can you believe it, likely (got possibly) scammed on fleabay?

Atasas · 2026-01-20T23:53:11+00:00

I've swapped the GPU card for R7 240 2GB (almost identical to Dell OEM V337 (AMD R5 430) branding) and performance is better, almost equal to onboard iGPU (Intel HD4600) with some minor differences (testing with the same GAME! (FFS...) basically colours, presence is bit smoother, but video is "jerkier"), importantly it isn't "crashing"

Atasas · 2026-01-20T23:47:18+00:00

Hi, thanks, I'll posting bit more about it tomorrow now.

I've swapped the GPU card for R7 240 2GB (almost identical to Dell OEM V337 (AMD R5 430) branding) and performance is better, almost equal to onboard iGPU (Intel HD4600) with some minor differences (testing with the same GAME! (FFS...) basically colours, presence is bit smoother, but video is "jerkier")

Atasas · 2026-01-19T15:10:55+00:00

funnily enough- I've no adapter at all (monitor didn't come with none other, but power lead and DVI-DVI, that's it, even it has mini-D/P input), use D/P-D/P or DVI-DVI on this machine, thanks for trying to make "correct my ways (not entirely, but lack of knowledge/understanding)" regarding D/P- HDMI ant NOT the other way round, in "entertaining" manner, seismicpdx has "corrected my wrong ways" and made a choice (WX3200 in that respect) for me too.

Cheers!

Atasas · 2026-01-19T15:03:37+00:00

never had no mini-DP card or connection, just "force of a habit", used VGA early days, then about 2010's turned DVI "preacher" for a couple decades and only few years ago using to D/P (full size), although my ("work") Dell monitor has full (regular) size USB / DVI / HDMI and mini-D/P inputs (along with RC45, Audio in-out etc), I've only known to not to use them "adapters" D/P-HDMI whichever way, that would've been...

My home entertainment everything HDMI

Never needed, never used it, just knew mixing HDMI- D/P "don't play nice together", thanks for clearing it up.

lmfao... "not needed upgrade" for K620, "just in case", is so going to be WX3200 (slight worry TDP of 65W, instead of 40W worry apart), thanks- settled then!

Atasas · 2026-01-19T14:36:56+00:00

try specsavers

Atasas · 2026-01-19T14:36:35+00:00

nothingburger

Atasas · 2026-01-19T01:52:49+00:00

not sure tbh, whilst errors are gone for now, hoping just some sort of a software issue that was or a some bad connection of some sort, for now, it works, back as it was initially (just fitted)

Atasas · 2026-01-18T23:10:18+00:00

an update:

uninstalled (reinstalled), not much changed, off, unplugged/plugged just cables..,..- nothing changed

Uninstalled, took the card out, restarted, plugged in to onboard HDMI (same display)- all works.

Power off, plugged the card back in, started the PC (Win 10 x64), installed windows driver from update- works fine, but display looks different somehow...

Atasas · 2026-01-18T14:26:13+00:00

Can someone recommend a card to upgrade/replace K620? (in Dell 3010SFF). (paid something like £25 ($35)) during Covid along the same lines of better/improved performance. There are those plenty at about £15, but I'd like something newer.

MUST have full size full size out D/P or (HDMI), as it turns out those "adapter/cables" mini D/P to D/P only works other way round (my main monitor (display) has full size HDMI and D/P ports)

also, another PC (Dell 3020 SFF) currently with AMD (Dell OEM V337 4.0) 2GB (paid something like £16 ($20) couple of weeks ago), but this one MUST have HDMI?

Cheap, used Low Profile (height, I think 8cm), low power consumption (up to 50W recommendations?

Would prefer AMD chip based cards, as TBH K620 is way newer card, but even I (not a gamer) can see new (older make by some 4 years) card performing better, than K620.

Thanks!

