Hello and thanks for taking the time to read my thread.
I recently bought an NVIDIA 770 (http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/GTX770DC2OC2GD5/ that one more or less) and had a problem with my computer when I installed it: the computer would not boot properly and refused to go past the 'post' stage.
With the help of some fellow gamers I fixed this problem by changing my GIGABYTE motherboard's PCI ROM setting to 'Legacy'. This problem was apparently caused by my mobo's bios being outdated (not 100% sure on this though).
So the problem is fixed, but now my issue is that that I'm not very tech-savvy and updating my motherboard's bios is not something I would particularly relish.
So my question is: does having the mobo in Legacy PCI ROM mode slow the graphics card down? Does it impact in any way on the card's performance or the system's performance? Is there actually a solid reason to get the mobo updated, or should I just stick with it and be happy that it works?
My performance in Skyrim currently is not quite where I want it to be (I use a LOT of mods!) so if I could get extra performance I would definitely be interested.
Thanks for reading.
PS: my motherboard is a Gigabyte Z97-something or other.
PPS: this is what Gigabyte themselves are suggesting http://www.gigabyte.com/webpage/20/HowToReflashBIOS.html from the looks of that, @Bios is the easiest way to update the Bios. I'd be blindly following instructions, I have no idea what I'm doing.
PPPS: just ran 3Dmark11, got the following:
3DMark Score 9584 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770(1x) and Intel Core i5-3550 Processor
Graphics Score 10949
Physics Score 6922
Combined Score 7060
I recently bought an NVIDIA 770 (http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/GTX770DC2OC2GD5/ that one more or less) and had a problem with my computer when I installed it: the computer would not boot properly and refused to go past the 'post' stage.
With the help of some fellow gamers I fixed this problem by changing my GIGABYTE motherboard's PCI ROM setting to 'Legacy'. This problem was apparently caused by my mobo's bios being outdated (not 100% sure on this though).
So the problem is fixed, but now my issue is that that I'm not very tech-savvy and updating my motherboard's bios is not something I would particularly relish.
So my question is: does having the mobo in Legacy PCI ROM mode slow the graphics card down? Does it impact in any way on the card's performance or the system's performance? Is there actually a solid reason to get the mobo updated, or should I just stick with it and be happy that it works?
My performance in Skyrim currently is not quite where I want it to be (I use a LOT of mods!) so if I could get extra performance I would definitely be interested.
Thanks for reading.
PS: my motherboard is a Gigabyte Z97-something or other.
PPS: this is what Gigabyte themselves are suggesting http://www.gigabyte.com/webpage/20/HowToReflashBIOS.html from the looks of that, @Bios is the easiest way to update the Bios. I'd be blindly following instructions, I have no idea what I'm doing.
PPPS: just ran 3Dmark11, got the following:
3DMark Score 9584 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770(1x) and Intel Core i5-3550 Processor
Graphics Score 10949
Physics Score 6922
Combined Score 7060
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram