Please do a Hershey’s (or your favorite chocolate type, just using a recognizable brand here), and wrap the card with the wrapper foil, that would be very cool and kind of funny “and today we have this bar of chocolate, and will be gaming on Crysis”.
The RX550 with 512 and 640 Corey are basicly the same as the WX2100 2GB and WX3100 4GB! You use the workstation drivers of small WX-Cards for better proformance in gaming! Only you should do is rename WX2100 to RX550 with editor :)
Not gonna lie, I'd be interested in this colorway on more GPUs for variety. It looks like Yeston has more purple-pink/black cards available if you want an RX 580 with a unique coloring. Dunno if the cooling is worth a darn though.
Yea, fair comment :D I do plan on putting together a Xeon box and switching to that. On the other hand I have some Ryzen parts now as well. What is your editing machine?
Timmy Joe PC Tech I honestly like his content because of that devotion to budget.... I could could never do it though, but to watch it is very interesting.
@@philscomputerlab I was using the Threadripper 2950x and recently swapped to the 3700x and it feels a little more responsive. The render times are not as good but the IPC upgrade is worth it. PowerDirector is fine with most 1080p files with a decent 8 thread machine but I find having at least a Rx 580 really helps make the timeline feel the most responsive. Since I use 4k files for the crop factor I find i really need a high end cpu and mid range gpu to avoid tearing my hair out.
That's AMD for you. Yet people just can't stop blaming Intel & Nvidia. Not too long ago, AMD used to sell dual-core processors which could be transformed into quad-cores with a BIOS hack or something.
@@Sam-K They were not dual but triple core (they locked one core that didn't work stable) and when people unlocked it almost never it ran that good without ramping up the voltage, hence why they locked it down not to throw those cpus away.
@@Sam-K Phenom II CPU's would have cores that would not pass testing and were disabled. They sold them as triple core or dual core and most bioses had a core unlocker feature. Some OEM variants of the X4 could unlock into x6'es.
I feel like the lower spec graphics cards don't get enough love or attention from tech reviewers, but the positive feedback in the comments shows how much we love an underdog! Lovely card, great review, top notch as always. Thank you!
I own a 1030 4gb also the yestone rx550 4gb and i can confirm that the Amd rx550 4gb is better and i get 20fps more in pretty much every game .Almost same performance as the 1650 4gb . Forgot to mention the rx550 required a bit more powerful psu 400w recommended that can be sorted with a psu replace and a cheap adapter from 28 pin to 14 or 10 pin as the ssf pc usually came with a psu that have 14 or 10 pin . With the adapter you can buy any 28pin ssf 400w psu and i can confirm that fit's in my thinkcentre m700 just fine without any modification. I play witcher3 1080p medium setings with 50fps . Really worth to buy this card considering cost 76£ posting included from China .My cpu was upgraded from i5 6500 to i7 6700 also i have 32gb ddr4 2x16 corsair at 3000 mhz but they ran at only 2100mhz so i don't recommend 3000 mhz unless you are planning to use later on a system that supports full speed 3000mhz
@@iulianispas8634 You are straight up lying, and don't know why The RX 550 is not so much better than the GT 1030 (the GDDR5 one), and nowhere close the GTX 1650, the RX 560 is around the performance of a GTX 1050 and the GTX 1650 is above that
I've fit a Zotac GTX 750Ti single slot into this very Core 2 (now Xeon X3363 Quad Core) tower and can confirm. That it's okay. After a SATA SSD upgrade. 900p gaming.
The advantage of this card, is that it comes new, and you don't have to do the maintance of changing the thermal paste, plus AMD drivers are really good. I don't really know the way it would work with the VGA port it includes. Would be great.
As far as I know, GT 1030 has the hardware encoders disabled... so you can't accelerate rendering or do encoding with them. The RX 550 hardware encoders should work just fine, albeit a bit slower than nvEnc
the GP108 chip used in the GT 1030 omits the hardware encoders, yeah. Presumably to make the die size smaller. The same was true of the GF108 which was in some (but not all) GT 730 cards.
I believe the gtx1650 did something similar also. It's the only turing card without the same encoder all the others have. And I'm pretty sure it's the same that volta uses.
@@skoopsro7656 yeah, looks like they put the previous-generation version of the encoder onto gtx 1650. At least it still has an encoder, unlike the gt 1030 which had none at all.
I am angry that you have way less subscribers than you deserve! As always, great content, curious experiments with affordable hardware. Most of the youtube channels and tech websites test high-end hardware, which most of the people do not actually use. Another good thing is, that your content is some kind of relaxing! As time goes on, and I am about to watch 2-3 videos from youtube before I go to sleep, I always leave PhilsComputerLab for last - not because it is the least interesting, but because it is the most relaxing and it gives me a good night sleep :) Cheers from Bulgaria, mate!
Nice review. I like these low profile graphics cards. Not a lot of people give them much attention. Your PC config is a nice option for a lot of people
Man i love your video's.Always informative.Really enjoyable.I got the rx550 2gb in my one brothers pc and it's good for entry level gaming.Nothing massive but he games at 720p so its perfect for his use.
I LOVE that you review budget components. I was just looking at yeston but I was a bit suspicious, thank you for reviews cant wait to build my aliexpress amd pc
You are so right about needing to experience freesync first hand. I recently upgraded my monitor and freesync is everything now. Even on modest hardware
Happy to see that this card is legit! I spotted this card in a eBay search last week. I'm even happier that this version of the RX 550 only draws 40w. My current RX 550 actually made me go from having a 275w PSU to 300w. I might end up picking up the Yeston card. Only downside for this card to me is the lack of a Display Port.
This is the first of your videos that I've seen and you nailed basically everything about this card that someone would want to know about it, especially the value of Freesync when your card is weak.
