[SOLVED] I want to replace/upgrade Nvidia Tesla C2050 graphics card.

[Murraywonna]

I bought a used windows 10 desktop tower last year. My mobo is a Gigabyte Z68XP-ud3 with 16 gigs of ram. It already had this gfx card in it, NVIDIA Tesla C2050 (3gb). From what I gather, this is not really a good card for gaming. I'm not a hardcore gamer, I play Cities skylines, Sim city 4, and Gemcraft mainly, but nothing serious.

The main issue I'm having is the Tesla c2050 runs very hot i think. At idle its usually between 40-50c. When I play a game I have to turn the fan on the card up to 80%, which is extremely loud and I'm lucky if the temps stay below 70c. And games get kind of choppy/laggy after playing for an hour or so. I've replaced thermal compound with Arctic silver also.

I want to get a new gfx card but not sure what to get. I don't want to spend a lot, under $150 or so hopefully. The size of the new card (dimensions) isn't really an issue because the Tesla 2050 that I currently have is big. I have an extremely large case, Raven RV02.

The only requirements I have are compatibility with my current mobo, and something that doesn't run so hot.
This is my first time posting to a forum. Please excuse my ignorance and for my grammar skills. Thank you for taking the time to read my post

 

[Eximo]

Well that is pretty much any GPU newer than it.

GPU market right now is extremely overinflated, but for $150 you might find used cards like the GTX970, Maybe a GTX1050Ti/GTX1060.

As a direct comparison the old Fermi Tesla has 448 Cuda cores running at 1150Mhz at 250W

GTX1060 has 1280 cores running at 1500Mhz as ~120W, leaving out the architectural improvements and efficiency, you are looking at triple the performance at half the power.

GTX970 is a little more power hungry, but about as fast.

You can easily find cards of the models I listed bigger than the standard 10.5" card that the Tesla is. Cards that have blower style coolers like it though will be the exact same size, it is/was the industry standard.

GTX1060 probably won't be available as a blower style card, Nvidia released no reference design for that one.