AFOX GT 1030 problem... fake or not?

[Ruru]

Yup, I've got a 780 Ti and know what you mean. I also have a top of the range for 2011 GTX 580 which is considerably more useless lol. It cost me £400 and was such a beast in its day. How times change.

Running benchmarks on it, it's hot and noisy, while my RTX 2080 SUPER trounces it and in near silence, too.

HD 7970 and R9 290(X) aged way better as they still can run games (modified drivers ) more or less fine when lowering the settings.

 

[qubit]

HD 7970 and R9 290(X) aged way better as they still can run games (modified drivers ) more or less fine when lowering the settings.

Perhaps they have, I wouldn't know. Would be interesting to see comparative reviews.

Both cards can actually run DX12 games now, incredibly. However, in the case of the 580, it really is more of a case of "run" lol.

I have lots of old graphics cards that I bought mostly new over the years. One is a 1GB HD 2900 XT from 2007 with that beautiful red flame cooler. It's performance was never very good, supposed to be competition for the legendary 8800 GTX, but fell far short, which I kept as a collectors item. It's one of my favourite cards, in fact.

 

[Ruru]

Perhaps they have, I wouldn't know. Would be interesting to see comparative reviews.

Both cards can actually run DX12 games now, incredibly. However, in the case of the 580, it really is more of a case of "run" lol.

Need to check for its performance someday. And yeah, Fermi's "DX12 support" is somewhat the same as with GTX10 & 16 series' raytracing support.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Yup, I've got a 780 Ti and know what you mean. I also have a top of the range for 2011 GTX 580 which is considerably more useless lol. It cost me £400 and was such a beast in its day. How times change.

Running benchmarks on it, it's hot and noisy, while my RTX 2080 SUPER trounces it and in near silence, too.

The funny bit though, is that I would argue that Fermi aged relatively better than Kepler did. It still runs quite a few games surprisingly well, I've seen my brother run Genshin Impact on the 580 and it's actually playable at 1080p 60 fps, and that's because he's running it on an old X3470 that's practically an i7-870, so a ~13 year old CPU.

I have lots of old graphics cards that I bought mostly new over the years. One is a 1GB HD 2900 XT from 2007 with that beautiful red flame cooler. It's performance was never very good, supposed to be competition for the legendary 8800 GTX, but fell far short, which I kept as a collectors item. It's one of my favourite cards, in fact.

I have one of these myself as a collectible. I actually dust it off and run games on it every now and then. Surprisingly, it still works on my current 5950X PC, which is hilarious... all I need is to do is enable CSM first

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Specs

NVIDIA G80, 600 MHz, 128 Cores, 32 TMUs, 24 ROPs, 1536 MB GDDR3, 800 MHz, 384 bit

www.techpowerup.com

Need to check for its performance someday. And yeah, Fermi's "DX12 support" is somewhat the same as with GTX10 & 16 series' raytracing support.

I'd say worse even, Fermi and Kepler both are feature level 11_0 hardware and don't really support DX12 beyond the very basics, the same applies to GCN 1 (though it offers 11_1 functionality).

 

[YESSS]

I have lots of old graphics cards that I bought mostly new over the years. One is a 1GB HD 2900 XT from 2007 with that beautiful red flame cooler. It's performance was never very good, supposed to be competition for the legendary 8800 GTX, but fell far short, which I kept as a collectors item. It's one of my favourite cards, in fact.

Agreed, I also don't like to sell my collection of cards. Mostly keeping the original packaging, as well. Never selling publicly on amazon, or ebay. In the rare case, when I do sell (it happens sometimes) when e.g. an older rig would need an older 'contemporary' graphics card, which can't be obtained easily and without hassle anymore. Remember selling an AMD card in April 2019, a Powercolor branded HD 4670 with AGP interface. Went in a 3.0 GHz Prescott P4, but as you probably know, those CPU-s bottlenecked the card like hell, so their existence didn't make much sense anyway. Basically, it was a waste of good money, for nothing...

EDIT: Also managed to find some pictures I took back then, just for the plain fun of it...