Question Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630

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Tal6

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Hi,
I need a more advanced graphic card. The model I have mind, that also suits my budget is Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630 VENTUS XS OC 4GB GDDR6.
https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-GTX-1630-VENTUS-XS-4G-OC/Specification.

My power supply is 280W.

Although the recommended PSU for this piece is 300W, my pc doesn't have that many heavy lifting to do, I got plenty of available space in both my hard drives and I play some games and use Gimp image editing occasionally. That's about it.

Would this specific graphic card, in your opinion, work smoothly and would there be some long term caveats that I need know about?
Thanks.
 
Now "a more advanced graphic card" than what, exactly? What are you using now? You can do image editing on practically anything, but a general reference to "some games" doesn't really clear things up. It's not a modern gaming GPU, but a very basic GPU on the level of a GTX 1050, a budget gaming GPU from 2016. Which means that a lot of games will run on it, but if you're hoping to play modern AAA games on it, you may be disappointed.
 
DSzymborski said:
It might be. What's the *exact* PSU? Since this sounds like the PSU in a prebuilt, it might be a real 280W or it might be a junky 150W that was careless tossed in.
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This is the label on the PSU:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1004724998101569548/
View: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1004724998101569548


I currently have Intel HD Graphics 4600
And I looked in the games I play like Warcraft3 Reforged, they shouldn't work but they do.

Other games I want to purchase are: Iron Harvest, Men of War and Commandos 3. So I need some sort of an upgrade for my graphic card.
 
It should work for Warcraft III reforged as it's well above the very basic system requirements. Same with Men of War. It's slightly above the minimum requirements for Commandos 3 and below the minimum requirements for Iron Harvest (it's slower than the GTX 960).

You ought to be able to squeeze by with this PSU. I've seen better prebuilt PSUs, but I've seen worse.

The 1630 isn't really a great choice. The RX 6400 can be found for around the same price, at least in Western countries, and it's a far better GPU that also doesn't require supplementary power.
 
Ok, so I checked and found several AMD RX 6400 models that are in my budget.

The models are:
ASUS Phoenix Radeon RX 6400 4GB GDDR6 HDMI DP
ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6400 4GB GDDR6 HDMI DP
MSI Radeon RX 6400 AERO ITX 4GB GDDR6 HDMI DP
Gigabyte Radeon RX 6400 EAGLE 4GB GDDR6 HDMI DP
Sapphire Radeon RX 6400 PULSE 4GB GDDR6 HDMI DP

Are they all the same, is there one that stands out above the others?
 
They're pretty much all the same, especially on these low-end GPUs.

You can see why the 6400 is preferred at this link:

www.techpowerup.com

Gainward GeForce GTX 1630 Ghost Review - Challenging the AMD RX 6400

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 launches today. The new card is targeted at the sub-$200 segment and goes head-to-head with AMD's Radeon RX 6400 and Intel's ARC A380. Unlike the Radeon, the GTX 1630 has support for the full PCIe x16 interface.
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com

In TPU's testing, they go 50-60% bumps in fps from the 1630 to the 6400, and the latter was competitive with the 1650.
 
ok, so let's see if I got this stright.
I buy one of the AMD RX6400 and just plug it in the available PCIe x16 slot in the motherboard, no extra power required.
Then I plug in my screen to the graphic card, go to AMD's website and download the matching driver, install it, restart my pc, and that's it, yes?
 
Tal6 said:
ok, so let's see if I got this stright.
I buy one of the AMD RX6400 and just plug it in the available PCIe x16 slot in the motherboard, no extra power required.
Then I plug in my screen to the graphic card, go to AMD's website and download the matching driver, install it, restart my pc, and that's it, yes?
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That's pretty much the process. DDU is sometimes involved, but you're currently using integrated graphics, so that's not an issue. It's unclear from your description, but your PC should be off and unplugged when installing the GPU.
 
DSzymborski said:
That's pretty much the process. DDU is sometimes involved, but you're currently using integrated graphics, so that's not an issue. It's unclear from your description, but your PC should be off and unplugged when installing the GPU.
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And do you have any other caveats I need to be aware of, because of my PSU or anything else?
 
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Tal6 said:
And do you have any other caveats I need to be aware of, because of my PSU or anything else?
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Nothing I'm aware of. By the Haswell era, motherboards were UEFI already; modern GPUs sometimes run into trouble with very old pre-UEFI motherboards, but that's not an issue here.

I would still be looking long-term at replacing the PSU with an aftermarket one of better quality. It's fine for this, but it's probably a decade old at this point.
 
DSzymborski said:
Nothing I'm aware of. By the Haswell era, motherboards were UEFI already; modern GPUs sometimes run into trouble with very old pre-UEFI motherboards, but that's not an issue here.

I would still be looking long-term at replacing the PSU with an aftermarket one of better quality. It's fine for this, but it's probably a decade old at this point.
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Great! Bro, thank you VERY much, you were super helpful!
 
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