I have to say, I'm impressed. Framing it in terms of Xbox 360 performance is the perfect .comparison. I have many games from this era installed on the Steam Deck and they run perfectly with excellent battery life on there. We think the 360 was revolutionary and powerful, and it was, but it was also brilliantly efficient.
As I was getting ready for this video I tested out a few of the xbox 360 games and I was kinda shocked at how BAD they ran. Sub 30 fps, low settings, screen tearing. I swear they looked so much better in my memories! I guess our standards have increased a lot. The GT 710 felt GREAT compared after the 360 test :P
@@TechDweeb on yeah, even on a modem console (series x or s), I have a hard time playing them unless they have the FPS boost and high res bump. They were literally locked down by the software, I guess so that one game wouldn't stand out that much over another at the time
A) No problem on the voice. It's what caught my attention the first time I stumbled across one of your videos eons of your years ago. 2) I lean toward Radeon cards since they have native drivers in the Linux kernel, but I will say that this is the first positive review of the 710 I have yet seen online. I salute your iconoclastic spirit.
Pretty good TD, like hanging out on your channel even when the content subject matter is a little mundane... I'll never buy a GT 710 but It is cool to witness the progress of technology over the last couple decades.... now we can get decent performance for these games on a 20$ card, impressive.... MOST Impressive it is almost as powerful as the emperor has forseen..... I'm with you on HL, most important game of our generation.... and I'm hoping that "Neon Prime" turns out to be HL3 but I'm sick of getting my hopes up....
100% agree with the point about HL. I think HL:Alyx is what HL3 was supposed to be. I've followed HL3 talk & leaks pretty closely over the last many years. Valve were being very coy a few years ago when they talked about HL3 during the dawn of VR. They kept talking about how they are developing for new technology, new ways of interacting with the world, new experiences. At the same time they invested heavily in VR development and Steam Boxes, they obviously wanted to tackle the console market, but I think the hardware took too long to reach the point where a VR HL would make sense. By that point they'd 'disappointed' so many gamers by leading them on about HL3 and expectations were so impossibly high that they scrapped the idea of it being a direct sequel and narrowed the scope for HL:Alyx so that they could actually release the thing they'd been working on without it being a huge "HL3 ISN'T WHAT WE WERE PROMISED!" situation. I haven't played HL:Alyx (I'm hoping to in the new year!), I'm hoping I enjoy it for what it is rather than being disappointed by what it isn't. Of course I'm excited to hear what they have planned for Neon Prime. Before Alyx was released I'd have said that valve don't have any interest in making good games anymore and only care about money, but Alyx looks legit like a ton of love and care went into it so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
This was 100% a refreshing look at the GT 710. I dig your perspective on this and I am so glad you made a video showing it's best qualities instead of it's worst. Kudos! You just got yourself a like and a new sub!
We all complain how expensive our PC gaming hobby has become (and it has), but for the ppl who don't need to play the newest games at the highest resolution, it can be almost free.
Yeah if i was still only doing TF2, killingfloor 1, half-life mods, left 4 dead 2 i would pretty much be able too use my athlon II x3 445 unlocked too a quadcore, 8 gb ram via 2 gb sticks & hd 5770 still.
I saw a guy on Reddit who managed to ziptie on a arctic accelero 3 custom cooler on a geforce 210, the cooler was so big that it stopped the card from going into a pcie slot.
The gt710 was my first graphics card for my low profile pc I grabbed from my school, I played a bunch of source games on it and they ran just fine. In fact I still have my gt710, it’s an asus 1gb gddr5 model and I’m pretty sure it still works.
Have one of these laying in my spare parts bin! Really enjoyed you shedding some light on the gt710. Has its merits if it's a fill in and expectations are realistic
I just bought a one gigglebyte gdddddr3 Radeon HD4670 for 25 dollars to upgrade a core 2 duo system I installed Linux Mint onto. If you stick to games from the era, it runs gangbusters. I got 30ish FPS in CS:Source with the built in IGPU, (on low settings) and I got 155 FPS with the card, all settings CRANKED.
I just enjoyed watching this video. I think it's really cool that you gave it a fair shake, and pointed out the feasibility of gaming for $20. Skyrim and Half Life 2 alone are worth it. Pretty cool for someone who enjoys max budget, or can't afford much.
@@TechDweeb I'd recommend duckstation for playstation 1, fantastic free emulator even on android, think randomgaminginhd covered it too after i mentioned it in one of his comments at some point. ppsspp for psp emulation (Burnout legends is great on there.) (Think that's how it's spelled at least that emulator, been like 4 - 5 years since i touched it.) (Did play that psp emulator on my Lenovo T420 with the intel hd 3000 graphics & a ps3 controller i got for free a few years ago, paired up fine too bluetooth via scptoolkit drivers & having it hooked up too usb initially for pairing.) Dolphin is ofc wii, gamecube & i think wii u as well was added in at some point ? Gpu wise if my gtx 1660 super suddenly dies I'll temporarily have too use either my first new gpu the hd 5770 or the replacement which was less of a jump up in performance then expected the hd 6870 from my dads pc.
starcraft 2 on lowest settings 1080 p my gt 710 is getting like 120 to even 200 fps i mean the gt 710 is okay if u gonna use it for a week when ur gpu burned or whatever
Bioshock was a great game, played through it over the summer on a pc with a hd4850 even though I know I could full well play it at 4k max on my main pc without worrying about a 93c gpu.
