maxsun GEFORCE GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 Video Graphics Card GPU Mini ITX Design, New Architecture & Fast Performance Than 2GD4, HDMI, DVI-D, Single Fan Cooling System

Works With Dell 8900
Review for: MAXSUN GEFORCE GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 GPU. Product arrived on time with typical packaging in bubble wrap bag with no damage or other issues. Got this during the Black Friday sales; good price. Bought this GPU for a DELL XPS 8900 i7-6700K Skylake CPU (yes, for 8900 NOT 8920 or 8930 or any other 89xx) and I have to say It was a bit risky thinking the GPU wouldn’t take, but it did. It fits perfect and doesn’t overlap on the 2240 M.2 SATA SSD (See photos). After installation NVIDIA program recognized the GPU and updated the software automatically. I’m not using this for games but I am using DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Illustrator etc… as well as ZOOM for online college courses and a couple of other graphics demanding programs. I didn’t have to mess with or update the BIOS, it was simply plug and play. Temperature wise it stays pretty cool. The only modification was having to exchange the original GPU bracket with this 1030 bracket. It worked out fine. (See Photos)

Picked this up as an emergency back up card when I thought my 3080Ti blew its top.
This isn’t anything amazing to write home about. It’s basic, it’s fairly rugged, it’s small so it doesn’t get in the way of other components (being as I use it as a trouble shooting card when I think something went bad and the GPU is somehow related) It’s definitely a light card, The pictures make it look like it’s at least one pound but with out weighing it empirically I would say it’s in the neighborhood of 6-8 ounces, and yes, its a satisfactorily rugged design. If you need a trouble shooting GPU this a thumbs up technician’s/troubleshooting card. Additional info for users being led to believe one must have an nvidia (or any other manner) of account to obtain drivers. Short answer: you don’t.[I hope this doesn’t get deleted by review process, this took a while to write..]These instructions presume you have at least a basic ad blocker, otherwise you may need to sieve through results to find the correct page, but since these are well known and long lived search targets they should be immediately after any links labeled “paid for” or whatever; I don’t even recall what they’re labeled, haven’t seen ads in years.THIS FIRST STEP IS UNESSESARY, but, I strongly recommend it; if you don’t have 7zip (the ideal option) or a similar program, search 7ZIP DOWNLOAD first. 7zip is free under the GNU/GPL license schema and is a legal, legit and well known alternative to pay for options. 7 hyphen zip dot org is their official home. Any website trying to bundle it with something else or sell it is a scam. Most likely you will want the 64 hyphen bit x64 Windows installer. Assuming you did not have it already, or an alternative, after downloading it, select go to/open download location. Install it, if you get the UAC prompts okay/pass/ignore them. (I personally disabled all those annoying things, after over twenty years of building and fixing PCs I’ve found far less disruptive ways to protect myself with out MS help)Now, whether or not you chose to get 7zip:Go to your search engine and enter “nvidia drivers download”the desired result will literally be named “NVIDIA Driver Downloads”.Follow link; you will presented with a list of pull down box options for product type, series, OS, etc.Go past this and select “Beta and Older Drivers” The main difference in results will be you will receive a list.Select product type “Geforce” Series “Geforce 10 series” Product “GT 1030” Operating System (select OS, if you don’t know what it is and don’t know how to determine what it is you will have to search for how determine that separately, but nvidia’s driver download page usually autodetects your OS). Driver type: “DCH” (long story why it has to be DCH, if you want to know you’ll have to do research; the reasons aren’t relevant here). Recommended/Beta: select “Recommended/Certified”Click search. Click the first result then click download if it doesn’t auto download. Once it’s done downloading, depending on your browser, select the pulldown next to complete or the downloads list and select GO TO/OPEN DOWNLOAD LOCATION. Do not open the package directly from the browser!Once the folder the package went to shows CLOSE THE BROWSER and any other unessential programs.IF you installed 7zip (or have an alternative) right click the installer (named something like “VERSION NUM desktop win10 win11 64bit international dch whql”) 7zip should be in the list, which will expand to a number of options. One will say Extract to “VERSION NUM desktop win10 win11 64bit international dch whql”. Select that, and it will extract the contents of the installer to a folder with the same name as the file. If you didn’t get 7zip or don’t have an alternative this is not a necessary step, it just saves time in the long run, because the installer won’t be creating extraction directories which are annoying to find and eliminate after installation.So if you just run the installer package it will create a “temp” directory it won’t delete afterward, but the extract first method bypasses the temp folder creation step, and makes post install cleanup easier since you know where the installation folder is, the same place the install package was downloaded to. So if you went 7zip extract first method, go in to the folder the same name as the download and run setup. You’ll get more UAC nags to ignore. If you went installation package route, it’ll probably throw a UAC nag for extracting the files and a second for starting the setup.After this, it will do a compatibility check, then give two options: NVidia Graphics Drive and NVidia experience or just NVidia graphics driver. SELECT NVIDIA GRAPHICS DRIVER (no NVidia experience). Then Express or Custom. Select CUSTOM. In the list only Graphics Driver, HD Audio driver and PhysX Software should be selected. If you’re only installing drivers for the first time, under current version should be all None. If you previously installed drivers, or windows update auto installed drivers, the list might already be populated, and the one you DON’t want “NV GF Experience” will probably be populated too. In this case you’re going to want to back out and look up how to disable windows update installing drivers. Then you’re going to want to go to “Programs and Features” and specifically uninstall Nvidia Gefore Experience (the four components are installed discreetly). This may require a reboot. Then you can go back to setup, follow the same selections, and NV GF Experience should read “none” and you can install/update the latest drivers sans GFE. This will eliminate any nags to create an nvidia account.If you rely on Windows Update for other driver updates, I would advise checking for and installing nvidia updates as described above before enabling driver updates via Win Update manually, and on a schedule of your choosing and convenience (once a month perhaps). Windows update won’t supersede nvidia driver installation preferences, since as far as I am aware it will not download the windows update catalog version of the nvidia drivers unless it detects the primary driver (the graphics driver) is out of date.I hope this helps anyone frustrated by nvidia drivers seeming to bother or beg for the creation of an nvidia account; that’s Geforce Experience producing those nags, not the actual drivers, and NVGFE does not improve performance, it’s yet another drag on system resources if the system is already on the weak side. But some people will argue vociferously the opposite is the case with no objective evidence. I’ve done the tests. I know for a fact it does add overhead. But the decision of its utility versus its performance cost is up to the end user.I hope this helps some people out there, and I hope it isn’t rejected by customer review control..

