MSI GeForce GT 710 2GD3H LP Graphics Card '2GB DDR3, 954MHz, Low Profile, Low Consumption, VGA, DVI-D, HDMI, HTPC, Silent Passive Fanless Cooling System'

Cheap triple-head card.I'm not interested in the GPU (for gaming) so no idea of its performance, but am comfortably running two 2048x1152 and a 1920x1080 landscaped/portraited monitors for coding/desktop apps. Fanless so quiet too.(Also use one of those USB3 to HDMI dongles to add a fourth monitor at 1920x1080 and, despite my reservations, this also works beautifully so quad-monitor rig for under fifty quid!!! :-) )

Firstly, let me start by saying that by 2016 technology standards this graphics card will not amongst the best for gaming nor will it do everything a £200 graphics card will. I did a lot of research before buying this card which was to replace a GeForce GT7600 in an aging Sony Vaio Desktop Model VGC-RC204. I had an intermittent fault which would sometimes result in the PC not booting but, since upgrading to Windows 10 it hasn’t failed to boot but, has instead had to restart after experiencing an issue. The PC is running windows 10 (it’s been upgraded along the way from XP Pro) with a Pentium D chip 3.2GHz running at 3200MHz, I had specific requirements which were1. It needed to be low profile and quite thin as there wasn’t much room where the existing card is.2. It had to be PCI-E 2.0 or PCI Express or PCI-E x16 – they are all the same thing!3. It had to be an improvement on the GT7600 as I wasn’t going to fork out £34.98 for something that was worse than I already had.4. It needed to be a reasonable price as the desktop is nearly 10 years old and I didn’t want to throw lots of money at it.5. It needed to be quite low power consumption ideally less than 35W as the PSU is 300W and the old GT7600 was rated at 35W so I didn’t want to fry my motherboard.6. I wanted new rather than take this risk of a second hand card that had a better specification.So I worked backwards from the GeForce website making comparisons on the basic cards for all the above points. I then went to a benchmark site to compare the old and new and what sort of improvement I might see. The GT 7600 had a benchmark score of 165 and the GT 710 scored 647 a vast improvement although the GTX 970 is 8660! Don’t get me wrong this is no GTX970 as it’s a fraction of the price. I benchmarked the desktop before and after the install with the previous card scoring 53 on and the new one scoring 77 from NovaBench telling me that 3D frames per second had increased from 176 to 246. As I don’t use the card for gaming I haven’t noticed any real difference except I now have a more stable PC which doesn’t crash as frequently as it used to. Other reviewers asked why you would buy this card. Well the simple answer is that you might be replacing a graphics card in a 10 year old PC and are restricted by size, power consumption, PCI-E 2.0 or price and therefore your options are much more limited.The card was easy to install for me with limited PC expertise. It comes with Low Profile brackets a quick set up guide and drivers disc. I installed the drivers direct from NVidia before install ensuring I had the right version for Windows 10 32 Bit. The only issue I experienced was that Windows was installing the drivers automatically via the wizard so this had to finish before the NVidia driver software would upload. Although this has HDMI and DVI-D outs I had to use the VGA as the desktop is hooked up to an equally old Sony Bravia 26” TV and the HDMI connection resulted in a worse picture than the VGA. Sadly the TV is only designed to connect to a PC via VGA according to the manual. All in all this had enabled my beloved desktop to carry on its day to day tasks at a reasonable cost so I’m more than happy. I will post an update if I experience any reliability issues.

Bought this to replace a 1GB Radeon HD6670 which is a few years old now and drivers are a bit passed it now. Found this new card fairly straight forward to install. I'm not an expert but I have been inside a desk top PC many times changing various bits so not an novice. Having installed the card and put the case back together and powered up I found the drivers on the CD not being recognised so went straight for the makers website and downloaded the most up to date drivers. And all works well.I do play games on my PC and found the graphics with the new card pretty good so overall very pleased with the purchase and without having to spend a fortune

Primarily bought for a HDMI output as the RGB I had been using was so blurry that doing any kind of work on my computer was impossible. Like many people in the reviews here I purchased it to use with a refurbished Dell office PC I bought on here a while ago and as far as I can tell it's the only option for a low profile, low wattage graphics card south of £100 and despite having never done so before i had it installed in minutes. There's a number of videos on YouTube imploring people not to buy this card if they're wanting to 'game' on their computers but apparently what they mean is that you won't be playing the latest first person shooters in 4k 60fps with this thing but that was never what I was looking to do anyway. Steam games like Euro Truck Simulator 2 (yes I am that boring) run smoothly at almost highest settings and for emulators (my primary interest) it's been a revelation. I'd hoped to get my old Saturn and GameCube games running reasonably well with this thing but have found that it's more than capable of upscaling the latter quite comfortablly up to 1080p. Out of curiosity i tried to run a few Wii games on it as well and was delighted by their performance also. Getting greedy and having too much time on my hands I tried to run a Wii U emulator and have found that it can even run a number of games on that platform quite smoothly and I suspect that the times it does stutter are more to do with my processor than this card. I'm currently experimenting with overclocking and it looks like you can get quite a bit of extra oomph out of this card without it becoming concerningly warm. I wish other reviewers took into consideration that not everyone has the budget to buy higher end cards as some of the negative takes I read almost put me off getting it but considering the breadth of things I can do with this up against its very accessible pricing I would buy this again in a heartbeat and recommend it to almost anyone.

Perfect for the job, runs 3 monitors quite happily

Great for the price.... I'm not a gamer ( maybe this isnt great for gaming) my PC is for business use. I put this card in to make use of the 3 ports available (DVI, HDMI and VGA) and it works a treat, just pop it into a PCIe port, no power lead needed, no drivers needed to be manually installed ( not on windows 10) it just worked on boot up

Cheap and cheerful, does the job for a basic office PC without onboard video.Bought for the support of UEFI GOP, as UEFI boot is a necessity for by-the-book Win11 upgrades.

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