Great video, TD. I think we sometimes grossly underestimate just how many people live within the constraints of this budget. It's gaming...a frivolous pastime...and many people can't justify paying exorbitant amounts of money on it. You're doing good work by shining a light on the budget end of this beloved pastime. :0) By the way, another card in this budget range that performs just as well, if not a little better, is the Radeon r7 250. Picked up a low profile GDDR5 version of this card for an SFF build I'm messing with and am looking forward to seeing how she does. Keep up the great work!
isn't the R7 250 a rebadged HD 7750? I had an HD 7770 back in the day (2013ish) and it wasn't terrible at all... I imagine the next step down wasn't significantly worse.
19W TDP is impressive for a low-profile card that's still available and has its use case. I ran it on pfSense 24/7 w/ a 780i motherboard that required a dedicated GPU for a few years. It's nice to see it playable in modern games.
I had a gt 620 and that was worse than the gt 710, still it gave me quite a few hours of fun with many games together with a SFF office pc, now luckily someone gave me a gt 730, a GPU that I would have loved to have in its time (and now i have a gtx 1050ti and an rtx 2060 and that's enough for now), now i plan to find a use for it like you did with that gt 710.
I clicked on this video because I have a GT 710 in my Lenovo 920 SFF so I want to know what TechDweeb says about it. It's one of maybe two GPU's that will fit in a SFF 920 without mods. As I suspected, when used in the context of when this card was released, it works fine. I have plenty of games from it's era so no problem there. Thanks TechDweeb.
Man, this brought back memories of when my brother and I only had an old pc and the first 'real' gpu we got was a Radeon HD5450. We tried running the newer games at the time and I remember being so excited when a game even ran at all at 720p with 15-30 fps on low. And yet, I enjoyed it. It was so much fun (but also pain when the games would stutter). When a really well optimized game like Half Life 2 or Bioshock ran smoothly it felt like it was Christmas lol. I used to have so much patience for the games I loved, I didn't care if the gameplay wasn't smooth, I just loved immersing myself. It kinda makes me think that these days I take too many things for granted...
So much to say, here… … firstly, I love the sweetness and optimism in all of your videos. It would’ve been so much easier here to say, “well, *this* is shit…”, but you went the other way. And you were right to do so. We’re spoilt, and too often we fail to appreciate that the era we’re living in will soon become the past. Secondly, New Vegas is the Fallout game I’ve enjoyed the most. The engine is shonky by modern standards (see above…), but the writing is excellent. If you play on, I’d love to see a video about it. Thirdly, people being rude to other people for ‘not being good enough’ at online games are wankers. Playing games is meant to be *fun*, right…? Anyway: TechDweeb for Galactic President.
Thanks for noticing! I like looking at the positive side, especially when everyone is being negative. I usually land on the positive side for most of the things I check out on the channel. It's easy to hate on stuff, it's harder to see the redeeming qualities. I find when I take the time to try to see things in the best light I discover lots of things I never expected to find.
I've purchased a gt730, ddr3 version a few years back for a song. It was intended for a Batocera machine, to help out the i3 4130 a bit. And then the Batocera team announced they'll drop the support thanks to nVidia dropping support. And then my gt730 ended up in a drawer, I haven't even tried if it's broken yet. It's an hp card, 8x pcie length, ridiculously small thing.
So today I learned that you had the same taste in games and almost played every game I played growing up except for Red Faction: Guerilla. You even played it on the Xbox 360. Shared the Xbox 360 with my brother, and even played on the PS3 at the same time. That...was the last generation of games I dove head first into. After that...life happened 😑 Still awesome to see these games again though. And cool to see the GT710 working that way. I enjoy more low powered GPUs. Which is why this GTX 1050 2gb will be with me forever. It can go into any unit or tower and just work.
the one I had a genuine blast with was the EVGA GT1030 2gig with passive cooling, for $100 and being purely silent, it was really impressive with how well it performed. Made a semi-passive solution with a passive cooler on my AM4 CPU that was only dual core with 16gigs of DDR4 2400ghz RAM, was extremely quiet using only case fans for cooling and handled 1080 gaming very well as long as it wasnt the most current AAA titles and I did this in early 2020 too
I'm a big fan of the 1030 too. That was my first GPU review actually. I still have that in my media center PC and every now and then I fire up a game on it just for fun and I'm usually impressed at how well it does considering the size, TDP, and price.
I actually have one of these (Gigabyte DDR5 version) in my very old motherboard. I think it was because it had a VGA port for my monitor (also very old) and the specs seemed okay (not that I'm the best judge of that stuff). Currently planning on upgrading my CPU and motherboard so I'm gonna try overclocking it. I don't do hardcore gaming but may as well squeeze out some extra performance.
When ever I listen to Final Fantasy 6 music it often feels like coming home. SO I do get what you mean. Also This video has reminded me of my own Steam back log of games. I shall make an effort to play at least 1 new one a month. Very cool info about Red Faction. I played it on PC some time ago and had fun. Yep. I used to have fun with League of Legends until all the elite jerks got in on un-ranked casual games.
