The MOST Powerful Low Profile Graphics Card in the World! 

"The 1650 sucks!!!" *Some time later, everyone tries to buy one because there are no gpu* 1650: "You couldn't live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me."

Early 2020: don’t buy it, it’s a bad deal at $160 Early 2021: it’s a solid recommendation at $300 Edit: thanks for 1,000 likes 🙃

this card was like $150 a year ago, now they’re $400???

I have this card in a tiny desktop with an i5 10400 and it's really surprisingly capable. I did have the high temperature issue you mentioned as well. Was running in the 80s like yours. I tried alot of things to get it to run cooler and ultimately I figured out that the mount for the heatsink just doesn't make good contact with the gpu die due to weak mounting pressure. I pulled the heatsink off and repasted it with fresh thermal paste and then I put some 1mm thick plastic washers on the back side of the board under the screws with the springs. That put more mounting pressure on the heatsink and knocked 10-15 degrees off then of the high temps for this exact card. Hope that helps someone cool this thing off.

When your parents want to game on their dell mini tower desktop you buy them this card so dad can pown noobs on seige.

Unfortunately everybody gets angry about everything on the internet lol

"I don't think that the difference is that massive" Literally 80 fps difference

Most reviewers only look for performance and price, and forget about different use cases, which makes their reviews irrelevant for real life. We need more reviews like this one!

Everybody keeps complaining saying it's a terrible card but it's still faster than my GTX 670

"gtx tenthiddy" *do you even accent bro*

It seems like an amazing graphics card to have as of right now during the crisis

Ah the days of 11 months ago where you could get a 570 for less than 160 dollars, now you'd be lucky to pay less than 300 for one

My therapist : tenthitee man isn't real, he can't hurt you 1:56 1:59 2:06 4:39 7:50 8:00 8:37 9:03 9:29 9:36 10:37 10:57 : *screams internally*

me: "ah yes its gettin pretty dark out now, what time is it?" dawid: "TEN THIDDY"

I ended up with a GDDR 5 4GB version of the GTX1650 and even now, 2 years after your video, it still performs really well even in more modern games. I guess with the GPU shortage, it has lasted longer than it may have done previously

This is a GREAT option for low budget builds, especially considering that old office PCs with 8GB of RAM can be had for like $20 these days lol

I don't care about the graphics card. I'm here for Dawid.

"size doesn't matter"

My first gaming laptop has this card, I'm enjoying every game I've thrown at it. I didn't know squat about graphics cards, but for my first experience, I'm not complaining, I have 2 HDMI ports, 1 DVI port, and a type-c output only though. I bought a "22 144HZ monitor, I'm loving this little gem. Can't wait until I build myself a gaming rig, now that I have my feet wet.

This video is excellent! I somehow acquired this card and likewise installed it in an M93p (along with 16GB of additional RAM & an SSD). It's a little gaming beast that honestly punches waaaaaay above it's weight. Cheers!

gtx tenthiddy

Ooohhhh the GT *1030*... I got 9 minutes in when I finally realised you weren't saying "ten fiddy" had me looking around like "there's no 1050 here"

The scenario you explained for the card is exactly mine. I couldn't find any other card that could fit into my PC with the same power.

Thanks for the very helpful video. Would you believe that you were the first one on the whole internet that managed to properly answer my questions about upgrading a non-gaming office type PC like this HP Pavilion I have.

Thanks for your amazing reviews and comparisons. You're one of the few component reviewers that doesn't give me anxiety. Well done!

Dawid: "1080p low" I hear: "1080 pilau" Man, that's a lot of rice.

If I am able to play Half Life Alyx with it in low settings like I have, I'd say its a damn good low budget card. The good thing about Alyx is that it is so well optimized that it looks great even on low settings. I have the GTX 1650 4GT LP OC version.

I like the videos, more of a realistic budget I can actually afford. You earned your self a new sub :D

Thank you so much for this content. It is so incredibly reasonable. A true breath of fresh air. Mainstream tech tubers all make a lot of assumptions about the use case of their viewers. Obviously this is a niche product, but some people have niche use cases. What if I want a very low power rig for the back of a big rig truck because I'm a truck driver? Or maybe I have limited electricity on my sailboat? Or maybe I (more likely) just want a stealthy upgrade for my office PC.

Yesss thank you Dawid for having a static upload schedule. Gives me something to look forward to! :D

This card really does set a high standard for what can be done with a low profile card and actually makes turning 10 year old Dell optiplexes into something of a decent gaming system. Only problem is like all graphics cards they are hard to get a hold and when they are available they are going for a huge increase in RRP.

This was literally my first system minus having the DDR5 Version of the card (and still do because of the market right now) and a smidge more ram I think 12 GB for whatever reason.

Your intros always put me in a good mood and ready for some fun with gadgets.

Excellent video, I never thought about the heat side of things. One thing to note is some sff builds restrict the wattage so it might choke the 1650 (or anything but 1030).