Great video and it is a refreshing change to see a unbiased review of a Chinese gpu. I have had my eye one this card for a while and I now made up my mind to buy one. Thank you.
well theres a reason for bias on chinese gpu's. its true theres a few legit companies like yeston but theres a plethora of bad companies that make fake video cards and put in the bios its a 1050ti when its actually a gts450
I have an hp elite-desk 800g1 with an i7-4790 w/ a low profile gtx 1650 and it rocks, these SFF Machines deserve more love, there actually quite capable of gaming, I can get around 60fps in minecraft with a good shader pack
I have the same computer and have just ordered this card for it , I'm really glad to see yours has no issues with compatibility. I almost bought the Gt1030 . I was looking at just a Gt710 but prices Vs performance made no sense . Bought the hp prodesk 600 G2 with G4400 4Gb 500Gb hd £50. Windows 10 and Office included. Added 4Gb Ram and 120Gb SSD hyper X for £35 Radeon Rx550 £65 So not bad for £150 upcylinig Processor to be upgraded probably I5-6500 Great video
Updated I actually have a HP Prodesk 600 G2 G4400 CPU 8gb Ram DDR 4 @2100 500gb 7200 hd 120gb SSD OS Windows 10 Pro Radeon Rx550 4gb ( same card your reviewing) The card is very good but I find my G4400 is bottle necking so looking at a i3 6420 as a upgrade. Have played fortnight at medium settings 1080p >30 FPS My biggest bug bear is I can't get C&C general's to work as it crashes with direct X error. Anyone who get it working please leave a comment. I tried Destiny 2 it looks great but my CPU again held back on the game play But if I was to upgrade this card it would be the gtx 1650 Asus oc edition and max out my CPU to a i7 6700 with a extra 8 GB ram ! How I wish the mother board would support the i3 9100 sigh 😮 That would be a great option.
Upgraded to a i3 6100 and it made a big difference. Much smother and higher fps. Got the i3 6100 for £30 sold the G4400 for £35 my budget pc is rocking.
I mean, its not that 1050 ti***, but, thats still freaking awesome! I don't even know if that LPSS GTX 1050 ti*** was real, but, boy did it look awesome (its something I linked on Facebook a while back Phil if you recall). ***Edited 1070 for 1050 ti, misremembered. I found a link for it on Aliexpress, I tagged you in Facebook in the 'NOT Retro' PC Gaming sub-group.
Very cool! I bet this would do well with PS2 and Dreamcast emulation too. Edit: My daily driver is an older HP SFF - I'm rocking an i5-3570 with the SFF 1050ti, and it's really damn impressive. Eve Online cranked to max looks and performs beautifully, and even the Shadow of the Tomb Raider demo with settings tweaked was quite nice. I really thing this is a smart, economical way to build a competent gaming system if you're not super concerned with running at max settings.
Speaking of small form factor, I have a Dell OptiPlex 7020 SFF with the following specs below. CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 Quad-Core at 3.60 GHz Memory: 32GB DDR3-1600 (upgraded from 8GB) Storage: 1TB SSD (upgraded from 500GB HDD) GPU: AMD Embedded Radeon E9173 2GB GDDR5 (upgraded from Intel HD Graphics 4600, pending upgrade to YESTON Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5) Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
@@kiyanharchegani2588 the Xbox and PS4 can't do 4k on everything, only very few games. Also I'm sure the RX 550 could do 4k on games like CS:GO and some others that aren't hard to run. Consoles run games at low settings and 30 fps by default anyway. This card already beats the consoles because it can do those games on medium settings around 40-60fps.
Honestly, I didn't mean 4K-60 in recent titles. I was thinking more 1080p medium to high settings depending on the title with a 60 fps minimum. Swap the 550 for an MSI low profile 560 OC ( also gets all of its juice from the slot) and I'll wager you're talking high presets more often than not.
AMD's little low profile workstation cards are so adorable now, and they're latest reference card shrouds actually look proper instead of like a cheap plastic red and black toy with "xX GamInG pro OCXx plastered on it.
still using it?> i have it in the wife's PC which is also our HTPC and its still soldiering on, even playing AAA fare (shes got a bunch of time into Baldur's Gate 3!!!)
I saw this video a long while ago, and I knew i had to get one of these cards as soon as I could, and I've had one now for a couple of months I'm actually super impressed with the little thing, it performs pretty similarly to a GTX 750 ti, and sometimes even slightly better. I managed to get far cry 5 running on it at ultra settings(without antialiasing), slightly higher than 720p, with a fairly solid 60fps, division 2 at medium settings, 1080p, somewhere around 76fps i would totally go for this card over the gt 1030 if the option presents itself, and i'd consider myself a nvidia fanboy, maybe i'll look into unlocking the extra cores if i feel brave enough, and find a pc to use it in i was super worried about the thermal throttling like i saw in the video, but it hasn't really been a problem on my card, maybe it's just the airflow situation i put the card into when i tested it. now my main problem is that i don't really have a PC i can properly put it into, i was planning on putting it into a lenovo SFF, but lenovo has a bios whitelist that doesn't let newer AMD cards work, tried an HP pro 6000 but the thing is super tempermental with ram and i haven't even gotten the pc to work consistently yet
I ended up buying this card for my old gateway sx2380 so I could run premiere pro with hardware encoding. It works great and greatly cuts down encoding time. I also upgraded to dual ssd drives and maxed out the ram and processor. The computer case is tiny and I needed the most powerful video card I could get in the smallest package. This was it.
i got one for the wife, its in her SFF/LP Acer now with an i7 2600 S and 16gb DDR3 (2x8gb) and it's a feisty lil build. good lil card. i can get away with playing AAA stuff on it but it has enough grunt to do modest work as well.
I appreciate the inclusion of Firestrike! Just for reference and in case anyone wanted to know, with my Ryzen 5 3400G and b-die memory, I was able to get 4113 points, with the gpu test scoring 4605 and the cpu at 12,404.
Ok, so it outperforms the gt 1030 and they're priced the same (at the moment). I'd like to see a comparison between the LP RX 550 and the LP GTX 1050 ti
@@iulianispas8634 Interesting, it's a no brainer then. You can get two RX 550 for the price of one GTX 1050 ti. Perfect if you're "balling on a budget".
@@iulianispas8634 can you stop stating the "better" propaganda bs? 1650 is 4 times the 550 obivously in games like cod warzone, and also 1650 is in a different league, so even amd is so good at ryzen cpus and navi gpus now, don't hype up the old polaris cards bc it's a laughing stock compared to 1650 rn
@@itworked2818 the rx550 is suitable for budget low powered pcs, whereas the 1650 is better for midrange gaming pcs, so it requires different psu wattages, comparing each other is just unrealistic
Thanks for this, I have a low profile pc case which is basically a lenovo office pc that I wanted to update with an I7 I have laying around and some gcard, couldnt settle on which one as they were either massively overpowered (and wouldn't fit the case), or available second hand only (and wouldn't fit the case). I want something to be able to run older (2005-2015) games smoothly which won't fry after 2 minutes cause someone fucked with it. And yeah, it's chinese, so the failure rate of components might be higher, but the price/quality/size/ability overal ratio seems perfect for my plans :) Thanks again! SUBSCRIBED, I need more reviews of stuff that is not high-end, but reasonable :)
I've been looking at what video card I can invest in especially to give more boost to my editing process: I stumbled across this GPU this morning, and needed to learn about how well it operates. Glad I saw your video I'm considering a purchase. Thanks for the review.