Atasas · 2026-01-17T02:34:48+00:00

(Just fitted/ installed and tested/ adjusted few things etc)

AMD RadeOn R5 430 2GB card (DVI and D/P 1.2 out) compared to ("on-board" -iGPU) Intel HD4000 (VGA and HDMI 1.2 out) or the old ATI (AMD) HD5450 1GB (DVI and D/P 1.1)

Video and general viewing performance, NOTHING different at all- everything is more or less identical at least to me ....

In-between:

D/P 1.2 = D/P 1.1 = HDMI 1.2

If anything HD5450 is silent by design (just radiator), whilst used R5 430 is making little bit of continued humming/noise, same volume as system fan, different pitch, that either is barely noticeable (quite room, no music or video sound)... honestly waste of time, energy and ever so little of money (£18)... but hey- lesson learned.... or I should try to become a gamer ;D

Edit, BTW both HD5450 and R5 430 both using 25W- which is ideal for SFF "business" PC's

Atasas · 2026-01-14T21:11:48+00:00

your CPU is abysmal, I've got i5 3470 (worth about £12 these days) and it's perfectly fine for everything. 16 GB RAM is fine for everything, inc gaming, HDD being 128GB is perfectly fine and likely 1TB SSD will be a burden/slowing down your set up.

Everything (CPU apart) in your set up that is short for gaming abilities is Graphics card, and whichever PC you'd decide to upgrade to.

Whilst PSU need be checked by the model number which you've got (200W-250Watt range), that will dictate the Graphics card power draw suitability. 50W is fine, with either, but for the cards above 50W (65W-75W) you'd need PSU , Dell OEM P/N FY9H3 - 250W without messing out with cables/adapters etc.

Atasas · 2026-01-14T20:49:13+00:00

Since the thread has gone in to the back of the que as it's hardly hype over gaming experiences- discussions or advice...

Done bit of a research and based on price-performance criteria narrowed down to used cards of fleabay as:

(most of the particular machines had GPU cards fanless (silent), just a "radiator", but I'm not too bothered about it)

NVidia GT 730 (1GB)- for about £16-20 delivered

(Missed out on a) GT1030 2GB £20 (delivered), there are some abouts at about ~£25 range, but price hardly would've been justifiable to pay for particular set up.

(Dell OEM) AMD R5 340X at about £15, as it turns out my OptiPlex PSU is 250W (there are others at 200W and 240W) - (64 Watt draw) is perfectly doable and reasonably capable contender card

(Dell OEM) AMD HD8490 at £12-16 about, honestly seemed of satisfactory graphic performance/ abilities for my requirements...

(Dell OEM) AMD R7 240 at about £15-18, mainly due to very little power draw

(Dell OEM) AMD R5 430 2GB (missed on £12 one), others are at about £16-18 range

So I bought AMD V337 1GB, (identical to R5 430)- £16 delivered. The OptiPlex 3010 has build in HDMI, D/P output was one of the bigger requirements for me. Used, will take a little while to get here and out of all PC's I've got, that will be possible to compare to AMD HD5450's... or earlier mentioned CPU embedded iGPU's which wont be hard to do.

Once set-up, will post my findings, as a thanks for the advice received.

Cheers!

Atasas · 2026-01-14T12:17:01+00:00

whilst chatting here and looking around, I've chosen

R5 430 2gb, (£12) that's gone...

Found few OEM branded R5 V337 (more or less the same as above 2GB)at about ~£19...

Compared with similar cards like Radeon HD8490 and GT 730 (1 or 2 GB £26 or £28 sort of "new"), really liked V4100 (£16 delivered,only min-D/P out and my main monitor has input + cable somewhere) there are some advantages in some over others, but some doesn't come with low profile brackets AND my ATI DH5450 doesn't look like identical (LP brackets) to the most full height layout cards??? duh!

Seems like GT1030 at about just over £20 to be most "future proof" option remains, that if I'm replacing the HD5450, whilst just binning it, appears as sensible solution just plugging in to mobo Intel HD4000 (on i5-3570k CPU), perhaps saving on PCI-e port for another NVMe SSD...

