WTB: nVidia video card - low end to midrange

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#324506 19-Apr-2026 13:42

I'm after an nVidia video card, to see if my computer resumes more reliably from sleep than the AMD RX550 I have (discussion thread). I don't game, I don't run local LLMs. I really just need a display adapter.

I'm thinking a RX1030 or better would do the job. Not sure it'd be worth spending more on a 3xxx series but if someone has one they want to move for a reasonable price I'd consider it.

Update - turns out it must be a single width card, as I have an M2 with a tall heatsink physically blocking wider cards that can't easily be moved.

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#3482236 19-Apr-2026 18:26

I have a 1050 lying around somewhere...

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#3482287 19-Apr-2026 20:39

I have a 950 you are free to have if pickup, or shipped to you at a cost.

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#3482288 19-Apr-2026 20:40

JemS:

I have a 1050 lying around somewhere...

If you want to sell it @JemS please work out the model / spec and let me know here or drop me a PM :)

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#3482290 19-Apr-2026 20:45

It is an ASUS EXPEDITION GTX 1050 OC 2GB. Will just confirm it works.

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#3482293 19-Apr-2026 20:54

siyuan:

I have a 950 you are free to have if pickup, or shipped to you at a cost.

Thank you for the kind offer 🙂 I think that's a more powerful card that needs a power connector and on a slightly older architecture, that Gemini says might not be quite as stable with my monitor resuming from standby. I think the newer 1050 card JemS has will probably suit me better, but if that falls through I may take you up on the generous offer 🙂

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#3482295 19-Apr-2026 20:54

Yes, it works. Make an offer. No idea how much it is worth now.

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#3482296 19-Apr-2026 20:54

JemS:

It is an ASUS EXPEDITION GTX 1050 OC 2GB. Will just confirm it works.

Thanks. Looks like it would suit quite well based on a quick Google search.

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#3482657 21-Apr-2026 06:42

siyuan:

I have a 950 you are free to have if pickup, or shipped to you at a cost.

Thank you to @siyuan who generously gave me this card as it wasn't required by the OP!

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#3482766 21-Apr-2026 13:09

My recommendation is don't use Sleep, Stanby or Hiberanate 🙃Worst thing ever invented by MS.

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#3482798 21-Apr-2026 15:49

sqishy:

My recommendation is don't use Sleep, Stanby or Hiberanate 🙃Worst thing ever invented by MS.

Sleep is pretty useful though, it's much faster to get the computer going than a full boot even with fast CPUs and disks. Sleep worked fine with my old computer, I hope it's just the AMD video card not playing nice with my Dell monitor and the nVidia card fixes it up.

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#3483325 23-Apr-2026 11:02

It turns out the double width video card that JemS sold me is too wide for the way my computer is configured - there's an M2 SSD with a tall heatsink right beside the PCIE16 slot and the PCIE4 slot is disabled when you have to M.2 SSD. So it turns out I need a single width video card - my fault for not checking.

Does anyone have a single width nVidia video card they'd like to move on?

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#3483327 23-Apr-2026 11:06

Can you use a PCI ribbon to move it somewhere that works better?

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#3483332 23-Apr-2026 11:21

mentalinc:

Can you use a PCI ribbon to move it somewhere that works better?

To move the M2 disk? It has quite a large heat sink with a fan on it, I'm not sure where I could put it that would be secure. I could unplug the fan and duct tape it somewhere, but I'd have to look at airflow. Maybe it's possible, if I can get a cable to connect the m.2 disk to the motherboard.

I could put a slimmer heatsink on the SSD, but I've pulled the labels off and attached the big heatsink with thermal paste and thermal pads, so there's a chance I could damage my 4TB SSD. Probably best to leave that thing alone.

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#3483333 23-Apr-2026 11:24

Could you move the m.2 into the 4x slot with a cheap adapter card?

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#3483336 23-Apr-2026 11:30

richms:

Could you move the m.2 into the 4x slot with a cheap adapter card?

The PCIE4x slot is disabled when the second M2 slot is used, which is the other M.2, hidden under the huge CPU fan. I would probably have to take the huge CPU fan off and get a PCI card that can support two M.2 disks and hopefully provide a bit of cooling. Does that exist?

Alternately if I could get a M.2 extension cable like @mentalinc suggested maybe that could be practical. I'm not sure if that suggestion was a cable for the video card (which seems impractical) or for the M.2 disk.

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