It looks very similar to the Radeon Pro WX2100 that I put in my work desktop. Beats the pants off of the integrated graphics, gives me 3 DP outputs for my 3 monitors at work and comes in handy for the rare moments that the boss allows us to LAN party.
I just got my Yeston and i am super surprised in performance, also the card was plug and play in macOs with VGA support wich is almost impossible usually. I am very happy so far and i will try to unlock shaders now!
You might want to look into a WX 4100 now. They're coming down in price and I just put one in my T730 Thinclient to make a 1080p emulation box with CRT shaders and it works great.
watching your benkmark, it seems like the temperature is quite high, same thing happens to me, I think its because of the SFF dell case, most games get to 86c some even get to 92c like beamng drive. I even changed the thermal paste but it didn't really made much of a difference, so I guess it is kind of normal to expect high temps with this gpu on a SFF case?
I don't know why AMD never released atleast an RX 570 4 GB model in Low Profile form to compete with the 1050ti. The 1650 is the best LP card right now but it would be nice to see both AMD and NVIDIA make some newer cards in this form factor. Keep those older Optiplex's and Lenny's going strong!!!! Great Job Phil!!!
my company (for which I work in the IT dept) recycles old PCs to employees for free when the warranty expires provided we have new equipment to replace it, so I've been upgrading my machines for free about every 6-12 months.
My friggin daily driver, bought it for $72 and I have the GPU OC'd to 1380MHz and the MEM to 1680MHz, runs at 90° at full load/utilization. Not the best $72 graphics card out there but it was best I could find and serves me very well😊😊😊
I've been looking at this but I wasn't too sure but I'm now going to buy it!! I need to go with this as I only have around around a 100 quid left of my budget
From my personal experience the GT 1030 was a good deal better than my R7 250. So it's interesting to see a video that even briefly compares the RX 550 and GT 1030.
Wow! An RX550 with VGA? I've never seen one before. I have and RX 460 and does not have one. Could be great for a retro project with that D-SUB connector.
How does this compare to a gt 1030 ti low profile 2gb? Looks like the Yeston has more ram, a 128 bit bus compared to 64 , and more shader units (cuda cores on the 1030)
I appreciate the clean insides and neat internals of OEM machines. They are clearly designed to be easily serviceable, with brackets, removable parts and hinges to give you good access to the guts. It’s a far cry compared to the messy crap of ‘gamer’ cases with all those ‘cable management’ features and wasted space. I also love the desktop form factor, although it’s not that good on modern machines due to their noisy nature and number of fans.
I saw someone mention this card as an inexpensive SFF option now - except it was a Yeston RX 560 (still the same pink cover). Crazy that you bought it for under $100 and they are now around $200.
i literally have one in an Acer build (i7-2600S/16gbDDR3/4tb WDBlue/Yeston RX550 4gb just like this one) hooked to the 4k tv im watching this video on right now lol, they are perfect, and the wife who owns this lil pc didnt wanna upgrade cases, so i found this card on AliExpress with heavy research (it's Polaris21!!! the main retail 550 is Lexa, this is Baffin). overclocks nicely on that lil PCI-E 16x slot, as well. t's a feisty card, and i can see how it is supposed to appeal to SFF builds as this one it's in is both low profile AND Small Form Factor, so this card was really the much better choice over a GT 1030. We're getting AAA stuff to run on it as well as watching 4k movies etc on it, and she does her graphical work and even some video rendering (the PC was a dual core with onboard video and 4gb ram when i met her lol i had to change that haha). i just checked AliExpress and these still go for about what i paid for mine (before the refund because it took forever to get here as it was still lockdown lol). it's almost 4 years now and the ram was the last upgrade, and it's a lil performer for what it is, and its the size of a deck of cards, really. i would put this thing more towards a 1050ti than the stock 1050 it would match to based on SP count being analogous to CUDA count.
This will also do pretty well with Vulkan titles. Great find Phil! I have a Dell OptiPlex 9020 that is very restrictive on card size and length. I wonder if this will fit in it?
I have a couple of low profile HP Elitedesk 800 G1s with 4770 CPUs and GTX 1050 Tis in them. The combination makes for a solid, compact little gaming PC.
I bought this card on your video review - thank you, it's working perfectly. HOWEVER; I bought it from a company known as 'Banggood' and they have a notorious reputation for spam emails EVEN AFTER YOU UNSUBSCRIBE. I cannot get rid of these people, they are aggressive spammers with a scant disregard for privacy. Absolute nightmare. DO NOT PURCHASE FROM BANGGOOD. 🤢
If you like the color blue and have $150 to buy one used on eBay the WX 4100 is a slightly more powerful workstation version of this card. Very pretty card
Oh, and Phil, hunt down some perforated expansion slot covers, that might help with the card heating up: it looks as if the psu cooling fan and the card are pulling from the same area, possibly starving the card of cool air.
@@philscomputerlab It's weird because there's definitely a market for it if you look at 750TI SFF prices compared to what it is, or any SFF card really. The 1650 has been top dog here for nearly three years, I hope RDNA 2 is efficient enough to move this space along.
anyone notice how this guys hearts almost every comment? lol. also i cant believe you dont use a beast rig for video editing!!!! how long does it take you to render a 4K video?!?!?! i have a i5 2400 and just to render 900p at 60fps takes ages(20 min vid = +3 hours), and i usually end up doing it twice to check for mistakes, because i dont get good playback in my video editor. also nice video! been looking to get some of these slim clients and stick a GPU in them to resell as Esports/low end gaming PC's.
