I Bought the RTX 3050 in 2024... I Kinda Wish I Didn't 

that's why its bad, u dummy

It's performance is bad for it's price. It is a poor value card. Well, both 40 series from Nvidia and 7000 series from AMD are both bad for it's price.

Picked up a 3050 to upgrade from my 1060. Got a used dell one for 140 USD off eBay. I could have gotten a 2060 but I figure the extra year or so of driver support will make it worth while.

6650XT, 1630:

its not garbage, gpu tier list shows that its a 1070 or 1660super/ti, it just depends on price and availability and exactly what year your building your PC, as the years go by people will go for the 3050 8gb instead of the 1070, all is relative

Thats not the point. The point is that for the same price you can get something significantly better. If this card was being sold for 100$ nobody would call it garbage.

So do I, especially when the 1660 Ti exists and it's cheaper. Or the RX 6600 which is at worst, the same price yet way faster

Its gonna replace the 1650 for budget low profile machines! It actually a good option now and and its performance isn't bad, just the price. But thats all NVIDIA cards bro! Edit: its also great on power draw, and low profile doesn't require a 6 pin power, makes it perfect for office budget rigs!

😊 it will make more sense as the years go by

@@robertanderson5735 at Microcenter sometimes the 3050 6gb is the same price as the 1650 so go for the 3050

I struggle to find a reason for rx 6600 to exist.

I agree, I believe the 6GB 3050 requires no external power wither. But if you have access to an 8-pin power connector, the RX 6600 is w much better card in gaming

I appreciate the feedback mate, I will up the gain slightly in future

​@@ProYamYamPCYour B-roll is excellent, especially the lighting 🍻

Yep, I think Nvidia though they could get away with the pricing back then. Which is why most of the 40 series is pretty horrid value as well I'd imagine.

thats when integrated grafics safed my ass with the AMD ryzen 5600G :D

Depending on the rest of the specs that could be a decent deal mate

@@ProYamYamPC 32GB RAM, the rest the seller hasn't listed. BTW, did you buy the Sony A7 IV purely for RU-vid or was it for a different project?

Pretty much the same for my country.

!00% mate, the RX 6600 is the gift which keeps giving

🙂 sure, its about the same performance, one thing about the 1070 1070super ti 1080, those variants you can get a nice long argb cool looking three fan Asus Strix Rog video card version, if ur looking to build something with asthetics and bling

Unless you have typos you can't do those upgrades - you say cpu is 2nd gen Intel, so no 3rd gen Intel will work on the current motherboard. You also say DDR4, it was only DDR3 on 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th gen Intel so I think you meant to type DDR3. Gotta make sure parts are compatible when building as often different generations don't mix with each other. HTH

@@marknewellmusic3rd gen and 2nd gen have a shared platform, like 6-7 and 8-9. the 3770k would be a big upgrade over the 2320 but i would rather upgrade to a newer platform since 2nd and 3rd gen lack some instructions

@@marknewellmusic i7 3770k and i5 2320 are both LGA1155 and yes I meant ddr3 thanks

whats your exact motherboard model? what bios version are you on? so i can look it up, before verifying usually something like that just plug in a i7-2600 or a Xeon equivalant whichever is cheaper but it depends on the exact motherboard of course

