@Lew Zealand OK, I have an EVGA GTX-1050 ti (4 GB), an Asus "TUFF" GTX-1650 (GDDR-6), and neither card is slot powered.
The 1650 cost me $210. US at the very tail end of "the great video card famine". I had it still unopened when Newegg managed to obtain Asus "TUFF" GTX-1660 ti cards for about $220. US. As I held the 1650 for more than 30 days, Newegg refused to swap it out for the 1660. I said "f**k it", and bought the 1660 outright. Newegg did compensate me with a price match and a $10 gift card. After they sold out of those two shipments, the prices went back up to about $270.00..!
Over the years I've built up a collection of "relics", (or E-waste, if you prefer). One such novelty is a Gigabyte "P-45" ("Performance", w/ NO IGP), with an Intel Core 2 Duo E-7300. The 32 bit XP was swapped out for Win Pro 64 bit, an SSD and 8 gigs of RAM installed. (Keep in mind this is a SATA 2 rig).
OK, I don't game at all, and confine my online activities to, searching for "erotic art", arguing in forums, (some would say "trolling"), and being talked down to by the new wave AMD crowd, as I build with Intel. Then there's the whole paying my bills once a month thing.
Back to the P-45 and its current lowly GT-1030. So the card only draws 30 watts, big plus. I started with a GT-710 I had laying around, which wouldn't work for an hour without crashing the driver. About every hour I had ti yank the monitor cable and reinsert it to get the display back. Pull he 710, insert GT-730, which only crashed every couple of hours. (same procedure required). Enter a GT-1030.
No crashes whatsoever, and the only occasional negative symptom it displays, is the failure to overwrite the former pages background color without a tiny bit of perceptible lag. It drives 2K monitors just fine. I does want to ague about having to output 4K, so you just let your TV scale up from 1080p, and "all's well that ends well".
Brace yourself, outrageous and blasphemous statements incoming. Excluding any gaming use, the GT-1030 could almost be considered the "sweet spot" for the average mainstream user.
But, I did see that nasty GT-1630 (did they have the hubris to call that turd a "GTX"? I can't recall), for $189.95 at the time of release. The reality is though, at between $100 & $125 it would have been a decent upgrade for the mainstream user from the GT-1030.
In other news: While it may be beneath most Techspot member's dignity to consider buying an Intel CPU, let alone a 2 generation old one, Newegg has been offering the Alderlake 12900K for $314. or less than half of list. (Which I think was somewhere about $650).