I think we all get "sentimental" vibes from old games. That's why I have my NES collection. I still hook up the old consol and beat Zelda every so often
old addage, no such thing as a bad gpu, just a bad price... while thats not always true, once you get to pocket change price point, so long as it actually functions it has its uses. Just don't pay $110 for it :P
GT710 - it's a GPU. Not a great GPU, it can output a display on multiple monitors. Great for office work but only good for older games, which is fine if that's all you play.
I ended up with a GT 710 because it was $5 and I set out to find what I can do with it, this was exactly the video I was looking for. I may pull the GT 1030 out of my Windows XP machine and replace it with this so I can repurpose the GT 1030 for...something? Orange box games, Freelancer, Mechwarrior 3 and 4, Mech Commander 2, Unreal Tournament 2004, Alien vs. Predator 2, everything I used to love at LAN parties in high school will run amazingly well on this card that pulls less power than my cell phone charger.
I have msi gt 710 2 GB version I play well Mafia 2 definitive game it is very playbale even though I had rx 580 oc but i bought this one for nvidia workstation and montage etc .
Great review, no problem with the voice, think it fits the dweeb theme your going for with the channel. Looking at one of these for a retro XP build, your review makes it look like a promising choice for that purpose.
Dude.....I like it! At LONG last, someone who doesn't live with his head up his a*s (and refuses to be satisfied with anything less than the very newest, top-end mega-hyper-expensive graphics card and the most complicated AAA+ titles). Kudos for being happy with a "cooking" GPU that everybody else turns their noses up at and takes the p**s out of. And thanks for a totally refreshing take on this wee card.....unlike several I could mention!! I'm on Linux, and originally bought this card to assist with video-rendering on a middle-of-the-road HP Pavilion. I was gobsmacked when I found out just how well this thing CAN cope with 'older' titles, that most folks have long since passed by. I mostly play around for the odd half-hour with indie titles like Xonotic, RedEclipse, UrbanTerror and AssaultCube. I occasionally play around with Half-Life2 under WINE, and sometimes Castle Wolfenstein & Doom.....but this little GPU is perfectly "liveable-with" IF you don't mind lowering your standards. At the end of the day, "Are we having fun yet"? Yes, we ARE..! Another "like", AND another subscription. Good on you! And dude......nowt wrong with the voice. Too many 'smoothies' out there who think they're God's gift to TH-cam. You're "all right" in MY book!
Thanks buddy! I agree, so many people focus on what it CAN'T do, rather than what it CAN. And it can do a lot, there's decades worth of older games that run really well on this thing.
@@TechDweeb :- I have to confess, my entire computing career - and that dates back to the start of the home computer revolution in the early 80s! - has always been done "on a budget". I've never been in the position of throwing the price of a decent second-hand car at fancy electronics; in all honesty, I can think of plenty of other things I NEED to spend my hard-earnt income on! (like a roof over my head, food in my belly and clothes on my back, y'know?) Gotta prioritize..... In real terms, though, the cost of most electronics has dropped immensely over the years - GPUs, crypto and COVID notwithstanding in recent years - and it's possible to have a decent computing experience for relatively little outlay these days. Average folk have to live within their budgets.....but there's ALWAYS that 5% or so that constantly feel the need to brag!! Love the channel, mate. Keep up the good work!
Guys, I have a gt 710 from Colorful. It has 2 gb ddr3 vram(fan mode).With MSI afterburner I can overclock the core clocks but memory clock wont apply. I don't know why bit I tried reinstalling gpu drivers but apparently nothing works. Any thoughts or solution on this?
Great vid Dweeb, You do have to play New Vegas, more than once. It's the best Fallout game there ever was. How does it preform with old school emulation?
@@TechDweeb That would be interesting... I wonder how it would do on a system like Gamecube or PS3. You make that vid and I'll find those rude DOTA 2 People and fix their wagon. They should help people play and not shame them for not excelling at it right out of the gate. People like that make me mad and while they're sleeping I'd like to cover their floor in loose legos. That will learn them good.
Will a normal gt 710 2 gig be able to use windows 11. Will it be able to watch movies on netflix. Will i be able to run discord? My monitor is all 1080p. I dont want to even game man but i can find no answers. Please help me kind sir
Can you maybe do a video about 720p gaming and making 720p look as good as possible but also upload the video and record in 4k so that we dont see the yourube video compression making us not see 720ps true quality.
cool idea but it would only work for a while since they're constantly recompressing video on their servers. I know because I've downloaded some videos more than once and the later videos are smaller.
@@SeeJayPlayGames interesting. So they are constantly moving the videos around on there servers? And then those videos lose some information overtime? Thats the only way I can think of why this happens since it doesn’t make sense that they keep re downloading and uploading the videos. But thats ashame. Then he must make it 8k lol since then it will last twice as long lol
@@andrevj6644 IDK for sure, their servers might be reactively recompressing high-volume streams to reduce bandwidth load and maybe sometimes that doesn't work out so well for the content. One time I was idly letting TH-cam autoplay and it showed a clip from LTT's WAN show that was about 8 years old and it had suffered some serious degradation... like corruption. Like streaky colors and whatnot. Maybe no one cares about such old content anymore, but it's still there... degraded, but there.
the games are more expensive than the card so with the performance it showed I can't really complain , good card if you need something to throw at a dell optiplex or an oem build and try it out for yourself
The issue isn't that it's "bad" It's better than most people had as kids, unless you're basically a kid now you'd have had worse, and obviously it has its uses when you have no integrated graphics or you need multiple display ports, but it's hated by gamers because it doesn't perform better than integrated graphics which most people have making them a scam for anything gaming related when sold new.