Here's your heart :D So what I do is render at 720p, that goes very quickly. Then I watch it, fix any mistakes and usually render it 2 or 3 more times. Once all is good, I render it at 4K and PowerDirector has an option to shut down PC after render job, so I do the 4K render late night, or early morning :)
It is harder to find a low profile GPU that isn't crap and this is nice grab. IDK about the price for a 550 but still nice. I'm not sure what limitations or prices of your local area, but that's about $50-70 too much for a 550 in my local area! I paid $50 for a RX480 8gb but it sure wouldn't fit in that system lol
The RX 550 is beautiful. I got my 512 Shader MSI 4GT LP OC modell for 55€ on ebay. It is a huge upgrade from an AMD R7 240 GDDR3. My only issue wih that card is that for some reason, I can change the voltage in the driver, but it doesn't apply the changes at the card.
I bought this exact GPU based on this video. I noticed your runs hot too. Mine hovers around 85c while gaming. Should I be concerned? I also have it in a SFF case.
I bought one of these for my Hackintosh Optiplex 990 as it seems to be the only reasonably priced low profile card available that works with macOS Mojave and later. Looking at the PCI device ID it does indeed seem to be a 640 SP Baffin core. Seems to work "out of the box" but the DVI port only shows a black screen until I put the machine to sleep then have it come back online after which it works. The performance is not great at the moment on High Sierra - looks like generally it's a bit choppy compared to the GTX 750 Ti I replaced it with. Might try to upgrade to Catalina to see if it resolves the issue.
Just as a reference, that video card costs ¥519 on taobao brand new via Yeston's official seller store, so at least you didn't overpay for it for being outside of China
Hi there, I have a dell optiplex 3040 sff with 180w psu. I can't find any info on the power draw of this card or if I can undervolt to use safely in this dell PC. Do you have any recommendation if it is a good idea? Any advice is much appreciated. I intend on using this card on low settings also just to vamp up the dell's ability a little more than the igpu on the i5 processor.
the card has no power connectors, the most it can pull from a pci-e slot is 75 watts even though recommended watts are much higher, I have a dell optiplex mid tower running a radeon pro wx 5100 on only a 180w psu and its a much more powerful card that the rx 550 and it still only pulls a max of 75 watts.The extra wattage is for it assuming other things your running in the system
Really love the look of single slot gpus. I was wonder what's the fastest single slot gpu one can find, something that can play slightly modern games at FHD.
It may not be strong but it's a very cute card! Looks Like a chocolate bar
Please do a Hershey’s (or your favorite chocolate type, just using a recognizable brand here), and wrap the card with the wrapper foil, that would be very cool and kind of funny “and today we have this bar of chocolate, and will be gaming on Crysis”.
She has a very cute point! What's a Ryzen 5 3200G next to this barbie GDDR5 accessory.
I like how it looks like a pink Radeon Pro ^_^
The RX550 with 512 and 640 Corey are basicly the same as the WX2100 2GB and WX3100 4GB! You use the workstation drivers of small WX-Cards for better proformance in gaming! Only you should do is rename WX2100 to RX550 with editor :)
Helge Schaare Actually, the 512CU versión with 4GB is the WX3100, the 640CU 4GB version was released less than a month ago and is the WX3200.
That's not pink color. It's purple. It is the color between the blue and red. ;)
Not gonna lie, I'd be interested in this colorway on more GPUs for variety. It looks like Yeston has more purple-pink/black cards available if you want an RX 580 with a unique coloring. Dunno if the cooling is worth a darn though.
and if you don't like pink you can paint it to
Freesync is a real game changer. That’s my #1 requirement for all setups moving forward. Glad to see the little RX 550 beasting HL2 like a champ ;)
same
Yup me too bro.. that's why i sold my 1060 and get rx580 on the cheap for $100,with any freesync monitor it's stutter free
Every AMD card does freesync, Nvidia from Pascal above.
Phil you are one of the only people I know that punishes your self on a production machine for the sake of budget pride :P
Yeah
Hey, if it gets the job done and is enjoyable, it's not really punishment? :P
Yea, fair comment :D I do plan on putting together a Xeon box and switching to that. On the other hand I have some Ryzen parts now as well. What is your editing machine?
Timmy Joe PC Tech I honestly like his content because of that devotion to budget.... I could could never do it though, but to watch it is very interesting.
@@philscomputerlab I was using the Threadripper 2950x and recently swapped to the 3700x and it feels a little more responsive. The render times are not as good but the IPC upgrade is worth it. PowerDirector is fine with most 1080p files with a decent 8 thread machine but I find having at least a Rx 580 really helps make the timeline feel the most responsive. Since I use 4k files for the crop factor I find i really need a high end cpu and mid range gpu to avoid tearing my hair out.
In case you don't know the 640 shader variants can be unlocked to 768 shaders with SRBPolaris.
The 512 can not be unlocked.
Oh, I got to look into that!
That's AMD for you. Yet people just can't stop blaming Intel & Nvidia.
Not too long ago, AMD used to sell dual-core processors which could be transformed into quad-cores with a BIOS hack or something.
@@Sam-K They were not dual but triple core (they locked one core that didn't work stable) and when people unlocked it almost never it ran that good without ramping up the voltage, hence why they locked it down not to throw those cpus away.
@@Sam-K Phenom II CPU's would have cores that would not pass testing and were disabled. They sold them as triple core or dual core and most bioses had a core unlocker feature. Some OEM variants of the X4 could unlock into x6'es.
@@Sam-K But at least you can unlock them.
I feel like the lower spec graphics cards don't get enough love or attention from tech reviewers, but the positive feedback in the comments shows how much we love an underdog!
Lovely card, great review, top notch as always. Thank you!
Yup. I have to go there for price and power supply. I don't do much gaming, and requirements aren't high.
Brilliant, I've been in the market for something like this, didn't fancy the GT1030. Nice shout Phil.
If you can get something like a r3 2200g which is around 1030/rx 550
I own a 1030 4gb also the yestone rx550 4gb and i can confirm that the Amd rx550 4gb is better and i get 20fps more in pretty much every game .Almost same performance as the 1650 4gb . Forgot to mention the rx550 required a bit more powerful psu 400w recommended that can be sorted with a psu replace and a cheap adapter from 28 pin to 14 or 10 pin as the ssf pc usually came with a psu that have 14 or 10 pin . With the adapter you can buy any 28pin ssf 400w psu and i can confirm that fit's in my thinkcentre m700 just fine without any modification. I play witcher3 1080p medium setings with 50fps . Really worth to buy this card considering cost 76£ posting included from China .My cpu was upgraded from i5 6500 to i7 6700 also i have 32gb ddr4 2x16 corsair at 3000 mhz but they ran at only 2100mhz so i don't recommend 3000 mhz unless you are planning to use later on a system that supports full speed 3000mhz
@@iulianispas8634 there isn't a 4 gb get 1030 they only made them with 2 gb
What you probably have is the dsr5 version like I do and not the ddr4 version which is inferior.
