In this video we're going to be doing an unboxing an overview and an install of the EVGA GeForce
RTX 3050 XC black gaming graphics card I know it's incredibly rough to find one and then if
you can find one finding one for a good price it actually took me a long time to find this
one but anyway let's get to the unboxing as soon as we're done with the unboxing I’m going to show
you how to install it all right so here we can see again the EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC black
gaming graphics card EVGA did send this to me to review so along the side here nothing much just
EVGA xc GeForce RTX 3050 along the back here we can see the features the specs and all that
good stuff on the card don't worry too much about that same thing along the side the bottom black
and the top serial number UPC all that good stuff let's go ahead open it up real quick
All right now the reason I do these unboxings you can see here nothing inside of the box is so that
you know what comes inside the box and aren't caught off of guard okay nothing in here
And it looks like it's just the card all wrapped up
No adapters or anything along those lines
All right so we can see this is a dual fan card and it is PCIE 4.0 though it is backwards
compatible just make sure to remove this before attempting to install the card and it also has
this plastic cover over it just make sure to remove it
All gone you can see the fans have that little EVGA logo on it and it does have
these little curves and the lip in black as you've come to expect now you can see the
large heatsink and the copper pipe on the inside this does require an eight pin PCIE connection
it also requires a minimum of 550 watts that you can go as high as you'd like
px1 back here then we can see there is an opening on the back of the card to allow when the fans
blow through the card it actually literally blows through the card helping to dissipate all the heat
through the rear and we can see UPC serial number all that good stuff back here as well
this does have one two three display ports and one HDMI 2.1
removing that as well they do a lot to protect the card just to make sure it doesn't get scratched
or anything along the bottom of the card more of the heatsink than the connections for the
fans this does have 2560 CUDA cores 1777 megahertz spools clock then along with the eight gigs of ram
this does also have a 14 000 megahertz effective memory clock speed as well as 224 gigabytes per
second memory bandwidth now the card has a total power draw of 130 watts now the card measures
eight inches from the rear of the card to this the front of the card I’ll go ahead and put the exact
measurements on the bottom of the screen almost two inches in depth and then measuring like this
98.33 millimeters that's about almost four inches with all that said let's go ahead
and install it real quick we're going to be doing some preparation on your system before
we install the video card whether you're coming from on die intel or AMD CPU graphics or you're
coming from a full-fledged AMD or NVIDIA card I highly recommend you do this because no matter
how good or how bad performing the card is you want the card to perform as well as possible
you just spent money on this you don't want to blow that money right anyway let's get started
so you can see we are running an NVIDIA card no matter what we're running we'll open up edge
or chrome this is a brand new install of windows we're going to go to wagnardsoft.com
and we're going to go to scroll down a little bit and we'll go to DDU the latest version
scroll down a little bit more click here for download and support and a little tiny bit more
official download here that's going to go ahead and install DDU so while that's downloading we'll
go to nvidia.com go to drivers select GeForce from the drop down 30 series
Select RTX 3050
Whether you have windows 10 64-bit 11 7 select your version I’m using 11 and then we'll click
search here we'll find the latest version it could be newer by the time you get to it and then click
download here and again download here
okay so now we'll go to open file on DDU or wherever we've downloaded it to
Double click on that DDU file and then the c drive we'll create a directory called DDU and extract it
there that automatically created that drive and just to verify here we see it right here so now
we're going to go into safe mode we'll hold the left shift key then we'll right click
on the start button hover over shutdown or sign out and then we'll click restart
So now here we'll go ahead and select troubleshoot advanced options startup settings
restart the change windows options such as we're going to want enable safe mode and click restart
All right so then here we're going to go ahead and select enable safe mode mind you,
you can enable safe mode with networking or enable safe mode with command prompt but we'll
go ahead and do number four here in safe mode we'll just go to the root of that DDU folder
And we'll run display driver uninstaller so then we click ok over here you have to be incredibly
careful here if you're running an AMD chipset motherboard so you have an AMD CPU in your system
you're going to want to go ahead and remove all of this because it could mess with your chipset
driver mind you, you can always reinstall it but it's a little bit easier if you uncheck this now
we're removing NVIDIA drivers because we had a 3060 in the system before so we'll check
everything here and I need to minimize this a little tiny bit and then one very important thing
if we scroll down prevent downloads of Drivers from windows update when windows search for a
driver for a device we want the place to check in that click ok here click close now over here
we're going to go ahead and select device type we're going to be removing the drivers for a GPU
and then we'll select NVIDIA AMD or intel whichever we had before we're going to select
here so now because I had an older NVIDIA card I’m removing the NVIDIA drive it doesn't matter
that I’m running a 3060 it could be whatever NVIDIA card this is just an example and then
we'll go ahead over here and click clean and shut down clean and shut down because after it's done