maybe we can repurpose old tech to save the planet, ive a 3020 and im sold on your ideas, but im still researching and i like your voice techDweeb ... yaya
ok sorry but the fact that you can buy the gtx 1650 for $70 or rx 6500 xt $130 or even gtx $970 for 70 or gtx 760 for $30 and even the gtx 1070 for $140 if you are lucky and the GTX 1660 SUPER FOR $120 no sorry no no no no!!!!! sorry
i'm late to this video..we're in October at the time i comment..this was like the beginning of the year...but apart from great entertaining video as always just wanted to add that hardly anyone would actually deliberately buy one of these unlike Mr Tech Dweeb...if we got one it'd be bundled/prefitted in a low end budget rig...and then after tutting about it...we would get past the disappointment and try it with 10 or 15 year old games...just like as shown...which as Tech Dweeb proved is quite capable of doing...i have one in a Dell and a few other cheapie graphic cards in the drawer...my GT730 is one of the better ones but i've moved onto emulation station now with a Radeon R7...a graphics processor from about 2015/16...the last one i'll ever buy...but you can run Batocera on a low end one like this GT710 anyway
Watching this video, I have a question for you. Let's steer away from gaming just for one moment. Lets talk about video DE-coding (not encoding). What is the cheapest computer (or device such as a old DVD player with a USB Port) that can be used for video playback? I presume that a video of 480p and encoded using h.264 is the bare minimum nowadays. Many thanks T.D.
Oh man you can get away with a pretty darn old PC for just decoding. I have an old i5 2400 machine that I tinker with and that can handle decoding H.264. I think any processor with built-in graphics should be able to handle decoding. H.264 is ancient (2003, according to my googling). I'd guess that your cheapest option would be a 'mini pc' style machine.
Can this GPU play the PC Version of Chrono Trigger? 😂 Lol Nah. I know it can. That is the game I am playing now. I can't believe I skipped out on that masterpiece of a JRPG this whole time.
@@TechDweeb dude. It is becoming one of my top ten games of all time. And since my old laptop can play it, that is what I have been using. And since it is turn based combat, I don't need a controller for it. The keyboard works fine. It's not too level grind heavy either, it seems.
@@TechDweeb oh. It's also usually five US dollars cheaper on the Google Play store, and any of your many retro handhelds will easily play it. Square Enjx ports a lot of their classics to mobile. Or you can just get the SNES ROM and play it on an emulator. But then you miss out on newer content that was added.
I have to say, I'm impressed. Framing it in terms of Xbox 360 performance is the perfect .comparison. I have many games from this era installed on the Steam Deck and they run perfectly with excellent battery life on there. We think the 360 was revolutionary and powerful, and it was, but it was also brilliantly efficient.
As I was getting ready for this video I tested out a few of the xbox 360 games and I was kinda shocked at how BAD they ran. Sub 30 fps, low settings, screen tearing. I swear they looked so much better in my memories! I guess our standards have increased a lot. The GT 710 felt GREAT compared after the 360 test :P
@@TechDweeb on yeah, even on a modem console (series x or s), I have a hard time playing them unless they have the FPS boost and high res bump. They were literally locked down by the software, I guess so that one game wouldn't stand out that much over another at the time
A) No problem on the voice. It's what caught my attention the first time I stumbled across one of your videos eons of your years ago.
2) I lean toward Radeon cards since they have native drivers in the Linux kernel, but I will say that this is the first positive review of the 710 I have yet seen online. I salute your iconoclastic spirit.
Exactly this.
Pretty good TD, like hanging out on your channel even when the content subject matter is a little mundane... I'll never buy a GT 710 but It is cool to witness the progress of technology over the last couple decades.... now we can get decent performance for these games on a 20$ card, impressive.... MOST Impressive it is almost as powerful as the emperor has forseen..... I'm with you on HL, most important game of our generation.... and I'm hoping that "Neon Prime" turns out to be HL3 but I'm sick of getting my hopes up....
100% agree with the point about HL. I think HL:Alyx is what HL3 was supposed to be. I've followed HL3 talk & leaks pretty closely over the last many years. Valve were being very coy a few years ago when they talked about HL3 during the dawn of VR. They kept talking about how they are developing for new technology, new ways of interacting with the world, new experiences. At the same time they invested heavily in VR development and Steam Boxes, they obviously wanted to tackle the console market, but I think the hardware took too long to reach the point where a VR HL would make sense. By that point they'd 'disappointed' so many gamers by leading them on about HL3 and expectations were so impossibly high that they scrapped the idea of it being a direct sequel and narrowed the scope for HL:Alyx so that they could actually release the thing they'd been working on without it being a huge "HL3 ISN'T WHAT WE WERE PROMISED!" situation. I haven't played HL:Alyx (I'm hoping to in the new year!), I'm hoping I enjoy it for what it is rather than being disappointed by what it isn't.
Of course I'm excited to hear what they have planned for Neon Prime. Before Alyx was released I'd have said that valve don't have any interest in making good games anymore and only care about money, but Alyx looks legit like a ton of love and care went into it so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
This was 100% a refreshing look at the GT 710. I dig your perspective on this and I am so glad you made a video showing it's best qualities instead of it's worst. Kudos! You just got yourself a like and a new sub!
