and a quick Google search

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later you find yourself staring at our friend here Mr GT 1030 with two gigs of

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vram a nearly 1500 megahertz boost clock and a DVI connector for that old mod

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monitor that you refuse to throw away which hey no it still works

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which I guess is kind of the theme today probably the most in

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point on the GT 1030 spec sheet is this

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with a 30 watt maximum TDP it'll get by

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on less than half of the potential 75 Watts that supplied through a PCIe slot

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meaning no external six or eight pin

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connectors to plug in and it's tiny taking up a single slot or even a half

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height single slot that is great for compatibility and compared to your core

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i3's onboard Graphics it absolutely spanks handily beating poor Intel HD

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over the head with a stick in every scenario our blender render goes from

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over 12 minutes to just under nine CS go

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gets literally over double the frames per second going from playable to

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downright decent rocket League same story and gentian impact comes up

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against its 60fps cap the really

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important part though is these one percent lows they Skyrocket in every

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title thanks to the card's dedicated vram and additional processing power

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which means a huge difference in perceived animations moveness

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pretty compelling that is until you look at basically anything

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else for reference we dug up some comparably

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priced used carts a GTX 1050 TI and a

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GTX 1650 both of which are still available new for as low as 180 and 170

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respectively and they give nearly the same thrashing to the 1030 that it does

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to onboard Graphics but this time for a

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smaller up charge both of them broke the 300 FPS barrier in CS go rocket League

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hit the high 200s and genshin well unsurprisingly still runs fine that's

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what a mobile game will get you now we're going to try a few more cinematic

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games for you in a second to see just how bad the GT 1030 is but I also wanted

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to mention that the RX 580 a card with 8

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gigs of vram and a chip that would demolish every card from Team Green that

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we've tested today is available brand new for as low as 90 bucks can I get a

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shout out for the crypto crash

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I mean seriously in a world where a 580 costs ninety dollars why is YouTube

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asking me to make this video I

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just can't even no you know what let's see how Halo

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infinite runs seriously

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that's it okay Last of Us remake

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not enough vram while we mentioned the lack of video memory earlier you might

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not have registered just how important that is for modern games now four or

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five years ago when NVIDIA released this thing you could get away with just two

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gigs but that's not gonna cut the mustard anymore for more demanding

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titles for example Jedi Survivor launches this month and lists a GTX 1070

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an 8 gig card you know what isn't an 8

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gig card our new couples matching underwear at ltdstore.com and you know

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what else isn't the GT 1030. let's see how many of the most popular games on

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Steam it can play though wow this is

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this is not a lot of FPS's the flying is the hardest part yeah because it's doing

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the whole map yeah okay I mean

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In fairness this is running 720p mostly

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low but I can see the game and while my

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FPS is low okay around 30 33 FPS my 1

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lows are also 30 FPS so at least it's a

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consistent 30 FPS which I would take over a choppy you know 15 to 40. you

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know what I mean this is an Esports title but it's also one that looks

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pretty good when you run it on high-end Hardware oh I don't have a gun yet and

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this person probably does so how do I melee too late next game

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I'm surprised Resident Evil 4 even launched the game requirements call for

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a GPU with four gigs of vram and we've got only two

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oh boy okay well your left motion blur on your

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pleb you can really do you're better off not

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no I will fight you at this graphical

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Fidelity the atmosphere of the game is definitely impacted but hey if you want

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to play through for the story it is absolutely running at 7 20. yeah at 7

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20. 720 is a resolution that's HD that is high definition cool you wanna try

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another game not bad and this is at 1080p

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I mean I shouldn't be too surprised sifu calls for only a gt640 but so did Apex

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Legends and I needed to go all the way down to 720p for that

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I think there's even some film grain effects and everything really seriously

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wow this is like cranked really you can't

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turn motion blur off in this game oh my God what is this Batman Arkham Asylum

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kind of okay what do you want Destiny yes please

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vampire survivors I mean this is gonna work

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let's go I forget how this works you

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just run around you kill stuff and collect the gems and then as you collect

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the gems you unlock new powers and then you become strong

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uh you gotta point the other way yeah I know I was going this way so I could how

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am I supposed to get the stuff yeah this was how am I supposed to get it there you go okay man there's so many games

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you can play without a high-end GPU buying a top tier gaming PC just kind of

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seems like unnecessary it's my tutorial out some 10 years ago

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um game design for sure

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okay well either way this is clearly running more than fine if you want to

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play League of Legends DOTA Smite Esports titles like that you're not

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going to have any issues but you're not going to have any issues with

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really anything else in those titles either so why are you spending even a

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hundred dollars so then it sucks and we were right to

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ignore it you should buy a used card or you should save up for something better

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but if it's too late for that we decided

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to see what happens if we use the magic of overclocking to squeeze every last

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Penny's worth of value from our bad Buy

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I wanted to do this test in Halo but that's not happening so we're going back

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to our fan favorite the one the only shadow of the Tomb Raider with our base

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settings out of the box we managed to reach a solid 27 FPS average with one

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percent lows of 11 FPS let's see what we

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can do with that who hear that fan go here we go boys

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core voltage percent oh you can do a hundred percent More

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Voltage why don't we do a more modest 20. you

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had luck with uh yeah 200 on the core and uh six or seven hundred on the

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memory you can do 600 to be safe I did get a run with 700 it worked all right

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I'm going 248 and 700 okay fine there we

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go here we go Shadow Tomb Raider what

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was our what was our results again 27 FPS 27 oh we're gonna beat that with one

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percent low of 11. this looks decent this is the easiest part of the best I

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know it is oh no

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why'd you go to 248. why did you tell me to do that if it doesn't make it through

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this time I'll just do 200 okay sounds good oh wait for it here we go average

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FPS 31. that's not bad

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it's a pretty sizable Improvement yeah it's over 10 let's go

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seriously though while there are benefits to this card like the ones we

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mentioned at the start of the video low profile low power consumption low cost

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not to mention it's quiet for gaming there are simply too many other options

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out there that absolutely trounce it sometimes even at the same size like the

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RX 6400 for about fifty dollars more it

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also barely uses more power with a TDP of about 50 watts and it's probably just

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as quiet so if you have the k space and

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a spare eight pin PCIe connector please consider literally anything else because

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the worst part of this is we've got the good one the gddr5 version there's a

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ddr4 variant of this card floating around out there that performs even

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worse but trying to get a hold of one and benchmarking it was beyond the scope

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of this video so if you want to look into that Hardware inbox has got you covered with this great video from a few

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years ago we're going to have our variant though and all of the other

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cards the ones you should actually buy listed in the video description below so

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there you go YouTube there's your GT 1030 video okay yes it has a few limited

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use cases video encoding yes it's better than onboard but no it is not enough

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better than onboard especially when compared to other options they're going

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to be drawbacks to some of the other cheapest ships Alternatives that RX 580

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for 100 bucks for example that RX 580 for 100 bucks will outperform it but it

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will draw much more power while doing so realistically

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the 1030s ability to launch them at 7

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FPS is not a lot better how are you

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