@@iulianispas8634
You are straight up lying, and don't know why
The RX 550 is not so much better than the GT 1030 (the GDDR5 one), and nowhere close the GTX 1650, the RX 560 is around the performance of a GTX 1050 and the GTX 1650 is above that
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Looks like it will fit nicely in my ancient Optiplex 755 with a partially blocked PCIe slot.
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I've fit a Zotac GTX 750Ti single slot into this very Core 2 (now Xeon X3363 Quad Core) tower and can confirm. That it's okay. After a SATA SSD upgrade. 900p gaming.
The advantage of this card, is that it comes new, and you don't have to do the maintance of changing the thermal paste, plus AMD drivers are really good.
I don't really know the way it would work with the VGA port it includes. Would be great.
same :)
is it compatible with HP Compaq 6000 SFF i5-3470 with 16gb of ram?
I really have no need for any of the parts you review but your voice is so good i watch anyways :)
As far as I know, GT 1030 has the hardware encoders disabled... so you can't accelerate rendering or do encoding with them. The RX 550 hardware encoders should work just fine, albeit a bit slower than nvEnc
the GP108 chip used in the GT 1030 omits the hardware encoders, yeah. Presumably to make the die size smaller. The same was true of the GF108 which was in some (but not all) GT 730 cards.
I believe the gtx1650 did something similar also. It's the only turing card without the same encoder all the others have. And I'm pretty sure it's the same that volta uses.
@@skoopsro7656 yeah, looks like they put the previous-generation version of the encoder onto gtx 1650. At least it still has an encoder, unlike the gt 1030 which had none at all.
Try with Oldest Low-profiles - It's a cheapest than GTX1050
Bartosz Mróz did u mean GT 1030 GDDR5 model for encoding?
I am angry that you have way less subscribers than you deserve! As always, great content, curious experiments with affordable hardware. Most of the youtube channels and tech websites test high-end hardware, which most of the people do not actually use. Another good thing is, that your content is some kind of relaxing! As time goes on, and I am about to watch 2-3 videos from youtube before I go to sleep, I always leave PhilsComputerLab for last - not because it is the least interesting, but because it is the most relaxing and it gives me a good night sleep :) Cheers from Bulgaria, mate!
We all know you did this just to complete your Yeston collection.
Nice review. I like these low profile graphics cards. Not a lot of people give them much attention. Your PC config is a nice option for a lot of people
Man i love your video's.Always informative.Really enjoyable.I got the rx550 2gb in my one brothers pc and it's good for entry level gaming.Nothing massive but he games at 720p so its perfect for his use.
Both gt 1030 and rx 550 are sub 1080p cards.
I LOVE that you review budget components. I was just looking at yeston but I was a bit suspicious, thank you for reviews cant wait to build my aliexpress amd pc
Thanks Phil. I didn’t even know the low profile RX 550 existed. This appears to be a great alternative to the GTX 1030 and 1050 TI cards.
mesterak again and again, GTX 1030 is not exist but GT 1030
Bagoes budianto just a typo...relax dude
love that little purple card
Not gonna lie, that card looks gorgeous
You are so right about needing to experience freesync first hand. I recently upgraded my monitor and freesync is everything now. Even on modest hardware
Happy to see that this card is legit! I spotted this card in a eBay search last week. I'm even happier that this version of the RX 550 only draws 40w. My current RX 550 actually made me go from having a 275w PSU to 300w. I might end up picking up the Yeston card. Only downside for this card to me is the lack of a Display Port.
This is the first of your videos that I've seen and you nailed basically everything about this card that someone would want to know about it, especially the value of Freesync when your card is weak.
that little purple card looks really cool :o
Even though im not in the market for a low profile card, this is definitely educational! Very straightforward video and caught my interest!
Half life 2 has no business looking this good after 15 years.
Great art direction, lots of details, baked lighting... a match made in heaven. Great performance, nice visuals. Source engine games aged so well.
Great video and it is a refreshing change to see a unbiased review of a Chinese gpu. I have had my eye one this card for a while and I now made up my mind to buy one. Thank you.
well theres a reason for bias on chinese gpu's. its true theres a few legit companies like yeston but theres a plethora of bad companies that make fake video cards and put in the bios its a 1050ti when its actually a gts450
I have an hp elite-desk 800g1 with an i7-4790 w/ a low profile gtx 1650 and it rocks, these SFF Machines deserve more love, there actually quite capable of gaming, I can get around 60fps in minecraft with a good shader pack
Nothing small about them
I have the same computer and have just ordered this card for it , I'm really glad to see yours has no issues with compatibility.
I almost bought the Gt1030 .
I was looking at just a Gt710 but prices Vs performance made no sense .
Bought the hp prodesk 600 G2 with G4400 4Gb 500Gb hd £50.
Windows 10 and Office included.
Added 4Gb Ram and 120Gb SSD hyper X for £35
Radeon Rx550 £65
So not bad for £150 upcylinig
Processor to be upgraded probably I5-6500
Great video
Updated
I actually have a HP Prodesk 600 G2
G4400 CPU
8gb Ram DDR 4 @2100
500gb 7200 hd
120gb SSD OS
Windows 10 Pro
Radeon Rx550 4gb ( same card your reviewing)
The card is very good but I find my G4400 is bottle necking so looking at a i3 6420 as a upgrade.
Have played fortnight at medium settings 1080p >30 FPS
My biggest bug bear is I can't get C&C general's to work as it crashes with direct X error.
Anyone who get it working please leave a comment.
I tried Destiny 2 it looks great but my CPU again held back on the game play
But if I was to upgrade this card it would be the gtx 1650 Asus oc edition and max out my CPU to a i7 6700 with a extra 8 GB ram
! How I wish the mother board would support the i3 9100 sigh 😮
That would be a great option.
Upgraded to a i3 6100 and it made a big difference.
Much smother and higher fps.
Got the i3 6100 for £30 sold the G4400 for £35 my budget pc is rocking.
