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Review on ๐ŸŽฎ High-Performance ZOTAC Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 Super Twin Fan 4GB GDDR6 128-Bit Graphics Card for Super Compact Gaming Experience by Brett Jarvis

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Not exactly happy.

I bought it for my Dell XPS 8700. At first, after installing it, I thought it was broken because my system restarts by itself without any warning whenever videos, video conferences or games are played. Zotac support was absolutely unhelpful despite numerous emails to the support department, the same happened with Dell and Nvidia. I found the card is not compatible with Windows 10 Power Management on Dell XPS 8700. The problem can be easily solved as follows: 1. Disable "Channel State Power Management" in Windows 10.2 Active Power Plan. Set Power Management to Adaptive in the 3D settings of the NVIDIA Control Panel. After the fix, the card runs fine and stable and you can overclock it without any problems, I don't like that in games it sometimes gets very hot and reaches 70 degrees Celsius, for example with Microsoft Flight Simulator. It took me a lot of time and effort to find this solution and it was really painful. I ended up writing to Dell, Nvidia, Zotac, and Microsoft. They don't care... Your system is outdated, buy a new compatible one. I decided to keep the card as it works well and is of good quality but the experience was terrible... As any support always implies faulty hardware... Check your RAM... Check your CPU. .. Something must be broken in your system. but that's just about these two workarounds.

Pros
  • Graphics cards
Cons
  • Can't remember