For those that would like some e-waste as a side dish to their GTX 1660. Shipping appears to be $9.90 to metro Sydney at checkout
Galax nVidia GeForce GTX 1660 6GB + GT 730 2GB Bundle $389 + $9.90 Delivery @ PCByte
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AussieDeals on 13/04/2022 - 15:13 pcbyte.com.au (477 clicks)
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SLI ?
With 2 different generations, 2 different models??
oh FFS just sell the 1660 at ~$300, some of these bundles are just silly,
You hear that PCByte!
It seems retailers are allergic to giving low end gamers a $300 GTX 1070 equivalent despite 1660s being $320-$400 since 2019. Naturally in 2022 this card should be sub 300. The rx6600 is $50 more and is faster than the GTX 1080
WTF that is a weird bundle
Saw this from their eDM, but wonder why put this as a bundle.
Because their suppliers have been saying for the past year "you can buy the Ampere/RDNA 2 GPU that you want but only if you buy these PSUs/GPUs/etc that we can't really sell" and they all said "fine" because they could sell any GPU that came in the door.
Now that's not true anymore, but they've still got the stock.
This is just a straight up scam, I mean who the (profanity) is using a GT 730 in 2022, maybe as a coaster, and you're far better off just going for a 2060 if you're on a budget, DLSS will take the 2060 far beyond the 1660 performance wise in games that support it, and DLSS is becoming pretty common these days for performance heavy games.
You used to see the cheapest graphics cards in home/office machines quite a bit. Distributors would often have mainboard + graphics card bundles with discounts or bonus items so retailers would make their default builds with them.
Of course everything changed when the crypto nation attacked. And then the transistor shortage nation attacked. And then the worldwide distribution network strain attacked.
I use them as an 8W GPU for use in Ryzen based homeservers.
The 720 is a little more efficient, but the 730 is easier to obtain.
GeForce GT 730 2GB DDR3 is S3 ViRGE level bad
This bundle tells you a couple of things - warehouse rentals are getting expensive and e-waste recycling is being shifted to end customers rather than being done responsibly by the manufacturer/wholesaler
Bang on. Just give them away + postage to desperate end users/Charity. This is wack.
I saw MSI was selling them too…ancient. They are good I suppose if you literally have a desktop without integrated for office/web use
Actual e-waste. Support for the 730 has been discontinued. Sad to think about how many of these will end up in landfill.
If anyone is buying them and also feels this, I will pay postage for them to me, rather than landfill.
They work great with the latest BSD driver, and nouveau drivers to allow non Pro sku Ryzen CPU's to support ECC memory.
I go through a TON of these cards.
"go through"? so they're like a one-time-use thing for your application?
Each customer needs one.
There's a great deal of AM4 boards that wont boot without some form of Graphics processor.
At 8watts, this is currently the best option.
upvoted for the description but this is a weird deal lol
730 can still be used for a htpc
Not really, there's no hardware H.265 (HEVC) decoding support.
So no 4k or x265, and if your CPU supports it, then there is no need for a GT730.
April fools ?
Just FYI, there are three versions of the GT 730. Not all of them are equal
GT730 Fermi edition based on GF108 die. It uses DDR3 memory (yes, the same type of memory you run on your Intel Ivy Bridge system) It comes in 2 variations, 128-bit or 64 bit interface.
GT 730 Kepler edition based on GK208B die. It uses GDDR5 with either 1GB or 2GB configurations in 64 bit interface
And yes - the version that PC-Byte is selling is the loser edition based on Fermi architecture. product page
If you have Intel UHD Graphics 730 or Vega graphics based on AMD Zen (maybe newer than Picasso), you have a more powerful GPU already and installing this in your system is actually a downgrade.
Hysterically, this "loser edition" with its 268.8 GFLOPs actually beats the most powerful computer in the world from 1996 (Hitachi SR2201/1024) in single-precision workloads.
I don't think the gt730 should be looked at as a 'gpu' as much as a display output card. IMO it has it's place if for some reason you need some extra outputs, or if you don't have onboard graphics. Of course, for any sort of real GPU accelerated task, it's pretty much useless.
Yep this is slower than current integrated graphics and serves no other purpose than for troubleshooting or video out for basic office work in PCs without iGPUs. However Techpowerup's database appears to be incomplete.
This GT 730 does indeed appear to be Kepler based rather than Fermi and is most likely GK208-301-A1. What gives it away is the 384 CUDA cores (vs 96 in the older Fermi version) and PCIe 2.0 x8 support (rather than x16 PCIe 2.0 for the Fermi version)
Ah okay, the Galaxy website dubs it as a 2021 re-release, so it looks like this is yet another SKU that combines DDR3 and Kepler architecture.
Keep in mind the RTX 3050 with 8GB VRAM is $416 from BPC Tech (free postage) and while you don't get a "free" GT730 thrown in, you can still source a second hand display output card from eBay for around $30. But at least you'll have an RTX card that's capable of DLSS 2.0, more VRAM and RTX exclusive features.
lol why would they bundle that second card with it lol they coudl have atleast given you hard drive or ssd or something instead.
Handing off to customers so they don't need to deal with waste and take some extra coin on top, that's pretty shitty
Wouldn’t mind both for $50
Cheap quad setup.
Sounds like a "bundle" PCByte likes to clear off from their inventory.
GPU for you, and the bonus for the grandma
grandma's PC has a Ryzen 2200g, which is faster than this I believe,
Gm fam,
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6gb+2gb<>8gb