Recent content by dustar1986

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    News NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Launching April 2019

    Could have bought an ASUS 1050ti low profile in June. Felt spoiled to have both zero-RPM and backplate on an LP card. Would be perfect if ASUS applied those on 1650. Maybe we'll see that in 1650ti ?
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    News NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Launching April 2019

    Other than the subjective acoustic concern, the cooling works pretty decent. The heat sink attaches to both GPU chip and the left side (maybe VRM). I have an RTX card beneath the 1650LP. The Zotac card with two monitors plugged in has never been beyond 55 degree Celsius even when the RTX runs at...
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    News NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Launching April 2019

    The minimal fan speed seems to be 40% forced. Cannot tune down any further by enabling `--cool-bits = 28` in Ubuntu 18.04. Actually a value less than 40% can be parsed but both `nvidia-smi` and Nvidia control panel still displayed 40%. The lower limit might be monitored by GPU BIOS. Haven't got...
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    News NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Launching April 2019

    Played a bit with the Zotac GTX 1650 low profile card. No problem in performance. Good quality for its price. The only downside is, it's a bit loud (as expected). Can be obviously heard on top of my four 120mm chassis fans. Maybe Zotac GTX 1650 4GB Gaming is a better choice in terms of noise...
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    News NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Launching April 2019

    Is that SabrePC or ExxactPC? I emailed both of them but no reply…
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    News NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Launching April 2019

    I just ordered a Zotac low profile GTX 1650 on ebay, from a UK shop. They said they could deliver to US. Link below: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Zotac-ZT-T16500H-10L-graphics-card-GeForce-GTX-1650-4-GB-GDDR5-ZT-T16500H-10L/163774548251?_trksid=p2485497.m4902.l9144 The order was put on late Friday...