Geforce GT 710 cards under Windows XP, Findings

[gerwin]

On 4/5/2024 at 10:30 PM, gerwin said:

It is a passive GV-N710D5SL-2GL. Details in post no.3 of this topic. Big heatsink.

The Lian-Li case can actually take a full size ATX PSU. But I don't like how that blocks airflow, so I offset the ATX PSU to protrude 50mm at the backside.

I may have added a small case fan near the GPU. I am not sure, and cannot check now...

Back to check. No, there is no case fan or any other fan blowing at the card. There is only the CPU fan (stock intel) and PSU fan.

[MinimumAttic410]

On 4/8/2024 at 9:44 PM, gerwin said:

Back to check. No, there is no case fan or any other fan blowing at the card. There is only the CPU fan (stock intel) and PSU fan.

Yea my sff case also doesnt have case fan. I believe big GPU heatsink is the key.

[DrunkenTanker]

GT 710? Why? This is a weak graphic card. GTX 750 or higher are interesting.

Edited May 9, 2024 by DrunkenTanker

[j7n]

If a person already owns this graphics card, he can try to do the best to make it useful. Not everyone can buy new parts.

[MinimumAttic410]

5 hours ago, j7n said:

If a person already owns this graphics card, he can try to do the best to make it useful. Not everyone can buy new parts.

Kudo this.

GT 710-730-1030 are Low-Profile, great upgrade for old OEM SFF pcs with onboard graphics which requires low power.

Edited May 9, 2024 by MinimumAttic410

[D.Draker]

On 4/8/2021 at 10:06 AM, Dixel said:

347

There was a proper investigation with the Kepler line, and this driver is the only one recommended, bear in mind 700 Series Kepler is "End Of Life".

https://hwbot.org/newsflash/2971_ragingcain_investigates_gtx_780_ti_end_of_life_kepler_driver_scaling_from_331.93_to_353.38

 

[D.Draker]

On 5/9/2024 at 1:35 PM, MinimumAttic410 said:

1030

Not that simple for old boards, bear in mind 1030 is much newer than most LGA775, and may have incompatibilities. Try to upgrade the BIOS, then.

[Mark-XP]

On 4/27/2021 at 9:27 AM, Dixel said:

344.75 is bullet proof for XP , that's right. I usually suggest it to every XP user.

Well, this is weird: whilst the 344.75 driver could easyly be istalled for an (MSI) GT710 1GB GDDR3 here, it's not possible to install it for the Gigabyte GTX 750 TI 2GB GDDR5 Rev A2 (Low profile).

My system: Gigabyte Z170. Did try it first while ,working' on the internal (Intel HD 530) DVI port. And then with the Monitor plugged to the external DVI of the GTX750 too. Tried it by adding it from the device-manager, and with NVidia setup.exe. Anytime the same error:

"I/O process stopped because of end of a thread" (in german: E/A Vorgang wegen Threadendes abgebrochen).

The Device Id: 10DE 1380 , Subsystem Id: 1458 3667.

It's definitely no HW issue: On the same system/disk no problems on Win7 (same driver version 344.75 / 64 bit) and for linux neither!

Could be the 2GB Memory of the card be too much for XP/32? Maybe the modern GDDR5 memory?

Many thanks in advance for your suggestions!

[j7n]

The memory is fine. I have a 2 GB video adapter. Only some memory is mapped to the system, which you can see in the device manager. They later invented Resizable BAR to expose more memory directly.

[D.Draker]

On 3/29/2025 at 1:54 PM, Mark-XP said:

(MSI) GT710 1GB GDDR3 here, it's not possible to install it for the Gigabyte GTX 750 TI 2GB GDDR5 Rev A2 (Low profile).

You provided with a wrong link to the BIOS, scroll to the bottom, it says v1.0, and it's NOT verified by the techpowerup team! People will brick their card.

[D.Draker]

On 3/29/2025 at 1:54 PM, Mark-XP said:

this is weird: whilst the 344.75 driver could easyly be istalled for an (MSI) GT710 1GB GDDR3 here, it's not possible to install it for the Gigabyte GTX 750 TI 2GB GDDR5 Rev A2 (Low profile).

344.75 driver might be too old for rev2.0. All my life, I had troubles with anything marked as 2.0, did you try the driver 347.26?

https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/NVIDIA/NVIDIA-GeForce-iCafe-Graphics-Driver-34726-for-XP.shtml

[D.Draker]

On 3/29/2025 at 1:54 PM, Mark-XP said:

Could be the 2GB Memory of the card be too much for XP/32? Maybe the modern GDDR5 memory?

I used GTX780 (made in 2013, the First revision) with XP, and it was 3GB, so not a VRAM problem. It got very bad with 6GB cards, it artificially limited the memory to 1 and smth GB!

So don't use more than 3GB cards with XP, just a waste of resources, but they will boot up and work.

[Mark-XP]

3 hours ago, D.Draker said:

You provided with a wrong link to the BIOS, scroll to the bottom, it says v1.0, and it's NOT verified by the techpowerup team!

Yor're right - but it's the identical subnet mask an the identical BIOS version! (see Win7-GPU-Z below).

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People will brick their card.

What do you mean?

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344.75 driver might be too old for rev2.0. All my life, I had troubles with anything marked as 2.0, did you try the driver 347.26?

I did try the (latest XP) 368.81 version with the same result, and - thank you - will try 347.26 later too. But as for me downscaling the resolution is obligatory, and afaik this was omitted after 344.75, so the test will be more academic...

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So don't use more than 3GB cards with XP, just a waste of resources, but they will boot up and work.

1GB would have been (more) than enough for me, the hunger for VRam is sick imo - but i can only acquire from the (2nd hand) markets...

 

Edited March 31 by Mark-XP

[D.Draker]

18 hours ago, Mark-XP said:

Yor're right - but it's the identical subnet mask an the identical BIOS version! (see Win7-GPU-Z below).

What do you mean?

 

I mean that it's always advisable to flash BIOS verified by the techpowerup team! People can get a problem with their card by flashing a BIOS not verified by the techpowerup team.

[D.Draker]

@Mark-XP, did my 347 driver suggestion help? Need further assistance?