I mean, its not that 1050 ti***, but, thats still freaking awesome! I don't even know if that LPSS GTX 1050 ti*** was real, but, boy did it look awesome (its something I linked on Facebook a while back Phil if you recall). ***Edited 1070 for 1050 ti, misremembered. I found a link for it on Aliexpress, I tagged you in Facebook in the 'NOT Retro' PC Gaming sub-group.
Very cool! I bet this would do well with PS2 and Dreamcast emulation too.
Edit: My daily driver is an older HP SFF - I'm rocking an i5-3570 with the SFF 1050ti, and it's really damn impressive. Eve Online cranked to max looks and performs beautifully, and even the Shadow of the Tomb Raider demo with settings tweaked was quite nice. I really thing this is a smart, economical way to build a competent gaming system if you're not super concerned with running at max settings.
Man this is some good coverage of a unusual yeston you. Thank u man dig it
Thanks for this - I have a MSI RX 550 and the Wattman settings helped me out!
Small form factor is love ❤️
Speaking of small form factor, I have a Dell OptiPlex 7020 SFF with the following specs below.
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 Quad-Core at 3.60 GHz
Memory: 32GB DDR3-1600 (upgraded from 8GB)
Storage: 1TB SSD (upgraded from 500GB HDD)
GPU: AMD Embedded Radeon E9173 2GB GDDR5 (upgraded from Intel HD Graphics 4600, pending upgrade to YESTON Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5)
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Hey!!! I just got a free ProDesk 400 G2! Was searching for a GPU and I guess this video is perfect! Also, my (high-profile) 1050ti is Yeston.
That's a slick little console killer couch gaming rig. Add a bluray player and blammo: Home theater rig, too.
rx550 is def not a console killer. this card cant drive any modern title @ 4k
Maybe for the PS3/Xbox 360 era
@@kiyanharchegani2588 the Xbox and PS4 can't do 4k on everything, only very few games. Also I'm sure the RX 550 could do 4k on games like CS:GO and some others that aren't hard to run. Consoles run games at low settings and 30 fps by default anyway. This card already beats the consoles because it can do those games on medium settings around 40-60fps.
With 1.37 tflops? Definitely not
Honestly, I didn't mean 4K-60 in recent titles. I was thinking more 1080p medium to high settings depending on the title with a 60 fps minimum. Swap the 550 for an MSI low profile 560 OC ( also gets all of its juice from the slot) and I'll wager you're talking high presets more often than not.
AMD's little low profile workstation cards are so adorable now, and they're latest reference card shrouds actually look proper instead of like a cheap plastic red and black toy with "xX GamInG pro OCXx plastered on it.
The 550 is so awesome I was pleasantly surprised I got it to hold me over until I can get a 3080 for production work.
still using it?> i have it in the wife's PC which is also our HTPC and its still soldiering on, even playing AAA fare (shes got a bunch of time into Baldur's Gate 3!!!)
I saw this video a long while ago, and I knew i had to get one of these cards as soon as I could, and I've had one now for a couple of months
I'm actually super impressed with the little thing, it performs pretty similarly to a GTX 750 ti, and sometimes even slightly better. I managed to get far cry 5 running on it at ultra settings(without antialiasing), slightly higher than 720p, with a fairly solid 60fps, division 2 at medium settings, 1080p, somewhere around 76fps
i would totally go for this card over the gt 1030 if the option presents itself, and i'd consider myself a nvidia fanboy, maybe i'll look into unlocking the extra cores if i feel brave enough, and find a pc to use it in
i was super worried about the thermal throttling like i saw in the video, but it hasn't really been a problem on my card, maybe it's just the airflow situation i put the card into when i tested it.
now my main problem is that i don't really have a PC i can properly put it into, i was planning on putting it into a lenovo SFF, but lenovo has a bios whitelist that doesn't let newer AMD cards work, tried an HP pro 6000 but the thing is super tempermental with ram and i haven't even gotten the pc to work consistently yet
the wife uses it for a lot, its a good card for 900p/1080p gaming with some FSR helping along the way.
I ended up buying this card for my old gateway sx2380 so I could run premiere pro with hardware encoding. It works great and greatly cuts down encoding time. I also upgraded to dual ssd drives and maxed out the ram and processor. The computer case is tiny and I needed the most powerful video card I could get in the smallest package. This was it.
i got one for the wife, its in her SFF/LP Acer now with an i7 2600 S and 16gb DDR3 (2x8gb) and it's a feisty lil build. good lil card. i can get away with playing AAA stuff on it but it has enough grunt to do modest work as well.
I appreciate the inclusion of Firestrike!
Just for reference and in case anyone wanted to know, with my Ryzen 5 3400G and b-die memory, I was able to get 4113 points, with the gpu test scoring 4605 and the cpu at 12,404.
Yea, I was actually wondering vs 3400G.
@@bobsalita3417 Glad I could help 👍
Ok, so it outperforms the gt 1030 and they're priced the same (at the moment). I'd like to see a comparison between the LP RX 550 and the LP GTX 1050 ti
Rx550 Lp 4Gb is same performance as the 1650 4gb. I prefer the AMD rx as less power hungry. With 1650gt i got blue screens restarting with a 300w psu
@@iulianispas8634 Interesting, it's a no brainer then. You can get two RX 550 for the price of one GTX 1050 ti. Perfect if you're "balling on a budget".
@@iulianispas8634 No, gtx 1650 kills the 550 for some reason I don't know why but I'd recommend rx 550 BC of low psus
@@iulianispas8634 can you stop stating the "better" propaganda bs? 1650 is 4 times the 550 obivously in games like cod warzone, and also 1650 is in a different league, so even amd is so good at ryzen cpus and navi gpus now, don't hype up the old polaris cards bc it's a laughing stock compared to 1650 rn
@@itworked2818 the rx550 is suitable for budget low powered pcs, whereas the 1650 is better for midrange gaming pcs, so it requires different psu wattages, comparing each other is just unrealistic
Thanks for this, I have a low profile pc case which is basically a lenovo office pc that I wanted to update with an I7 I have laying around and some gcard, couldnt settle on which one as they were either massively overpowered (and wouldn't fit the case), or available second hand only (and wouldn't fit the case). I want something to be able to run older (2005-2015) games smoothly which won't fry after 2 minutes cause someone fucked with it. And yeah, it's chinese, so the failure rate of components might be higher, but the price/quality/size/ability overal ratio seems perfect for my plans :) Thanks again! SUBSCRIBED, I need more reviews of stuff that is not high-end, but reasonable :)
I am using this card still in the current PC connected to my TV :)
@@philscomputerlab If I can get at least as much usage out of it as You did I'd be happy :D at this price its a steal :)
I've been looking at what video card I can invest in especially to give more boost to my editing process: I stumbled across this GPU this morning, and needed to learn about how well it operates. Glad I saw your video
I'm considering a purchase. Thanks for the review.