Thanks for saying so. And welcome!
9:55 - love this channel! I think u got into my recommendations while I was binging his stuff
Brilliant video; haters gonna hate!
We all complain how expensive our PC gaming hobby has become (and it has), but for the ppl who don't need to play the newest games at the highest resolution, it can be almost free.
Yeah if i was still only doing TF2, killingfloor 1, half-life mods, left 4 dead 2 i would pretty much be able too use my athlon II x3 445 unlocked too a quadcore, 8 gb ram via 2 gb sticks & hd 5770 still.
I saw a guy on Reddit who managed to ziptie on a arctic accelero 3 custom cooler on a geforce 210, the cooler was so big that it stopped the card from going into a pcie slot.
He's doing god's work
The gt710 was my first graphics card for my low profile pc I grabbed from my school, I played a bunch of source games on it and they ran just fine. In fact I still have my gt710, it’s an asus 1gb gddr5 model and I’m pretty sure it still works.
the gt 1030's way way better💀💀
@@raven4k998 never said the GT710 was good, just my first.
Have one of these laying in my spare parts bin! Really enjoyed you shedding some light on the gt710. Has its merits if it's a fill in and expectations are realistic
I just bought a one gigglebyte gdddddr3 Radeon HD4670 for 25 dollars to upgrade a core 2 duo system I installed Linux Mint onto. If you stick to games from the era, it runs gangbusters. I got 30ish FPS in CS:Source with the built in IGPU, (on low settings) and I got 155 FPS with the card, all settings CRANKED.
I love these types of videos. I remember green ham gaming doing a video 4k gaming on a core 2 duo & gt1030.
I just enjoyed watching this video. I think it's really cool that you gave it a fair shake, and pointed out the feasibility of gaming for $20. Skyrim and Half Life 2 alone are worth it. Pretty cool for someone who enjoys max budget, or can't afford much.
Would have loved if you had shown us emulation performance on this gpu, good video as always.
I plan on doing a separate emulation video!
@@TechDweeb I'd recommend duckstation for playstation 1, fantastic free emulator even on android, think randomgaminginhd covered it too after i mentioned it in one of his comments at some point.
ppsspp for psp emulation (Burnout legends is great on there.)
(Think that's how it's spelled at least that emulator, been like 4 - 5 years since i touched it.)
(Did play that psp emulator on my Lenovo T420 with the intel hd 3000 graphics & a ps3 controller i got for free a few years ago, paired up fine too bluetooth via scptoolkit drivers & having it hooked up too usb initially for pairing.)
Dolphin is ofc wii, gamecube & i think wii u as well was added in at some point ?
Gpu wise if my gtx 1660 super suddenly dies I'll temporarily have too use either my first new gpu the hd 5770 or the replacement which was less of a jump up in performance then expected the hd 6870 from my dads pc.
I think you mentioned something about this card, spinal surgery, and cyborgs, in a earlier video...
In these mad times we need madmen!
starcraft 2 on lowest settings 1080 p my gt 710 is getting like 120 to even 200 fps i mean the gt 710 is okay if u gonna use it for a week when ur gpu burned or whatever
I got this one used for around 31 bucks on July 2022, not for gaming, but for my 3700X home server. Its TDP is perfect for server with no iGPU.
Bioshock was a great game, played through it over the summer on a pc with a hd4850 even though I know I could full well play it at 4k max on my main pc without worrying about a 93c gpu.
Great video, TD. I think we sometimes grossly underestimate just how many people live within the constraints of this budget. It's gaming...a frivolous pastime...and many people can't justify paying exorbitant amounts of money on it. You're doing good work by shining a light on the budget end of this beloved pastime. :0) By the way, another card in this budget range that performs just as well, if not a little better, is the Radeon r7 250. Picked up a low profile GDDR5 version of this card for an SFF build I'm messing with and am looking forward to seeing how she does. Keep up the great work!
I have an R7 250 to test out on the channel soon too!
It was the one I featured in this vid: th-cam.com/video/7tIme4ed8n8/w-d-xo.html
But I plan on doing a dedicated vid at some point soon.
isn't the R7 250 a rebadged HD 7750? I had an HD 7770 back in the day (2013ish) and it wasn't terrible at all... I imagine the next step down wasn't significantly worse.
OOoo... i LOVE BRUTAL LEGEND !~! one of my top 3 favs for pc games back in the era :) very good coverage on the renowned GT 710,
19W TDP is impressive for a low-profile card that's still available and has its use case. I ran it on pfSense 24/7 w/ a 780i motherboard that required a dedicated GPU for a few years. It's nice to see it playable in modern games.
I had a gt 620 and that was worse than the gt 710, still it gave me quite a few hours of fun with many games together with a SFF office pc, now luckily someone gave me a gt 730, a GPU that I would have loved to have in its time (and now i have a gtx 1050ti and an rtx 2060 and that's enough for now), now i plan to find a use for it like you did with that gt 710.
I clicked on this video because I have a GT 710 in my Lenovo 920 SFF so I want to know what TechDweeb says about it. It's one of maybe two GPU's that will fit in a SFF 920 without mods. As I suspected, when used in the context of when this card was released, it works fine. I have plenty of games from it's era so no problem there. Thanks TechDweeb.
