Please advise on GPU: fan cooled or silent?

[DeonH]

Hi and thanks for your help.
I am not a gamer and use a little bit of Photoshop sometimes and the rest of the normal stuff for home use.

I am looking into buying this card: ASUS GeForce GT 710 2GB GDDR5 - Best Deal - South Africa (evetech.co.za)

My question is about cooling. I have always had cards with fans and in the long run the fans pack up. I couldn't read anything negative about non-fan cooled cards and only want to ask here to make sure I can buy on e without a fan. (My budget is ±R1 300)

Thanks.

 

[Lupus]

That's barely a graphics card, in fact it's actually slower then most onboard cards, if you only need it to expand displays sure.
Rather look at Carbonite for a decent 2nd hand card for your price. But the 710 is horrid

 

[Faux_Grey]

As Lupus says. Most new computers with intergrated graphics will perform better than a legacy GT 710.
You really wont be getting much with a budget of R1300 unless you manage to find an old GT 1030 on carbonite like this: https://carbonite.co.za/index.php?threads/gt-1030-2gb-gddr5-silent-low-profile.347137/

 

[DeonH]

Ok, thank you guys. Appreciate your help.

I just registered and tried to reply to the OP to find out if it is still available but I don't have privileges to do so. (I see now that my account hasn't been approved yet.)

 

[DeonH]

That's barely a graphics card, in fact it's actually slower then most onboard cards, if you only need it to expand displays sure.
Rather look at Carbonite for a decent 2nd hand card for your price. But the 710 is horrid

It seems my onboard one is not that bad.
I have an "Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 [Display adapter]" which I see compares with a "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti". Is there a way to increase RAM use by the GPU?

 

[Lupus]

It seems my onboard one is not that bad.
I have an "Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 [Display adapter]" which I see compares with a "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti". Is there a way to increase RAM use by the GPU?

I highly doubt it will compete with the 1050 ti, but you can try check your bios settings.

 

[ponder]

I just registered and tried to reply to the OP to find out if it is still available but I don't have privileges to do so. (I see now that my account hasn't been approved yet.)

It takes a short while.

 

[Faux_Grey]

It seems my onboard one is not that bad.
I have an "Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 [Display adapter]" which I see compares with a "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti". Is there a way to increase RAM use by the GPU?

It's nowhere near as good as any pascal-generation card, but the UHD 630 is miles better than a GT710 can still accelerate photoshop stuff with intel quicksync goodness.

If you dont actually need a GPU, I wouldn't bother adding one.

 

[DeonH]

Is this a good deal?
Palit GeForce GT 1030 NE5103000646-1080F 2GB GDDR5 64-bit PCI-E 3.0 Desktop Graphics Card - Wootware