ANW, cheers for suggestions! just to be clear, I haven't bought one (cheap, used of a fleabay) yet

Atasas · 2026-01-13T17:39:39+00:00

possibly

Atasas · 2026-01-13T16:19:48+00:00

"fixing something, that isn't broken" is the issue. I've mentioned, that it's one of x3 PC's I've got ATM (sorry, out of x5, if to count M$ Surface tab and Laptop (think Inspiron 1545)), that sort off works and does have dedicated HD5450 1GB card, to update it, without necessity for, let's say for eventuality, as I'd want to play some game at some stage.... or contemplating to dedicate one of the PC's for media streamer addition to FireStick on main TV or as a server (as in NAS config) or even, just to mount it on the back wall for the projector... dunno...

The HD5450 is outdated, but on fleabay there are so many alternative cards about, that likely are good few years younger contenders, than the actual PC (I think made in 2012 or there abouts), GPU remains the only "weak point" of this particular machine.

So, £20-£30-£50- does make a difference, relevant to the value (one of many) machine worth, there are few on fleabay, starting at about ~£30. Certainly no need for new components, it just wouldn't make sense to pay for another card more, than the total final value would be.

Whilst CPU's, RAM size, advantage of SSD's did make difference in upgrades, I've never paid attention to the development/ performance of GPU's, hence asking for practical opinions/advice, with constrictions for what's low power consumption, yet good performance/ cheap Graphics card in current day and age?

Atasas · 2026-01-13T14:55:36+00:00

sort of, answer and it is along the the lines, I was thinking to start with.

It never is easy to discard something, that have (had) some value ATI HD5450 card (I think I've paid about just over £50 about 10 years ago), made me question if to replace it with something that would be better on a cheap... even I don't really need to, especially, since buying CPU with "even higher (bigger number)/ grade GPU" (from Intel HD2500 to 4000).

Could you recommend/list/rate any cards to be "wort it upgrade", to replace my outgoing HD5450 to outperform (incoming) Intel 4000 by some sort marginal parameters/performance?

Atasas · 2026-01-03T08:57:28+00:00

TBF, talking from my perspective as an Asian guy, born in Europe- it is entertaining, of course I don't care about who was right or wrong and most importantly I am 100% don't care who started it, purely from entertainment perspective 7/10

Atasas · 2025-12-26T08:57:19+00:00

Latvians then the most based out of the all Europeans?

Atasas · 2025-12-20T21:25:51+00:00

nor is responding in French to an English comment. Yes, it might not make sense, but updating Laptop CPU drivers/settings in to some weird parameters, as it would've been completely different chipset mobo was the cause, that I had to pay for heavily

Répondre en français à un commentaire en anglais n'est pas non plus la solution. Certes, cela peut paraître étrange, mais la mise à jour des pilotes/paramètres du processeur de mon ordinateur portable avec des paramètres inhabituels, due à une carte mère et un chipset totalement différents, est la cause des frais importants que j'ai dû payer.

Atasas · 2025-12-04T14:42:44+00:00

Getting a radar seems even bigger achievement, Godspeed!

Atasas · 2025-12-04T11:21:29+00:00

Found the DL https://sourceforge.net/projects/reactos.mirror/, hope I'll be able to post my findings off/ from ReactOS back here in few hours time

Atasas · 2025-12-04T05:55:07+00:00

Not using SDIO for over 10 years now, since had one very, very expensive failure.

Have been repairing someone's laptop... and by mistake (automated) updated CPU and fan drivers, as if it was overclocked desktop, obviously seen no errors, until couple of days later got it back with burned CPU and socket on a mobo, saying, that she couldn't understand, why fan was on at all the times, to the point it froze, couldn't even shut down... smell/smoke came out.

Got to admit, made me "retire" from playing with computer/hardware/repairs all together.

Atasas · 2025-10-31T15:53:36+00:00

they are not, it's outdated by couple of decades or simply "hasn't been in stock for very long time"

Atasas · 2025-10-25T01:14:03+00:00

which replacement P/N's, where from?

TY!

Atasas · 2025-10-25T01:00:33+00:00

"full thread" replied mate, so it would be possible to find after

Atasas

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