Graphics Card Upgrade For Gateway DX4870-UB2C With 650w Power Supply

Arron_954

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I recently purchased a PNY GTX 950 for my gateway pc i have all ready upgraded power supply to 650 and have plenty of power pins for card i am currently running a old 295 gtx a buddy gave me just to float me by on gamming i have #1 Pcie slot and i just want to know what is the max graphics card this "POS" of a motherboard can handle obviously it cant handle the 950 gtx
Also the Bios is P01-A1 and i currently use windows 10

sorry for the poor typing im just a simple caveman lol
 
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Unless the board's older legacy BIOS is incomparable with the newer UEFI BIOS of the GTX 950, it should be fine. Are you saying that the GTX 950 doesn't produce a display when you start the system, but the old card does? If so, that would indicate there is the BIOS incompatibility I mentioned.

All AMD R7/9-3xx cards seem to be UEFI now as are all Nvidia GTX 9xx and the 750 Ti. Short of trying card after card until you find one that works, I'd look into one of the R9-2xx cards.

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The board will handle any gfx card that fits in the PCIe x16 slot. The max card will depend on the specs of the "650W" PSU. They ain't all created equal. Do you know the make/model of it? What CPU do you have to keep up with a fast card, i5-3330?
 

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Unless the board's older legacy BIOS is incomparable with the newer UEFI BIOS of the GTX 950, it should be fine. Are you saying that the GTX 950 doesn't produce a display when you start the system, but the old card does? If so, that would indicate there is the BIOS incompatibility I mentioned.

All AMD R7/9-3xx cards seem to be UEFI now as are all Nvidia GTX 9xx and the 750 Ti. Short of trying card after card until you find one that works, I'd look into one of the R9-2xx cards.
 
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Arron_954

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yeah i have gave up for the moment i found my mortherboard is a IPIMB-AR and it seems to be a popular topic on how painstaking it is to find a gpu that is compatible so i will just get a new mobo and a case then at that point have a bassically built my own pc piece by piece just starting with a gateway i didnt know much about pc's when i started but i have upgraded everything and its getting cramped in this tower anyway time to just finish it and get case/mobo