gt 1030 with a core 2 duo e7500

[Kamikazee6969]

hey!

i was planning to purchase a gt 1030 for my pc with a core 2 duo e7500 and 4gb of ram

i was using onboard graphics of g41 motherboard from zebronics previously.

 

so is this a good choice and what can i run with it?

my monitor is 1366X768

 

[BondiBlue]

It'll work, but you should look into upgrading the rest of your computer soon. The E7500 is ancient by today's standards. It should run anything that your CPU is capable of playing, so lighter games like Minecraft should work. 

[Kamikazee6969]

2 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

It'll work, but you should look into upgrading the rest of your computer soon. The E7500 is ancient by today's standards. It should run anything that your CPU is capable of playing, so lighter games like Minecraft should work. 

i was planning to build a whole new pc but the covid ruined everything

so the lga775 socket doesn't support anything above quad 2 core q9650 and the prices of that thing is like more than the mrp of a gtx 1660ti here in india.

i read about the bottlenecks and i was quite worried and i don't wanna play high end games 

cs , cod, amnesia or older titles would work just fine.

thanks for the response it made me feel better about my choice.

and will i be able to enable gpu acceleration in premiere pro cc 2019?

[Fasauceome]

8 minutes ago, Kamikazee6969 said:

so is this a good choice and what can i run with it?

Core 2 duo systems aren't really good as gaming computers, if you are playing anything modern. Performance will be okay with some of the classics like team fortress 2 (mostly).

 

If you can get a GTX 750 ti, it is recommended. Often it is the same price or cheaper, but the gaming performance is better, and it also does not use PCIe power cables so it is slot only.

[Kamikazee6969]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

Core 2 duo systems aren't really good as gaming computers, if you are playing anything modern. Performance will be okay with some of the classics like team fortress 2 (mostly).

 

If you can get a GTX 750 ti, it is recommended. Often it is the same price or cheaper, but the gaming performance is better, and it also does not use PCIe power cables so it is slot only.

i looked for gtx 750, 650, etc

but they're not available here in india sadly

I'm only left with the option of gt 730 or gt1030.

 

 

[BondiBlue]

4 minutes ago, Kamikazee6969 said:

i was planning to build a whole new pc but the covid ruined everything

so the lga775 socket doesn't support anything above quad 2 core q9650 and the prices of that thing is like more than the mrp of a gtx 1660ti here in india.

i read about the bottlenecks and i was quite worried and i don't wanna play high end games 

cs , cod, amnesia or older titles would work just fine.

thanks for the response it made me feel better about my choice.

and will i be able to enable gpu acceleration in premiere pro cc 2019?

I wouldn't try to run Premiere on that system. That's an extremely tall order for such an old machine. Older game titles should work fine though. 

 

The 1030 is a good card if you can get it for cheap enough, but it's still not going to be the best. If you can I'd suggest looking into cloud solutions. 

Just now, Kamikazee6969 said:

i looked for gtx 750, 650, etc

but they're not available here in india sadly

I'm only left with the option of gt 730 or gt1030.

If the price is decent get the 1030 over the 730. It's a better choice all around, and it's a newer card. 

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Kamikazee6969 said:

i looked for gtx 750, 650, etc

but they're not available here in india sadly

I'm only left with the option of gt 730 or gt1030.

 

 

If the GT 1030 is the only option, it will still be an improvement.

 

Make sure that you get one that uses GDDR5 and NOT DDR4. The difference is very large even for the 1030.

[Kamikazee6969]

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

If the GT 1030 is the only option, it will still be an improvement.

 

Make sure that you get one that uses GDDR5 and NOT DDR4. The difference is very large even for the 1030.

thanks for the advice

 

I'll make sure of that.

[Kamikazee6969]

4 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

I wouldn't try to run Premiere on that system. That's an extremely tall order for such an old machine. Older game titles should work fine though. 

 

The 1030 is a good card if you can get it for cheap enough, but it's still not going to be the best. If you can I'd suggest looking into cloud solutions. 

If the price is decent get the 1030 over the 730. It's a better choice all around, and it's a newer card. 

the price is luckily the same for both the cards from where I'm making the purchase

and as for premiere i still use it without a gpu

it runs and i work on it but yea it's annoying

so the gt 1030 would be better than a g41 express chipset right?

 

 

[Fasauceome]

13 minutes ago, Kamikazee6969 said:

the price is luckily the same for both the cards from where I'm making the purchase

and as for premiere i still use it without a gpu

it runs and i work on it but yea it's annoying

so the gt 1030 would be better than a g41 express chipset right?

 

 

Quite a lot better

[Kamikazee6969]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

Quite a lot better

that's good to hear.

thanks once again.

[GDRRiley]

if you can find a core 2 quad for cheap I'd swap it in.
the 50% more cores will help a lot
moving to 8gb of ram would also help but given its DDR2 I'm hesitant to recommend buying a bunch of 2gb sticks

[Kamikazee6969]

34 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

if you can find a core 2 quad for cheap I'd swap it in.
the 50% more cores will help a lot
moving to 8gb of ram would also help but given its DDR2 I'm hesitant to recommend buying a bunch of 2gb sticks

there are no quad 2 cores for cheap

it was like 300$ here