Real Nvidia Gpu
Product is a true Nvidia Gpu works perfectly as intended and the GDDR5 is very helpful the low battery efficiency is great and simple for a beginner pc build and for a simple recording and streaming dedicated gpu along with a decent price you get what you pay for.

Setup a 4K TV downstairs for the family. Didn’t want to give up my new gaming PC upstairs :). This card did the job of resurrecting an old PC to use the family’s 4K TV’s to its full potential. Mission accomplished lol

Ottima scheda grafica, la 1030 gt non vuole pretese troppo prepotenti, ma vi permetterà di giocare tranquillamente ai titoli (non recentissimi) o di vedere liberamente in alta definizione filmati e contenuti multimediali vari. Vale ogni centesimo che costa, io l’ho pagata 106 euro, ma anche il suo prezzo intero (circa 125/135 euro) è comunque un prezzo ragionevole.Spedizione Amazon come sempre il top! 5 stelle per voi lì alle spedizioni <3Buon Game a tutti!

So using this only for a 3d printer and basic cad edits at time of printing. This is by no means a gaming card… Yes it might play some games well like rtc or sonic etc, or maybe cod on lowest basic settings but this is not going to even complete with an xbox 360. What it can do is be a graphics output for a none output board or (like me) give you good enough processing for 3d printers and design spaces.I would recommend to the none gamers out there