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: Yes Final 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.

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.

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 the device never failed me. It wasn’t what I needed though so I ultimately decided to return it. I can’t give it a bad score because it isn’t meant for gaming, but it is perfectly adequate for streaming movies and general uses. With that said, idk that there is much use for this gpu over simply sticking with integrated graphics.

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 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

I bought an older small form factor (ssf) desktop machine designed for business (ie web, spreadsheet, docs) to turn into a media centre. The default on-board video processor was a little laggy and could not support higher resolutions. This low-power, low profile card does the trick. Older games play well, but keep in mind this video card was released around 2017 and the machine this is being used on is from 2016. Do not expect cutting edge results by today's standards, but back in 2017 this would have been a pretty decent setup, and is definitely powerful enough to re-purpose an older computer for modern needs.

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.