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Sparkle Intel Arc A380 ELF 6GB GDDR6 Graphics Card
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Not everyone plays games and watches YT all day -- I've got clients that use 3-4 monitors in their office setups. This is an inexpensive but still relatively decent GPU to accomplish that.
Most integrated GPUs, which you had suggested using instead, only have a single monitor port. There are many use cases, office or home, where people would want multiple monitors. Even if they dont require more horsepower than an integrated GPU provides, they wtill need more monitor ports than iGPU has. Yes, you can chain display port, but that requires more expensive monitors. This a380 is indeed a cheap option to drive up to four monitors, plus offers some moderate graphics processing and hardware encoding/decoding.
But now I get the feeling I may have just fed a troll.
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Hope you find a job soon.
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Most integrated GPUs, which you had suggested using instead, only have a single monitor port. There are many use cases, office or home, where people would want multiple monitors. Even if they dont require more horsepower than an integrated GPU provides, they wtill need more monitor ports than iGPU has. Yes, you can chain display port, but that requires more expensive monitors. This a380 is indeed a cheap option to drive up to four monitors, plus offers some moderate graphics processing and hardware encoding/decoding.
But now I get the feeling I may have just fed a troll.
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Here's a review from a week ago:
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It is terrific. for years there was NO good option - there hasn't been a good option since the gtx 1030 way back in like 2019.
I have one in a i5-13600K system at work. it drives 4 monitors. it did give me some problems at first with monitors going out suddenly. driver updates fixed this, and I am not sure if it is entirely an a380 issue or a combination of a380 and my new dell desktop. dell has wierd stuff going on with drivers.
i also have one in a system with a i5-2500k. works great as well.
I love that it requires no additional power (the asrock one does, sparkle does not), extremely quiet,the same # of video outs as my 4080super, and it in fact DOES support gaming. you can definitely play games on it. it's probably about as good as a gtx 1050ti. 4gb vram is also very nice.
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- very old card from 2017, so card is probably well used
- IIRC they only have mini display port out so you gotta buy adapters
- 2gb vram vs 4gb on a380
- noisier fan than a380 - uses a tiny 40mm or so fan while a380 uses 120mm
- and of course far slower, far less support for encoding, far inferior software support.
and all you'd save is like $50
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