Been playing Farcry (the first one) on xbox one x in 4k, good fun!
It looks very similar to the Radeon Pro WX2100 that I put in my work desktop. Beats the pants off of the integrated graphics, gives me 3 DP outputs for my 3 monitors at work and comes in handy for the rare moments that the boss allows us to LAN party.
The wx2100 has 2gb of ram and the wx3100 has 4gb
I just got my Yeston and i am super surprised in performance, also the card was plug and play in macOs with VGA support wich is almost impossible usually. I am very happy so far and i will try to unlock shaders now!
Thank you for the review! I'mma buy this GPU. I already liked and subscribed
You might want to look into a WX 4100 now.
They're coming down in price and I just put one in my T730 Thinclient to make a 1080p emulation box with CRT shaders and it works great.
watching your benkmark, it seems like the temperature is quite high, same thing happens to me, I think its because of the SFF dell case, most games get to 86c some even get to 92c like beamng drive. I even changed the thermal paste but it didn't really made much of a difference, so I guess it is kind of normal to expect high temps with this gpu on a SFF case?
Yes the case has very little airflow.
Very informative and useful information, I like you you explain the details. Thanks!
I don't know why AMD never released atleast an RX 570 4 GB model in Low Profile form to compete with the 1050ti. The 1650 is the best LP card right now but it would be nice to see both AMD and NVIDIA make some newer cards in this form factor. Keep those older Optiplex's and Lenny's going strong!!!! Great Job Phil!!!
my company (for which I work in the IT dept) recycles old PCs to employees for free when the warranty expires provided we have new equipment to replace it, so I've been upgrading my machines for free about every 6-12 months.
I like that gpu that looks like a sports car
It also suppourts HDR by the way just like all other Polaris cards.
I bought a 400GB here from Yeston here in CH . Dirt cheap and still works.
This is perfect, been wanting to buy one of these off Ali express
This is the best alternative to a "cheap NVIDIA Quadro".
The MSI version of the GT 1030 has DisplayPort 1.4, so it get's G-sync (granted it didn't support it until 2019).
Tell me about yeston, bandwidth speed, from the graphic software properties, and other specs too
7:45 GPU TEMP 89c and GPU FAN at 0RPM something is wrong with your fan
Yea I mentioned this in the video, the fan speed is not showing up.
You should get RMA
Other Yeston cards do the same thing, so I think it's just something with those cards.
It's kinda funny how I have the reverse of your setup - I run a GTX 1080 on a 1080p/60Hz monitor. Ah, priorities :)
It's not bad, I suppose you get really high framerates with such a gpu and resolution. :)
I run a GTX 1080 on a 1440p/75HZ monitor, myself. Most games will stick to that framerate the High or Max settings.
I ran rtx 2070 on 768p monitor
My friggin daily driver, bought it for $72 and I have the GPU OC'd to 1380MHz and the MEM to 1680MHz, runs at 90° at full load/utilization. Not the best $72 graphics card out there but it was best I could find and serves me very well😊😊😊
same love this card!!!
Look how cute those little GPUs are.
I've been looking at this but I wasn't too sure but I'm now going to buy it!! I need to go with this as I only have around around a 100 quid left of my budget
From my personal experience the GT 1030 was a good deal better than my R7 250. So it's interesting to see a video that even briefly compares the RX 550 and GT 1030.
Wow! An RX550 with VGA? I've never seen one before. I have and RX 460 and does not have one. Could be great for a retro project with that D-SUB connector.
Probably the go-to Graphics Card if you have a Small Form Factor PC
How does this compare to a gt 1030 ti low profile 2gb? Looks like the Yeston has more ram, a 128 bit bus compared to 64 , and more shader units (cuda cores on the 1030)
Im eager for a in depth comparison between those two. Most of the just highlight those features, but there are many more decisive ones
DOOD! HL2 looks mighty nice on Ryzen internal video too.
this thing is balling for older desktops !
7:50 the GPU is at 89C and is throttling, look at the frequency dropping
I appreciate the clean insides and neat internals of OEM machines. They are clearly designed to be easily serviceable, with brackets, removable parts and hinges to give you good access to the guts. It’s a far cry compared to the messy crap of ‘gamer’ cases with all those ‘cable management’ features and wasted space. I also love the desktop form factor, although it’s not that good on modern machines due to their noisy nature and number of fans.
i was hoping to see a more gaming focused review but this was still great!
I saw someone mention this card as an inexpensive SFF option now - except it was a Yeston RX 560 (still the same pink cover). Crazy that you bought it for under $100 and they are now around $200.
i literally have one in an Acer build (i7-2600S/16gbDDR3/4tb WDBlue/Yeston RX550 4gb just like this one) hooked to the 4k tv im watching this video on right now lol, they are perfect, and the wife who owns this lil pc didnt wanna upgrade cases, so i found this card on AliExpress with heavy research (it's Polaris21!!! the main retail 550 is Lexa, this is Baffin). overclocks nicely on that lil PCI-E 16x slot, as well. t's a feisty card, and i can see how it is supposed to appeal to SFF builds as this one it's in is both low profile AND Small Form Factor, so this card was really the much better choice over a GT 1030. We're getting AAA stuff to run on it as well as watching 4k movies etc on it, and she does her graphical work and even some video rendering (the PC was a dual core with onboard video and 4gb ram when i met her lol i had to change that haha). i just checked AliExpress and these still go for about what i paid for mine (before the refund because it took forever to get here as it was still lockdown lol). it's almost 4 years now and the ram was the last upgrade, and it's a lil performer for what it is, and its the size of a deck of cards, really. i would put this thing more towards a 1050ti than the stock 1050 it would match to based on SP count being analogous to CUDA count.
This will also do pretty well with Vulkan titles. Great find Phil! I have a Dell OptiPlex 9020 that is very restrictive on card size and length. I wonder if this will fit in it?