Amazing for my home server. No fan and everything is HD instead of 1024*768 lol
I got one for 8$ and for older games it can surely do just fine. To me there is a use for every GPU if you don't expect the unexpected.
Man, this brought back memories of when my brother and I only had an old pc and the first 'real' gpu we got was a Radeon HD5450. We tried running the newer games at the time and I remember being so excited when a game even ran at all at 720p with 15-30 fps on low. And yet, I enjoyed it. It was so much fun (but also pain when the games would stutter). When a really well optimized game like Half Life 2 or Bioshock ran smoothly it felt like it was Christmas lol.
I used to have so much patience for the games I loved, I didn't care if the gameplay wasn't smooth, I just loved immersing myself.
It kinda makes me think that these days I take too many things for granted...
Well said. Same.
@@TechDweeb Thank you for this video, it was really enjoyable. And after all it also made me realise some things about myself:)
So much to say, here…
… firstly, I love the sweetness and optimism in all of your videos. It would’ve been so much easier here to say, “well, *this* is shit…”, but you went the other way. And you were right to do so. We’re spoilt, and too often we fail to appreciate that the era we’re living in will soon become the past.
Secondly, New Vegas is the Fallout game I’ve enjoyed the most. The engine is shonky by modern standards (see above…), but the writing is excellent. If you play on, I’d love to see a video about it.
Thirdly, people being rude to other people for ‘not being good enough’ at online games are wankers. Playing games is meant to be *fun*, right…?
Anyway: TechDweeb for Galactic President.
Thanks for noticing! I like looking at the positive side, especially when everyone is being negative. I usually land on the positive side for most of the things I check out on the channel. It's easy to hate on stuff, it's harder to see the redeeming qualities. I find when I take the time to try to see things in the best light I discover lots of things I never expected to find.
@@TechDweeb Amen, Dweeb.
I've purchased a gt730, ddr3 version a few years back for a song. It was intended for a Batocera machine, to help out the i3 4130 a bit. And then the Batocera team announced they'll drop the support thanks to nVidia dropping support. And then my gt730 ended up in a drawer, I haven't even tried if it's broken yet. It's an hp card, 8x pcie length, ridiculously small thing.
I have one of those that I'll be testing out soon too!
@@TechDweeb and I'm probably the only person looking forward to it 😁 oh, wait, this channel is full of us dweebs. Nevermind.
So today I learned that you had the same taste in games and almost played every game I played growing up except for Red Faction: Guerilla. You even played it on the Xbox 360. Shared the Xbox 360 with my brother, and even played on the PS3 at the same time. That...was the last generation of games I dove head first into. After that...life happened 😑
Still awesome to see these games again though. And cool to see the GT710 working that way. I enjoy more low powered GPUs. Which is why this GTX 1050 2gb will be with me forever. It can go into any unit or tower and just work.
The 360 era was such a great era of games!
@@TechDweeb Every era has some form of great games. It's just sucks that I don't have time for them all 🤣😂😭
One more point in gt710ddr3 favour:
Cheapest hackintosh GPU with full acceleration and metal support.
the one I had a genuine blast with was the EVGA GT1030 2gig with passive cooling, for $100 and being purely silent, it was really impressive with how well it performed. Made a semi-passive solution with a passive cooler on my AM4 CPU that was only dual core with 16gigs of DDR4 2400ghz RAM, was extremely quiet using only case fans for cooling and handled 1080 gaming very well as long as it wasnt the most current AAA titles and I did this in early 2020 too
I'm a big fan of the 1030 too. That was my first GPU review actually. I still have that in my media center PC and every now and then I fire up a game on it just for fun and I'm usually impressed at how well it does considering the size, TDP, and price.
@@TechDweeb holy crap, didnt expect a response! thanks for that! I will be sure to look for that video..
17:24 DUDE. Two words. LAN PARTY!
I actually have one of these (Gigabyte DDR5 version) in my very old motherboard. I think it was because it had a VGA port for my monitor (also very old) and the specs seemed okay (not that I'm the best judge of that stuff). Currently planning on upgrading my CPU and motherboard so I'm gonna try overclocking it. I don't do hardcore gaming but may as well squeeze out some extra performance.
Some years ago I got a bargain GT 710 2gb DDR5 for my old HTPC, only 10€ in Wallapop! I wonder how different are the DDR5 version vs. DDR3
Haha I've never heard of Wallapop before now!
@@TechDweeb Ooops, I didn't know Wallapop is a Spanish market place. I thought it was an international one.
Very good video, on point as usual.
Immense pleasure i too also had destroying buildings in Red faction guerrilla, that's my good old college days.
It’s a great card for troubleshooting faulty computers.
When ever I listen to Final Fantasy 6 music it often feels like coming home. SO I do get what you mean.
Also This video has reminded me of my own Steam back log of games. I shall make an effort to play at least 1 new one a month.
Very cool info about Red Faction. I played it on PC some time ago and had fun.
Yep. I used to have fun with League of Legends until all the elite jerks got in on un-ranked casual games.
Imma do what you did and overclock it because i have a 710
I think I lasted about a month on a gt 710 before upgrading. I remember it working for what I needed but I def can't go back lol
Fun video. And I still feel the same about Skyrim! I can't believe you never played New Vegas though. It was probably the best of the games!!
