Just got hold of a Nvidia Quadro T600 (Turing chip, 640 cores, 4gb, 40w) and I can report that it works absolutely fine without any mods in the T740. It's substantially better performance than the APU in my tests so far. I believe it is somewhere between a 1050ti and 1650 by comparison.
Looking at the power specs of the cards on the market this appears to be the best card that fits within both the power envelope of the PCIe riser and the physical dimensions of the case - the ram heatsink/cover is pretty close to the GPU fan, so I'm intending to remove it.
The AMD W6400 and Nvidia T1000 are higher performing cards but are north of 50w, so quite likely to put undue stress on the PCIe power regulator.
It is quite a remarkable little machine for emulation gaming and casual PC gaming as long as you are prepared to be realistic with detail settings for more recent games. I just wish the fan/bios wasn't so useless!
Looking at the power specs of the cards on the market this appears to be the best card that fits within both the power envelope of the PCIe riser and the physical dimensions of the case - the ram heatsink/cover is pretty close to the GPU fan, so I'm intending to remove it.
The AMD W6400 and Nvidia T1000 are higher performing cards but are north of 50w, so quite likely to put undue stress on the PCIe power regulator.
It is quite a remarkable little machine for emulation gaming and casual PC gaming as long as you are prepared to be realistic with detail settings for more recent games. I just wish the fan/bios wasn't so useless!