It fits my 9010, so likely it will fit the 9020.
I have a couple of low profile HP Elitedesk 800 G1s with 4770 CPUs and GTX 1050 Tis in them. The combination makes for a solid, compact little gaming PC.
Kudos for the JV helmet avatar!
@@armorgeddon Cheers mate. One of my all-time favourite drivers.
Mine, too! Greetings!
Will this card work in a hp slimline with a 180w PSU? The gtx 1030 works in it but this seems to be 10w more (i5-7500t with 512gb ssd)
Im also looking for an answer on that. I have a 200w psu SFF (i5 9400, 256 ssd).
@@andrecamaraferreiradacosta8575 this is a late reply but I bought the card and it works perfectly in my system
@@cirno9859 Good to know. Thank you very much, mate!!
You try to get your hands o n a Radeon Pro WX 4100. It's half height with 1024 sp. Basically a small RX 560.
So what we have here is a single slot low profile card with dwice the vram of a typicall low profile card. I love this.
yup and its Polaris 21. very feisty for its size (like a deck of cards).
I bought this card on your video review - thank you, it's working perfectly. HOWEVER; I bought it from a company known as 'Banggood' and they have a notorious reputation for spam emails EVEN AFTER YOU UNSUBSCRIBE. I cannot get rid of these people, they are aggressive spammers with a scant disregard for privacy. Absolute nightmare.
DO NOT PURCHASE FROM BANGGOOD. 🤢
If you like the color blue and have $150 to buy one used on eBay the WX 4100 is a slightly more powerful workstation version of this card. Very pretty card
And I was looking at going for a Radeon Pro WX3100.... This may be a much better option.
Question? Does the 240w psu in hp compaq elite 6305 ) with an amd a10-5800b (100w) capable of running this card?
Would really like to get an answer on this too
WOW mate, you have the all colection of all yeston GPUs jajjaa great!
Oh, and Phil, hunt down some perforated expansion slot covers, that might help with the card heating up: it looks as if the psu cooling fan and the card are pulling from the same area, possibly starving the card of cool air.
It's more powerful than a nVidia GeForce 730 2gb (low profile)?
yes it bodies that card. and its DX12
Hope they make a successor to this with RDNA 2.
Yes that would be nice! For some reason the SFF machines don't get much love...
@@philscomputerlab It's weird because there's definitely a market for it if you look at 750TI SFF prices compared to what it is, or any SFF card really. The 1650 has been top dog here for nearly three years, I hope RDNA 2 is efficient enough to move this space along.
anyone notice how this guys hearts almost every comment? lol. also i cant believe you dont use a beast rig for video editing!!!! how long does it take you to render a 4K video?!?!?! i have a i5 2400 and just to render 900p at 60fps takes ages(20 min vid = +3 hours), and i usually end up doing it twice to check for mistakes, because i dont get good playback in my video editor. also nice video! been looking to get some of these slim clients and stick a GPU in them to resell as Esports/low end gaming PC's.
Here's your heart :D So what I do is render at 720p, that goes very quickly. Then I watch it, fix any mistakes and usually render it 2 or 3 more times. Once all is good, I render it at 4K and PowerDirector has an option to shut down PC after render job, so I do the 4K render late night, or early morning :)
@@philscomputerlab
Cool color
Thank you Phil
It is harder to find a low profile GPU that isn't crap and this is nice grab. IDK about the price for a 550 but still nice. I'm not sure what limitations or prices of your local area, but that's about $50-70 too much for a 550 in my local area! I paid $50 for a RX480 8gb but it sure wouldn't fit in that system lol
The RX 550 is beautiful. I got my 512 Shader MSI 4GT LP OC modell for 55€ on ebay. It is a huge upgrade from an AMD R7 240 GDDR3. My only issue wih that card is that for some reason, I can change the voltage in the driver, but it doesn't apply the changes at the card.
Where are the low profile single slot GTX 1050 cards? GTX 1030 doesn't do H265 NVENC.
I bought this exact GPU based on this video. I noticed your runs hot too. Mine hovers around 85c while gaming. Should I be concerned? I also have it in a SFF case.
All good with the temps, it's just not a gaming case with multiple fans...
The thing is: with the gt 1030 we this problem doesnt occur in SFF models. Maybe The RX550 is just too powerful for closed environments
Great video. What's the height of the card measuring from the motheboard?
I use some Lenovo M93p systems.. 4th gen intel in them.. great value :) upgraded some Optiplex 3rd gen intel systems ;)
I bought one of these for my Hackintosh Optiplex 990 as it seems to be the only reasonably priced low profile card available that works with macOS Mojave and later. Looking at the PCI device ID it does indeed seem to be a 640 SP Baffin core. Seems to work "out of the box" but the DVI port only shows a black screen until I put the machine to sleep then have it come back online after which it works.
The performance is not great at the moment on High Sierra - looks like generally it's a bit choppy compared to the GTX 750 Ti I replaced it with. Might try to upgrade to Catalina to see if it resolves the issue.
Just as a reference, that video card costs ¥519 on taobao brand new via Yeston's official seller store, so at least you didn't overpay for it for being outside of China
Hi there, I have a dell optiplex 3040 sff with 180w psu. I can't find any info on the power draw of this card or if I can undervolt to use safely in this dell PC. Do you have any recommendation if it is a good idea? Any advice is much appreciated. I intend on using this card on low settings also just to vamp up the dell's ability a little more than the igpu on the i5 processor.
the card has no power connectors, the most it can pull from a pci-e slot is 75 watts even though recommended watts are much higher, I have a dell optiplex mid tower running a radeon pro wx 5100 on only a 180w psu and its a much more powerful card that the rx 550 and it still only pulls a max of 75 watts.The extra wattage is for it assuming other things your running in the system
@@kyles8524 So its safe to use the RX550 on a 180w SFF even if it draws 75w? Sounds too costly
@@andrecamaraferreiradacosta8575 yeah but you want a wattage meter to make sure you arent pulling more than what the power supply has.
@@kyles8524 Thanks!!
Does it fit on my optiplex 790 sff or other sff pc's???
Really love the look of single slot gpus. I was wonder what's the fastest single slot gpu one can find, something that can play slightly modern games at FHD.
There a single-slot GTX 1070
Is it the Galax Katana? It looks like it might be the only one.
@@deneb_tm single slot yes, but full height and length.