I think we all get "sentimental" vibes from old games. That's why I have my NES collection. I still hook up the old consol and beat Zelda every so often
old addage, no such thing as a bad gpu, just a bad price... while thats not always true, once you get to pocket change price point, so long as it actually functions it has its uses. Just don't pay $110 for it :P
Finally! A real and genuine video
GT 710 is super popular display card
GT710 - it's a GPU. Not a great GPU, it can output a display on multiple monitors. Great for office work but only good for older games, which is fine if that's all you play.
I like that tagline. "The GT 710. It's a GPU!"
I ended up with a GT 710 because it was $5 and I set out to find what I can do with it, this was exactly the video I was looking for. I may pull the GT 1030 out of my Windows XP machine and replace it with this so I can repurpose the GT 1030 for...something? Orange box games, Freelancer, Mechwarrior 3 and 4, Mech Commander 2, Unreal Tournament 2004, Alien vs. Predator 2, everything I used to love at LAN parties in high school will run amazingly well on this card that pulls less power than my cell phone charger.
I have msi gt 710 2 GB version I play well Mafia 2 definitive game it is very playbale even though I had rx 580 oc but i bought this one for nvidia workstation and montage etc .
Your right but the 2gb is ddr 5 is like a few quid more
Tbh if you are down bad and only can afford a gt710 and new vegas, you have granted atleast 150 hours of gameplay
Great review, no problem with the voice, think it fits the dweeb theme your going for with the channel. Looking at one of these for a retro XP build, your review makes it look like a promising choice for that purpose.
Thanks buddy. I agree, I think this would be a great gpu for an XP build. There's an XP driver too!
Is 100 eur for a premade gt 710 Intel core duo e8400 6gb ram was it worth it? I can play tomb raider on medium or high settings
I don't see any video links in the description
Doh! My bad. Thanks for letting me know - I just added them.
Dude.....I like it! At LONG last, someone who doesn't live with his head up his a*s (and refuses to be satisfied with anything less than the very newest, top-end mega-hyper-expensive graphics card and the most complicated AAA+ titles). Kudos for being happy with a "cooking" GPU that everybody else turns their noses up at and takes the p**s out of. And thanks for a totally refreshing take on this wee card.....unlike several I could mention!!
I'm on Linux, and originally bought this card to assist with video-rendering on a middle-of-the-road HP Pavilion. I was gobsmacked when I found out just how well this thing CAN cope with 'older' titles, that most folks have long since passed by. I mostly play around for the odd half-hour with indie titles like Xonotic, RedEclipse, UrbanTerror and AssaultCube. I occasionally play around with Half-Life2 under WINE, and sometimes Castle Wolfenstein & Doom.....but this little GPU is perfectly "liveable-with" IF you don't mind lowering your standards. At the end of the day, "Are we having fun yet"? Yes, we ARE..! Another "like", AND another subscription. Good on you!
And dude......nowt wrong with the voice. Too many 'smoothies' out there who think they're God's gift to TH-cam. You're "all right" in MY book!
Thanks buddy! I agree, so many people focus on what it CAN'T do, rather than what it CAN. And it can do a lot, there's decades worth of older games that run really well on this thing.
@@TechDweeb :- I have to confess, my entire computing career - and that dates back to the start of the home computer revolution in the early 80s! - has always been done "on a budget". I've never been in the position of throwing the price of a decent second-hand car at fancy electronics; in all honesty, I can think of plenty of other things I NEED to spend my hard-earnt income on! (like a roof over my head, food in my belly and clothes on my back, y'know?)
Gotta prioritize.....
In real terms, though, the cost of most electronics has dropped immensely over the years - GPUs, crypto and COVID notwithstanding in recent years - and it's possible to have a decent computing experience for relatively little outlay these days. Average folk have to live within their budgets.....but there's ALWAYS that 5% or so that constantly feel the need to brag!!
Love the channel, mate. Keep up the good work!
Guys, I have a gt 710 from Colorful. It has 2 gb ddr3 vram(fan mode).With MSI afterburner I can overclock the core clocks but memory clock wont apply. I don't know why bit I tried reinstalling gpu drivers but apparently nothing works. Any thoughts or solution on this?
The clocks are probably locked down by the vbios on the card. Nothing you can do about that (easily).
If I vbios flash with a zotac bios, will it be overclockable?
Great vid Dweeb, You do have to play New Vegas, more than once. It's the best Fallout game there ever was. How does it preform with old school emulation?
Yeah I think I'm gonna. I'm also planning on doing a separate emulation video. I was playing PS3 on this thing in my test ;)
@@TechDweeb That would be interesting... I wonder how it would do on a system like Gamecube or PS3. You make that vid and I'll find those rude DOTA 2 People and fix their wagon. They should help people play and not shame them for not excelling at it right out of the gate. People like that make me mad and while they're sleeping I'd like to cover their floor in loose legos. That will learn them good.
Will a normal gt 710 2 gig be able to use windows 11. Will it be able to watch movies on netflix. Will i be able to run discord? My monitor is all 1080p. I dont want to even game man but i can find no answers. Please help me kind sir
Yes, Windows 11 requires a GPU with dx12 support, but only feature set 11.0, which the 710 DOES have, so there's no reason it shouldn't work.
Do a video on the 8400GT if you want the worst gpu to do a video on 😉
Nah i got something worse, nvidia 7300 gs 128 mb vram, direct x9c limited.
