low profile gpu

music player · January 20, 2017

so i want to upgrade my amd radeon hd 7450 to a 2gb or more gpu.

it has to be under 25 watt usage for my pc to run.

i was thinking about a geforce gt 710 or 730.

my current specs:

i5-2400

8gb ram

AMD Radeon HD 7450

AMD Radeon HD 5450 (for extra screen)

Droidbot · January 20, 2017

25w? that's insane.

730 has a 50w tdp

710 is 25w.

the issue with both the 7450 and the 710 is that even the integrated graphics on the Haswell processors are faster

Mcmole · January 20, 2017

Your screwed with that 25 watt power-limit.

There is no other cards to buy that are worth the price for the very very few extra frames you will gain. If you can place that system in a proper case, buy a new PSU and then upgrade the GPU.

Otherwise you are basically forced to watch that system slowly get out paced by even the most basic of games and become obsolete very quickly.

captain cactus · January 20, 2017

How is there a 25W limit? Power supplies must always provide a PCIe slot with 75W in total. In that case, XFX has a low profile RX460 in both 2 and 4GB variants.

Mcmole · January 23, 2017

On 1/20/2017 at 10:09 PM, lots of unexplainable lag said:

How is there a 25W limit? Power supplies must always provide a PCIe slot with 75W in total. In that case, XFX has a low profile RX460 in both 2 and 4GB variants.

Because some older SFF OEM PC's come with custom motherboards that only allow so much power (25 Watts usually) via PCI-e so as to have a tiny powersupply. Most of the power is used on the CPU as they are mostly intended for HTPC or light desktop use.