Can you help me choose a Lower end" graphics card?!
Ron Knights
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I want to add a "discrete" graphics card to my home-built PC. It has been running off whatever graphics ability is provided by the CPU and motherboard combination. I thought a "discrete" or separate card would provide something extra.
I'm not running DAZ Studio on the home-built computer. I don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on a GPU with a ton of memory. I bought a GT 730 with 4GB RAM only to discover it is already "end of life." I thought I'd stick with the nVidia chipset for sentimental reasons. But I'm having a hard time finding a card for maybe around $100. I don't know if I want to justify spending a lot more if I'm not running DAZ Studio.
I have to end this message. For some reason all my USB external drives have gone nuts. Maybe this new video card is causing the troubles.
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I know someone who uses a 1080 and he's able to do so much more then I can, renders, animations, has lots of browser tabs open and several programs as once and has very little if any trouble, so you could check into that. I also believe it's still supported. Next up from that would be something from the 2000's series, which is what I want to try for (currently using a 650), so I won't have to get another card for quite some time and don't need a lot of computer upgrades for it.
No matter what card you decide on, you need to consider how much ram it has, 4 is actually kinda low. Also you have to make sure your power supply will support it, as well as the CPU. I believe there are sites out there that you can find what is compatible with what.
Price wise, I don't know if you will find one that cheap, but some have gotten lucky and you might as well. You might try this thread, let them know what you need and you might find something for free or in your price range.
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/472196/pay-it-forward-daz3d-style/p6
Buy a 4060 as nothing older is going to be substantially cheaper but will be much slower.
So you want a GPU only for office work, or do you have other requirements?
And.. what OS are you using? I used a 6Gb GTX1060, but had to give up upgrading DS at 4.15, because under Win7 that was the highest program version that would work with the last Win7/GTX1060 driver. Had I had Win10, it could have still been in use.
Regards,
Richard.
If it's only for office work or browing the web, integrated GPU should be more than powerful enough and discrete GPUs at around $100 may not even be that much better, or better at all if your CPU is recent.
As an example, for these kind of tasks, my dad is still using a 2010 desktop tower and I don't think he will need to change it before 2025, when Microsoft will end Windows 10 support: his computer was upgraded and now have something like 12 GB of RAM, SSDs only, but it's still the same old CPU and GPU it came with, and even in 2010, they were not top of the line (a dual cores Intel Core i3 and a lower end GPU).
In what wy is the integrated GPU failing you?
The inegrated GPU isn't failing me. I just wanted to upgrade. I only use this Windows 10 PC to surf the web, organize my multimedia content, etc.
I don't use the home-built PC for DAZ Studio.Ithought there was a dividing line between needs for power users and casual users.
I'll return the video card, and just use the built-in graphics instead.
What is your CPU chip? As said above, if your CPU is relatively new, the on-chip graphics is half decent for "normal" work. Finding a better, still-supported, graphics card for $100 might be hard. Personally, I'd look around for a decent name brand, one or two fan, RTX-3060, for a decent support-life, reliability, and power. Or for office work, even an RTX-3050 would do. Those two models are up around $200. Powersupply should be OK if it's around 500w or higher.
For a while, 3060's, and 3050's were available, but they may be scarce now and rising in price. In which case low end 40xx might be considered. But in the other court, I know nothing, nothing, nothing, about AMD brand graphics cards, so no advice in that alley.
And of course, there's always the used market.
Yeah, $100 used to be my target and limit on buying graphics cards. But that world died.
It's an AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 4-core unlocked desktop CPU with Radeon Graphics.
So it seems the only people who can get a good graphics card are heavy-duty 3D graphics people.
My HP Envy handles all my DAZ Studio needs. And it onlty has a 5GB nVidia card.
Radeons are not bad, I really doubt you would gain much from an nVidia card - and I am not sure that anything you are doing with that machine would benefit even from a high-end card that was outside your budget.
Rchard, you're right. I'll find other, more rewarding things to spend my money on.
I have the same computer as you, an AMD Ryzen3 for all my 3D stuff
I actiually use both the Vega onboard graphics AND my RTX2080Ti
obviously only the latter for iray and Octane
I chose this system configuration as a multimedia computer, with plenty of interior room for hard drives and a Blu-Ray burner.
I started with a Cooler Master HAF XB Evo case, added a MSI Performance Gaming AMD X470 Ryzen 2nd and rd generation AM4 motherboard and 32GB of RAM. It does a good job for everyday use.
I also have an HP Envy desktop computer that is better suited for DAZ Studio. I just don't have the energy to handle DAZ Studio right now,