The bare minimum build gamers should be buying used these days is a 4th gen i7 build or newer as that's the first cpu generation to have AVX2 instruction sets which is needed and will be needed by certain games - Death Stranding, Horizon Zero Dawn etc. Realistically though, you wouldn't even want that generation as minimum cpu core count you should be getting is 6 - this puts you looking at 5th gen at a minimum. Also 5th gen had the bonus of quad channel memory on X99 so that gives you a bit of extra lifespan before memory bandwidth becomes a factor compared to dual channel generations eg 4th gen Gotta be very careful when looking for older build upgrade paths regarding pricing... Sometimes older cpu/mobo used can work out the same price or more expensive than a fairly recent generation cpu/mobo as the PC used market is saturated with modern (eg last 5 years releases) options that are similar price yet give better price-performance than say an older 4th gen 5th gen 7th gen 8th/9th gen cpu/mobo combo - just watch out for very new generations of used eg 12th 13th 14th gen Intel as the pcore ecore latency and microstutter situation isn't ideal on newish gen used stuff. In your situation that would involve you having to buy newer DDR4 ram (which is cheaper priced now fortunately👍), so you might not even want to go that modern if you are happy with DDR3 still - me personally if I were you, I would want to move to at least a quad channel DDR3 5th gen x99 Intel build with a 5960k cpu minimum, or I would finally jump over to a cheap (but good price/performance) DDR4 build such as the 8th gen 8700k cpu (with a 9th gen Z390 motherboard) or 9th gen cpu eg 9900k for 8 cpu cores which will give you a bit longer before hitting limits years down the line (8th gen used build is exactly what I did last year, coming from an ancient i7 990x system). I avoided newer generations such as 12th, 13th, 14th gen Intel due to seeing the issues ecores were causing with latency etc. I've got my eye on 15th gen Intel cpus to see how they do and I am eagerly awaiting rtx 5000 Blackwell gpus to see if nvidia finally give the gamers the killshot fatality that prices them all out of new gpus from now on with ridiculous price points. We will never get to cloud gaming cuz of Nvidias approach, but we will see gamers only buying used, older generation gpus more as the years go forward, as that is the only way gamers with sensible gpu budgets (around £300/$300 or less), will be able to purchase gpu upgrades without getting ripped off. PC gaming for normal folk is in a very sorry state currently, but if nvidia keep releasing new generation gpus every 2 years, then over time things will normalise nicely for average gamers due to used gpus being where it's at for fairly reasonably priced gpu upgrades - performance is very good with newer gpu generations (vram amounts is another story currently eg 8gb vram is crazy low for 2024 games), it's just new pricing that is batshit crazy 🤪 HTH

3050 consumes more power than a 4060.

3050 6 gb is close to a 1060 which is bad af. 4060 sff already exists and according to techpowerup, uses less power on gaming than the 3050. They are the same as the 6650xt which is around 170$ according to pcpartpicker.

Sounds perfect to me. Not bad for workstation stuff

@@remoquillojosemiguel1105 might as well get a 5600g and be done with workstation stuff.

the 1650 is sometimes the same price as the 3050 6gb so go for the newer faster card =)

@@MrSamadolfo or you could just buy a 8700g which is more or less a 3050 6 gb to begin with. That way you get less power and then upgrade your gpu later on.

That's basically what it is. But it supports DLSS 3.0 like all RTX GPUs - just not DLSS frame gen

The cooler was red hot to the touch. So I’m just guessing it’s a poor cooler design🤣

@@ProYamYamPC Unsurprising, given the track record of Gigabyte cards regarding their quality...

It simply is

And the office PC thing only applies to the 6gb version, the 8gb is just horrifically overpriced compared to other options that are far faster.

I can't remember the 1050 Ti having a terrible launch. At least you could get it for $150 and not $250 like the RTX 3050

@@ProYamYamPC The 1050 Ti was not the deal since the RX 470 was $175 and it was faster by a significant margin, since the RX 470 was also the PS4 Pro GPU. Then came Etherium in 2017 and the only GPU late gamers that didn't know of the 2016 PC Gaming Resurgence could get was the 1050 Ti.

🙂 i picked up a 5700 8gb, nobody talks about it, its very close to a 6600 but alot cheaper

to your enemies

@@Greenalex89 had to edit my post to “not” haha good catch lol

Do you use it for video editing/productivity?

@@ProYamYamPC I got it mainly for getting back into Blender in my freetime, after many years absence. The selling points of the RTX 3050 for me were: 1. Nvidia RTX GPU which is basically a must for Blender. 2. A fairly newer generation GPU that you could get a 6-pin variant. (HP Z440 dual 6-pin). 3. Not that RTX "3050" 6GB cut down nonsense. Compared to the dual Quadro M4000 I had before, the RTX 3050 seemed a smart upgrade.

that makes a bad card

are you serious? 3050 is nearly 300% faster than a 750ti lol, i would say its a 1660 with ray tracing and dlss

its close to a 1660 super / thai 😊