Dude you leave afterburner minimized while playing? It consumes memory
Oh yeah? How much memory is that?
I mean the afterburner background process, about 8,4 mb, and i didnt get so much more fps, is it worth it?
Can you maybe do a video about 720p gaming and making 720p look as good as possible but also upload the video and record in 4k so that we dont see the yourube video compression making us not see 720ps true quality.
Cool idea!
cool idea but it would only work for a while since they're constantly recompressing video on their servers. I know because I've downloaded some videos more than once and the later videos are smaller.
@@SeeJayPlayGames interesting. So they are constantly moving the videos around on there servers? And then those videos lose some information overtime? Thats the only way I can think of why this happens since it doesn’t make sense that they keep re downloading and uploading the videos. But thats ashame. Then he must make it 8k lol since then it will last twice as long lol
@@andrevj6644 IDK for sure, their servers might be reactively recompressing high-volume streams to reduce bandwidth load and maybe sometimes that doesn't work out so well for the content.
One time I was idly letting TH-cam autoplay and it showed a clip from LTT's WAN show that was about 8 years old and it had suffered some serious degradation... like corruption. Like streaky colors and whatnot. Maybe no one cares about such old content anymore, but it's still there... degraded, but there.
the games are more expensive than the card so with the performance it showed I can't really complain , good card if you need something to throw at a dell optiplex or an oem build and try it out for yourself
The issue isn't that it's "bad"
It's better than most people had as kids, unless you're basically a kid now you'd have had worse, and obviously it has its uses when you have no integrated graphics or you need multiple display ports, but it's hated by gamers because it doesn't perform better than integrated graphics which most people have making them a scam for anything gaming related when sold new.
suggest me games for 8th gen i5 laptop with intel uhd 620 graphics
15:09 coming from my old 286, frankly , ALL modern gaming is FANTASTIC. These kids today, too spoiled by fancy graphics.
Valorant looks like it can run on a PS3 TBH the graphics are bad .... I'm not surprised it can run well on this thing.
Haha yeah it's pretty basic. Actually considering how simple looking it is I'm surprised it doesn't run even better than it does!
Can I use it with my core I 3 laptop
GT - 710 / 730 / 1030 are Display Cards
Every card is a display card if you wait long enough
maybe we can repurpose old tech to save the planet, ive a 3020 and im sold on your ideas, but im still researching and i like your voice techDweeb ... yaya
ok sorry but the fact that you can buy the gtx 1650 for $70 or rx 6500 xt $130 or even gtx $970 for 70 or gtx 760 for $30 and even the gtx 1070 for $140 if you are lucky and the GTX 1660 SUPER FOR $120 no sorry no no no no!!!!! sorry
You ain't wrong!
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why dont this youtubers understand the GT 710 is for pc display only, not to do games, its for school, home or office work.
i'm late to this video..we're in October at the time i comment..this was like the beginning of the year...but apart from great entertaining video as always just wanted to add that hardly anyone would actually deliberately buy one of these unlike Mr Tech Dweeb...if we got one it'd be bundled/prefitted in a low end budget rig...and then after tutting about it...we would get past the disappointment and try it with 10 or 15 year old games...just like as shown...which as Tech Dweeb proved is quite capable of doing...i have one in a Dell and a few other cheapie graphic cards in the drawer...my GT730 is one of the better ones but i've moved onto emulation station now with a Radeon R7...a graphics processor from about 2015/16...the last one i'll ever buy...but you can run Batocera on a low end one like this GT710 anyway
i have gtx 1650 but i have 1280x1024 LOL
There's a life hack right there. Just get yourself a small monitor with a lower resolution, purely for the boost in performance!
GeForce GT 730
😜imagine MAGPIE FSR Losslesslcaling
The best graphics card smh
Hi
Sup
I've found that the GT710 emulates Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube really well.
Watching this video, I have a question for you.
Let's steer away from gaming just for one moment. Lets talk about video DE-coding (not encoding). What is the cheapest computer (or device such as a old DVD player with a USB Port) that can be used for video playback? I presume that a video of 480p and encoded using h.264 is the bare minimum nowadays.
Many thanks T.D.
Oh man you can get away with a pretty darn old PC for just decoding. I have an old i5 2400 machine that I tinker with and that can handle decoding H.264. I think any processor with built-in graphics should be able to handle decoding. H.264 is ancient (2003, according to my googling). I'd guess that your cheapest option would be a 'mini pc' style machine.
@@TechDweeb
Many thanks
Can this GPU play the PC Version of Chrono Trigger? 😂
Lol
Nah. I know it can. That is the game I am playing now. I can't believe I skipped out on that masterpiece of a JRPG this whole time.
I wasn't aware there was a PC version. I suppose I should give it a proper play at some point huh.
@@TechDweeb dude. It is becoming one of my top ten games of all time. And since my old laptop can play it, that is what I have been using. And since it is turn based combat, I don't need a controller for it. The keyboard works fine. It's not too level grind heavy either, it seems.
@@TechDweeb oh. It's also usually five US dollars cheaper on the Google Play store, and any of your many retro handhelds will easily play it.
Square Enjx ports a lot of their classics to mobile.
Or you can just get the SNES ROM and play it on an emulator. But then you miss out on newer content that was added.