I recently bought this exact GPU for pretty much the same reasons stated here. My machine was built in a media PC case. It was built to run WoW a few years back so it's no slouch. But the Win10 forced update happened, and the previous owner was upgrading anyway so I originally put a GTX1050 LP in it two years ago. The fan on that died so I picked up the 1650 and it's been running like a champ.

My first PC was a Sandy bridge SFF Dell with 1030. I was very pleased and for the time I made it, it could run pretty much everything. We must remember that people who buy make such PCs don't really care about high and ultra settings.Now, if I would buy such system, I'd take 1650 of course

Thank you man! Finally someone who does a proper review on it! I have this card and I'm tired of people calling it trash. It's the best in it's category and plays games on 1080p high 60+ fps for a really decent price. Thank you for the honest and genuine review.

Nice to see some new options for those of us with a SFF PC rocking a 1030.

I recently bought the Zotac version and couldn't be happier! Runs everything better than expected!

I like the 1650 a lot, it’s bus powered small and pretty damn powerful.

The full size 1650 also has an advantage in the Optiplex/OEM upgrade scenario where you don’t have to pay for a better power supply like you would with the 570. When most videos compare the prices of the two cards, the necessary PSU upgrade is usually left out of the discussion. That being said, a $120 RX 570 plus a $40-$50 PSU, still has it right about where the 1650 is priced. In general I think the 1650 gets a bad rap though, because there will always be use cases for low power cards and Nvidia seems to be the only company committed to making decent ones at this point.

I literally have this gpu and I like it, it runs the games I want but the temps is the only frustrating thing about it, other than that it's pretty good

Looking it's power usage, it's quite impressive card. Sure something like 970 is fairly close to this performance vise and it's old, but people should remember that it chugs a whole lot more watts.

2:48 i though my screen was broken lol look at the top left

Thank you...finally someone understands its place! I had 1 in a HP SFF with i7 4790 and 8gb ram and it was a good machine it even did VR in some titles!!!

I really hope we get an updated version of this with Ampere. A LP 3050 would be awesome!

Holy crap, this vid was a lifesaver. I have a Dell Optiplex 390 SFF from 2011 that needs an upgrade from a GT 1030 LP and I have been needing to find an affordable GPU that can perform well and fits in an SFF pc. Thank you so much lol bc now I found the GPU imma get

0:45 thats literally the entirety of the internet in a Nutshell

I got this like 2 weeks ago for an ssf rig I made. Its kinda awesome, lot of power for not a lot of money(plus its freaking tiny)

The 1650 is actually a really good card for how small it is.

Dropped my phone and picked it up at exactly 3:30. I thought I cracked my screen 😂

I love this niche content. Thank you.

I hope sometime in the future, maybe 5 or 6 years, there will be a low profile RTX card

4:07: The ports look like eyes and a teeth.

Thank you for this info,I've been given a Dell prodesk i-7 6700 and am looking to upgrade this coupled with 2x 16gb ddr4 is hopefully gonna see some good performance

Had a 730 just got the 1650. Never had any other graphics cards before so I'm pretty stoked.

I recently got a GT730 2GB GDDR5 for my dedicated Windows XP rig. Works great and games run awesome ( XP era games that is ).

I just came across your channel - very good, thanks! By coincidence my 'daily driver' is the exact same system... with an i7, as much RAM as it can take, SSD's, and an artist's monitor. I agree the GTX 1650 is way too expensive but for my use case it was the best I could do... I did consider botching a full-size card in to the machine but as I have no interest in modern games and the 1650 is more than up to the emulators I play with when not 'painting' I just couldn't be bothered. "Get a larger case you idiot!" Where's the fun in that? Besides I have lots, I want the smallest PC that serves my needs at a price that won't make my wife hit me - right now you'd have to be an idiot to flush away good money on the latest hardware unless you have absolutely no choice.

I saw hardware unboxed tear this thing to shreds and I thought it would be a mistake to buy one. I have an old office small form factor PC with an sandy bridge i7 and despite the bad reviews I went ahead and got one these cards used from a local seller for just 60 US dollars. Worth every penny. Much better than my previous gt730.

Awesome (in context) review... have the same Gigabyte GT 1030 LP (fine for my needs), but going out to buy this one on the back of this one. Thanks!

Im stressing my 180w psu with one of these. So far so good. Picked up a 7040 sff, i7 6700, 16gb ddr4, 1tb nvme, zotac gtx 1650. 180w psu. Im able to run most games on any settings, only thing I really dislike is the operating temps of both the cpu and gpu.

The plant on your right made me think my screen was cracked for a second. 😁

Those SFF systems usually have a 2nd/3rd gen processor which will be bottlenecked by the 1650, so the card to go for is a GTX1050ti (which can now be bought for a little more than 100 or so).

You could use a riser and use a 2nd psu to power the graphics card. If you get a long riser you can post it out the back of the machine and run your gpu on top of the case. Air flow will be better and you can have as big of a card as you want.

note, f you upgrade the memory to 16gb (8gb x 2) there is a significant boost in frame rate at all resolutions (it happen to me)

1650 plays all modern games on medium and high settings with some on ultra. Its a great card. I have one in my laptop.

