ASUS GeForce GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 HDMI DVI Graphics Card $70+FS
Amazon, Walmart and OfficeDepot have a price matching sale dropping this card to $70 with free shipping. Pick whichever works better for you, especially if you have coupons or cash equivalent credit at OD. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0716ZH99K In stock on Sep. 6, 2019 At Walmart https://www.walmart.com/ip/Asus-G.../930004535 At Office Depot https://www.officedepot.com/a/pro...eForce-GT/ At least $23 dollars more elsewhere at Newegg, etc. It is in the CSM series of ASUS and a cut above the equivalent EVGA, Gigabyte and MSI models in build quality and reliability. Before this thread gets trolled by gamers and AMD fans: This is not a gaming card although it will do for light gaming - eSports types. It is a very good HTPC card to do 4k@60 with decoders for most common formats including 10bit HEVC. It has HDMI 2.0, passive cooling, low profile and only 30W power consumption that is hard to beat for a HTPC application. Nearest card in AMD would be the RX 550. It can even do MadVR but with basic settings. I can get it to do NGU Anti-alias at Medium to upscale 720p 24fpm movies to 4k. You will need a more powerful card (a 1650 or a 1660 or better) to do much more with MadVR. But for watching streaming 4k content, this is just fine.
Amazon, Walmart and OfficeDepot have a price matching sale dropping this card to $70 with free shipping. Pick whichever works better for you, especially if you have coupons or cash equivalent credit at OD.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0716ZH99K In stock on Sep. 6, 2019
At Walmart
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Asus-G…/930004535
At Office Depot
https://www.officedepot.com/a/pro…eForce-GT/
At least $23 dollars more elsewhere at Newegg, etc.
It is in the CSM series of ASUS and a cut above the equivalent EVGA, Gigabyte and MSI models in build quality and reliability.
Before this thread gets trolled by gamers and AMD fans:
This is not a gaming card although it will do for light gaming – eSports types.
It is a very good HTPC card to do 4k@60 with decoders for most common formats including 10bit HEVC. It has HDMI 2.0, passive cooling, low profile and only 30W power consumption that is hard to beat for a HTPC application.
Nearest card in AMD would be the RX 550.
It can even do MadVR but with basic settings. I can get it to do NGU Anti-alias at Medium to upscale 720p 24fpm movies to 4k. You will need a more powerful card (a 1650 or a 1660 or better) to do much more with MadVR.
But for watching streaming 4k content, this is just fine.
