Reply To: GFX Card Hi all, So, I currently have a Gigabyte nvidia GTX 660 2GB card Windforce which is meant to be pretty quiet and has been to date and I recently downloaded…

[kev2021]

Hi,

Don’t have a gaming PC, this is just my general PC I use for everything.

Motherboard is: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME B560M-A (LGA1200)

CPU is: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700KF @ 3.60GHz

PSU – 750w  seasonic prime snow silent 80+ titanium (white one) fully modular (purchased 2018)

Upgraded to this in early Jan 2022, kept my gtx 660 from previous PC which was a i5 from probably 2012/2013 or maybe a bit earlier as didn’t have a real need to upgrade before as PC was suitable for requirements. Only upgraded from HDD to SSD.  Then of course NVMe etc drives came out and decided was a suitable time to upgrade given PC wasn’t fully win11 compatible even though it would run it etc.  So the previous PC setup lasted around 10 years or maybe a bit longer than that so not too bad.

Be ideal if this PC setup lasted the same amount of time.

the 660 has 2GB of ram, not 2MB :)

With the increase in energy costs and given that I use this PC all the time so evenings and weekends, I’m not sure the 4060 is a viable choice given the additional cost for using it as it can be on majority of the day on weekends, its not a PC I turn on just for games etc plus most of the 4060 I’ve seen by various makes are around £300 unless you seen them cheaper elsewhere?

The 1650 you mentioned is a similar price to the one I found and I could only find 75w but not sure if that’s general usage and gets higher if maxed out of if 75w is the max out value so would be lower?

The 3050 looks to be max 130w and the 660 I have atm looks to be max 140watts maxed out and I don’t think the card has ever been maxed out.

One thing i saw for the Asus RTX 3050 card was that IF the temp of the card is below 50 degrees, then the fans don’t come on and I presume it just uses the heatsink to dissipate the heat. If the card goes over 50 degrees, then the fans come on.

I checked my gfx card earlier and according to the system, gfx card was 33 degrees but of course it does have 2 fans on it running all the time so not sure how much of a good indication this is.

I’m kind of leaning towards the 3050 but I also think they maybe dropping the 3050 models but higher models means higher price and for essentially using it just for general usage, doesn’t really warrant £300+ being spent, considering most don’t have USB-C port on for graphics either so not even future proofing. So I’m tempted to go the 3050 rout for approx. £240 unless something more suitable around?

Kev

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