I initially bought a 1650 OC for ny new R5 3600 build back in 2020, never had any complaints in the 1080p games I played.

I run this card in exactly this use case for this exact reason. Fits, no PCI-E required, and fastest LP card. I have mine in an old Xeon E3-1245 powered HP z210 SFF that I got from work for $50 (with 8GB a, win10, and a SSD). So I'm about $250 all in (CDN$) for a gaming pc that plays the games I need it to.

Thank you for this review, I was actually looking at one of these and was very unsure about it. Seems like a fantastic little card if a little over priced.

Dud your left side plant I thought my phone was crack 🤣

1:17 missed a opportunity for a awesome Segway

The use case for these is exactly right. There are old Dell Optiplex SFFs out there that actually have decent CPUs and RAM (saw one listed with a i7-9700, 500GB SSD and 16GB of RAM) which are very limited by their form factor and PSUs. A 1650 turns that into a very respectable E-sports/light gaming rig with a lot of good everyday use as well.

In my testing i found that the 1650 was on par with the 980ti which blew my mind. A $200 graphics that can have the same performance as a $850 card from 2015

I like how the thermals of that GPU is worse than my laptop, which also has a 1650.

Btw, you should look at different processor options in that system. I know that with my current and former SFFs (HP EliteDesk 800G1 and Dell Optiplex 790) that Xeon processors are options. I didn’t upgrade the Dell because I sold it, but both of my low profile ED800G1s have Xeon 1286v3 chips in them, a massive upgrade from the i3-4160s that came with them. You might be able to find a deal on some decently fast 4c/8t Xeon chips like the 1245v3; just keep in mind some of these chips lack integrated graphics.

'Visual Safari' TIL a new term. lol. Great video as always Dawid, not sure how I missed it.

I’m watching this so I won’t feel butthurt it came with my 800 dollar laptop

I needet this two years ago back when i was running my heavily modified KDE Neon workstation. I wanted a nice looking MacOS looking workstation but didnt want to pay a buttload for a overpriced mac mini or whatever. Now i make more money so i did pay a buttload for an overpriced macbook pro.... shoot me..

Actually upgraded an HP 800 desktop with a low profile 1050 TI, 4gb and I must say, great for e-sport titles. 16gb of ram as well

Thanks for the info on a low pro. been lookin.

Having a DVI port is also very relevant, not many cards support them these days but lots of people still play on CRTs for their superior picture quality compared to LCDs, making this a very good option for CRT based setups. It supports up to 2560x1600 resolution on the DVI.

"Damn Lochness Monster"

I got my gaming pc more than a year ago and it had an asus 1650. Since then, I’ve upgraded to a 4070ti but that 1650 did me well for the first year and a half of having it

I have the eagle version of this. Gigabyte gtx 1650 d6 eagle 4G to be exact. Can boost up to 2050Mhz and 13500Mhz memory oc. Runs decent on high to ultra settings at 1080p(average 58-75 fps depends on what game you're playing)

"This profile card is amazing this is fit to my cheap PC"

Personally I love how you say GT 1030

I watched one of your videos now I'm hooked

This video helped me conclude that low profile GTX 1650s are just inherently hot-running cards, more so than the former 1050 and 750 low profile cards. I've got he Zotac version as it seems to use the largest heatsink. Wish me luck.

I come for the metaphors, but I stay for the Dawid

I just feel like this card would be super fun for a mini build to take on trips ..do they make low profile monitors and keyboards too? Lol

I bought this card ($150) and a SFF Dell PC for $50 off eBay back in 2018 as a Christmas present. Upgraded the ram and SSD with some parts laying around. It ran all the games my nephews play like Fortnite, Rocket League, Apex, just fine on a 30" Dell monitor. For under $300, you get an excellent starter gaming PC with this graphics card in a low profile solution. Currently looking to building another one for my other nephews.

I'm rocking a 2080super and I'm so satisfied about it, but i still enjoyed this video quite thoroughly.

im impressed by this card ;D

i knew i knew that accent :D turns out you went to UCT, small world!

2:07 I can relate but the thing is you got to make do with whatever you could get because when the pandemic started all the cards were getting sold out and I was only able to get my hands on that card and it works pretty OK like it handles all the games that I play except for call of duty or forza horizon it’s not that smooth but it’s smooth enough to the point where it’s playable but I was still pretty surprised that I could run all those games like GTA and stuff very smoothly

This does rlly well for my gaming laptop

4th gen Intel, one of the best CPU generations ever created.

I agree with you here Dawid, if you already have a SFF pc with a decent i7 or i5, getting a gtx 1650 is a reasonable idea, because it's cheaper to do that than build a whole new computer. If you *don't* already have a SFF pc, then get a PC that has room for a full sized card.

Ok, I know the little popup ads usually aren't under creator control, but in a video about a low profile card, when Dawid says "Lets see what kind of performance you're getting" and the popup ad that is delivered into the little gap before the stats and music start is for *Extenze* you have to wonder if it was planned.

Makes me wanna fuck around and build a low spec gaming pc for the hell of it. Amazing performance for the size.