Zotac GTX 650 LP

[leungclj]

Any seen this, or have this yet?

http://www.zotacusa.com/geforce-gtx-650-lp-zt-61008-10m.html

Would like to know if its any good...

 

[xyexz]

First off, could you resize that picture - it's GIANT man.

Secondly, to know if it's "any good" would depend on your uses - honestly this card would suck imo for a LP card as it's not single slot and wouldn't fit any pretty much any of the cases that would required a LP card.

If you want a good LP card, go with the Sapphire HD 7750 LP - it's cheaper to boot.

It's been used a lot on these forums and most have had great success with it when given the use cases for something like this.

 

[Zap]

Radeon 7750 vs GTX 650

Some things the GTX 650 wins by a lot, others Radeon 7750 wins by a bit or ties. So I think GTX 650 is overall the faster card.

However, I believe the Radeon 7750 to be the better low profile card. Look at power draw (not noise and heat, which has to do with the cooler used). Radeon 7750 uses a lot less power under load, by as much as 22W. That is why the Zotac requires a dual slot cooler, which makes it fail in any low profile ITX case like the Antec ISK 300. You can only use that Zotac in low profile micro ATX cases like the Silverstone Milo ML03B.

 

[IanM]

First off, could you resize that picture - it's GIANT man.

Agreed, this is way too high res to put directly in a post. It would be better scaled and a copy uploaded to imgur or imageshack (their upload options actually include a scaling option if you don't want to faff about with an image editor)

 

[Zap]

What, you guys aren't all running monitors at 2560 pixels wide?

 

[adjas]

What, you guys aren't all running monitors at 2560 pixels wide?

You're on the money, the pic fits my korean monitor perfectly !!

 

[updawg]

I know this is an ugly case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133214

But it would work nice in that thermaltake case.

 

[leungclj]

ok guys, so i bought the 7750 out of desperation, since the 650 is only available in US (i am in HK), the 7750 is soooo quite, i used to have sparkle GTS 250, it was incredibly loud...

the 7750 is ever so quiet even under heavy load (at least I dont notice it)

cant believe how much performance increased I have from this little card.

My case can actually support dual slot low profile card easily. Long ones too.

I was actually very suspicious that it didnt have to use the 6pin power cable, can it actually deliver some punch? well, yea, good enough.

I am only playing guild wars 2, on mid-high settings now, something I couldnt with the GTS 250...

My CPU is E8600, dont know if that will bottleneck the graphics card tho...

my case is AOpen H360c
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aopen-H360C-.../dp/B002469CL6
not the best at cooling.