cleaning the drivers we want the system to shut down so that we can install the new video card
Again this just makes it so that your drivers get uninstalled completely from a third-party
wagnardsoft DDU it completely removes everything NVIDIA has there or AMD or intel
giving you the perfect base to install your brand new drivers so that your system
only sees your brand new drivers nothing more
nothing less DDU only takes a few seconds to run any second now we'll see it shut down windows
Alright now let's get to install the video card now depending on the video card we have in our
system if it does have a PCIE power connection we're going to want to go ahead and remove that
so we'll just press on the little clip down here holding the PCIE cable in place and then we'll
just go ahead pull it out we'll lay it down for right now since we will need it later on
now we'll go ahead and remove the screws over here this particular case it's a Phillips head screw
you can't just pull the video card out because you'll end up damaging the motherboard you'll
notice right over here there's a little locking mechanism that keeps the card in place so we'll
just go ahead put our hand on the card so what we'll do is with our fingertip or with any device
very gently push this down and that'll go ahead and unlock the video card now the video card just
unlocked and now we can just release the video card that locking mechanism works two ways the
same way we pushed it down to release the video card when we push in a new video card this will
go ahead and automatically lock in place so I just unlocked it again so now we'll grab
the brand new video card and we'll slide these PCIE fingers
into the PCIE slot and then just realize that these two little metal prongs they're going to
go between the case and the motherboard right behind the motherboard we'll slide it in here
now I could let go for a second you'll notice that little locking mechanism
again when we push it in it's going to lock in place
and so we just slid in the PCIE fingers into the PCIE slot and then the little locking mechanism
locked and held the card in place it locks itself on the little section on the card right
here looks like a little arm it just slides right in there and locks the card in place
now we'll go ahead and screw the video card in place same way we did before just backwards
and then we'll go ahead and connect the a-pin PCIE
into the 8-pin PCIE slot right over here and then this little locking mechanism that we
pushed down before will automatically raise itself and then lock in place
okay and just clicked in place now
so we've installed a video card now let's go ahead and install the drivers now just realize one thing
depending what you were coming from before you might be used to plugging in your video
right up here but now that you have a video card you're going to be plugging your
monitor into your video card beat HDMI or any of the display ports or both now our system
is back together we'll go ahead and turn the system on for the first time with the new card
now we have the card running on the new system and of course we have to install the video
drivers now if you're used to allowing windows to do its own thing which I never recommend but
remember what we did here is we stopped windows from automatically downloading what they call the
latest video driver it's all enough now if you remember just before we booted into safe mode
to remove the drivers we downloaded the latest driver so we'll go ahead and double click on that
yes over here then we'll go ahead and click ok
then we'll click agree and continue you can select whichever you want of these I’m going to select
the graphics drivers and the GeForce experience agree and continue we'll choose custom next
and then perform a clean install even though we've done DDU I always select this because
you never know what could happen and click next this would only take a minute or two
close that
and we can leave this checked or unchecked however you'd like and click close even though NVIDIA
hasn't said to for good measures we'll go ahead and just restart the computer
it only takes a few seconds when we're back in windows we're going to want to go ahead and right
click on the desktop select show more options and click NVIDIA control panel agree and continue
now this is incredibly important so that you can get again all the performance from your card
depending on your monitor of course we're going to want to go ahead and click change resolution
and because I’m running through a capture card I’m stuck at 60 hertz but first off select the
resolution you'd like if you want 1080p select it here or if you want 2k or if you want 4k just
select it here make sure you select the highest refresh rate your monitor allows again I’m running
through a capture card the Avermedia 2plus live gamer portable it only goes up to 60 hertz but if
your monitor does 120 240 144 360 500 however many hurts you have select it and you'll get
that much better performance out of your card this is a last minute addition after selecting your
highest possible refresh rate that works of course if you have g-sync or Freesync on your
monitor make sure to come here click setup g-sync make sure you click to enable G-Sync,
G-Sync compatible enable for full screen mode and then make sure that enable settings for the
selected display model is selected that way you can get so much more performance
even above selecting the refresh rate I hope this video has helped you not only with the unboxing so
that you know everything that comes in the box and you can buy anything additional that you may need
but then also it helped you on the installation so you know exactly how to remove your old video card
how to pop in the new video card and how to correctly uninstall and install all
the latest and greatest drivers and remove your old drivers as well so I will be doing
a lot more on this video guard I’ll be doing some gameplay performance testing as well as
some fan testing and then also I’ll be doing some reviewing of it comparing to other cards as well
I won't name those cards but they're on the screen but anyway stay tuned here to this bites for you
for a whole lot more on this video card and lots more Iggy with ThisBytesForYou up see you guys