Mario5

Will see what I can do. Thanks

The seller of the gddr5 version isnt into tech and thinks the temps are too high so he is selling it for ~$20.

Try running a stress test and slowly increase the clocks. That gpu is weak on its own so it might not even be worth it.

Only thing is that the gt 1030 gddr5 2gb gets up to 75C. It has a passive heatsink, is that ok?

I really dont know much about overclocking/underclocking, may Google be your friend.

Yes, it could since the GPU will use less power and the power modules wont need to work as hard.

I am just guessing. That hardware is so old that its not really worth saving, of course it would be pretty nice to get it to work. Doing a quick google search that GPU was made in 1996

If you can return the card, go for it.

Sadly, no.

That GPU is ancient. Might be dead

Coil whine is ok. Its just the noise that the power delivery mudules that control the amount of power that the GPU needs. It usually happens on older cards or ones with not as premium power modules. You will be fine. Picture below showing the modules in the L formation

Could be coil whine from the power modules

this problem is happening to my friend and me. While using our pcs we would just hear the replug noise in windows. Sometimes its the keyboard,monitor,camera etc.

Leave only the CPU,GPU,RAM,CPU cooler and storage connected and try again. If you have another GPU or RAM you can try it and see if its a GPU/RAM problem. Try reseating the original GPU. If nothing helps might be your motherboard or CPU. Also this youtuber does a lot of PC repairs for his viewers I stopped watching him but I am pretty sure he had the same problem.

If you turn on dark mode on windows all of windows native apps will be dark mode, but for third party apps it wont unless they have dark mode wich you can turn on manually.