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the market and the conditions within it you and I but a mere seed in this market however we can be good seeds and if enough good seeds make up a market then that would otherwise be known as a good market on the other hand however you and I could also be a bad seed and if enough bad seeds make up the market then it would be otherwise known as a bad market what we've got here on the desk is the gtx 1650 and it has been receiving quite the blasting from a lot of outlets on its price it's coming in at 150 dollars currently MSRP and at this particular price point there is the competition from AMD with their RX 570 coming into law price point and offering more performance but make no mistake about it the same bad market that is making this gtx 1650 look like bad value is the same market that is making the RX 570 brand new that is at its current price point and this has to do all with the reverse situation from a year ago where we saw the cryptocurrency boom in effect and all those brand new graphics cards were priced quite high fast forward to this year however and the graphics cards have done a 180 and in fact all those cards from last year are now being dumped onto the market especially the RX 5 70's and 5 80s due to the fact that aetherium mining in particular to the RX series is no longer in fashion I myself have seen n got good deals on a lot of used RX 5 seventies and even to this date on Taobao or Taobao if you want to give it a bit of a chinese move these sites are selling this graphics card quite cheap under that of the hundred dollars most the times so at these price points this is indeed giving the market Dominator Nvidia a run for its money quite literally and that's what the beautiful thing about a free market is when any single entity attempts to control it they will be met with some negative sentiment and that is what this card is receiving here and it's mainly jus simply to the market conditions but with that aside at 150 dollars what traits does this card have what are things that I'd like to see improved on it and is it indeed worth that price tag well let's the numbers and then we'll get back to this tech yes desk and also in case you're wondering yes I am wearing glasses very light prescription does help me see better at night time especially when it's later at night and my eyes get tired so you think back to the 1650 right here we have the galaxy' dition and also the gigabyte edition now this weighs in under 400 grams you get a little bit less PCB you get also different DisplayPort options but honestly the Galax option is coming just under 500 grams it's got a beefier cooler does better on the temperatures and noise coming in at 60 degrees at 100% fan speeds and then moving down to 63 degrees at 80% 67 degrees at 60% and also the auto fan speeds made it go to 63% and the noise levels were one decibel lower so the 60% manual fan speed sees like the sweet spot for this graphics card in 26 degree ambient controlled environments but going now through the gaming benchmark numbers and I did get criticized for having too many nvidia titles in the previous video so i decided to flood this one with AMD titles hope that makes you happy fanboys out there but regardless we can see that the rx 570 is indeed a better choice if you are looking for raw price performance now of course the car does juice more power and I have heard arguments of you can under volt it you can under clock it but part of my experience which in turn has affected my outlook from 2018 coming into 2019 is that I like to give the average person buying advice in the form of a recommendation and so the average person coming to this review I'm sure really doesn't have the time nor the patience to learn how to undervolt and whether they want to take that performance hit is up to them so I do like to keep things simple even when it comes to overclocking because that is what the majority of people I believe are doing though I will make a separate video looking at under vaulted rx 570 and comparing it against the 1650 and also the 1660 and a previous gen Nvidia card to see where the power consumption average is out at the same frame rates that is something you have requested now one thing about the 1650 however is that it is pretty much reaching its PCIe power limit drawer in my opinion the card here on the gallic side of things didn't really go above its wattage and so I believe it's over clocks were limited there pcie 6-pin models that will push above this and we'll get better FPS though again at the detriment of having a six pin power connector included on the card however my biggest critiquing points of this card are going to be different to that of other reviewers or they might be the same I don't know I haven't watched their reviews so I don't want to get any outside influence but without aside the gaming benchmarks showed that the power consumption was a lot better though the rx 570 did come out ahead in every single title whether it be an Nvidia title or an AMD title it simply was a better performing card the 1660 also proved for its extra $70 that it is a much better price performance option considering has much more CUDA cores and it also has higher clock speeds which at least in these 1650s are tested here may have been clock speed bound due to that 75 watt TDP limit there now let's quickly move on to the recommendations from an objective standpoint who would this card be for and why the only current market I can think of is someone who wants to keep power consumption down but still wants decent FPS and they don't mind paying a hundred and fifty dollars if you are in a country with high power consumption costs and you are going to be using this card significantly for the use of its life take for instance if you're gaming on what a Warcraft and you're using this card for a very extended period of time day and day out then over time those savings for the power can make it a better value for money option than nrx 570 though again how many people play World of Warcraft for 16 hours a day I'm not too sure this could also be a good option for someone with a PC that's maybe four or five years old but they know has a decent four-course CPU and it can handle a GPU upgrade and they may be concerned about the other components in their system say for instance they only have a 350 watt power supply and they don't want to chop and change things too much then it could be a decent option though those two markets aside let's get on to the critiquing points and the first thing that does bother me about the 1650 is the progression of the cart itself two and a half years in the making not really giving a whole boost over the 1050 TI having the same vram and yet using more power than its little predecessor also upon testing out the streaming performance I was quite surprised that this does indeed have the volta nvidia encoder built on board so that's the previous generation so even though it has chirring cuda cause it is not benefiting from the chirring encoder that has been built into the gtx 1660 and above and even onto the RT x cards when it was first released this does give a better more efficient encoding process especially if you're gonna be streaming on Twitch at 6,000 kilobits per second the second last point i'm gonna critique is that there's no low profile option that's when the card actually has a shallower depth therefore allowing it to fit into much smaller cases with ease and in turn turning some sleeper pieces into otherwise gaming piece the last point however is the biggest and most missed opportunity of the 1650 in my opinion and I don't know if others have talked about this but I feel like with the experience of me doing what I do in the use market a couple with the fact that NVIDIA stands in the market to only gain from doing this is something that perplexes me and that is the UEFI biases on board these cards I would like to see in video give the partners the option to integrate a legacy BIOS but somehow gets these GPUs working on all HP motherboards Dells aces things that don't have the option to turn on CSM or disable secure boot if they did that this would make a whole new market for those old OEMs as well as put this thing in a very good position in terms of its popularity and if you end up getting one of these in an old OEM system you may come into problems your mileage may vary with that so in conclusion with the gtx 1650 first off me to give props to Galax they always seem to make a solid looking card that not only looks solid but feels solid as well it's got the performance to match got the thermals and of course it comes in at the MSRP they always seem to do a good job of hitting that though in terms of the actual SKU itself the 1650 here it's one of those things where NVIDIA has proven to the market that it can't control the market and currently the market conditions are that of a buyers market so if you want to be selling your cards then you have to maybe follow suit in what AMD is doing and make no mistake AMD don't want to sell an rx 570 at 130 US dollars brand-new that want to sell it at a higher price but they simply those four the GTX 1658 150 dollars I'm not that impressed with it and in fact I think it's only for someone who's looking for power efficiency all that other market that we mentioned before someone that's looking to replace their old potato GPU and doesn't want to change other components in their current setup but once an FPS boost other than that there are such when taking points which I mentioned before that I'd like to see Nvidia improve on and this card would have went from mediocre to somewhere of the likes of wow it's pretty cool for a lot of things but I feel like it missed that mark and with that said I hope you enjoyed today's review an alternative look at the gtx 1650 with that said if you did be sure to hit that like button and i'll catch you in another tech video very soon but before you jump on out of here do drop a comment and let us know what you think of this review my thoughts and opinions and what you think of the gtx 1650 love reading each and every one of your feedback each and every one of yous yours I don't know it's getting pretty late my brain is dropping out right now and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye you