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Did ASUS ever made a GT1030 with VGA

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cybermaus

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I am looking for a simple GPU, do not need gaming even, just want hardware H254/H265 NVENC for a electronics microscope.
(for which I reuse an old PC)
And someone on this board advice a GT1030

So on a local craigslist equivalent, I found a pre-owned ASUS GT1030 silent.
Kinda ideal, with low power and small footprint. More a business PC graphics card then a gaming one.
But it is showing a triple VGA+DVI+HDMI output, like the older generation cards

Search as much as I want, I cannot find any pictures of any ASUS GT1030 with VGA out (and only one other, no-name, brand). Also not any cards with unpupulated headers on the PCB.
So I am wondering, could this be a hacked fake. An ASUS GT730 maybe?
How can I check, and/or does anyone know if this card could be real?
 

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Remove the heatsink and take a pic of the die
Probably a fake
 
looks close

GT710-SL-2GD5​


i'm sure its a old gt710 (maybe 730?), those were the last cards i remember have a 15 pin d-sub.
 
Correct. Marktplaats.
Anyway, I think the situation is clear. I want to believe this deal....but I shouldn't

Probably the seller also got duped, maybe not even know it himself.
Given I want it for a specific function (NVENC, pref even H265) it may run acceptably for him on gaming, but with faked firmware I should not trust it to do the same for me.

Thanks
 
I don't want to give the seller a lot of sudden extra traffic.
The only extra info is "fortnite at 120fps / Gta op 60fps"
And in a PM he confirms me (he believes) it really is a 1030

I asked if he could give GPU-Z printscreen, but that was only this morning, so no time to respond yet.

To be honest, a working (true) GT730 would also be acceptable to me, but I probably need to reflash it to get it stable.
And I would pay so little for it that I doubt it will become a deal, since he still believes it is a GT1030.
 
Lol, why guessing. The photo shows PCB version right there. C872PI rev.1.01, which corresponds to... EN210 silent

Yeah, run away from it
 
cybermaus said:
I asked if he could give GPU-Z printscreen, but that was only this morning, so no time to respond yet.
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That should reveal that it's a "Fake" GT 1030.

I just found that GPU on marktplaats.
 
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cybermaus said:
I asked if he could give GPU-Z printscreen, but that was only this morning, so no time to respond yet.
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I don't think he'll reply you with a GPU-Z screenshot... LOL

Unless he would send you a screenshot of a real GT 1030 somewhere found on the internet.
 
Yeah thanks for the warning, I was already considering that possibility. May even be interesting to see if he was duped himself or of he is the active faker.
But after @ArdWar and @newtekie1 find, the very last kernel of disillusion hope is gone, not falling for it (this time)
 
By the way, do you really need NVENC? Because GT1030 doesn't have NVENC either.

Lowest end GPU with HEVC NVENC is either a 950 or 1050.
 
ArdWar said:
By the way, do you really need NVENC? Because GT1030 doesn't have NVENC either.

Lowest end GPU with HEVC NVENC is either a 950 or 1050.
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That is not entirely true. I have a GT730 (one of the later ones, based on GK208) and it has NVENC.
OBS offers to use it, and it drops the CPU rate during H264 encoding to basically 0.
But alas, some suspected VRAM issues, as it gives a lot of striping artefacts.

I was under the impression I found a list somewhere that showed the GT1030 even supported h265.
But now I cannot find that list anymore. Your question lead me to search again, and I find various links, which indicate that..

1: there is a lot of confusion on when NVENC is supported and when not, with conflicting reports for the same card types
2: some cards officially supported NVENC at first, and then nvidea withdrawn it via driver updates .
3: there are driver patches available for windows and linux, to re-enable NVENC

But your remark did lead me to realized it may not simply be plug and play for a GT1030
Thing is, I want to stay way from the price wars that "real" graphic cards currently undergo.
I only need NVENC. If someone offered me a card with all ports ripped of, but the GPU still works with NVENC, it be good for me.
 
ArdWar said:
By the way, do you really need NVENC? Because GT1030 doesn't have NVENC either.

Lowest end GPU with HEVC NVENC is either a 950 or 1050.
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Good catch.
cybermaus said:
That is not entirely true. I have a GT730 (one of the later ones, based on GK208) and it has NVENC.
OBS offers to use it, and it drops the CPU rate during H264 encoding to basically 0.
But alas, some suspected VRAM issues, as it gives a lot of striping artefacts.

I was under the impression I found a list somewhere that showed the GT1030 even supported h265.
But now I cannot find that list anymore. Your question lead me to search again, and I find various links, which indicate that..

1: there is a lot of confusion on when NVENC is supported and when not, with conflicting reports for the same card types
2: some cards officially supported NVENC at first, and then nvidea withdrawn it via driver updates .
3: there are driver patches available for windows and linux, to re-enable NVENC

But your remark did lead me to realized it may not simply be plug and play for a GT1030
Thing is, I want to stay way from the price wars that "real" graphic cards currently undergo.
I only need NVENC. If someone offered me a card with all ports ripped of, but the GPU still works with NVENC, it be good for me.
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developer.nvidia.com

Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix

Find the related video encoding and decoding support for all NVIDIA GPU products.
developer.nvidia.com developer.nvidia.com

Here is the supported cards. The confusing part is while some cards will support NVENC, they don't support H265. The GT730 isn't listed, but it may have supported NVENC H264 but not H265. If you want to use H265, you need at least a GTX950/1050.

Saddly, in the current GPU market, even GTX950s are selling for stupid amounts of money.
 
Thanks, yes I saw that list. As you already noted, GT730 is also not on there.
this thread shows it used to be active on the GT1030 (and thus was retracted in later drivers?)

So, yeah, it is not supported in the stricter commercial sense of the word.
And in the more practical sense, as I mentioned, lots of conflicting posts and a published hack.

I did not know this was going to be such a deep swamp when I thought to myself "lets get a cheap GPU to boost my microscope"
 
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cybermaus said:
Thanks, yes I saw that list. As you already noted, GT730 is also not on there.
this thread shows it used to be active on the GT1030 (and thus was retracted in later drivers?)

So, yeah, it is not supported in the stricter commercial sense of the word.
And in the more practical sense, as I mentioned, lots of conflicting posts and a published hack.

I did not know this was going to be such a deep swamp when I thought to myself "lets get a cheap GPU to boost my microscope"
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That shows NVDEC not NVENC. The GT1030 can hardware accelerate H265 decoding(NVDEC) just fine. It can't hardware accelerate encoding(NVENC).
 
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