Huh, seems to be a real issue. In that case I change my recommendation to a 570 if possible. I have two Sapphire RX570 ITX cards running, no problems. They are very quiet in desktop / media use and powerful enough to have some fun with most games.
For me personally the low profile idea for my testsystem seems to be doneski anyway because there just aren’t any of those cards available here in Germany. (Also the pricing seems to be mental on those.)
at this point, my priority list for my host-system card is 10 bpc support, lots of display out ports and hardware codec encode/decode for popular codecs, since using the main gpu for rendering or compute degrades the desktop experience while doing so. If there was a mobo that let you hang 4 dp outputs off an igpu that’d be closer to what I need than most things.
It’s a shame that GT620 just barely doesn’t meet your requirements. A GT710 or newer will work. Considering you already got up and running with a nVidia card, a GT710 would probably be plug and play. Anything cheap that meets your resolution requirements would be fine. Just be certain to do a search for the maximum resolution of whatever you choose before you buy.
I don’t know what kind of selling/trading sites are available to you locally, but maybe you can find someone locally that is upgrading to buy from. I’d imagine someone replacing an OEM GT710 would let it go for little money.
Yes, you can get them even cheaper if you look around, I know EVGA will sell B-Stock on sale every once in a while. The OP isn’t in the US so I haven’t any clue what the market is like there, what purchasing options are available, or what kind of fees would be incurred buying outside of the country.
If there are hard lock issues with the 550, a 560 is actually worth the investment, along with a new PSU, since the one that came with the OEM Acer system might not be worth it in the long run.
depends on the card but the ootb experience with nouveau is gonna be the same on all nv cards if you wanna shift into stallman mode, and radeon works fine for driving displays if you go into the very oldest firepros available, but most of them will work fine.
but yeah obviously do some reading if you’re looking for a display only card on linux
I’m one of those people who updates everything as soon as there is an update. I don’t like to think I’m not running the latest (and presumably) best version available to me.
I actually have 3x R9 280X Sapphire cards that someone gave me. I just tried hooking one (tried all 3 actually) of them up to my system. I had to jerry rig an external power supply as my inbuilt one hasn’t enough connectors.
So with the GPU external to the desktop (using a riser cable) I got the thing spinning up but couldn’t get any output.
If I left the Nvidia card in the system the display connected to that came on. When I took the nvidia card out there was nothing.
Not sure if it’s a driver issue or what but worries me a bit that I’ll buy a new card plug it in and won’t be able to get any display because my machine has Nvidia drivers.